The 71 percent of greenhouse emissions coming from 100 producers stat is super misleading. Those top producers are companies that are making stuff because people buy that stuff. If people bought less stuff, they’d release fewer emissions. The very top of the list is oil companies, whose emissions are directly…

There isn’t one, at least not by much, unless you’re active duty military. You can buy the tickets for like five percent off through Costco, AAA, and a few other resalers, but beyond that anyone claiming to sell discounted tickets is scamming you.

Disney is less concerned about staff mistaking guests for staff than they are about kids mistaking a guest as staff, and having a bad experience.

There’s a whole lot to love about Wizarding World of Harry Potter, but they weren’t very careful about sight lines. You can see too much of the rest of the park from inside of Wizarding World, which makes it feel more like you’re on a set than that you’re actually in the world.

Also the fake snow makes for some…

Why does this game not have a VR mode?

If they add that, I’ll buy it instantly.

I’m not sure if I agree with “If you want to look a certain way, do that activity most”, at least, not unless you have a huge amount of time to dedicate to excercise. You’ll get closer to what we think of as a “swimmer’s physique” with two hours of full-body weight training a week (and the right diet, of course) than…

I don’t think the game industry is worse than any other branch of the entertainment industry in regards to sexual assault by people in positions of power. That absolutely does not make it ok, but boycotting the particular individuals called out for assault and any studios that fail to deal with them appropriately is…

It’s really not that weird to think of a VR headset as a blindfold. Even under friendly, safe conditions, have someone touch you while you’re in VR is unsettling much like being touched while blindfolded or in total darkness.

It seems like starting at 78 and lowering it until you’re comfortable is the exact opposite of what you should be doing. Instead, start with whatever you’re doing now, and increase it by one degree every few days until you hit the point where you start feeling miserable.

Some plans will let you automate the process of increasing your contribution, e.g. when you sign up you can set it to five percent with an automatic increase of one percent per year until you hit twelve percent.

Hypothetically, if you had a lake in an extremely hilly and rocky area, where there’s no good place to pitch a tent on land, it makes sense.

But that’s a really narrow use case scenario. 

I mean, seventeen dollars, much less 170, is far beyond what counts under any reasonable standard of “micro-transaction”.

But yeah, free to play models more or less depend on some players spending vastly more money than they ever would on a pay-once game. If you’re not ok with that, you should probably avoid free to…

I absolutely agree that Apex Legends skins are wildly overpriced. I’ve addressed this problem by not buying them. My life continues is a way that is very nearly exactly the same as if those Apex Legends skins were never put on the market in the first place.

What off-brand Nerf darts do you use? The cheap ones I’ve bought were all extremely prone to jamming.

What off-brand Nerf darts do you use? The cheap ones I’ve bought were all extremely prone to jamming.

That’s really not true. There are almost always worrying indicators in advance of a recession.For example, every recession in the last century was preceded by a bond inversion (long term bonds became cheaper than short term bonds).

Now, it’s pretty common to have worrying indicators that end up being a false alarm. You…

Or Bastion; he lets you be a useful contributor to the team, especially on defense, even if you don’t have the time to keep your skills on the same level as they people you’re playing with.

Might I suggest something like Ticket To Ride? No more complex than Clue, but more interesting design and maybe a gateway to the broader world of hobby board games.

Important note on the Switch; Nintendo is about to release an improved version with substantially better battery life.

Important note on the Switch; Nintendo is about to release an improved version with substantially better battery…

We went through Chase for our mortgage, and they offered a five hundred dollar credit for completing a FHB class.

This is one of the virtue of games with a Luck stat, or some other mechanical representation of luck like Fate Points. It makes it easy to make a character who isn’t actually very good at things, but still manages to be useful to the party.