Bostonians are, as a general rule, horrifically provincial, and New England is so unlike the rest of America culturally that when I moved to Reno in 2002, I joked that I was an immigrant—a Bostonian-American.

I grabbed Total War: Rome Remastered on Thursday at 7 AM the hot second it went live for download, intending to play it all day.

Gods bless Seattle sports fans. Except Seahawks fans, who can eat a bag of Dick’s since too many of them don’t know a false start from a first down but can tell you how many decibels of piped-in crowd noise are at CenturyLink Field on any given Sunday. Y’all ain’t the worst fans in the NFL—that is and will always be…

“I’m almost at the top tier I can be while still getting paid hourly and I have no intention of ever going salary.”

But did it ever return
No, it never returned
And its fate is still unlearned
It may moor forever in the seas of Egypt
It’s the ship that never returned

It is so sad watching his career wasted by a dumpster fire franchise like the Angels.

Baseball, to me, has the largest differential between “fun to play” and “fun to watch” in the fun-to-play direction of any major sport besides golf.

“Oi, mate, agnatic-cognatic primogeniture or confederate partition?”

“Progress is often a game of inches, but it doesn’t have to be.”

Why would you want to globally remap buttons on a controller? Like you mentioned, it’ll completely screw up the in-game prompts in any game that doesn’t know you’ve remapped the buttons, and that makes games less accessible, especially to casuals.

A literal monkey could’ve taken Activision’s market cap from $10M to $70B+ in the time frame of Kotick’s career.

If Kotaku’s reporting on games based on press releases for pre-alpha Kickstarter games, someone on the dev side is screwing up by trying to generate hype for a game that people will then forget about. They should put that time into development and not say a word to the press without a download/purchase link to a…

I have said it before. I will say it again.

Cuttings being used to propagate clones have always been humanity’s solution to plants that don’t “breed true” because whatever mutation is canceled out by other dominant genes if you try to plant it (in the classic human example, if someone with blue eyes marries someone else with blue eyes and they have kids, you…

This is, in part, my thought. Next week, the April jobs report comes out on the federal level, and states will release their data as the month goes on (Washington will put out “statewide and Seattle metro” on May 19 and the balance of the state on the 25th. The federal report’s out next Friday.)

I hit the fucked-up-Doordash-order jackpot courtesy of Little Caesars a couple weeks back. The delivery person (a) brought me the wrong order, (b) spoke almost no English so trying to explain “that’s not my order” got me nowhere, (c) had that “conversation” with me because he also didn’t understand the concept of…

“See, it’s just too obvious. Your wine is B positive, but everyone knows Jesus was O negative.”

I remember when Persona 3 came out and the JRPG fans on the Internet said all kinds of the same things that have since been said about 4 and 5...and my flat-nosed reaction was “I wish this came out 10 years ago when I still would’ve been in a mindframe to find this kind of story and character construction engaging.”

I got a pretty major Buffy vibe off of Sonia Belmont visually, given the time period in which they were developing the game. Whether that would’ve been a good thing is...debatable.

Oh, no doubt, and you conveyed that well in the article.