Hmmm I’m pretty sure it was something called ‘Hyperball’:

There used to be an arcade game I played that was sort of a coin-op Crossfire, inside a pinball cabinet. Does anyone know what I’m talking about? I can’t remember the name... to Google!

I have a bad feeling that kid is always going to be in time - but never in line - for dreams

A few of them are movie titles, too.

Funny, but it seems like she will always be in time - but never in line - for dreams

Oh, man, remember when Jon Stewart completely destroyed Tucker Carlson at this game? That was epic

High Score, even

so, did the games still work? You‘d think they must have, or they would have been tossed or opened before now

Those old cartridges only have 32 GRAM of internal storage. You really want to use Dropbox for this sort of thing

Headline sent me into a ‘obliged vs obligated’ google rabbit hole.

Pardon my ignorance, but how would the matchmaker know ahead of time how many of what kind of roles would be used? Is the OW ‘meta’ that inflexible? What if one team wants to run 2 tanks and another team only wants 1? Would the matchmaker use defaults for # of roles...?

hmmm. well, there are charts that show the most played games by players, that seems like a decent enough measure.

Really great long-form piece! You got me thinking about my own steam library, of my top ten games by hour, none have realistic guns, only 3 have what I’d call “combat” (although Fallout 4 is #12). My #1 by far is all about guns, though - although they aren’t very realistic

I don’t get what makes them sailors. You never see them sail

Don’t be silly, there won’t be any Russian embassies left soon at the rate they are being shuttered

Unconfirmed reports the biter is now a werediva

They objected to the lightning bolt, but not the upside-down cross? odd

oh you meant a mug with a handle

No it isn’t. Topologically speaking, a straw is a torus, while a cup is just a plane

This seems like it would be difficult to pirate