Usually “surprise me” is a code for “whichever special is motivated by the need to use up an ingredient before you would have to toss it.”

Isn’t “If you have to use an accent in a movie, you make a point of exclusively using that accent in your normal life for a period of time so it’s more natural for you to do” also “Method acting”?  Like it’s not all “be a nightmare to your coworkers and do permanent damage to yourself” though maybe Austin Butler is…

I mean, putting liquid on the pan is likely to deglaze some of the fond so it’s not like it doesn’t help at all.

It feels like “Boneless Wings are just upscale nuggets” is one of those things you should just know. It’s also not clear why “wing meat” is more desirable to eat than meat from other parts of the chicken (that wings are the priciest part of a chicken by weight is mostly a function of how each chicken comes with 2 of…

The benefit of making all the money is “then you’ve got all the money”. You don’t also need recognition on top of that. With how frequently the Oscars straight up get it wrong (e.g. Crash, Green Book) it feels like this shouldn’t be that big of a concern. 

I like to think the Academy shutting out Tár is keeping kayfabe by not rewarding Lydia Tár for her misdeeds.

But something between 2/3 and 9/10 of WotCs revenue is from Magic: the Gathering rather than Dungeons and Dragons. D&D is significantly less monetizable while also being the more well-known and well-liked brand.

I mean the long and short of it is that D&D is a legacy brand, and it’s popular, but it doesn’t make that much money. So some executive decided “there’s money in there somewhere” and wanted to get it. Probably the thing that sticks in their craw is that they’re not getting a piece of the “Critical Role” pie, and they…

The fundamental frustration with ChatGPT is that an actual human will generally be aware of various gaps in their knowledge, and will thus know when to hedge or admit uncertainty but ChatGPT cannot understand what it doesn’t “know” (it’s really just an algorithm that synthesizes text) so it always comes across as…

Since I go to Starbucks exactly one time a year (for a PSL on my birthday) I didn’t even notice that the one in Target was different.

The funniest part was when Musk asked Thorleifsson what he did and the response included “Figma” (which is a collaborative UI development tool) and Musk, not knowing what this was thought he was set up for a “Ligma” joke.

I mean, the reason you contract with the founders of companies that you acquire is not “so you can tell them what to do” it’s in order to prevent them from just going out and making a competing product since they obviously know how to.  This is also why firing them is expensive.

It really feels like “being embarrassed by something you wrote 15 years ago” is the normal, healthy response.

The problem with the black jelly beans is that they don’t taste enough like licorice.

Like the thing about “being in public with someone with dementia” is that these are people (due to faults in their brains) who are absolutely convinced of their own reality.  Like if I would take my mom to Target to pick out the color lipstick she wanted, she’d convince herself that her parents dropped her off and…

As the person who was in charge of taking care of my mom when she had dementia, you *really* don’t want to involve yourself in this if you’re not already involved.

Good ol’ Rock, nothing beats Rock.

Since the fungus requires relatively high humidity and periodic wetting, we should absolutely start putting rickhouses in the desert.

I was going to go get this tomorrow but the convenient Smashburger near me closed apparently and it doesn’t feel worth it to go out of my way for a chain hamburger.

Isn’t the texture supposed to be like soft serve?  I don’t know how you would do when something has to be sufficiently frozen to survive storage and transport.