Why do they have additional eyes (beyond the standard pair)?

I really wonder how much of that $17b peak was “people trading NFTs back and forth between different accounts in order to drive up the perceived value.” After all the blockchain keeps a record of every transaction, so if it sold for 30% more every time it “changed hands” you can probably get some mark to see this as a…

Far Cry 6 was a game of the year 2021.

Robot vacuums are too smart these days, the more things they want to do the more things that are liable to go wrong. I’m sticking with my 510 Roomba that does not schedule, does not dock, and does not pay any attention to its surroundings.  When it’s full I have to empty it, when it’s drained I have to plug it in.  If…

I do not find “he was playing too well, he must be cheating” as particularly convincing.

I live South, East, and West (simultaneously) of the Mississippi and the one that was briefly open near me was a Rally’s (it closed and is now a Burger Time.) I’m not sure this is a useful data point.

I cannot respect Olive Garden after I learned the do not salt their pasta water because that saves them money on the warranty for the pans in which they cook the pasta.

Avatar is only Jim Cameron’s least impactful film since 1983 because he also directed two documentaries about underwater stuff. I’d probably give it the lean on Piranha 2 though.

Yeah, I’m sure that California people experience “I am cold” but their heating needs are different than like in North Dakota or Maine.  I’m pretty sure a heat pump can’t handle a Minnesota Winter in an existing building.

I live in a cold place, so “no gas furnace” would be concerning.  But I bet it will be fine in California.

“A week to finish a book and then return it” is incredibly generous; I can’t think of any book I’ve ever picked up other than a textbook or reference material I couldn’t finish in a couple of days. Though there should probably be a hybrid policy because “how much is 10%” is going to vary wildly as books vary wildly in…

Like the original video makes it abundantly clear that this is a joke, lampshading it with things like “use about 4/3 of the bottle” and “cook for 5-30 minutes” and “talking about how sleepy the fumes make you”, but the FDA release gives it legitimacy.

If it turns out that the product is decent, I will absolutely buy caramelized onions in a squeeze tube because they’re invariably a lot of time if not a work, and “making the exact amount you want” is tricky.  I do French Onion Soup the right way but I will cheat for sandwiches.

“Amazon Web Services costs too much money”?!  Isn’t AWS the single biggest moneymaker for Amazon.

Good luck to him, but if this works out I’m going to be shocked. It’s not like “game publisher” is a passive job where you evaluate games and give money to good ones. Your job as the publisher basically is to promote and indeed enforce the conditions that lead to a quality product for which “ones experience playing…

I feel like “I’m going to go look around in a store with things I’m interested in while my parent looks around in a store I’m not interested in” was a thing in my distant childhood. So I think the problem is less “it’s illegal to leave your children unattended” and more about “these kids who wander into/are left at…

The time has come for an American James Bond.

I plan to do my part by not getting chlamydia, gonorrhea, or syphilis and thus also not giving it to anybody else.

It just feels like any time you say “the person who beat me was cheating” whether that’s chess, or video games, or the 2020 U.S. presidential election you should need some evidence before people will take you seriously.

I was under the impression that these companies new that self-checkout would lead to a certain amount of loss compared to having a human being operate the checkout (both intentional shoplifting and honest “I hit the button for the cheaper kind of apples by accident and didn’t have the ability to fix it” stuff) but…