Came here to say this, glad someone else said it first.

Although considering what a mess the second movie was, maybe remove everyone who was involved with that except Eddie Redmayne.

I’ve had the HL1 and HL2 soundtracks in my MP3 collection for ages, and the music really is quite good in places. Maybe because I’m a synth geek who tends to make spooky dark ambient music in a similar vein, but it absolutely is memorable and among my favorite video game music.

More so than the Portal music, which...…

Stranger Danger kind of blended into the Satanic Panic and the drug war. Because obviously, anyone who kidnaps little kids either wants to sacrifice them to Satan or give them free heroin.

I was born late in 1971, and don’t remember that stuff seriously scaring me as a kid. There was just the occasional sudden…

I like the Elecom HUGE, which puts the trackball under your index and middle (and maybe ring) fingers.  I think it’s less tiring than the Logitech thumb trackballs honestly.

A lot of these just seem like really bad choices in terms of usability.

Also, for people who spend a lot of time “staring at their phone” I’m pretty sure it’s not the launcher/home screen they’re spending their time on. If it is, then maybe I should be proud of myself for wasting time with news sites and Instagram and…

Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas all get associated with nostalgia. Halloween is kind of the season opener for the holidays, where one visits family (or wishes one can, or is glad one doesn’t have to), remembers/participates in family traditions and remembers one’s childhood. Also probably a large pile of manufact…

If the horns were a lot longer, it could help with social distancing. Fashionable and practical!

Yeah, I would hate this. I’m tall and hate it when bedding is tucked in to the foot of a bed, I don’t like being in a zipped up sleeping bag unless it’s *really* cold, and sometimes even a regular blanket feels kind of like it’s trapping me.

Weighted blankets sound like a nightmare too.

Regardless of the truth of the claim, exposure to Donald Trump can still cause emotional distress and the overwhelming urge to punch something orange.

I saw a mudcrab the other day.  I steered well clear of it.

Honestly I feel like the #1 requirement for a home printer is reliability. For a while it felt like printers were just landfill fodder after a year.  Although in retrospect almost all of those were HP...

We have an Epson WF-3540 that was utterly perfect for the first eh, 3-4 years and is still going after 7 years with…

Probably by volume, most of the sake I’ve had has been Sho Chiku Bai junmai from hinoki masu cups at Japanese festivals. To quote a barbecue chain, “it’s the wood that makes it good.”

I prefer ginjo, but really, the only sake I’ve tried and didn’t like was nigori.

Peaksville, Ohio is a real good small town to get stuck in. Real good.

it was their other MUD “Dragon Realm” that hooked me.

I’m not a legal scholar, but whenever the Senate and President are willing, the number of justices on the Supreme Court can be changed. Dems have been talking about raising it to 11 justices, and of course, they’d get to choose the new ones. There’s also the idea of raising it to 15, of which 5 are chosen by each…

I’m not sure I would be willing to sit on an airplane for 7 hours to go absolutely nowhere during a pandemic if they were paying me $575.

I kind of didn’t like #5, for general reasons which I will not go into without spoiling everything.

Gen X here, and I suck at remembering birthdays. I put my own parents’ birthdays on my Google Calendar several years ago.

I loved 720. My dad was a manager for an arcade at the time, and I went in with him most Sunday mornings while he did the collection, helped out a bit and mostly played games.

Being a synth geek, I also appreciate that it had the Yamaha TM2151 “OPM” FM synthesis chip (as found in the DX-100 and DX-21), along with two…

And here I thought a “phone tree” was just an annoying menu system.