If I can’t control an FPS sitting at my desk, I can’t do it on the couch either with the same controller :)

Without an analog stick, the controller would have been useless to me. I use it for racing games, and a D-Pad is garbage for racing games.

For me, the Steam Controller is an upgrade from the $15 XBox 360 controller clone I had been using. Its extreme configurability and wireless nature are very nice. For the most part…

I was in the stress test weekend, and was impressed by the game balance. I mean, it’s still a beta, but every character who seems ridiculously powerful in some situations has at least one counter, if not several. Characters who seemed really weak and/or awkward to me can be devastating when played well. Characters…

I am really not into JRPGs, nor platformers. When Sony managed to cancel my Playstation Plus subscription because my credit card number changed, without any attempt to contact me to update it, I decided not to fight it or renew. I put SFxTK and Wipeout on my Amazon wishlist with notes to only buy them cheap and used,…

I grew up in Florida and went to Sea World many times.

As far as education, conservation, and inspiration goes it really can’t hold a candle to the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, or the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.

The project should be called “Pave the Whales”

Heh, just Saturday morning I replaced the Insinkerator Badger in our sink with a new one of the same model.

I thought about removing it and just going with normal plumbing, but that was probably a more complicated operation.

And I’ve lived with a roommate who had a habit of throwing food scraps into the sink in a house…

Heh, just Saturday morning I replaced the Insinkerator Badger in our sink with a new one of the same model.

I thought…

The indignities our Star Wars figures had to go through. Somewhere about a thousand miles from me, a C3P0 probably still lies where my jerk neighbor buried him.

I had the Leia on Endor action figure, as well as a stormtrooper with speederbike. Leia hijacked it, of course.

When Michael Brown was killed, a TV crew interviewed a possible witness and revealed his Twitter handle of “EyeFloodPanties.” Way to be remembered by history!

I’m so glad Steam allows name changes.

Unfortunately, my cat is perfectly happy to wake me at any time at random. He’s very affectionate, but also (A) likes to play at any hour, (B) never learned / is unable to retract his claws, and (C) likes to push through the vertical blinds right behind the bed to check out the window, which usually means either…

The terrorists have won. :/

I did the same. I wound up nuking most of my old characters and starting over from level 1, and things made a bit more sense.

As a former game developer, this is all spot on.

I won’t go into details, other than to mutter something about “19-hour shifts” and “vacation canelled while I was on it” and “half the salary I could have had outside the game industry” and “literal screaming matches.”

About 2.5 years ago I switched industries and found…

Just bought a 14” Lucid mattress (part memory foam, part high-density support foam) from Amazon a couple of weeks ago and the whole experience was pretty great. Including the reduction in back pain!

Why not a not-clicky mechanical keyboard? Cherry MX Browns have a tactile bump but no click, and feel great.

It’s a Prius C! A good buy for commuters, since they’re significantly cheaper than the regular Prius and get slightly better city mileage (at the expense of slightly lower but still excellent highway mileage) And this one must be a 2015 or a custom paint job, ‘cause the 2014 model didn’t have as wide a range of…

Conversely: we used to rent a two-bedroom apartment where we had to store boxes in the living room. $800/month.

We now live in a 3-bedroom, 2-bath apartment with a huge kitchen, walk-in closets, basement and other storage space, garage, a good sized yard for the dogs as well as an oversized patio and a small deck.…

I <3 my Prius, even though my last car was a “proper” stick-shift.

Yup, was going to say the same.

Any micro-quadcopter that doesn’t stabilize when you’re not touching the controls is not really a good choice for beginners, other than the fact it’s so cheap it doesn’t matter how many times it slams into a wall (and it will).

It’s like aquariums — contrary to what people might expect,…

Yup, was going to say the same.

Any micro-quadcopter that doesn’t stabilize when you’re not touching the controls is…

That makes a lot of sense actually.