Star Wars in trouble? That’s not what I heard. My sources said, “Everything’s perfectly alright now. We’re fine. We’re all fine here now, thankyou. How are you?”

Woof, did you get that joke from the Leftovers pile?

Oh, the pain. The paaaaain.

The behind-the-scenes drama at Warner Bros/DC is honestly more interesting than some of their recent movies.

Tell me more about this Packed Man of which you speak

Pete Hammond, circa 1978:

This is the “I don’t even own a TV” of video game boasts

Hold the phone. There’s a Tetris movie...?

The only way this could possibly happen is an aversion to games and a concerted attempt to avoid all discussion of them. If you close the browser as soon as any gaming content comes up, declaring that it’s “not for me”, or avert your eyes whenever you see a kid with a gaming device, you’d possibly manage this…

I do too :( They could just update the graphics and controls a little bit and I'd buy all three again.

Is it a grift? Nah. But I think what rubs me the wrong way about the game, is that it encourages the notion that “if fans just give us more money, than that will make a better product.” Which, as we know, is not true. All the money in the world can be put into a game, but without proper management, it falls apart. And…

To me Star Citizen seems one of the most flagrant examples of scope creep. Yes, the devs have clearly been working on stuff and there’s progress to show. But so long as they keep adding new features that push the goal post even further back, then an actual release date will be that much longer to come.

I miss Wing Commander

Agreed. The game exists and a lot of work has been put into it. The people working on it clearly want to make a good game. It’s just the victim of poor management and endless feature creep.

I’ll say what I always say about Star Citizen: I have paid no money for it, do not own a computer than could even play it, ever, and my experience with it is pre-pandemic trials at my friend’s place that were extremely janky and broke a lot. My skin in the game is nothing.

But every time I played the game I saw the…

‘Borderline mentally ill’ is how I’d describe a -lot- of the discourse around female celebrities at that time. And also now, probably.

For the basics, ALDI has them for $0.99. For some things I’ll go to an Indian or Halal grocer and get big bags of coriander, cumin, etc. for like $5.

A rectangular metal tin? :)

I always appreciate a new way to tell how old the spices in my mother-in-law’s kitchen cabinet are.

Quanu, quanu, quanu