Like the thing about the classic Roman pastas is that if you add or delete any ingredient from it, you get a different one. Like you start with Cacio e Pepe and if you add guanciale you end up with Pasta alla Gricia, if you add egg to that you get Carbonara. If you added something to your Carbonara, you’d have to call…

The real question I have is whether she will continue to be the host for like “Celebrity Jeopardy” or “College Jeopardy” or other special evens that run in prime-time.  It’s possible that the fact that she’s clearly warmer as a host than Mr. Jennings is a good fit for specialty Jeopardy, but not a great fit for…

It feels like “having a computer interpret spoken language” over the broad range of all accents, dialects, and idiosyncratic speech patterns is a bafflingly complex task. Like it’s got a lot more applications than “drive-thru food ordering” but somehow I doubt we’re ever going to be good enough at it to completely…

I mean, the basic problem with all of these casual chain restaurants is that the food is almost never good, because it needs to be the same at every location. So you basically everything gets sent in bags or boxes, with a flavor profile set at the factory to appease the lowest common denominator.

Like there are sometimes that the person on the other end of the drive-thru speaker is difficult to understand.  So guaranteeing that the output of the drive-thru speaker is clear and intelligible has value.  But you don’t need to make it sound like someone in particular, and heck the board displaying your order in…

Like the FOMO thing that McDonalds uses with the McRib is manipulative, and is probably predicated on “being able to get pork below a certain price depending on market forces” so they’re obviously keying on cheap rather than good pork here. Good pork is fantastic, but cheap pork can be okay they’re just different…

I have long considered the correct time to buy a Bethesda RPG to be when the “GotY” (or whatever they’re calling it) version is available with all the expansions and updates. 

I have to imagine that the problem with making “The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” as an actual movie is that you would have a hard time convincing lawyers that the “This is a work of fiction, any similarities to persons living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental” applies. Since KC superfan Chiefsaholic (né Xa…

Since Tacos in America are already a common street food much like doner kebab is in Europe, I suggest we rebrand “French Tacos” as “French Shawarma” for the American audience.

Like I get that you need to have the griddle at a different temperature for the McDonalds breakfast sandwiches compared to hamburgers, which was the problem with all-day Breakfast, but the Hash Brown Bites suggest there is a deep fryer, so they could sell McNuggets.

So you can go there for breakfast sandwiches, snacks, and various sugary drinks but if you want like “lunch” you’re out of luck?

I honestly believe that the reason the White Russian was chosen as the cocktail of choice for “The Dude” was that it’s not exactly a refined choice.

Given that this is Florida, I don’t like their chances. The prevailing regulatory culture of Florida appears to be “you should be able have self-serve on pure liquid caffeine, when you die it’s your fault.”

Yeah, it just seems like the assumption of “we can make a console game that people will log into and play every single day for years and years” is a flawed one. Even games with a looong tail like Diablo 2 tend run out of rope with individual users when they get frustrated with something or they run out of things to do.

So the baseline expectation for anything at TGI Fridays is “it’s way too sweet” so the ones of this set that are most likely to be not-disgusting are probably the ciders, since that’s a sweet baseline anyway.  Stay away from the Midori ones and the cocoa is likely to be tooth-shatteringly sweet.

It is super weird this is coming so late in the development process, since “plant based hotdogs that have acceptable flavor and taste” have been available since the mid-90s if not earlier. Like I was in college in the early 2000s and the vegan hotdogs in the dining hall were better than the meat based ones.

I read this headline and thought “GTA VI is coming out on the PS6 and whatever we’re calling the next Xbox”.

Yuuuup. The Mad Max movies have always worked with the logic of myth. The actual Odysseus might have just had a long difficult sea journey trip, but through successive retelling he ends up offending the gods, blinding a cyclops, navigating impossible obstacles, besting a witch, and killing like 60 guys singlehandedly.…

I mean, the advantage of DLC rather than physical expansions (like Diablo 2 got with Lord of Destruction) is that you can parcel out content into sizes you can charge reasonable prices for.   Of course, Diablo IV seems weirdly invested in the idea that people really want cosmetic items and battle passes and the like.

The fact that Burton said “working with... puppets” gives me hope that they’ve tried to keep the original aesthetic.