Do they have absolutely no staff writers? They certainly have a handful of regulars that keep showing up here, but I guess they could all be stringers getting paid by the article.

This is probably moving the goalposts a bit, but I tend to think of the slideshows as separate from the rest of the articles, especially the long-form essay stuff.  It says a lot about how little compositional effort they require that the management did their test run of AI content creation on a few slideshows.

It’s almost like they have more than one writer working for them! Maybe this one missed the weekly consensus meeting.

(Video games, by the way, are exempt from this physical media exodus.)

Does it actually matter all that much?!? Does know actually improve the movie or its ending in any way? Would the sense of doomed finality in that final scene still register if there was some glaringly obvious sign* that at least one of the last two was the Thing?

Both are garbage.  Aussie-style licorice FTW.

Some more quick takes from Playdate’s Season 1 rollout:

As an unabashed black liquorice lover, I understand liking a candy that isn’t very popular (despite this website’s assertion).

Isn’t this the reason companies use really tiny, nearly unreadable disclaimer text at the bottom of ads? If Big Fast Food hasn’t figured that out (especially after McDonald’s infamous Hot Coffee lawsuit), they might deserve this.

Does anyone but old people refer to any hard candy as their favorite?!? I always just get impatient and bored with them after a while and bite into them, often leading to shards of the hard candy stuck to my filling. Jolly Ranchers are the worst for that.

Apologies for questioning your life choices.

This is my first exposure to that cop slide story and boy, is it beyond stupid! Not the actual part where a cop got injured going down a slide (mind you, it is stupid, but I was never a fan of the “America’s Funniest Home Videos”/ Fail videos/ Darwin Awards nonsense), but the part where a bunch of adults just had to…

Some people love the tortuous hell that is the current comic books.

...but he does have one of the best tracks playing for his fight.

I guess I just don’t see corporations as people.  Future generations will judge me when corporations are given the right to vote in 2050.

I love how Undertale’s “No Mercy” run, save some solid character beats and one of the toughest boss battles in the game, goes out of its way to make it feel lousy, joyless, and mechanistic. Most games barely bother changing the story much, often making important NPCs unkillable* so you can’t just murder the story as…

Her popularity has reached near-universality

Sonic The Hedgehog’s Elba

Another handful of Playdate Season 1 capsule reviews, because that seems to be all I’ve had time for lately: