they don’t *deserve* to be excluded - like nobody deserves to be fat unless they’re fat but also killing cats or something - but perhaps not being able to ride certain amusement park rides doesn’t amount to an exclusion worth investing much concern in

“Even Space Mountain is disappointed with you, and it’s a goddamned insentient rollercoaster.”

dude I’m old too, but I hope by “at some point” you’re referring to the 1980s

Good list. ‘93 Til Infinity is one of those rare songs that just absolutely transports me to a time, a place, a mood, like ZAP. Kind of ironic with that name, but the song is absolutely timeless - the rest of the album is great ofc, but that song might be the absolute pinnacle of backpack rap for me.

I’m a programmer. I work on large commercial games like this. “Spaghetti code “ and “duct tape” are effectively synonyms in the context of large scale software development.

“It’s a huge risk, but I like it!” said nobody ever involved in making these kinds of decisions.

One of the many things true in life: if you’re asking a question, a dozen thousand smarter people than you are also asking that question.

My friend was the set designer on Crimes of the Future. Does that make me cool? Maybe.

You have to sell a lot more copies in today’s market to break even on “cutting edge” with a marketing campaign than you used to. That’s because the cost of developing games has gone up, and the price they sell at has gotten lower (given a price that hasn’t gone up commensurately with inflation.)

If only there was some kind of place in which we could work towards a consensus on the public record of what were the actual events and circumstance of the accident, and why it is the opinion of the DA that Baldwin is guilty of something.

ding ding. The idea that you wouldn’t want foreign entities to invest in domestic economic development (under reasonable regulatory and intellectual property control) is true “cut off the nose to spite the face” territory. Banning all non-domestic ownership of land out of hand as a national policy would be bonkers.…

a videogame has subpar copy? *drops monocle*

The first two episodes actually sucked. The only reason I persevered was because it’s a Armando Iannucci joint (The Thick of It, In the Loop, Veep.) The tone was very very off for the first two or three episodes, but then it finds itself, the writers figure out what they’re writing, and it clicks and becomes one of…

I think you’re wrong.

I know people hate Josh Gad, but people should watch Avenue 5. It’s very funny and Josh Gad is very funny in it.

Airplane 2 is excellent. Me likely all the Shatner scenes especially.

The 100% efficiency simply relates to how much energy you get out of it in heat vs the energy put in. Resistive heaters are 100% efficient, full stop. The reason resistive heaters cycle on and off is simply because they’re either on or off - there’s no “medium setting” given a fixed voltage, current and resistant…

The comparison isn’t very great between the bolt and the jag. What really affects how much the heating affects the range is the ratio of the heating usage to other energy usage (motor + whatever else is powered in the vehicle.) If the heating takes up a smaller ratio of the total consumption compared to just moving it,…

Well I hope you turn off the phone too, because your phone company has a complete log of your location history simply by dint of your phone being on. (And for that matter, wifi is enough easy enough vector for tracking too, but I assume you turn that off as well.)

“I like to have my drinks on occasion and it would never occur to me that getting behind the wheel would be a great idea. I will admit when I was younger I did it a few times which was really fucking stupid.”