Pfft. Show me bear cavalry and then we’ll be getting somewhere.

This is part of the problem with “moral choice” in gaming more generally. It’s the same reason I have never, not once, killed Paarthurnax in Skyrim. Or blown up Megaton in Fallout 3. Or sided with Caesar’s Legion (except for one time to get the achievement) in Fallout: New Vegas. Or done any other sort of dog-kicking…

“twelve Republican-led states”

Back in 1991-95, when I was in high school, I would regularly forgo lunch in school. I’d wait until 1:40, when school let out, and either walk the mile to Kipo’s Roast Beef and Subs (home of one of the best burgers in Wakefield, MA—not the best but Billy’s wasn’t really walking distance from Wakefield High.)

Came here looking for this. Wasn’t disappointed.

Canned or cooked fruit in general tends to have deactivated enzymes. I’m allergic (or have some kind of reaction, like my mouth feels full of bees) to fresh fruit, but fruit pies, canned fruit, cooked sauces, and the like don’t bother me at all.

In Soviet Russia, food digests YOU!

At least he immersed himself in the culture and got a learning experience out of it. Things could’ve gone a lot worse.

It’s almost like that’s why prisons were invented in the first place. It wasn’t until the real criminals got control of the government that all changed.

I would rather live in Hell itself than in a heartland American small town.

In too many cities, the churches are the only ones who actually feed the homeless, so if you want to donate to a charity that helps out, you have to swallow the whole revulsion to the notion that the church is only doing it because they have a Borg-like need to assimilate and preying on the weak and downtrodden is the…

“Once considered the absolute epitome of American decadence and stupidity, Guy is now an icon of empathy, warmth, and sincerity.”

The moral of the story is that “hardcore fans” are both the best and the worst thing a game dev can have. On the one hand, they’re your best customers. On the other hand, some of ‘em think they’re the goddamn CEO of the game company.

Johan’s had his hands on the EU franchise since EU1. He developed the EU2 1.09 patch as practically a garage project because he himself was active in the player community and had his own ideas about how to improve the game.

This is one reason I think it’s less likely that one of the existing major fast food chains will convert their restaurants to full-auto and more likely that some Silicon Valley tech bro will snooker a bunch of venture capitalists with too much money and not enough sense into funding some test locations. Some would-be…

This is the next step across all of fast food, I think.

“Do you make sushi at home? I don’t.”

Never has P.J. O’Rourke’s quip about the Republican Party been more true:

“Instead, it is made by blending coffee, milk, and ice with a few pumps of “funnel cake syrup” (what a time to be alive!), pouring it into a cup filled with layers of strawberry puree and whipped cream, topping it off with more whipped cream and strawberries, and giving it a little sprinkle of “crunchy powdered sugar…

I knew the Hungarians had designs on the Romanian Carpathian territories historically (as most notably codified by the Second Vienna Award in 1940.)