“God, I miss traveling. I’ve been thinking about international travel and how I miss even the smallest things about it”

I had donuts for dinner today. No rebellious political statement or declaration of middle-aged adult independence, I just passed a gas station on my way home from getting my COVID shot and simply was not in any part of the mood for cooking or even bothering to spend the money on real food so I went “fuck it”, bought a…

My dad worked for Delta Air Lines between when he got out of the Air Force in 1963 (at age 22) and when he was forced into retirement in 1985 by the cancer that would kill him a year later. Delta gave my mom a family pass that basically carried on my dad’s employee flight perks for another couple of years after he…

One of the things that helps me sleep at night in a capitalist dystopia is knowing how this story ends and how it’s gonna make great fun for students of history in a couple thousand years.

This attitude has categorized the ruling class of every advanced-for-its-time society in human history.

“I like to move from game to game and get a lot of different experiences rather than play one or two games endlessly.”

Method acting is bullshit. Enforced method acting, on the other hand, is the root of some otherworldly great takes.

You may be on to something there; in which case the bigger barrier to entry is my distaste for the setting for most of those games, a thornier problem to try and solve.

Boneless thighs are, I would argue, better for sandwiches. Where boneless, skinless breast earns its stripes is when used as strips/tenders, where its lack of natural juiciness is offset by a nice crispy breading or beer batter.

Nah, people are still going to be (a) intimidated by the good stuff and (b) convinced it’s like eating a donut nutritionally. They’ve taught themselves to like plywood.

“Chicken thighs taste best when cooked to an internal temperature of 165℉-170℉, as opposed to breasts, which start to dry out—and dry out quickly—above 155℉.”

“It’s not fun if you’re just sitting in the sidecar while someone else drives.”

“OBJECTION!

I don’t touch looter-shooters, MMOs, MOBAs, or anything else in that world because I refuse, without reservation, to have my favorite solitary pursuit pushed onto someone else’s schedule for someone else’s benefit. If you’re going to make task demands on my time, you’d damn well better be paying me at least what my…

Because “download our app” lets them brag about their userbase and attract intrusive advertising that’s harder to block.

It was an entire exercise in boar dumb.

Pretty much. First time since college I had a bunch of time on my hands, nothing to do, and (most importantly) no urgent requirement to FIND something to do. Between the stimulus, the unemployment subsidies, and, y’know, staying at home with a plague raging outside, and being single besides, wasn’t much else to do but …

I get a lot of pushback from people who point out that you can tell a great story in a short game, but since the percentage of my collection consisting of games that even have stories to tell is in the single digits (and of those, most are Bethesda games where the stories are terrible and not even remotely the draw…

Well, they can keep their bloody plans to themselves if their track record as a public nuisance in Seattle is anything to go by.

Make LOTRO, not Warcraft.