On a project with this much hype and uncertainty I would expect that a significant percentage of the backers will not like the game. That should keep the price of the KS exclusive version down on the aftermarket. I didn’t back either and will wait and see if it lives up to its potential first.

For $500 you could get a low end receiver with bluetooth and some decent speakers and actually get a stereo image. When you start getting into furniture size and that price range, getting an inherently limited device like that doesn’t make any sense.

My wife needs sleeps with a heavy duvet but will not use a top sheet. I will not give up my top sheet so it ends up being doubled on my half of the bed with a light blanket laid over that. It’s far from ideal but works most of the time.

Chimps are omnivores not herbivores. When there is abundant prey they hunt regularly and very successfully. There are reports of them nearly wiping out monkey species where their ranges overlap.

I think it had to do with trying to avoid the foot plus height discrepancy between him and Bruno Mars by crouching down. It just looked weird and drew extra attention to Bruno Mars’s tininess.

They don’t want a wide audience yet. This is a brand new piece of tech which means the manufacturing process will have tons of kinks and inefficiencies to work out. There will be an initial demand from the same crowd that buys 980’s and by the time the holidays roll around they will have had many months of…

From the shallow angle shown, the interface looks the same. It would explain the development delays if they have been working for TP-Link on this router instead.

There is a great book called Rust that includes a chapter on the canning industry and how important coatings are. The one area which has the highest tolerances for coatings is cat food as cats can taste the coatings and will reject food in cans with human grade coatings.

I doubt that anyone is buying these as an investment. Just keeping their value does not make them investment grade. They are a status symbol for the ultra wealthy.

My first restaurant job, as a busboy in high school, had me working an outdoor rush crowd with a coked up waitress who, not surprisingly, was considered an absolute nightmare to work with. The soda fountain at the bar next to my station was set up so that a half press would give you pure syrup, which I would use to…

There isn’t very much there at all for non-genre identified entries that are nevertheless sci-fi/fantasy and lots of fantasy pulp. Something like Never Let Me Go is much more worthy of a spot than some YA series hopping on the trend of the day.

Ted Chiang is on there.

Dune Messiah and Children of Dune are both rather short and continue the story from Dune. I liked them but I also first read them in middle school so there is quite a bit of nostalgia there. The last three of the original series aren’t up to the level of the first three and have their flaws. A chapter or two is enough…

I’ve read about 75 books on that list. It isn’t a terrible list but the focus seems to be more commercial success with quite a few of the more popular niches being overloaded with similar books . Authors that absolutely should be on this list like Iain Banks and Gene Wolfe are missing. Hard SF also seems to have been…

This is a month of backlog clearing for me. Hoping to make a dent in Witcher 3 and PoE. Civ: Rising Tide may distract me though and I have a Terraria campaign that I’m playing with my kid that needs to be finished up. I also have a growing stack of unplayed board games courtesy of Kickstarter and the Vine gods.

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…