Of course he’s not going to do that, because if I was an Amazon warehouse worker and I got that amount of money, I would likely quit and go back to school, or quit and learn a trade, or quit and just look for a better job than work in an unsafe warehouse under strict conditions.

Keeping people in poverty is how you…

Sixty years ago they were firing and ostracizing communists, forty years ago was the Satanic panic, twenty years ago they were blasting anyone who criticized the majority-Republican government as unpatriotic. They’ve always been fine with what they’re calling cancel culture, they just don’t like that it’s been turned…

Rocket candy. I was in college, and I was poor, but I wanted to build model rockets. Dry heating the mixture went fine, but it blew up during the static fire test and scared the hell out of me. I bought all my rocket motors from Estes after that.

One time I tried to make rocket candy from scratch.

One time.

I wish I had something funny to say about this.  This is just such a dumb and senseless way to die.  I just hope this doesn’t create a hardship for everyone who survived, including the kid who is going to get sat down one day and told “Your biological father died building an explosive device to celebrate your…

What’s more, Lancelot (Galahad’s father) was a French character added in by a French poet, who wrote him to be the best swordsman in the court and also to have an affair with King Arthur’s wife.  C’est l’amour.

Yeah, I’m torn on loving it the way it is, and thinking it’d be great to get a remake which actually goes through and fleshes out the second half of the game.

Oh buddy! That’s rough! I used to do a playthrough every year (and after any break-up I happened to go through) and at some point, my friend and I decided to grind our way to level 99 before the end of the first disk. It let us breeze through the game, even in Gears, because there were enough gears like Billy’s and…

My favorite game of all time, Xenogears, came out in 1998 but I didn’t play it until 1999.  I had been planning on getting a playstation to play the Square catalog but that was the game that made me buckle down, scrounge up the cash and go buy a second-hand PSX.

I know they didn’t come out that year, but my original SNES gave up the ghost pretty early, and I didn’t get another one until 1996 when they were almost on the way out. I was finally able to play games I’d picked up from my cousin which included Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy III, Secret of Mana, Illusion of Gaia,…

Yeah, I was thinking - Nine?  By then I was a latch-key kid who routinely had a couple hours to my self every day.  By ten, I was staying at home by myself every day during the summer.

The P4 characters/setting are the tops, but they do get a lot of love.  That being said, I wouldn’t mind more P4 games.

Well, at this point Terraria is already ported to Android, so there’s no reason not to keep it in the Play store - it doesn’t require any more work to keep it making money.  If they were actively developing for Stadia, on the other hand, it might not be worth it to keep throwing money at it if it’s not nearly done.

Terraria is the 18th best selling video game of all time.  I’d wager Google is less concerned with whether it’s boring than whether it’s popular enough to draw people to Stadia.

I agree with what you say, but that was really just your low-key way of bragging about working on a spaceship isn’t it?

One time I saw him without a toothpick in his mouth, and I tell you, there was something really off about him.

Be the gelatinous cube you want to see in the world.

I love that French 75s made the list.  My absolute favorite champagne cocktail. 

My cats Talihina and Lucy both love playing with random scraps of paper or bits of string that happen to fall or dangle, but Lucy’s the weird one: when I drop whole coffee beans when I’m loading my manual burr grinder, she’ll snatch them off the floor and rub them on her face, roll over onto them, and bat them…

It was mechanical. Aircraft from the beginning of aviation until at least the 1950s used literal cables, gears, and pulleys to move the control surfaces (flaps and rudders) on the wings. Pulling back or pushing forward would pull the cables connected to the elevators, and pushing the stick to the left or right would…