Because of a work thing, I'm without family for the next two months, and in Germany, both of which are a little weird, but it does mean I'm kind of bored and likely to play a bunch more vidya games because what else am I going to do, be sociable and friendly with my temporary coworkers and neighbours?

It is possible to lose The Banner Saga because of bad battles, but I played through with no restarts and, well, not exactly "won", since that's not really a thing you do, but "finished". You're definitely meant to feel desperate and on the losing end, because, well, your world is falling apart. But a few bad battles…

Having read a few reviews and discussions, I feel like this game is a really good dry run for No Man's Sky II: No Man's Sky-er, where they actually implement about 10 times as much shit to do.

Fucking pivot tables.

I have said this several times here, but I've only seen the first Transformers, and I straight-up liked it, for all its Michael Bayness, and Turturro was incredible in it. I laughed my ass off at him.

Cowabunga
I'm comin with the rain and the thunder
You can't see me
Like Stevie Wonder

Have you been… holding your breath for it?

And they're not lightweight at all. Those fuckers are basically a weapon, meant to be attached to the end of a chain.

Meddle is probably my favourite album of theirs, it's not particularly depressing, and I can promise it's very pleasant to get blazed to.

I have not been keeping up with this, but…

I'm glad you got into it, but I feel that Chuck and the Bomb Squad are prematurely rolling in their graves because you think that album has a remarkably welcoming friendliness to it. That scared the shit out of plenty of white parents when it came out, who didn't give a rat's ass about Schooly D or Ice T or whoever.

True story: I always used to take a nap to FoaBP back in the day. But yeah, those are some tight-ass beats. The Bomb Squad's work for Ice Cube was also dope as fuck.

Yeah, I’m currently about 1/3 of the way through what I think is the second book (the A +5000 time). It seems to me like he had the idea for the multiple human races thing first, and then wanted to justify it so ended up writing the first half of the book instead. Still interesting, though.
I really loved Anathem, it…

Currently reading Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, which is probably his most straightforward science-fiction story, in that there are no 20-page digressions into Elizabethan farce, the internet (or something like it) is not a main character, and it's not particularly funny. It's pretty good, shows he's a quite talented…

Username/comment synergy? Or is it more a celebration of the fact that parents do, indeed, suck each other, in which case surely you should be supportive of Mr. Offerman?

Springsteen and Downie never dug into the downsides? I mean, just to pick the first two songs that come to mind from each, Born in the USA and 38 Years Old?

Also, he looks like a bipedal horse. This is not a joke of any kind, except insofar as bipedal horses are funny.

Yes.

One out of two ain’t bad.

What's a sex idiot? How can I become one?