For the ultimate cross-cultural pollination, Turkish pizza is one of my faves. It may not be quite a “regional” style, but a place that does it well is a treasure.

Whew, that backstory though. Just very: “Really, are we going to go with the murdered wife thing?  Isn’t that a little tired?” “Look, I just want to get straight into werewolf limb-tearing, so I’m gonna need you to get ALLL the way off my back about that.”

I mean, for most of the people holding GameStop stock, the goal isn’t really to make money, the goal is to say “fuck you.” It’s vandalism of market mechanisms, exploiting Melvin’s short position.

Link was in the article, but I’m glad I could highlight that part for you!

Blah blah blah, psychic blah blah blah don’t judge … with an aesthetic focus on the surreal works of Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński.

Google Slides is a better VTT than Roll20. It doesn’t have a built-in dice roller, but it’s still better. I say this after spending hours trying to upload a card back for a deck of tokens which failed without error for no reason.

So, one thing I don’t understand is why this hasn’t become a genre. It’s such a cheap style of game to make; you could churn it out as a more-or-less asset-flip walking sim with a core logic puzzle.

What we really need is for the adjustment screen to be an actual in-game render with full dynamic range. Not a logo. An actual screen, 3D rendered. And I know that’s actually surprisingly hard with the way menu UIs work in most game engines, but it’s worth doing.

The description in the article makes it sound more interesting than the actual movie. I watched it, and immediately forgot about it until this article. I watched it because someone told me, “Oh, it’s way better than the trailer looks,” and while that may be true, it’s not so good that it leaves any impact on you.

Not to mention that, like most polytheistic traditions, they were highly syncretic, picking up new gods from trading partners. Not quite to the same extremes as the Romans, who collected gods faster than they collected new territories during the imperial period, but fast.

I sit on my couch and game with a laptop. I prefer controller, but for games that don’t support that well, I’ll go keyboard/touchpad. I don’t like mice. Oh, I do put the game up on my TV, because my spouse likes watching me play, so whether I use the laptop screen or not, it’s also on the TV. Honestly, the laptop…

You’d think, but even with the shitty control scheme, the game was so well done that it was still a blast to play.

When I was a kid, my mom clipped the fuck out of coupons, and that’s why we had Fruit Loops for breakfast for months on end. No matter how much you like a food to start, overexposure always ruins it.

So, here’s a weird thing: when I bought a Mac circa 2003, THPS2 came bundled on it. It’s not a game I had thought about purchasing on my own, but hey, bundled game. Sure, I’ll give it a shot.

I haven’t gone back to it, but my initial reaction to High Fidelity was that I hated it: the asshole protagonist loses his relationship for being an asshole, mopes about it, and then his “timeout” lapses, and he’s back to his relationship.

I mean, “I don’t want to associate with this person because I find them awful,” doesn’t seem immature to me. Like, I can enjoy media and personalities that are problematic or toxic to varying degrees, but I have to take them in context. The context here is that it’s 2020, and Doug TenApel was involved, so within that…

> Who gets the friend group?

> Do you pay for netflix? cable?

All I’m saying is its an overwhelming quantity of things. So much that it doesn’t sound like fun at all, and instead sounds difficult to keep track of. I could just donate to good causes and buy the games I want when I want them, which seems much much easier.

I mean, I have been.