Which means that not only did Weiner not read the article, but she didn’t even read the caption of the photo that had Ready Player One in it.

This context keeps being left out:

Is Ready Player One YA, or is it just targeted toward thirty- and forty-something man-children like the author? I can’t imagine an actual teenage boy being that interested in a book which is 90% references to specific media properties from before they were born. It’s definitely trash and doesn’t belong on any reading…

The counter to this claim is that one of the books they picked was Ready Player One, which is juvenile trash. But I think that’s unfair. Just because someone said they participated with an eye toward improving the material included doesn’t mean that they endorse everything that was included.

Most people aren’t used to talking to reporters and don’t have any idea how individual statements can sound when quoted by themselves. Celebrities and politicians have to be trained to respond to interview questions in a way that encourages the publication of the quotes that they most want to see in the papers, and…

QAnon people, who live in the inverse world, believe that Tom Hanks is one of the most powerful villains in the massive Satanic pedophile ring that runs Hollywood, and that all of his goofy Instagram posts and whatnot contain secret messages about deep state hit jobs, adrenochrome sources, etc.

“We always start with nailing the key user-journey and then proceed with releasing extra features. YouTube started with ‘watch video.’...

Is this actually a “prequel”, in the sense that it has some kind of connection to the plot of Isaac, such as it is? Or is that just McMillen being typically weird?

Also, nobody slaps a person they’re being physically threatened by. Push, punch, grab, tackle, yes. But not slap.

The regulation in question only affects new construction. It doesn’t require anyone to get rid of their current gas hookups or gas appliances.

Silly putty? Did you put it in a food processor or something? That can sort of emulsify together the fat and starch in a way that can seem sort of gloppy/glue-y/putty-y.

Do we really need an article telling us to season our food? The Root is going to see this and laugh at us.

Eh, that’s a sports bra.

Well, sounds like you’re cruisin’ to be ashamed of your words and deeds.

Bayonetta’s design was modified for Smash. Maybe SNK wasn’t willing to modify Mai’s design.

How much stock footage do you use in your work?

When people complained about the excess of cutscenes in his games, they were complaining because the long, often dull, and frequently stupid cutscenes were distracting from the part of the game that was actually good: the gameplay.

It’s just an absurd idea. If you somehow split a person’s genome so that only recessive genes were expressed, you wouldn’t have a complete genome. And since it turns out Liquid was actually the one to get the “superior” genes, that raises the question of why Solid is the one who more closely resembles Big Boss.

... earning the trust of the (underage in Japan) Katrina in SNATCHER by knowing her measurements and that she has a birthmark on her inner thigh, walking in on her in the shower later, being able to grope Meryl in Policenauts if you beat her in a minigame, being able to grope every woman in the Saturn version of…

The other problem is that the better MGS plots are also more driven by exposition. Virtually the entire story in MGS1 is revealed either via codec call or by a boss’s dying monologue. MGS3 is similar.