“One of my least favorite fiction tropes is the short piece where the author indulges in one-dimensional wish fulfillment for 98% of the story, and then adds an oh-so-clever twist at the end where they tell the audience that they suck if they enjoyed it.”

R&M isn’t really my jam, but where normally that just means “hey, I’m glad you like it, do you and have fun”—the way I feel about people who love Life Is Strange or visual novels or binge-watching television—in R&M’s case the infuriatingly annoying and persistent nature of the fanbase and the fact that they’re…

IOWA:

“That bard saved our dungeon run.”

“The Black Angus menu taught me what “medium-rare” meant, and I will forever associate it with bright red beefiness.”

You’d think, but then where would they get their drugs?

I am ruthlessly utilitarian when it comes to my tiny studio apartment kitchen. If I have a 12-inch skillet, a pasta/stock pot, a slow cooker, a rice cooker, and the requisite utensils (spatulas, ladles, spoons, etc), that covers well over 90% of what I actually eat on anything resembling a regular basis.

“Man. I’m having a really hard time getting into Witcher 3, but yeah you’re totally right.”

I miss living in a world where it was still socially acceptable for the manager to say “then get your vaccination too, Karen, and we’ll happily give you one” in a condescending tone.

The Epic Games store is starting to remind me of when I was a kid and when “I” had games that I never played on the Genesis and the SNES because Mom bought them at my brother’s request, the same way he had games that were nominally his as much as mine but he never played.

I won’t be satisfied with a Pepsi reality show until Pepsiman is playing the role Chuck Woolery used to play on Love Connection.

I had an aunt like that, and I finally just replied, “arr, matey, it’s the cure fer what ails ye at sea.”

Steve’s built up so much immunity that the coronavirus is afraid of catching a case of him.

“Nearly everyone is going to have games they didn’t finish. I think that’s unavoidable if you buy games regularly.”

Maybe, but they did such a solid job with The Witcher that there’s something to be said for a Polish developer doing a Polish-centric view of a mythology.

Was just about to say, I have that problem now. I own precisely zero game discs, the entirety of my collection of old ones lost mostly to me ending up homeless in 2013 and having all my actual physical possessions reduced to what fit in a backpack I kept with me at all times and a single suitcase I paid to stash in a…

“Rules may change rapidly”

Normally I’ve been pretty hostile to headcount-based child tax credits, but this one really looks like it’ll serve a broader political goal I’ve supported for a few years now, namely Basic Income. Getting people used to direct anti-poverty measures will grease the political wheels an election or two down the road. We…

“Another possible “con” to consider is that if the white noise works particularly well, they may actually become reliant on it in order to fall asleep.”

Since Capcom management was ultimately the root of the problem, I’m-a go out on a limb and say Covid was just the excuse.