Exactly. I go to the one in Burbank maybe 3 times a month and it always seems like they’re running some sort of free dozen donut promotion. There’s an app too, but you don’t need it for their promos. One time my cousin and I went in and ordered 4 donuts and the lady just gave them to us. Seems like a very pleasant…

She seems amazingly cool. I would light up the few times we got to see her on Ms. Marvel. I have a voice actor friend here in LA who gets to work with her and absolutely loves her. Thanks for this story. I still get irrationally nerd-excited when I see the Overwatch voice actors hanging with each other.

I’ve always been a big fan of WW in general, one of my absolute favorite superheroes growing up and I think she’s just insanely cool now too. The big problem with the film, at least for me, is that it used devices that I feel like comic book movies should have moved past. One of the big ones being the nerd who’s…

It is. My friend blames Starbucks for starting it, that idea where you tip ahead of the actual service and tip for nothing actually being done. I think the biggest problem is that it’s just seemingly understood that servers are paid like shit because they get tips to compensate. That doesn’t exist in fast food or…

And there’s the other thing people should stop doing or at least really start thinking about -- how do you determine when a company makes an earnest effort toward “change for the better?” Where’s that metric?

That success has even sparked a new debate about how maybe Cyberpunk 2077 was perfect all along. One false narrative—that Cyberpunk 2077 was a boring, busted piece of shit at launch—is now being replaced by an equally exaggerated one.

I don’t have the coal stall unlocked yet, but is it Kristoff’s? The lists I’m seeing on the other stalls only have food items.

The tipping that I can’t stand is the type that seemed to explode overnight and that now is kind of scaling back. The type where they take your order and go “OK it’s just going to ask you a couple questions” and flip that screen around so you can look them in the eye while you decide on the tip amount. It’s obnoxious.

I would understand if Konami was like that indie dev that was posting openly transphobic shit and then doubling down on it, but beyond that gamers should really knock it off with the developer purity testing. You’re not complicit if you buy their product. You’re not signing off on everything they’ve ever done. They’re…

You called him out on the difference between “every” and “the overwhelming vast majority,” which apparently is one game. That’s still a little pedantic.

I can’t blame them. They’ve got to make money on it somehow, and they’ve obviously come to the conclusion that they can’t just release it at a $60+ price tag and have it do well/be competitive. SF5 made the same decision around the same time OW1 launched. It was about $25 per season for like 5-6 characters IIRC. Or…

I think you’re maybe an income statement and a balance sheet away from being able to make that determination.

As long as it’s like Animal Crossing (or maybe, hopefully, better) in terms of adding new things over time and making you want to keep playing, this isn’t such a terrible deal. Because if you caught 10 fish a day, it would take you six months to get that trophy.

Yeah that is pretty bad. I didn’t even know about that. I assume it was included in boxes/packs so couldn’t be recalled easily?

I stand corrected. I guess I never noticed that.

He seems to be getting burned out on the politics of pro wrestling anyway. Which is funny because he’s notorious for his reality-blurring pipebomb shit, but when people try to peel the curtain back on his backstage behavior he doesn’t like it very much.

I’m not sure I’d characterize the French Revolution as being without problems, but OK.

Nintendo can’t win with this stuff, honestly. They delayed Advance Wars earlier this year because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Yeah my first reaction to reading that headline was, “No, it’s actually not.” I haven’t played all of the games, but I’ve played quite a few and never once did I think the modern day stuff was anything more than an annoying sidetrack.

Douchey nitpick time, but if WoW taught me anything it’s probably spelled “Fel” Dragon.