I mean, this isn’t a surprise, and it’s not about price point- it’s about reliability. There are a lot of moving parts, and I expect this probably isn’t the sort of thing that keeps functioning for very long without regular maintenance. Probably the actors get the prop for their shift, and when they hand it back in at…

[Creepy Wendy is] like the anti-Sexy Costume

My reaction was “Neal McDonough is too good for this.”

To the contrary, the relationship of seconds, minutes, and hours, is actually quite wonderful. Hours to days is less so, but still pretty good. And the reason is simply this: I don’t like decimal points. A third of an hour is a whole number. As is a sixth. And 12 is a 5th of 60, which is why while days isn’t great, it…

Which is why there are 10 seconds in a minute.

You can just convert D&D to metric yourself, as you can just do your map as 1.524m squares. Or, I guess, 1.5m if you’re lazy. Maybe 150cm if you want a nice non-fractional number.

While I agree that it’s not uncommon for certain services to be relatively unsecured on the private side of your network, that’s still a gigantic fuck-up that you have to wonder about how that still happens. I mean, you even have internal users you don’t want seeing, say, financial payouts to your contractors. So that…

due to an error in a Twitch server configuration change

Sarah and Ava going Bonnie and Clyde? Fuck, and also yes. That’s a barnburner of a way to kick off a Legends season.

I’m not a fan of the RTD era, in large part because I don’t like a lot of his sense of humor, especially falling back on the “fat people are funny for existing, fat Americans are even funnier!”. Then there’s the “every interracial relationship ends in tears” (I’m not sure if that’s something they did with any…

Now, I can’t for sure put Parasite into context as a film, because I am not immersed in Korean cinema and have no real shared cultural background. But I feel like Parasite isn’t a film that vacillates between genres, as much as it’s a film that exists within its own cultural milieu and thus doesn’t give a damn what…

I had to look up who David Cage was because after playing 15 minutes of Heavy Rain I erased all knowledge of him from my mind, because holy shit that game is fucking awful. “Let’s have the player do tedious stuff that doesn’t advance the plot and also give them the worst possible controls to do it with!”

Didn’t I just explain, in rather clear terms, that I didn’t consider Bioshock fun? It was a dull game with good art design. For a game to be engaging, it’s helpful, but not required, that it’s got a clear design ethos and purpose. Things that run counter to that purpose can make the game less engaging because it’s…

I mean, as someone who bailed on Bioshock, it has nothing to do with “fragility”, it has to do with the fact that when the game narrative and the game play don’t align it makes it hard to enjoy the game. Why should I play something that’s incredibly un-fun, and clearly can’t commit to its own ideas? Bioshock is a bad…

I mean, there are a good number of generic games ranging from high-crunch (GURPS) to low-crunch (Fate). Then you have game toolkit systems, like PbtA, which lay out a pattern that allows designers to make a setting-specific game, but with mechanics that are pretty generic.

I started doing RPGs in 1994, and I didn’t play my first D&D game until 2007. I still don’t really care for D&D, but it’s what I’ll play if folks are playing it. Personally, my preference is for games with more prosaic settings- I wrote a one-shot RPG that takes place entirely in a hotel over the course of a single…

I love when she explains that her father died after falling down an elevator shaft onto some bullets.

Ah, you must not have been watching too closely, as it’s clearly explained. You see, the reason is that Tom Waits plays a pacifist inventor who lives in an abandoned amusement park and goes to nursing homes to meet women. I can’t imagine what more reason you need.

There are other options for being queer than just gay. And there are also other characters on the show who may have been the ones that are “too gay”, in exec-dipshit’s opinion.

My read is that this is a branch of history where Neo took the blue pill, and kept taking it. He’s continued living his false life, and it’s been mostly okay for him- but it’s now falling apart because you can only live a lie for so long before it kills you. Which ties into the trans-metaphor which ties the films…