I lost my mom to what was probably Alzheimer’s last May, and I was her primary caretaker. Towards the end she couldn’t walk so well but was too proud to use her cane or her walker, and there wasn’t much to go out and do because of Covid. The one thing that she did like to do was watch movies, and every time I asked…

The extent to which we’ve messed up society would suggest that some people would view “a robot can work the deep fryer, which normally is hot and messy and no one likes it” as a bad thing.

Sometimes marketing is effective.  “Space dessert” is one of those cases.

I am a sucker for “Astronaut Ice Cream” though (which never actually had anything to do with space, it was just marketing)

Ultimately the most damning thing about Chevy Chase being hard to work with is that John Carpenter didn’t make a really good film after having a miserable time working with him on “Memoirs of an Invisible Man”. You can make a case that Chevy Chase being an asshole ruined John Carpenter, and I’m going to hold that…

Ultimately, the best thing about Bioshock is the aesthetic though. You can do a completely unrelated thing in a decrepit art deco underwater city and it could be good.

MtG seems like the silliest context to do an NFT (an already silly thing) game. Like Wizards has run multiple successful games where “which cards do you own” is a thing stored on their servers. Other than a WotC run game or a sanctioned event or something, nobody else really cares if your cards are real. People have…

Magic: the Gathering NFTs are one of the silliest possible uses for NFTs since Wizards has put together multiple successful online games where “what cards you own” is manages by their database on their server.  But other than “an official WotC online game” or “a sanctioned tournament at a game store” nobody really…

Waffles are better than pancakes but wafflecraft, to make the most of the paragon of breakfast starches, requires preparation (yeasted), technique (whip and fold) or unusual ingredients (seltzer?  buttermilk powder?).  Pancakes are something I can make while 3/4 asleep out of things I have on hand and have zero chance…

I thought it was important that NYT improve the valid guesses list, since numerous times I had guessed an actual word that wordle didn’t accept (e.g. “NORSE”) I have no idea why they removed “AGORA”. I know it’s a non-english word, but “ADIEU” is a popular starting guess.

The Uber Eats ad with people who I guess are famous eating pencils and sponges made me chuckle.

I always try to enter an impossible date first (like 2/30/79 or 9/31/76) just to see if they filtered for that.

If I’m going to an NFL game (let alone a big ticket game like the Super Bowl) I’m just not going to eat or drink there.  The ticket alone is a bit steep.

It does feel like Uncharted is one of those things that capitalizes and depends so much on the strength of its medium that it’s extremely difficult (or impossible) to make work to the same degree in a different medium. Like the games are essentially “a series of interactive theme park rides” where the connecting…

The reason you can be sure that cryptos aren’t money is that you’ve never seen an advertisement for money.

*I* will boycott Coachella if Billie Eilish apologizes to Ye.  I wasn’t going to go anyway, but in that particular case the reason will be principled.

I mean the word list (for valid words and valid guesses) did need attention.  I was surprised a few weeks ago when I was unable to play “Norse”, so I’m guessing that while you’re doing that you might remove some things.  But I think as long as the objectionable words are only on the “valid guesses” list rather than…

Bacon seems entirely superfluous on a sandwich like this.  “Everything is better with bacon” culture is toxic.

I guess my way of thinking is “if 9 million people want to watch something, shouldn’t that be enough?” TV events that bring everybody together are super rare these days. Of the top 50 rated individual broadcasts last year, it was all sports except for the Super Bowl lead out episode of the Equalizer, 2 episodes of 60…

“Futurama’s coming back, but DiMaggio is not signed on yet” seems like a thing a party might let slip in hopes that the fan response gives them leverage in an ongoing negotiation about compensation.  That DiMaggio himself is staying quiet means that he’s probably still negotiating and doesn’t want to mess anything up,…