TV is really a better place for Assassin’s Creed (particularly since movie theaters might begone forever) because so much of the appeal of those games is “pretending to exist in an interesting time and place”.

The thing about a lot of these “hacks” is that they don’t really hurt. If you salt your pasta water ASAP, at least you won’t forget to salt it later. Shaking your garlic cloves in a jar will loosen them enough to make “completely removing them” easier (and will keep some of the mess in the jar). The chopsticks for…

Apples don’t break down the worms that are in apples and make more apple stuff out of it, figs do break down the dead fig wasps and make more fig stuff out of them.  By the time the fruit is ripe, there will be no trace of the wasp.

Just be glad that the dairy industry didn’t attempt to push “Halloween milk” or “pumpkin spice milk” or some weird orange milky concoction, and instead went with something that is at least good.

Your best hotdogs in terms of raw ingredients are going to come from your butcher, since the nature of sausages is “they come from trimmings” and your butcher is going to source better quality trimmings from the meats they cut than do big corporations who are just buying inexpensive leavings for their product.

If we’re excluding “plants which breakdown dead animals, or animal waste, in order to derive their nutrients” because “eww” then we’re basically going to have to stop eating plants. “This fruit eat wasps” is probably less disturbing than “we sow the fields with chicken and cow poop (i.e. manure)”.

I never signed up for Quibi, nor did I see any of their content save for one clip of the “bury me with my golden arm” thing that became memetic, but the jokes at Quibi’s expense over these last few months were certainly worth $1.8b of venture capitalists’ money.

I’ve never had a mcflurry-it’s basically just like a DQ blizzard, right?

I’ve lost a deep endgame cookie clicker save on two separate occasions.  I take this as a sign from the gods that it’s time to stop playing cookie clicker.

I see George Lucas is also familiar with the monomyth.

I’m definitely that “I’ll take all the veggies that don’t cost extra” (except olives) person, regardless of what the sandwich is.  I have probably made some enemies at Subway.

Season of the Witch is the only “Halloween” (the franchise, not the holiday) movie I really like, TBH. I’m a sucker for films that make very weird, but conspicuously deliberate choices. It’s a movie that hates both capitalism and children, which takes guts in any era.

Hello there! I just will probably wait for the Series X/S to get cheaper though.

“People with power over you will abuse that power when it suits them, given the opportunity” seems like a reasonable lesson to introduce your kids to at an age where the downside is just “less candy”.

What flavor is “Republican” just a lack of flavor?  Maybe “substitute salt for sugar”?

I think the thing about breakfast foods is that they need to be relatively quick to prepare. Sure, you could eat the leftover lasagna but since “leftovers” can be consumed at any time at all, we shouldn’t consider them part of the breakfast/lunch/dinner canon.

I’m guessing the lack of topical costumes is that if you remind people there’s a pandemic on, they might think “well, that means I probably shouldn’t attend a halloween party, so when am I going to wear this?” and not buy any costume at all.

Don’t connect anything to the internet if you can avoid it, IMO.

I like candy corn, but it’s a thing you leave in a dish in the house in the fall not like “a thing you get trick or treating.”

Never have, never will.  I started with an Atari 2600 and the only console I have even paid full price for is the Wii since those things were scarce for a long time.