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Bummed that Celeste didn’t make the list, but with Dead Cells, Hollow Knight, and Shovel Knight, the action category got pretty crowded. But it’s great.

Bummed that Celeste didn’t make the list, but with Dead Cells, Hollow Knight, and Shovel Knight, the action category

Wasn’t this the promise of Google Wave? Google, 5 years ahead of its time, delivering private social networks when everyone thought that spamming the whole world with your innermost thoughts was still a pretty neat idea.

Ironically, my kids are getting to the age where they acquire a lot of the worst random plastic crap as “prizes” from fairs, arcades, birthday parties, etc. They have a whole box each of tiny rubber dinosaurs, ducks, bouncy balls, whatever that they swear up and down are “precious to them” and will never get rid of.

My kindergartner just wrote “My favorite team is the Huskers. Their colors are red and white. They are not good but I still like them”.

When I’m riding my bike across a busy intersection, I will take the extra step to wave at the people sitting in the right-turn lane and I generally won’t cross until they wave back at me. People rarely take more than a half-second glance before turning right at a red light, and NEVER look in the sidewalk.

I mean, I’m more willing to do this with kids games because usually a lot less care and attention is given to cleaning it up. If my kids actually helped clean (a welcome bonus) then it’s probably already chaos in the box and we have to spend the first few minutes organizing again anyway.

That’s a very Marie Kondo tip in general - don’t stack things in drawers - you want to be able to see everything in a drawer at a glance.

Ugh, we JUST bought two new carseats from Amazon. I remember saying to my wife “I know Target does this 20% off trade-in thing every year or so, but there’s no way they’re gonna kick that off in the next month.”

I just heard that a lot of episodes are also available for download from Archive.org. I presume these were ripped when Neighborhood was aired on Twitch. This way instead of having to go to a web site to view them, you could download the episodes and host them on a Plex server, which is exactly what I did.

It might be important to note that this is a good set of instructions for propellant-based inhalers, but powder-based inhalers (like Advair or its new powder-based generic) should not be used with spacers. Basically all the other steps are accurate, however.

I was hoping this article would have a bit of a mention on remote D&D, over something like Discord or Roll20 (or both). I don’t mean everyone meets on Discord at a certain time, but asynchronous, like chess-by-mail.

Knock-off Lego? You get what you pay for.

Knock-off Lego? You get what you pay for.

Love this. Our mantra for a long time has been “Keep doing what works, until it doesn’t anymore”. But that goes for the whole family, not just the baby. You’ve gotta make sure you’re not losing your mind keeping the baby happy and sleeping either.

It also has the best, most truthful tagline: I put that shit on everything.

It also has the best, most truthful tagline: I put that shit on everything.

My college alma mater’s tradition is for every fan at a football game to release a balloon after the first touchdown. Thousands of balloons, 9 times a year, for decades... eesh.

Neat ideas, but they’re all so expensive. I’ll have to stick to the old method of “hide 2/3 of the toys they have until they forget they have them”.

I wonder if a lot of people remembering how easy Red and Blue were played like I did - with all the free time most 10-year-olds do, you immediately grind your Pokemon to 15 levels above anything you’re encountering.

Is this the same problem that plagues Sherlock Holmes media? These stories have been told dozens of times to the point that their main selling points are now tropes to be avoided by others. The only time we pay attention to a Sherlock Holmes story is if it reinvents the formula in some way. I wonder if the same is

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ForecastAdvisor accuracy report is the hidden gem of this article. I’ve been wanting this data forever, I just didn’t think anyone was actually collecting it.