He didn’t steal it. They had a batch come out unflavored and, rather than just pitch them, handed them off to employees and encouraged them to try their hand at seasoning it.

Also made up recently: the “Hold”, where a middle reliever neither starts nor ends the game but maintains the lead.

I was really impressed by the original Godzilla movie when I saw it, and how it was *utterly unlike* the goofiness that later came to define the series. It’s as if “The Day The Earth Stood Still” had dozens of sequels where Gort fights a rotating cast of monsters.

I thought it was decent, and would have been fine if they’d kept it in relatively dim light.  But they were so damn proud of it that they set a scene in clean room-levels of glare, so we all got to see the poreless sheen of a CGI zombie.

It’s a deliberate decision to remain small. The founder of New Glarus brewing was in line to become brewmaster at a major company (I think Coors?) before leaving.

And FWIW, I think they *know* Spotted Cow is overrated.  The company has described it as their Miller Lite.

Yeah, he doesn’t have a trademark on the *phrase*, just his delivery of it.  I remember a local radio station skirting it by inserting a coughing fit before “rumble”.

I’m assuming the store burned down, not the food you ordered.

I’m not sure you want to start shit with Colonel Sanders...

I’m am always baffled by these food semi heists - in addition to this year’s Jack Daniels run, I remember a trailer full of pistachios getting lifted a few years ago. I just can’t wrap my mind around there being a black market for large, LARGE quantities of things you can buy at a typical grocery store.

“The couple married in 1992 and welcomed daughter Alexandria in 2000, enjoying what Iman calls “a really everyday marriage...a beautiful, ordinary life and that was what was great about it.”

“There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.”

Wait, I’m confused - isn’t “games as a service” supposed to be evil?

Not that it’s the way the show went, but it would have been entertaining to have Thaddeus be an evil genius who wants to be good like his father...whose tech wasn’t evil, but whose actions were.

Right back to the original fanmail revival, Star Trek.

I mean, Thad Venture’s “Joycan” was a fully-immersive virtual reality simulator. It’s components included the soul of an orphan, so I can’t call it a straight-up win, but it was an impressive functioning design of his own.

“Theres a lot to them artistically that gets buried under the talk of brutal difficulty.”

See, for me and many people, constantly encountering adversity and failure saps our ability to deal with it. If I’m going to suffer regular mental anguish for hours on end, I’d like to have a novel or a painting or *something* more than a screen with “Prey Slaughtered” to show for my effort.

What were they doing to get matched with Bronze players? My impression of these games is that matchmaking is opaque and purely server-side.

I find myself wondering what the hack was - not their fault if they just got matched with much lower players - but I can understand why the article wouldn’t want to spell it out.

Also, under most ELO systems, wouldn’t a Diamond player steamrolling Bronzes get negligible rating from the win? I suppose it gets a little…