I never played GT5 (I was out of the console game by then and a PC-only gamer) but I felt the same way about GT4. They didn’t so much sell it as a racing game but as “The Real Driving Simulator”. There was an aesthetic that they went for and had on lock.

Well sure, if you want anodyne echo chamber conversation. Because two major factors there—”inspiring” and “kind”—are the ingredients for sparing someone’s feelings instead of hitting them in the face with a splash of cold water. Even “helpful” is a dangerous word because the phrase “you’re not helping” so often serves…

At some point I set up 2FA on my phone because Google Pay chirped at me that it wouldn’t work on a device that didn’t use it. At least I think that’s what triggered it (I was ordering Doordash one day last spring and it demanded I do that.)

Couldn’t agree more. All of the things Yi presents are a valuable lesson for...well, anyone...but presenting them as a list of demands in a hostage situation just reinforces the stereotype of the social justice left as a bunch of would-be authoritarians in their own right.

The problem with a Romanian home is that you have to live in Romania, a country that continually trades places with Poland as the most oppressive, anti-every-social-justice-virtue-you-can-name country in the EU.

Or we could just go find Rick Lax and beat the shit out of him.

YMMV. I find it’s an extra four or five bucks ($14-15 vs. $9-10) for what I usually order. The real jam I run into is DashPass’s $12 minimum for “free” delivery, which also cuts the overall fee to the end user down to about 5% (as in I get the food, King County’s “every time you buy a burger, you buy the government…

“I told you to get out of the way! Not to get the whey out!”

Phytoestrogens have always been something between folklore and grain-of-truth-science in bodybuilding circles, because while, say, a handful of edamame or a block of tofu isn’t going to deliver enough estrogen to make a meaningful difference, concentrated soy protein supposedly contains as much estrogen per 100 grams…

“You can meet up with friends for a drink and make easily make new ones over a pint or two.”

“a feature that allows you to juggle around half a dozen games in a suspended state”

For restaurants, I started out ordering from all the ones I frequented before the pandemic, then crossed any off the list that couldn’t consistently deliver what I ordered (I’ve ranted about the East Smith Street Wendy’s more than once as an example of the absolute worst, laziest fast food workers I’ve encountered…

“You may remember waking up to a quarter or—gasp—a dollar under your own pillow as a kid.”

That sounds like the best way to Finnish the job.

“A third possibility arises: Donald Glover is very much aware of the double-meaning at play here, and we have taken the damn bait.”

“I live alone and can’t afford a lot of food waste”

“Restaurants believe that customers who want the convenience of delivery will keep paying for it. Many are investing in pickup and drive-through services to make those options more appealing.”

You don’t realize just how privileged a lot of things in life are until you’re forced to go without them, or to get them on someone else’s schedule (as with the public shower at Compass Housing Alliance in Seattle.)

It may be OK to shower once a week from a health perspective or whatever, but I’ve personally found that I hate the smell of body odor, even my own, another legacy aversion I picked up in a shelter a few years back. (let’s just say that there are certain homeless stereotypes that are not without merit.)

Did they need to feed an old-school parking meter before they got a ticket or something?