Yeah, it’s easy to immediately assume that any accusations levied against Miller are legit in the wake of their recent arrests, but the supposed victim makes it sound like they felt like Miller provided them a kind of safe haven away from abusive parents. I don’t think I’m ready to decide which party to eviscerate on…

Speaking as someone in rural California, uh... true.

There are still a few purist turds who insist that decaf% is a better showcase of runners’ skill at throwing themselves into situations where they’re in over their heads and letting the actual world overwhelm them, but I can’t hear them over how fast my heart’s racing!

Maybe if they keep the show on long enough they’ll be able to do a segment on how to get an extra helping of mashed potatoes from the prison cafeteria.

Well, OK, but only if masturbating in front of people who are at such a power disadvantage that saying no is actually less comfortable than being in the room with a masturbating Louis CK is explicitly in their contracts. Wanna make sure we’re on the up-and-up here.

Having gone 10 1/2 months without playing it, I guess I have to agree on the lack of momentum.

Yeah, I really don’t mind knowing that chicken nuggets are made of ground-up scraps including cartilage. Congratulations on not just making the leftover bits palatable, but exciting by shaping them into small, dippable chunks and frying them. I don’t need my meals to contain only the most desired parts of the animal…

I love wakame. My “usual” when I go to one of the local sushi places is a spicy tuna butsugiri over wakame... and I’ll order it with a wakame appetizer. Seaweed is great.

We’d all like that.

Navigating gaming culture to find like-minded people with the same interest is such a minefield. Even when you think you’ve found the exceptions and you’re just casually chatting about Pokemon or Katamari or some other game that doesn’t seem like it should appeal to shitty people, someone will suddenly drop, “I…

I get ya. I was excited to finally have a chance to play “the worst Zelda” after never owning a Wii or Wii U, bought the game day 1, and my motivation just tanked when I got to the flying tutorial. I was just stuck in the clouds at the bottom of the screen for seriously over 10 minutes, and I wasn’t sure if I’d zoned…

I’m not sure how universal this was in the 80s and 90s, but I can relate to that line because my pediatric dentist had cheap toys in a cabinet, and you could pick out one as a prize after your dental visit. Sometimes those would include a tiny little 15-tile 4x4 slide puzzle that just had numbers on them, and I’m sure…

Last weekend I finished up both I Am Setsuna and all the achievements in the Wingspan European birds expansion. Setsuna wasn’t bad, but it never really got exciting - a thoroughly OK experience from start to finish. If I play it again, it’ll be for the piano score more than anything else. And Wingspan was Wingspan.…

July 19th? Ayyyy, birthday present! Thanks, Annapurrna!

It was actually really nice to see someone reconsider their initial reaction and agree they should be more empathetic - usually not the payoff I get for reading deeper into the comments.

Like a typical math nerd pencil-pusher, I solved the problem with a spreadsheet. I documented the release date and date of purchase for each I own and haven’t finished and scratched out some basic formulas to track the average release date and average purchase date of each. I added color-coding to each game to…

Mark Twain: Better to remain silent and thought a fool than to open one’s mouth & remove all doubt.

The first two games were dumb, the next two games were dumber, there was some shit called Twisted Metal Tiny Brawl, and then they had a single brilliant entry on the PS2 called Twisted Metal Black that managed to marry the mindless action and darker (though still not particularly deep) storylines, and I assume that’s…

Even if you’re a completionist, as long as you’re willing to be social and trade with people who have the sister version of the game, you should be able to round out your collection. So, really... very little reason to buy both versions as a parent.

I was at a coffee shop several years ago and saw the barista take an order from a dude who started flirting a little too hard with her. He circled back to the front counter once or twice and started complimenting her looks, talking about going on a date, and she was staying professional and polite and continued…