One summer while I was still in college I had a job bussing at a restaurant/steakhouse. Saturday nights were always the busiest nights and for various reasons (mainly shitty management) we would often be way understaffed. On this particular Saturday night, the manager had picked up a guy hitchhiking and had offered…

That one went way too far. Didn’t bother with the light/dark packs since my kid didn’t play often enough to make it worthwhile.

Elder Sign is a little less time intensive version of Arkham Horror. It’s also more luck based and less cooperative which might be a good thing if sore loserness translates to blaming the other coop player for losing.

It is dysfunctional in its own way. The Democrats are split between liberals and centrists/center right. The right wing of the Democratic party is pretty much where the center of the Republicans were 10-15 years ago, except for some social issues. When the Republicans shift rightwards, the center right Democrats go…

Public shaming involves publicizing information about private individuals. Criticizing the public records of public individuals that are deliberately seeking out the largest audience possible to tout those very same public records in hopes of taking the most highly scrutinized public office in the world is almost as…

Sometimes. For a month or so after trying a new migraine med, I had movie like dreams but they were all end of the world scenarios like being in a train and seeing mushroom clouds go up all along the horizon or having an alien mothership hovering outside my apartment window destroying everything in sight. Almost every…

I used to get similar dreams except at some point I would go from first person to realizing the dream is actually a movie, thinking its the greatest action movie ever, figuring out I’m actually dreaming and then waking up and being pissed that I couldn’t keep watching it.

There’s also a huge expansion to Binding of Isaac coming out on Oct. 30

Manon de Sources in French class was pretty great.

So IEM’s that are painfully loud by 80% volume probably won’t see much benefit then, right?

I was a little surprised by this too. All worlds in hardmode are gone. Thankfully my original world from 2011 that I kept in easymode as a stash house survived.

Thanks for this. Been looking for a way to move Witcher 3 off of my tiny system drive. Does using symlinks cause any issue with updates?

There is a pretty steep jump in reading level at around that stage that can make the longer novels frustrating to read. Sticking to easier, shorter books is actually beneficial because it gives time for reading comprehension and good reading habits to develop. Many kids that push themselves with longer, more difficult…

That might not be too far from the truth. I'm thinking that the product will be somewhere between a Steam Machine and an expansion of the Wii U controller. Something that would let you play games on a console unit but also play via a stream on a handheld or smart device.

Yes. About 100K for engineering undergrad and a law degree. Ivy and top tier respectively and got very lucky in finding a job in patent law at just the right time. I could be in a very different situation if I'd graduated a year later or hadn't gotten the right work opportunities starting out. I busted my ass for…

Steam is it's own incentive not to use Greenlight. Tons of cheap, good games. Tons more not as good games that pop us a recommendations. There isn't much reason to sort through the chaff that is Greenlight.

Yeah, adding crazy is a bit redundant. Russian on its own should tell you all you need to know.

I've been pretty happy with off the shelf NAS devices. One of the reasons is that I have a standalone HTPC, that I did build, that has an HDMI out running to a receiver. The HTPC handles Kodi, Plex, WMC, Subsonic and links to Steam on my desktop. Most of the storage is on a Synology box or a cheap USB array. With…

The NFL is counting on the player's union to take the pressure off of them. If they get tough then it will be the union that is seen as being dismissive of domestic violence and advocating for lenience for offenders.

One thing I've never been able to do is make a clean break. My PC today has a lineage dating back to the mid 90's. At first it was because I could only afford one upgrade at a time, be it case or MB or video card. Now its mainly the hard drives that survive upgrades, which have also become more infrequent.