While RTSs are terrible with thumbsticks, turn based strategy games work just fine. Mario: Kingdom Battle, for example, does a variant on the XCOM formula perfectly well.

One of my favorite things about Pandemic: Legacy is that the rules start off very simple and easy to teach, but the game gains a bit of complexity each time you play. As such, you get all the depth of a complex game without having to explain complex rules in one go.

Role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons work beautifully over Zoom. If your kids are too young for D&D, there are similar but simpler games designed for younger audiences like Hero Kids and No Thank You, Evil, though in that case you probably want an adult running the game.

I’ve never heard of a fan going to GDC. It’s very expensive even if you’re a local, and ninety-five percent of what you see won’t even make sense to you. Virtually everyone there is either a working dev, a student/jobseeker, or media.

But, ideally, you shouldn’t need to pay down debts or add to your retirement fund using windfall money. Ideally you already have an emergency fund,don’t have debts besides a mortgage, and are on track with retirement savings due to monthly contributions.

Now, obviously a lot of people aren’t in that situation. But a…

Sure, if you exclusively bought stocks at the single worst time you’ll have frustrating results. But that’s not normally how people buy stocks; generally you’re buying a bit each month for decades with your 401k/IRA contribution. So while the stocks you bought in 2000 and 2008 will have a disappointing return on…

So seeing him go from hardened warrior to tender father was touching and all, but he was like a C+ parent at best.

The flip side is that their base pay is (allegedly) pretty terrible, even after you adjust for the low cost of living in Poland.

Especially because it implies that they’re tracking how much overtime individual people are pulling. Which in turn inevitably turns into punishing people who aren’t doing “enough”, even if they’re getting their work done.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Sony starts releasing titles on PC eventually, but waits far more than a year in order to still drive sales of the console.

I enjoyed it well enough while I was in the theater, but after the fact I have a much easier time listing things I disliked than things I liked. And I don't really feel any desire to rewatch it.

Agreed, except I don’t think it’s really fair to call what Nintendo does “market manipulation”. They’re just not discounting their products as much as other developer do. There’s nothing underhanded about it.

Agreed, except I don’t think it’s really fair to call what Nintendo does “market manipulation”. They’re just not…

You can get perfectly decent minis out of an FDM printer. They won’t be the sort of things you’d want to enter in a painting contest, but viewed from more than a foot or so away the difference will be only barely be noticeable.

It really depends on how far off they are. If, say, a d20 averages 10.7 instead of 10.5 that’s something you could take advantage of when gambling but not going to meaningfully affect your home D&D game. If the average role is 13, that’s a serious problem.

I’m pretty sure my standards for “good” are higher, or at least different, than what that chart assumes. Or maybe I’m biased because I’ve watched most of the movies on Netflix that I’m interested in, and new ones get added relatively slowly. But there are way more movies on Disney+ that I’m interested in than there…

Obviously you’re working for money, that goes without saying. What they’re really asking is “Why would you rather do this job than some other job.”

Now, if you’re truly desperate the question is both dumb and somewhat insensitive. But most of the time, even if it’s far from your dream job, there’s a reason why you…

No, you pointed out that the study was counter to your intuition. But they actually did a test, in a city with one of the largest subway systems in the world. Unless you can point out something wrong with their methodology, their data trump your anecdotes.

Also, the London Tube experiment was looking at times of peak escalator use (like when a subway just emptied out a bunch of people). If an escalator isn’t packed to capacity, walking is more efficient (people who walk get to their destination faster, everyone else takes the same amount of time).

Yeah, putting him in charge of budgeting for music lessons probably isn’t a good idea, but things like clothing, lunches at school, and gas when/if he drives is a good idea.

If you have a good used bike shop near you, sure. I think trying to buy a bike off of Craigslist when you’re a beginner who doesn’t know exactly what you want is gonna be an exercise in frustration for everyone involved.