In San Francisco, where I live, the Cheesecake Factory at the top of Macy’s Union Square is indeed a destination location for tourists. It’s not different I can remember from any other TCF location, but the tourists when they come to SF love going there. It’s not like SF doesn’t have plenty of other amazing, only…

I mean, the chicken is good, as is the selection of flavors and sauces. But the fries; those are absolute trash.

“I’m married now, so I learn less about cinema, but for many years, I was taught what a tracking shot is over and over by the boys who penetrated me...and like much of the sex in independent film, it was sad, harshly lit, and central to the development of my character.”

I doubt many people are eating there often enough that how healthy it is has any real impact on their life and the price? Well, I’d say that is probably more of just your personal values, given that as you say it is always slammed.

Why the fuck should they defend their desire to you and fuck you for shaming them on it, only a true asshole tells someone else where they should be spending their money.

I like it that the awards show takes place in a big tent. Very indie-ish. It looks like a fun, casual time and the first time in my life I’d want to hang out with this kind of crowd (well, maybe). I just worry that the whole thing would collapse.

I’ve been wanting to read Shogun for years, but I think that synopsis is what has finally sold me on making time to read it this year—thank you!

I’m a huge fan of the Shogun novel, and the way I like to describe it to newbies is “Imagine if Mr. Bean was dropped into the middle of Game of Thrones.” All these huge political power players making moves against each other, most of them after years of setup, and suddenly this one dumbass stumbles into the middle of…

Just as awful today as it was when it was first said.  

Zaslav’s stubby, uniform teeth really bother me. No canines? It’s like he’s wearing an elaborate human costume but cheaped out on the teeth.

Hi, accessibility specialist here, with a background in UX before that. You’ve actually misread the paragraph. He didn’t say “disability isn’t just impairment”, he said “disability doesn’t equal an impairment”. This is citing the social model of disability, something fought for for decades of the disability rights…

“Let me repeat: there is NO moral obligation for a game designer/publisher/etc. to incorporate modes that are specifically targeted to make the game generally EASIER. There IS a moral obligation to incorporate accessibility for those with actual impairments.”

I always read that pasta as “This is all I have and your choices make me feel bad.”

Cult of the Lamb has a bunch of difficulty levels, and it even lets you do things like turn off time passing and make yourself invincible. I, personally, don’t use those options. But I also don’t mind at all that they’re there. It doesn’t change my experience at all, so why would I care if others use them?

The main reason is because those people think if the game has an easy mode, then the base difficulty of the game is scaled off it.  Any extra difficulty options is just easy mode with artificially increased stats.  It’s a dumb complaint with no real basis.

I play almost exclusively on easy mode these days. I’m in my mid-30s with a full time job. I don’t have the time or patience (or, lets be honest, skill) at this point in my life to be repeating the same section of a game over and over again. It’s just not something I find enjoyable nowadays and if a game doesn’t allow…

I have made this argument with Soulchads so many times and they always come back with “you need to Git Gud” and “it’s against the developer’s concept” and then sometimes they get into a long-drawn out discussion about how death and rebirth are integral to understanding the games’ worlds.

Alan Wake 2 has a Story Mode that is basically Easy Mode and it is delightful. After playing the Summoning section on a higher difficulty, and basically just managing to survive, playing the same section on Story Mode was friggin EPIC. You feel like an absolute beast destroying Taken while some of the best metal…

Take a page out of Round 1's playbook and make a few private karaoke rooms.