I sprung for DashPass a few months ago, which at least waives or sharply reduces most of the fees associated with delivery, but it has a $12 minimum.

Doordash prices are up a lot more than 10% when you look at the pandemic as a whole. I’ve been ordering everything delivered since last March, and I have May 26 (two weeks out from my second Pfizer dose) marked on my calendar as the day I’m going to delete Doordash from my phone and just walk and/or take the bus…

This is the biggest valid complaint against Steam. I’ll browse their store looking for something to buy. I have motive, means, and opportunity...and tend to click back over to “Library” and play something I already own because the store’s recommendations are garbage (“Because It’s Popular” has converted exactly zero…

I get my free games on Epic (and don’t even count them as a backlog so much as “that weird shit collecting dust in the shed out back.” I will probably play exactly none of those games) and my I-actually-paid-for-them-and-play-them games on Steam.

I’m not sure what’s more impressive.

Not everyone can be Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan. Psychotic single-minded obsession is a double-edged sword.

Stupid dog! You made me look bad!

I long ago stopped reading most gaming media and I’ve unsubbed just about every YouTube gaming channel I used to follow. My engagement with video gaming now is one part hanging out on Kotaku mainly to have somewhere to socialize about it (since as I mentioned elsewhere my offline life is practically devoid of “nerd…

It’s funny, though, how we have potentially swung a bit too far in the opposite direction in recent years. “Better living through chemistry” degraded into “no CHEMIKILLS in mah food!” on Facebook, like their soup contains dangerous levels of dihydrogen monoxide. Or “there’s 5-butyl-4-methyloxolan-2-one in my whiskey!”

burner’down put it better than I could:

I think CK2 is a huge reach, but the Sims franchise had a good thing going with their smaller, more focused gameplay of stuff like The Sims 2 Stories. This is especially true of a game built on the engine of Sims 3 (as Medieval was); by controlling one or two sims at a time and making things explicitly goal-oriented,…

So they opened a vegan joint. That’s the whole story. Well yippie-ki-yay, I had neither the money nor the taste for fine dining before and I don’t have it now. I’m too poor (and cheap) for that stuff. Now if anyone needs me, I’ll be at Popeyes.

This is why we should never, ever, EVER trust anyone who thinks technocracy is a good idea. I swear some people have been assimilated by the machines like the Borg, it’s just nowhere near as violent or outwardly obvious as on Star Trek. It’s more like pod people. Pod cyborgs. Invasion of the Borgy Snatchers.

That’s not food. That’s “Mom, can I just have five bucks so I can go to McDonald’s instead?”

This is both a fantastic testament to your skill (congrats on the bronze medal) and a really cool player-directed exploration of negative possibility space.

A “lahge coffee regulah, like champions drink”, which I ordered from a Seattle Starbucks in the thickest bawn-n’-raised-in-Boston accent my wicked awesome voice could mustah.

You ain’t so bad yourself. I know I’ve interacted in a friendly manner with you a time or five as well. I get why the greys exist (so much crap in so many comments sections), but the approval process is haphazard at best and downright cruel at worst and it discourages legit new users from joining the discussion since…

I was 11 and living in Massachusetts when Governor Dukakis ran and lost. My mother (a Reagan Republican to her core, although she’s a Libertarian today) snarked that “He ran Massachusetts into the ground, now he wants to run the whole country into the ground.”

Wellll...I’m glad I saw this at 2:30 in the afternoon and not, y’know, right before bedtime...

Roguelikes and their variants have a lot of this sort of natural frustration built into the design. All the “GODDAMMIT!” of a git gud game but no way to git gud at rolling well on dice.