I thought it was generally best to monetize a “free to play” game by making it really fun to play for free, and then people who are having fun will see various things to buy that they think will let them have even more fun, and that this is generally okay.

Sure, but “salsa” just means “sauce”, “naan” just means “bread”, “chai” just means “tea”, “panini” just means “sandwich”, etc. Sometimes connotations are a big part of the meaning of a word.

I’ll be dead and in or on the ground somewhere before I buy margarine.  I live close enough to dairy country where it wouldn’t surprise me if margarine were made illegal again (as it was in Wisconsin until 1967).

It's increasingly hard to believe that Guile is in the Air Force.

The Nitrogen Pepsi was fine.  I actually kind of liked the texture, it's just that it still tasted like Pepsi.  The same process with a better tasting soda might even be a winner.

When other services do weekly releases for their shows, I just wait until they’re all released to start watching anyway.  It’s not like these things are seasonal in the way that TV used to be where there’s a rhythm to when shows start and end.  It makes zero difference to me whether The Boys S3 started in June or…

I had heard the word pronounced “sass-puh-ril-uh” hundreds perhaps thousands of times before I bothered to pay attention to how it’s spelled and now I’m mad.

I’m deeply skeptical of any hams that don’t have a bone in them.  That’s not a ham, that’s a craft project with meat glue.

I’m about as Swedish as someone can get without living in Sweden (all of my family except my siblings live there), and from what I can understand the bright line standard is that if you’ve specifically invited someone to come for a meal or they are staying with you overnight you absolutely feed them, but people who…

Hobo Ken has relocated to New Jersey, poor guy.

I’m skeptical that the laminations in the pastry are going to survive the waffling process, so I’m not sure what the difference is between this and “a waffle batter with a lot of butter in it.”

I did like Pootie Tang a lot, but Louis CK makes me feel bad for liking Pootie Tang as much as I did.

The Pizza Ranch I used to live near had “all you can eat Tacos” for a reasonable price.  I have fond memories of bringing friends and board games and eating a frankly irresponsible amount of food over the course of however long it took to play one of those complicated modern board games.

Musk has literally lost billions of dollars by refusing to log off and/or delete his account and he shows no sign of stopping.

I think my limit for “food apps” is “installing the app for my grocery store(s) so I can read the weekly ad on my phone.”

I miss yesteryear’s version of the “Rich asshole weirdo”. Like Ted Turner was not a less bizarre example of humanity than Musk, but he channeled it in ways like “cocaine” and “sexual exploits” and “buying a wrestling organization and a baseball team.”

My favorite water is tap.

I like how the Die Hard films are leaving the same month they arrive.  I guess June is a good month to die hard.

Grapefruit is my favorite fruit, and I go there are days during grapefruit season when I eat 3 whole ones in a day. The best way to eat a grapefruit is to peel it like an orange and eat it in segments. If your knife skills are up to it you can supreme it if you want to, but I usually just make a cup of tea and just…

Is German asparagus different?  I’ll buy it from the grocery store and leave it in the fridge for a week (cut ends in a cup of water) and it’s not even remotely bitter to me.