I used to work with a Filipino-American guy at our IT helpdesk. Every time we had a potluck, he’d bring these shrimp roll things that were amazing.

Man, I went to a birthday party this weekend with my seven year old. The birthday girl is half white (her dad is soooo white) and her mom is hispanic of some sort. There was fruit salad, popcorn, cake, and tamales. I ate all the tamales. I felt bad, but only a little.

Hahah, constantly having to talk my wife down off the edge before she buys into this stuff. Had to have an intervention when she was convinced that a particular shake and workout regime would make her enough money to quit her six digit job (or hell, even pay for itself).

Hell, I’m ADD to the point where I try to watch TV and end up with my phone out doing something. Then five minutes later realize I have no idea what’s happening because I didn’t read any of the subs. Making myself stare at the screen for any amount of time takes Herculean amounts of willpower on my part. It’s very…

I realized looking at this list, that at some point, someone is going to break into my house, and I’m going to try to stab them in the chest, and then at that point, finally realize that there’s something my Santoku’s not good for. It has no stabby tip.

Yeah, I implied it with my UI comment but maybe wasn’t clear. We’ve watched the controller evolve, but we’ve also watched the onscreen menus evolve from no menu, to maybe a single screen, to piles of nested menus with multiple pages, etc.

I love that video. Knew what it was before it loaded.

My kid only wants to play multiplayer with me, except she doesn’t want to follow directions, doesn’t want to switch characters, and then I try my darnedest, mostly in vain, to not get frustrated with her while I just sit there and don’t actually do anything. And she’s seven. You’re idea to just unlock all the…

Based on the article, “what I do?” is more of a question of, there’s a menu here, how do I make it go away so I can get back to playing the game and having fun? It’s one of those things I’ve noticed about my seven year old and games, is that when the game starts, dumps her into a tutorial, the first thing she wants…

I feel like you missed the whole article. When you and I were kids, we had to master a D-Pad and two buttons. The PS4 controller has 8 buttons, a touch pad, two D-sticks, and a D-Pad, and most games these days find ways to use all of those buttons in especially convoluted ways. The games aren’t difficult because…

Hahah yeah, they’ve been demoing it at all the cons, so part of it is in at least some kind of playable state, which is more than I can say for some Kickstarters.

It was a Joe Mad Kickstarter, I think it’s kinda sortof published by THQNordic. Turn based RPG. I backed it but don’t pay enough attention.

Not really. This takes advantage of the way the in game systems are setup. The idea is that in Hisec you’re always protected by NPCs, but the NPCs can’t appear and attack unless someone takes the first shot. By the time these guys and their giant swarm of players in tiny ships takes the first shot, you’re already…

It also has EVE Fanfest if that’s your thing. Seeing as I clicked on this from Kotaku, it seemed at least a teeny bit relevant.

I feel like I missed a step. How do the toys, cards, comic books interface with the game? I feel like half of the fun of watching my daughter goof around in Infinity was how seamlessly she could toss crap on the base and instantly move on. It’s why stuff like Toybox Takeover got WAY more play than any of the more…

I love the general feel of, “Corporate didn’t tell us what we were supposed to do, so we just kind of guessed” that these pictures tell of.

It’s called Ellio’s, you can buy it in bulk at BJs club in the little rectangles in the frozen section, probably Costco as well. Throw that on a pizza stone in the oven for like 15 minutes and it’s amaaazing.

What’s funny to me, is that Pizza Hut pizza tastes like my nostalgia. I remember we had that BookIt program when I was a kid and for reading, you’d get rewarded with a free pan pizza at the sit-down Pizza Hut, so the flavor of Pizza Hut + Pepsi= Winning! somewhere deep down in my subconscious. Plus, the local guys…

Pretty much this. There is better pizza, but by the time I’ve resorted to pizza, the level of lazy has exceeded my ability to drive somewhere and pick it up which I have to do for the local guys.

I travel with a Pelican Storm case full of tools, from cordless drills to screwdrivers to whatever. I get surprised when I open the case and there isn’t a “We checked your bag” note in it. It’s also a fun tossup to see if the bag comes out with the regular luggage or into the oversize area even though it’s actually…