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James Doyle
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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

I installed Android Q Beta 3 on a Pixel and the navigation gestures was a hot mess. Then I got a OnePlus 7 Pro, and their gestures were exactly what I wanted. 

I thoroughly disagree. Almost everyone I knew played the first three levels and said “that was fun. How do I play more? What!? Buy the game!? Well I never!” And went back to farming friend lists for lives in Candy Crush.

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.

doo-doo-do-doo-doot-doot-do-do-doot!

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.

Let’s guess wildly how many congress members are going to demand their staff print out a copy. I’m setting the over-under at 100.

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.

They caught on? They had a slow-motion blast. I should get this game just to codify the rules a bit better.

Yup. I’ve played “old man race” with my kids before. Not sure who crossed the finish line first, but I know I was the one that won.

Honorable mention for Hilketa, the robot sport in John Scalzi’s book Head On