There’s a New Yorker article in which Polley talks about the experience of having her own kids insist on being set as background extras so they could see her during COVID. She makes speeches for three days about, “If at any moment you feel the slightest bit uncomfortable, or even just bored, please let any of us know…

You’ve got to wonder if Gilliam (and John Cleese) realize the irony in them becoming exactly the kind of old people that Monty Python mocked all the time.

Like Beyonce knows what a chord is

They started using that engine for Morrowind (when it was called NetImmerse).

The Necromancer was my favorite class in Diablo 2, the non-Civilization game I probably have the most hours in over my lifetime.  But I bounced pretty hard off of Diablo 3, and with ActiBlizz being a truly execrable company I’m not sure if I’m even interested in Diablo 4.  I think I’ll skip it entirely if they try to…

I just jumped back into NMS the other day and this looks a LOT more like the AAA NMS I’ve been fantasizing about than I ever expected lol.

I’ll probably grab this game anyways because I’m a sucker for Bathesda-style open worlds but... the preview kind of turned me off to Starfield. It just kind of looked drab and the “you see that pixel on a planet? You can go there” of it all just tells me most of the game is gonna be bland open space. Part of the fun…

It’s been over 15 years since TES: Oblivion came out, and they’re still using that janky “modified” Gamebryo engine with the same bugs. I think it’s time they moved to UE5 or something else.

Not to shit on the game (I am shitting on the game) but when I hear there is a mind bogglingly large amount of worlds to explore it tells me there is nothing interesting or distinctive to do on those worlds and you have made another procedurally generated loot grind.

Man if they made a Beyoncé NFT that was just AI generated gifs of an animated Beyoncé with different hats and clothes on, someone would make millions from a bunch of morons. Make them only purchasable with the new crypto Beyonc’oin and you can hit both ends of this hell 

I got shingles when I was 21 in college, and I had chickenpox in childhood. It’s not super common, but it happens. Sounds like Beiber had the same thing happen, except I didn’t have that side effect (It was miserable enough as it was).

Stop trying to make SPR3 happen, Gretch!

It’s an NFT. 

A SPR3 collaboration, most likely!

Drink Ovaltine.

The Chickenpox vaccine is actually relatively recent in the Western world. Bieber, being born in 94, was probably among the last group of people to not be vaccinated against it.

A  colleague of mine once told me, while she was in school, the research professor she worked under contracted it and (this was way before WFH was a thing) had to do remote work for like a year. The nerve bands they hit on him were on his left thigh or so, which made things like wearing pants/shorts impossible without…

Yeah back in the early 80s that was the norm. Spread it around, get it over with.

Seriously. I had shingles on my back when I was 11, and I can say with much emphasis 25 years afterwards: Fuck that virus. To this very day, every time I get a phantom twinge or a random sensitive spot on my back, I worry that it’s shingles again. Absolutely brutal pain.