I mean...no, I’m not concerned that security guards who said “Yeah, a box of golf balls doesn’t seem like a huge security threat, go ahead in,” would react the same way to a bomb. Even if you told them it's a present for Bob. That seems like a pretty unrealistically slippery slope.

It seemed to go over really well with people, but I didn’t click with Octopath Traveler at all. It felt bland to the point of being repellent to me. If playing a really bland RPG is like eating plain rice, Octopath was like eating a picture of plain rice printed on recycled cardboard. I hope I have a better time with…

There’s an episode of the show Review* (where the main character reviews “life itself,” usually destroying his own life in the process) about making a sex tape. After failing to convince his wife to participate, he decides to buy a sex doll, and says this in a narrated voiceover playing over footage of him struggling…

It’s cool to not like streaming or Youtubers or whatever, but I’m having a hard time picturing your ideal scenario. So, “salaries” are capped, and instead of the money going to the people who upload stuff, it is...what? Kept by YouTube? Returned to the advertisers? This seems like a really weird thing to root for. 

When reached for comment about the meeting, Andrew pushed back on the term “meeting,” insisting it was “just a straightforward eating-lunch.”

Well, in light of all the recent issues at G/O Media - websites being shuttered, the loss of three editors-in-chief in as many months, huge amounts of negative press from mainstream news outlets and presidential candidates, a mass exodus of writers and other staffers, and a major partner pulling out of a seven-figure…

Thanks for the tip! I think I’m just interested in the actual physical books, though. As a long-time pirate, I’ve come to appreciate that some things just aren’t the same digitally, and beautiful art books with lovely sewn bindings are at the top of that list for me.

I really want almost every book these folks are selling. I sent the NEOGEO one to a friend as a birthday gift, but so many of them are gorgeous. Artcade might be at the top of my list.

I think you’re being unfair to the guy. He also got her breath mints, deodorant, and a self-help book called Everything About You Sucks and Should be Changed Immediately.

I beg your pardon, but Andrew didn’t just see action - he saw so much action that he was incapable of sweating. For decades.

The VRC chips are very neat. I love reading about developers managing to push a console past its limits with chips built into the actual cartridges like that. It seems like the SNES examples of that are more well-known, with Star Fox using the Super FX chip prominently in the marketing. But the NES/Famicom examples…

Short answer: put on by a department store to get people shopping, and remains popular because of tradition, the balloons, and being filmed for a long time.

Yeah, but the parade goes on for a while, there are a bunch of balloons, and they’re not all on camera at every moment. You don’t need to film each balloon on every single street they go down.

That whole video has some great stuff. I like the parade rep who was proudly saying that they knew about the dangerous high winds and were concerned about them, but that they have a plan in place to handle that. Meanwhile, a kid was hit with a lamppost and a woman’s in a coma. Pretty bold, as plans go.

No, I think I’m cute because I’m adorable and because my mom tells me so.

I took it to mean “This is why introverts find other people exhausting.” Which is kind of fair.

I've definitely noticed tool abuse as a big problem on Steam, which is why I avoid the forums.

I’d be interested to see similar numbers for other recent popular games, because this doesn’t mean a lot to me out of context. Given Steam’s extremely wide install base, and how many people just have Steam on a laptop to play Minecraft or Peggle or something, I’d imagine that a large percentage of users don’t have a…

That’s right, Bob. Listen to your friend. A person who makes more money than you is better than you.