Attempting to attach a screenshot here, but not sure if you’ll take it.

Anyway, DUDES: The ad for Apple arcade takes up over half my screen, almost completely obscuring the article itself. There are no “x’s” to close the ad or minimize it, with the only “out” being the “Play now” button or to simply close the window.…

This is sadly true too. 

I worked for a game studio during the Farmville heydays.

The game designers lamented that they had to work on “brainless, unchallenging click fests” and not *actual* games for their career. Every time they wanted to do something “fun” they were shot down and told to just iterate the whole click/wait/click mechanic.…

Something appropriately microscopic to appear unimportant to the average lay person, but have wider implications when you realize how it happened.

My guess would be rounded moon dust granules— as, granules weathered by liquid water and erosion due to some form of climate.

For those who don’t know, Moon dust is…

The answer is people want a representative who they can relate to.

If their hobby is video games, then why not? How is that any different than sharing a passion for hunting? Or following similar religious beliefs? Or the same sports team?

The point is that AOC is reaching out to a certain generation of voters who…

I worked for a rival to Zynga at the time of the early 2000's and the amount of effort put in to make a game with similar mechanics was nauseating. SO glad to see this game die. Now I just wish people would wake up and stop playing these types of games so game designers can focus on something more exciting.

We might be talking about different ideas of the term “sun shades”. The ones on Wurster Hall, for example, are made of concrete and are very much attached to the building. You can see them in action here (different subject matter in the link, but you get a sense of the shades in action by the picture):

Tangent:
We could also save a lot on cooling simply by putting up sun shades over our windows. Take Wurster Hall of University of California Berkeley: The sun shades over the windows moderate heat by blocking direct sunlight from entering rooms. With its office rooms being the way they are, they can also take…

The mouse. Hey, don’t judge! I grew up in the era of Apple ][E’s. It was all keyboards before this. You know, the Dark Times.

When my family splurged for a Mac Plus, the mouse was like the cybernetic input device I didn’t know I was missing: It could act as a trackball, a joystick, a paintbrush (for those early…

That’s a tough request.

There are some games that filled the role of humor but are decidedly much different games.

If you’re curious, I highly recommend Subnautica (an exploration game with building elements and an overarching story you need to solve in order to get off planet. Light humor but it’s there) and Void…

Just wanted to say that if you see yeast available for baking, save some for your fellow shoppers! Went to three different grocery stores yesterday (Oakland and Alameda, CA) and all the yeast and AP flour was sold out.

American here.  Yep, totally agree with that assessment, sadly. 

My first thought is that he deserved everything, but after seeing his despondent public apology and realization of his error, I would forgive him. If someone (or even one of his dogs) got hurt it would be an entirely different matter, of course; but it’s obvious the guy has learned from his mistake. If anything he now…

Is it me or does the rock emoji look like what I imagine what the back side of Slimer from the Real Ghostbusters looks like? Shh. He’s just hiding!

(The nibs on the sides are his elbows, where his greasy hands are holding the burger buns swapped from the burger patty from the upper left). 

I interpret it to say “cny ovrl”— which everyone knows stands for “See ya in New York, Over Virtual, Real Life”. Which is to say, get real and live in the moment, head to New York.

Having never been there, the emoji is a sign that I need to get on this.

Or, yeah— it’s absolute gibberish.

In addition to what kinjalooksawful said, some hot pot restaurants also have their own proprietary broth— so you’re paying for the broth made with different herbs and seasonings as well as not having to deal with the aftermath mess. Other hot pot places also feature a dipping bar menu in addition to that, to save you…

Not for me, but to help shut up all the naysayers on the internet?  Hell yes. 

The reveal that Leia trained as a Jedi led to my “Yes! I knew it!” moment on reflecting way back to when she was sucked into space, then force-flew her way back to the ship in the first of this trilogy.  I thought that was a nice bow to answer the fans who questioned that scene. 

Different time, different methods. My dad recounted to me about how he was pulled from boarding a plane to China, then had to sit in a nondescript restaurant talking to an agent while they dropped a thick manila envelope/file in front of him to review to prove they had tabs on him.

This was when the Black Panthers…

Try blanching it and eating with some oyster sauce drizzled over.  It’s yummy that way.