Is it the “right” thing though? Your points about EA and Microsoft moving back to the Steam store illustrate the tremendous marketing and distribution value that the centralized major app platforms offer to the partners. EA and Microsoft are textbook examples of companies more than big enough to directly distribute…

Because the experiential data shows that the marketing and exposure value of Google’s Play store is wildly important. Epic tried JUST what you’re describing—offering a direct download link to install Fornite on Android—and got miniscule user adoption. They relented, put it in the Google Play store, and suddenly…

A staggeringly high percentage of legislation starts that way, yes. Industry groups, whether registered lobbyists, trade organizations, “think tanks,” or whatever, will draft a bill they want proposed, then go to legislators whose politics are friendly to that bill.

When I saw the speaker and showerhead were supposedly built together I REALLY wanted it to have a turbine in it that powered the speaker with the water pressure.... 

“My opinion is relevant here” “Yours is not”

Whatever you have that’s closest to how it originally cooked. So, baked on stone or steel is great; cast iron skillet covered on the stove is a MUCH easier way to simulate baked-on-metal environment if you’re just heating a slice.

You can get a listerine pump?! 

Any reason not to use the 580 cfm electric leaf blower in my garage?

you know what, just forget it

It’s sourdough, it was always sourdough.

I often use tomato paste (from a tube cause you only need a little) as a condiment to italian themed sandwiches if I do not have fresh tomatoes on hand. Tomato paste and some italian seasoning will take a normal turkey and cheese sandwich and make it absolutely POP. Works killer with mozzarella and prosciutto as…

The Gesture is a great chair but one of its predecessors, the Leap and Leap V2, are available used from a ton of places. I got my Leap refurbished for $400. 

Can’t say enough about the chair point, although I would add there are several resellers of used, very popular high end office chairs that usually cost $800-1500 that you can get for half off or more from offices that closed or redecorated. Classics like the Herman Miller Aeron or the Steelcase Leap (which is what I…

This has always been my thought too—that a much lower price point would have many, many more legal customers.

In ME2’s end, if all your companions eat it (heh), the only person left is Joker—the happy-go-lucky jokey type turned deeply solemn by grim circumstance, lamenting the death of literally all of his friends. Only thing that’s missing is the cupcake head.

Except that’s not what they’re doing. The quote is “But even with steep discounts on that TV right now, you’re looking at somewhere in the ballpark of $2,200 for the 65-inch version at the time of this writing.”

Yeah it’s super weird that they’re just.... not aware of the end-of-model-year sales going on right now. The 65 inch CX is available for $2000 or less almost everywhere. 

I mean it’s in no way a requirement of the system. Just how I personally liked it. It’s poster putty, you’ve never tacked something down or to a wall in your house?

I took a pea size ball of Scotch removable mounting putty and secured the pad to my nightstand. Frankly I’m considering cutting a hole in the stand to make it flush, but it’s actually kind of nice having it elevated so it’s easy to reach under the phone and pull it up. Whole operation is one-handed with even a light…

I mean, have you tried the magsafe pucks? I hadn’t until I grabbed a RAVPower magsafe puck the other day, and I stuck it to my night stand with a little mounting putty... it is SO RIDICULOUSLY SATISFYING FEELING THE PHONE SNAPLOCK INTO PLACE.