I’m with you, dude. The people there took reasonable precautions and made their own risk assessment about their attendance. Given Omicron’s spread, some exposure was inevitable, and they knew it. In all likelihood, responsible adults who vaccinated+boosted+masked are just going to get a mild cold if they get it. This…

Can someone correct me here? My research seems to indicate you can get e. coli from raw flour exactly the way you would from contaminated produce. Doesn’t mean that raw produce is now and forever off the table, right?

I want to say I heard it was one year. I deliberately held off from buying the PS5 copy for that reason... we’ll see if it pays off.

You’re not wrong. The sad reality is that most of the small businesses that closed up shop during the pandemic didn’t do it because they had no workers, it was because they couldn’t survive a sustained government lockdown. I wonder if the option for the government to just randomly shut you down is coded in the game…

I’d LOVE a remake of the first two games into the modern format. They had a ton of clever ideas, but the gameplay is too archaic for me to wade through.

It’s your duty to hate everyone who lives in NoVA. Never forget!

Road construction is a perpetual disaster in NoVA, and that’s a constant no matter which party is in charge. I’ve worked there for 15 years off and on, and it always feel like things are being built but never finished. 

Looted in a riot? They should have just called their insurance and been made whole! /s

JWST was horribly mismanaged, and had a lot of haters inside who (rightly) saw it as an ever-sucking bottomless maw that money was shoveled into like there was no tomorrow. While I’m glad it’s finally launching and putting an end to the misery, make no mistake, the path there was pretty terrible.

First of all, my argument was based on the high vaccination rate premise... and some jurisdictions have that. Why should they be enduring these mandates?

I understand what you are saying, and I am sorry that you are in that situation. I have a guy in a rural area out west who does shotgun gunsmithing work for me who’s out of commission because his condition (non-C19) can’t be treated for lack of hospital space. There are areas in this country where vaccine hesitancy…

Speaking as a guy who masks when appropriate, tries to avoid crowds, and is getting boostered on Friday, I _completely agree with you_. I am growing steadily disillusioned with the focus on statistics that may or may not actually matter anymore in this age of vaccination (case rates) as opposed to the ones that do…

You’re not wrong. I fought tooth and nail to get a PS5, and it’s like... Returnal and Miles Morales are the only exclusive games I care about. It was a bit of a let-down. Updated version of FF14 is nice, though.

Sorry, when I say “SMT”, I mean “SMT mainline”, which is what I assume most people think of without using any of the variants. Played and beaten Persona 3-5 and both DDS games (which were phenomenal and under-appreciated, incidentally).

This is a really good review (and props on the oven story), but it would have been way better with some gameplay shots. Like... what the heck does the battle interface look like? What does the gameplay outside of battle look like? The other SMT games are (were?) first person dungeon crawls, is this one, too?

It was a bit rocky at launch, but it more or less functions as intended now. I think a lot of the problem was developer implementation more than anything else.

The quadrangle or whatever was always the weakest part of those books even back in the day.

Outpost Kaloki X is awesome. 10/10

Someone remind me why no more Penny Arcade?

I was just playing it, too. Controls are a lot better, but the terrible graphics and really unresponsive mini-game controls make me think that we needed remakes, not slightly amped-up mobile ports.