Fruitcake is a thing that showcases how capitalism ruins things. A great fruitcake is kind of a pain in the ass (I baste mine in brandy daily for two weeks), and so it’s actually a good thing to be gifted. Because of the meaning contained in the effort, it becomes to signify “ a good gift” so we try to figure out how…

I confess, I wasn’t sure that they even used ovens.  The crumbl cookie I had seemed to work on the principle - “If we use ingredients that are safe to eat raw, we can serve people seriously underbaked cookies so they will mistake that texture for a pleasant one.” 

A candle is such a bizarre thing to put in a box like this.  Since it’s a collector’s item, and it’s supposed to be stuff you keep around for a while and treasure, but if you burn the candle then you don’t have it anymore.  On the other hand, a candle you don’t want to burn is a waste of space.

The technical name for “change in acceleration” is “jerk” and we can be sure that Tesla still has the biggest jerk in the business.

I would offer “any large countertop appliances with limited utility.” I’m the person in my family who cooks, and some winners from my eldest brother include “a deep fryer” (I own a dutch oven and a thermometer), a countertop meat slicer (have never used, have no intention of using), and a countertop electric meat…

I mean, mashed avocado is lime and salt away from being guacamole to begin with.

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.