Some things just aren’t possible to translate while retaining the original sense and meaning. The classic example is “Only read Camus’s La Peste in French” since a lot of the value in the original is that he chooses his words to evoke a droning sound, like the buzzing of flies, a thing a translator probably could not…

I mean, ultimately the reason they’re changing the text is “they expect to sell more copies of a book when it is not considered wildly offensive by modern standards.” It’s not about “liberal sensitivity” so much as capitalism, since it’s a lot easier to change words in a text than it is to change broader societal…

It’s not actually clear to me that anybody at Disney understands how to make Star Wars movies. Their batting average for the films is like 2/5, but they’re doing better on the TV side of things.

I’m in favor of more cookie shops at least until I find one that bakes their cookies correctly.  Crumbl cookies are bad, so maybe these are better.

Like JKR is a bad person and those books weren’t that good, but it does seem a miss to apply the “open world” template to a world that’s already pretty fully constructed and populated. That’s why you see a lot of successful open world games take place on the frontier, in the wilderness, in a wasteland, among ruins,…

I would accept “haptic feedback from touchscreens” in a futuristic setting, but that’s really just virtual buttons. Traditional touchscreens, so I can’t interact with the car’s controls without taking my eyes off the road, can go to hell.

You don’t support the devs of an AAA  game by buying a copy- those people are salaried workers who already got paid and many of them will already be laid off by the time the game ships.  The people who benefit from “buying a game versus not” are the executives and the publisher.

Harry Potter is ultimately the Chik-fil-A of the fantasy space now- some people have fond memories of it, it’s ultimately not very good, and the people who profit from it use that money to push a hateful agenda.

Honestly, “white meat chicken” was the thing I think fake meat has been good enough imitating since like the 90s.  Cauliflower doesn’t really need to pose as other things to be delicious, and the reasons I will never eat a CFA sandwich again are unrelated to all of these things.

I know it’s just about the size of the companies, but it’s weird to me that people are making such a weird deal about Microsoft buying Activision (a company that has published 2 games i have purchased or played in the last 13 years) and there was nothing about Microsoft buying Zenimax (a company that published 10+…

I mean, it really feels like the reason they haven’t even considered cancelling the Flash movie, despite Ezra Miller’s reign of terror, is that the Flash is the character who can (when the story needs it) travel through time via the Speed Force. “I traveled through time and changed the past and now the future is…

Honestly, any Dragon Age game is going to work (or not) for me on the basis of “everything except the combat.” They could make it a rhythm game or a visual novel or a match 3 game and it would be about the same as far as I’m concerned.

He’s not rolling, baby, rolling in the green but he is unique.

No, they’re terrible. A Crumbl cookie is further from “what I want a cookie to be” than a McDonalds hamburger is from “what I want a hamburger to be.”

So can I be a rebel if I just consume the original orange, yellow, and white candy corn around non-autumn holidays?

I mean, Charlie Day’s Luigi voice is probably just Charlie Day, since “Charlie Day easily naturally anxious, agitated, and barely holding it together” also sums up Luigi pretty well. So it’s possible someone just figured Donkey Kong should sound like Seth Rogen.

I half suspect that the main reason right wingers lose their minds over the M&Ms characters is that the spokescandies subtly underline how gender is distinct from biology. Since Yellow is identifiably “masculine” and Green is identifably “feminine” but they obviously possess no biology whatsoever because they are made…

I really don’t get the appeal of large cookies that taste unbaked in the middle.  This is an off-putting texture!  It speaks to incorrectly sizing your cookie, since ideally you are set-to-crisp on the edges with some slight chew in the middle.  I sort of suspect that people who sell “too big and too soft” cookies are…

I mean, the way to handle this from a design perspective is not “morality meters” but “there are social consequences for people observing you doing bad things.”   You could do anything from a GTA style star system to a New Vegas style faction rep and it would be better than “nothing.”

It just feels wrong to pair vodka with pineapple when rum exists.