Holy crap there’s a Blacksad game?!  Holy crap!

Oh god I can almost taste that smell through the screen.  Oh god.

I’d be less surprised if this weren’t this particular chef. He seems to be... above and beyond the usual level of attentive to detail, if not downright obsessive.

Achatz himself kept an eye on the meal.

In Mary Roach’s book Stiff they mention some new process of freeze drying and very thin, wide biodegradable cardboard coffins. Zero to mulch in, like, forty-eight hours.

Man, I knew about the apple thing but I never considered having maple trees near the grave. Oh man, if I can’t be consumed eaten by crabs, I’d love to be Grade B.

Worth It did fresh scallion pancakes in the middle of their most recent chicken in Taiwan episode, which also featured fried pork knuckle as one of the not-chicken dishes they served.

What the shit.  That’s genius.

... and I’ve tried it, and it’s good.  Options are good.  I hope we have more of them in the future.

It’s 2019.  Nothing is acceptable.

Outer Worlds.  Maybe try to finish up Mutiazone.  Probably just Outer Worlds though.

A series of digital own goals.

Aw crap, please don’t quote me on that.  I am not sure where I heard it and I may very well be mistaken.

Despite all the craziness going on in the AAA industry, it’s a fantastic time to play video games.

Outer Worlds - Death Stranding - Jedi: Fallen Order - Ashen (PS4 port) - then swing around back for Children of Morta, Disco Elysium and maybe GreedFall, The Surge 2 or Code Vein.

There’s an interesting book out there about early Silicon Valley business happenings - I think it’s Nudist on the Late Shift? - and they talk about the nervewracking details of what it takes to have a successful IPO, how dependent it is on so many things (market volatility) that the company can’t control, how…

Never waited on the release of a Squeenix game, have you?

Might as well just make it the flagship game for the PS5 at this rate.

Great article! It’s always interesting to see the history on these things.

Balti seasoning will go a long way toward salvaging bad vegetable soup. I made a hideous cauliflower soup and the Balti actually made it worth having seconds.