One thing I’m unclear on is - why does active player count matter for a single player game? Like there are lots of single player games people will pick up, enjoy, and then put down when they’ve got what they’ve wanted out of it. It’s not like you can’t lure those people to come back when there’s new content, they’re…

I really wonder how much “it’s day one on gamepass” cut off the legs from this game. With an “all you can eat, monthly subscription” model there’s more of a psychological incentive to play as many different games as you can whereas if you shelled out for the game a la carte there’s more of an incentive to get your…

At least with TV budgets being limited we’re probably going to see the Brotherhood conserve their Vertibirds more carefully than they did in FO4, whether they wouldn’t do sensible things like “return to base when they’ve taken a lot of damage” since those six super mutants in that bombed out building were worth…

One thing I do with my “main raw egg consumption” via eggnog is sterilize the eggs with alcohol. What I do is take my recipe minus the dairy (so eggs, sugar, boozes, etc.) , and mix it all together and stow that in the refrigerator for three weeks. The result is a higher ABV solution that is going to be more effective…

If you own an immersion circulator, you can pasteurize your own eggs.  135F for 75 minutes does the job.  The resulting, cooled eggs, are slightly thicker than raw eggs but you can substitute them for almost every purposes.  If you’re making a gin fizz though, note that the home-pasteurized eggs are slightly harder to…

I mean, it probably makes more sense to have stuff that’s 60+ years old on a FAST service, since very few people are going to sign up for an “all you can eat” service to watch it.  But this does sort of point to how the whole subscription based streaming model is broken.

All the money they spent on this could have been better put towards producing more episodes of “The Floor is Lava” which is uncomplicated, stupid fun.

Why are we asking him? He didn’t even make it. If Henry Selick wants to make another one, that’s what matters.

I guess Hogwarts Legacy was a game of the year 2023, in the sense that it came out in 2023 and is a game.  If you listed all of the 2023 video games in order of quality, it would appear somewhere on the list (but absolutely nowhere near the top.)

My recipe is 12 eggs, 1.5c bourbon,.5c brandy, 1/3c aged rum, 1.5 c sugar. Mix that together and age it in the fridge 3 weeks.  The alcohol will sterilize the eggs during this time.

With maximal charity, I think I could see what he’s trying to say being “if we’re going to commit too many resources to one part of the process of making movies and television, the best place to do this is probably *writing* since it’s hard to make anything good from a bad script/screenplay.”

I would think if they’re just going to run the same play again with a prequel with one of the TBBT characters, the thing to do would be to pick one of the gals since “Growing up as a girl nerd in an era that wasn’t really that accepting of that sort of thing“ is at least a different story.

What changed that made it so studios started writing off completed, or largely completed movies for tax purposes? Was this a thing that always happened and we just didn’t cover it, or was there some reason “The Adventures of Pluto Nash” couldn’t have been shelved for a tax writeoff instead of taking like a $95m…

Listen, sometimes a $5 hot and ready is exactly what you need in your life.  Little Caesars will honor the contract that it’s cheap, hot, and ready and will make exactly no other promises.

I’ve had all of those except the Puerto Rican potato salad.  I guess I need to get on that.

I confess, this is how I learned that the new Call of Duty is not simply a remake of the 2011 Call of Duty with a similar name.  I saw TV ads for the new one and thought “didn’t this game already come out 10 years ago?”

I mean, if you really wanted to justify Shepherd existing in some sense six centuries later, there’s the fact that Shepherd already died once and she was retrofitted with considerable cybernetics to bring her back. Plus, in 2/3 of the viable endings she merges, in a sense, with the God-Computer.

Listen, when we said “we should sterilize anybody who thinks spending considerable amounts of money on an ugly jpeg of a cartoon ape is a good idea” we didn’t mean “Blind them with UVC bulbs, normally used for germicidal purposes.”

The pumpkin and ginger syrups being extremely similar make sense to me, given that the predominant spices in pumpkin pie are cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg whereas the predominant spices in gingerbread are cinnamon, ginger, and clove.  It’s easy to overdo clove, so at a guess the Starbucks Test kitchen made sure they…

I mean, “franchise fatigue” as a general phenomenon is nonsense. While I feel like I’m done with Star Wars, I will watch any Planet of the Apes movie or TV show anybody wants to make. I’m in the mood for more of the John Wick universe, but none of the Harry Potter universe. I’d love another Mass Effect, I don’t care…