Same here. Rainbow Connection is a great song, but IGTGBTS just hits me where I live. A weirdo who finally find friends that like him for who he is and a purpose in life? Shut up, you're crying just typing about it!

Rainbow Connection is fine, but it's I'm Going to Go Back There Someday that always makes me tear up.

I legitimately don’t know the answer to this, but how many times has he beat Jennings? The argument in favor of Jennings is just the big data set of players that he beat. From Wikipedia it looks like Rutter may have beaten Jennings twice, but in the Watson matchup Jennings came second and Rutter third, so I would be…

The other thing about Holzhauer is that he changed the game. He was playing with a strategy that was mostly novel, at least in the skill of execution, but he’s going to inspire tons of players to take up his strategies. Would be be so dominant playing against players using his strategies? Maybe, maybe not, but it…

Disagree. Jennings’ streak meant that he faced and beat more players and answered more correct answers over a much longer period of time. While the benefits of winning by a lot and taking home lots of money are great for the player, the sheer skill of having the knowledge and buzzer timing to beat that many other…

Uh, woah!

These are almost certainly not aliens.

I feel like that has to be super hard on your hips.

Nope, no irony, I genuinely loved it. I wasn’t as plugged into the Lost online fandom, and if I remember correctly I came to the show a year or two late and may have been catching up, but I remember being somewhat surprised when I found out how much people hated those characters. Granted, I can see how they might have…

Honestly, that’s why hockey is my favorite sport. Here’s a guy that’s not a truly talented scorer, and that still looks like magic. What an awesome game.

Yep, I’m kind of baffled that this isn’t standard practice. The only sort of awkward bit is that I like to fill the bath with maximally hot water and then adjust the temp at the end, so I end up standing outside the bath while it fills, awkwardly dripping for a while.

This is dumb. The whole conversation between Tony, Steve, and Thor at the end of the movie about worthiness is drastically changed if Cap is just lying about his ability to pick it up. It also undermines the emotional importance of Vision being able to pick up the hammer. 

Holzhauer’s approach is strategically superior and generates more money, but Jennings has beaten a ton more opponents. As a fan of the game, Jenning’s accomplishment is more impressive to me, for now.

Maybe that’s your dream, but it’s certainly not everyone’s. And not working is not synonymous with being lazy. There are lots of things that a person could do that would be enriching or worthwhile that would also not be valuable in the marketplace. Not wanting to have your ability to enjoy life tied to your ability to…

On the other hand, people who retire report significant increases to their overall happiness after quitting their jobs. Even people who were unemployed prior to retirement report increased happiness after becoming part of a group in society where there’s no expectations about working or judgment for not working. I’m…

And if someone spends money on coffee they’ll also have quite a bit less to show for it. Or if someone drives to work and pays for parking instead of biking or taking mass transit. Maximizing wealth isn’t something that just about anyone does. We all waste money on things that provide us with some kind of benefit that…

But why is it a better use of time and money to go to a sporting event than to spend an equivalent amount of time happily daydreaming about some unlikely scenario in which you are suddenly rich? The benefit of most recreation is just some mental capital gained from the enjoyment of the activity. If someone enjoys…

I’m absolute trash when it comes to playing fighting games. I learned how to do some special moves in MKII, and that’s about where it ended. So I’m in the process of watching MK11's story, and it’s pretty entertaining. But for a series that’s all about blood and fatalities, and features demons, criminals, and the…

Maybe it’s just me, but it feels like when CBS launched All Access with Discovery and a bunch of back catalog shows that I don’t care about. As much as I might like Seinfeld, I’m not going to get a streaming service on the basis of old shows that I’ve seen before. Even typing this I’m considering something like a Nick…

I’m not someone that cares a ton about backwards compatibility a ton in general, but I’m actually kind of bummed that they’re supporting the PSVR on the PS5. I know, lots of people already own it, etc., but despite being perfectly fine for when it was released, today it’s a pretty rudimentary VR HMD, particularly…