This is horseshit. Good for New Orleans. Fuck New York. Fuck Boston. Fuck LA.

Stick with it. The first few chapters of The Fifth Season take a little settling into (particularly that use of direct address), but the jumpy narrative calms down, and it’s a rewarding read.

“When he opens his mouth it’s a vacuous hole: There’s little room for a brain or anything else.”

McDonald’s is a thing = TRUTH

Or for my family and friends in Puerto Rico...? 

“isn’t it about time to take a more nuanced look..”

Hey: nah. Blackface is bad. Darkening your skin tone to alter your perceived race, even for cosplay, is bad.

1) Who? Bring receipts

Just...just wear the clothes. We know who it is, the costume’s good and fine on its own, there’s no need to Blackface it up. Jesus, why is this so hard?

Yeah just don’t do that. 

Coming back to this in the morning and seeing a lot of “Heather, leave this this to us hardcore gamers if you can’t beat it.” or whatever and I just gotta... like... remind folks who I am and what I do for a living:

We can talk about difficult as an aesthetic choice all we want and I’m down for that discussion (failure and death are big things for FromSoft games) but easy is relative and I place my trust in designers to build these modes such that the particularities they want to stress still exist.. If combat cadence is a design…

Add an easy mode and he won’t have to settle for watching someone else have fun, friendo. And the good news is that you don’t lose anything in the process either.

That *is* harsh though because you’re all but asking players with disabilities to go elsewhere. In this example, an easy mode or even a series of toggles that allow players to customize game experiences is about allowing them to participate in that experience. It’s inclusive, and not in the dime-store way that word is…

It kind of almost looks like he’s upset because he knows he didn’t get all of it. Am I crazy?

Did you guys have an editorial meeting and decided to write a pile of “Take a Undefendable Yet Firm Position on a Trivial Matter That Will Drive People to the Comments to Argue” articles? This it least the third in the series after “This Is the Proper Etiquette for Leaving a Hotel Room” and “Stop Burying Your Pets in…

I got three sentences in and thought “this applies to the exit escalators at World Trade Center and nowhere else in the world”. What a waste of bandwidth to load this “article”.

“It turns out that the huge amount of space that escalator-walkers need cancels out all the time they gain by walking. “

This article is pretty clearly for people who go out of their way to make other people’s lives a tiny bit easier.

See, I don’t understand any of this at all. I book a hotel room so I have somewhere to sleep when I’m not doing what I’m in town to do. The job of housekeeping is to refresh the room after I’ve used it. I’m not gonna trash the room, but why should I do their job for them? If I want privacy, I need to feel bad about…