I mean, I’m glad that the Steam Deck is has sold well, but I’m also very happy that it sold well enough that I likely don’t have to get the Gen 1 version.

I mean, if I was actually locked in a room and did not understand “I am here to solve a puzzle” then my starting idea is “take the door off the hinges”.

You can tell that the NFT Grift is running out since the people who love Trump are the people who are easiest to scam. You only really bother advertising on right wing media if this is obviously something everybody is going to buy, or in case nobody else is likely to buy your brain pills or overpriced pillows.

I mean,“the thing I opened randomly contained the exact thing I wanted” is more exciting and psychologically rewarding than “I got the exact thing I wanted by finding it in the store and paying the listed price.” It’s just that rationally you should be able to understand that in the long run it’s cheaper.

So like the reason you use mozzarella in the actual fried food is the the structure provided by the stretchiness of the mozzarella holds up better in the heat of the fryer.  Everybody who’s ever had fried cheese curds know those things get runny.  But when you’re talking about a puffed corn or whatever, covered in an…

I feel like the way you make the locker thing work is to make sure it’s not the only option for any one thing, and not an option for several things (like ice cream.)

I just wonder how much sense it’s going to make if I never saw the first one.  It’s the only Cameron I’ve missed (Ghosts of the Abyss was great!) because I cannot handle 3D movies.

So I’m broadly in favor of antitrust enforcement, but it seems pretty clear that video game consoles kind of work on a razors/blade model- the actual machine is sold at a loss and the money is made back on games. Normally the platform holder gets a fee from each game sold on their platform, but we’ve long accepted…

I mean, the thing is that Sony owns some 20+ first party studios. We just don’t think this is weird because we’re used to it since this has been the case for a while. But if I don’t object to Sony owning 20+ first party studios, I likewise don’t see a reason to object to Microsoft owning 20+ first party studios.

I confess while I am an Xbox person, I do kind of want the MS/Activision-Blizzard merger to fall through just because I do not play games by that company. Seriously the last two games from Activision and/or Blizzard I bought were Diablo 3 and DJ Hero.

It feels like Roguelikes in the style of Rogue or Nethack or Angband are sufficiently rare that they probably deserve their own modifier (like “old school roguelikes” or “hardcore roguelikes”). The “Rogue-lite” terminology can probably reserved for the extreme other end of the spectrum. Nomenclature changes to reflect…

“No Sequels Ever” seems unnecessarily artistically limiting, since sometimes not only does the sequel exceed the original but the sequel manages to be among the greatest things in its category ever (Like the Godfather Part 2 or Mad Max: Fury Road)

I mean, the thing about the hospitality reason is that the basic reason you don’t want sick people coming into work is not “sick people are less good at their jobs” but that you’re in the hospitality industry and guests who contract a communicable illness at your establishment are unlikely to be happy customers.

I think my problem with the Crispy Chicken Crispers is redundancy.

I mean, there’s two really good contemporanous with antiquity sources for Greek Myths- Homer and Hesiod. Hesiod has incest all the way down since he tries to do a complete accounting of all beings from the beginning. Like not just Zeus marrying his sister and having a kid with his other sister. Gaea, one of the…

Really when your story is about the Greece of antiquity and/or the myths therefrom if everybody doesn’t land in the mid-range of the Kinsey scale, something has gone wrong.

I just don’t get why nobody in security stops this or why nobody in the booth cuts the mic.  We spent too much time worrying about what people are wearing that we forgot we should actually have professionals in the crew to run the show.

I was thinking how Supergiant sort of dodged all the incest among the Olympians in Hades. Since per Hesiod Cronus is the father of Zeus, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, Hades, and Demeter. Not only did Zeus marry Hera and produce several children (e.g. Ares) but he also was the father of Persephone via Demeter. Since…

I will note that Hades’s dad-Titan Cronus (Κρόνος) is not actually the same being as the anthropomorphization of Time (that’s Chronos- Χρόνος)  but the two were conflated often enough in antiquity (including by Plutarch) that Supergiant can get away with it.

Can we recast Diana.  Gal Gadot’s (odious) IRL politics aside, it’s pretty clear she’s a substandard actor when it comes to everything except “standing there and looking striking.”  Like every time she opened her mouth in Death on the Nile the film became farcical.