Thanks for sharing with us the insights of John Mackey, the brilliant mind that called Obamacare “fascist” and compared unions to herpes. I mean, who better to educate us all about nutrition than a philosophy major who dropped out of college?

You only go to Portland to visit literally the worst bars in Portland, of course you hate it.

Jeph Jacques is exactly the kind of person you think you’re complaining about re: Portland.

Produce the college application where she wrote “American Indian” or admit you are a liar.

You have no evidence that her own explanation (that she sincerely believed that she was American Indian because of her family history, and chose to claim it after her mother’s death) isn’t true. It’s your assumption versus her word.

Read the Boston Globe piece. This is false.

Vancouver, the place for people who think the problem with Portland is that it’s too diverse.

Death threats, harassment campaigns, etc. for this kind of thing are bullshit, because those are always bullshit. But it’s legitimate for consumers in a market that has generally had a diversity of retailers to complain about a trend toward retailer exclusives.

What is 1955 sauce? McDonald’s doesn’t say.

It probably originated as a dish for vegematarians. Halloumi seems to fill the same role as a non-patty burger substitute in the Europe as portobella mushrooms were for a while there in the US. It’s crazy popular in the UK.

What are your objections to the Boston Globe investigation? And it actually seems to have worked out pretty well, considering that she’s gone from tied for a fairly distant fourth place six months ago to being tied for second now.

that it was wrong of her to ever claim ethnic minority status for either academic or professional advancement

I knew a guy who went out with some people and went home to one of their apartments and passed out on the couch. He woke up to find that a woman they had been out with (who he didn’t know well but who was a friend of the friend whose apartment it was) had pulled his pants down to his knees and was playing with his…

I will hear that soundtrack in my nightmares.

Well, I’m talking about traditional roguelikes (turn-based top-down tile-movement RPGs with procedural generation and permadeath). In something like NetHack, there’s nothing that really stops the game from generating a trap right next to your starting location, so you die on the first move. Rare, but not impossible.…

I thought it might be something like this, but I expected the article to mention that if so.

Good point about Gungeon. One of the biggest flaws of modern roguelike-inspired games is the pursuit of balance. Tweaking the difficulty curve is fine — Binding of Isaac uses a reroll system to make it less likely (but not impossible) that you collect more than one of the game’s most powerful items in a single run,…

This is a total non sequitur. “Women should be able to get drunk and not get sexually assaulted” does not imply “women should be able to get drunk and sexually assault people”.

Thai fried rice is awesome. In American restaurants, on average, my experience is that Thai fried rice >> Chinese fried rice >>>>> Vietnamese fried rice. (Of course I’ve had very good and very bad versions of all three.)

I think when you write an article titled “Panda Express’s Sichuan Hot Chicken could stand to be a bit more Sichuan”, you’re making an authenticity argument even if you’re not using the actual word. What does it mean for a dish to be “more Sichuan”?