I play Bethesda games, so I’m used to terrible RNG.😅

As I said in that comment thread, I don’t enjoy frustration-porn games (like Elden Ring) because life comes with enough frustration and I don’t feel like seeking out a crushing level of it in a game.

How long until he secures the GOP presidential nomination?

One really nice thing about the county I live in is that they actually care about those sorts of projects, the godless commies. There’s a big rural broadband initiative going on right now that’s bringing honest-to-goodness internet service to people who didn’t have access to it previously.

Dammit, why did I google that?

I like using Apple Pay when I can. Yes, you have to store your card information with Apple, but using the card itself for every transaction increases your potential attack surface significantly. You can even generate virtual card numbers to use on sites that don’t use Apple Pay natively.

I’ve always believed that you have to lead with the story, and that’s doubly important if one of your goals is to deliver a specific message. Not doing that is why the overwhelming majority of Christian films - stuff like God’s Not Dead or Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas - are so awful. Their only mission is to…

For a license to stream the films from Apple. I’m talking about physical media, which can easily be ripped to disk and streamed locally, if one so desires.

I’m totally with you. I can’t stand PvP. That was one of the worst aspects of Fallout 76 at launch for me (and there were a lot of bad aspects to choose from). I didn’t need some 13-year-old asshole to merc me and say terrible things about my mother while I’m building a C.A.M.P. or just exploring the map. Fortunately,…

Neither of my kids have credit cards, and my daughter likes Starbucks. She does have a debit card that can be used as a Visa, but putting a debit card into any app like that is not a great idea.

That part of it even predates mobile payments. I remember going to arcades where you had to convert your cash to tokens to play the games. It didn’t have the minimum payment aspect since you could (in most cases) get a token for a quarter rather than having to get $1 or $5 worth at a time, but you were still stuck…

Good thing I can stream them anytime I like.

I have no doubt that he loved creating those, but what I meant specifically was that he was much better at the shorter stuff (that’s why I chose the word “excelled” rather than something like “preferred”).

Totally with you there. A season of, say, four 3-episode mini-arcs could be a lot of fun in the right hands.

I think Doctor Who would do well to return to that more episodic format. I kind of wonder if the model would’ve hewn closer to that if Moffat had been the original showrunner rather than RTD. The Moff excelled (IMO) at stories and arcs with shorter runs, but by the time he took over the expectation for the big season…

I wonder if it’s because that length doesn’t give you time to relax/breathe so each of those episodes takes up a bunch of emotional bandwidth. Everything is important in seasons that short. Well, for the most part, I think Strange New Worlds does a good job of maintaining a mostly episodic feel in short seasons.

Yep. They don’t actually care about children, just forcing women to give birth. Once the baby’s out of the womb, it’s on its own, the slacker.

Telling Twitter’s largest advertisers, whose investment is critical to keep the company’s lights on, to “Go Fuck Yourself” on live TV.

Thank you for bringing up Mystery Men. It’s pretty much the platonic ideal of a film that was ahead of its time in subverting the superhero genre as well as superhero team-ups specifically.

The fact that this list doesn’t start out with Wonder Woman 84 as the worst movie also invalidates the list.