My kid sleeps at about 67 degrees. They have fleece footie pajamas and usually blankets by that age (2+). Not that the blankets stay on. But there’s wearable blanket sacks you can zip them into, too.

I don’t know if it’s me or the current gaming climate, but I have a hard time getting excited about any of the above listed games. Open-World MMO-style western RPGs and multiplayer-heavy games just aren’t my thing. I’m also not a big fan of zombies or horror, so that’s out. A $350 machine just isn’t worth it for the…

I think video game marketers are just getting more clever, really. Commercials don’t stick in a young audience’s mind the way that YouTube personalities, jokes, and popular comedians do. @Midnight’s Halloween episode had Halo all over it, and Conan too. It is funny, but also definitely paid.

I’m not a coffee snob, but we use a french press at our house for convenience’s sake, and for price. It takes up a lot less counter space — one of the best things about it — and it’s cheap. I had a Keurig but I brought it to work because it takes up so much space and the k-cups are pricey. You don’t need to specially…

The first guy, maybe. The subsequent ones... not so much.

Because World Trade Center, 9/11, something something?

I think I’d be much more interested in a documentary about Steve Jobs than the emotional arch of a biopic. It just doesn’t seem like a biopic has anything further to offer right now that we don’t already know. At least Halt and Catch Fire takes place reasonably long enough ago (30+ years) to tell us something about…

I just don’t understand the need for biopics of people who lived and died, like, three years ago. We already know Steve Jobs’ story. This would be much more interesting as a film like 50 years from now when we all have iBrain implants. Some retrospective insight about the dawn of a new era of internet and computer…

I think most people would understand if there is serious baggage with one’s family. But that’s not the only reason a person isn’t close with their family. It could be a family of people who just don’t value closeness, or from someone who is very focused on their own life and career, and who may not value going home…

Seriously. When I have used the term “he is such a nice guy” in my life I have never, ever been talking about one of these self-pitying, sex-entitled types who think it’s women’s fault no one can see their brilliance.

I think, like many things in American politics, this is a racialized story. Carson is banking on his “hood to good” narrative that a large amount of white people in this country find appealing. It puts poor, urban black people in a bad light and upholds the popular narrative of black acceptability politics. Through…

Mass Effect was so bad with that. I thought I would be having a normal conversation and suddenly I’m making weird flirtation I didn’t mean to do and which was not signaled well by the conversation choices. Especially when Shepard was a woman, in Mass Effect 2 every encounter with Jacob was creepy and suddenly sexual…

Ew. Stew is for eating, not taking pictures of, people. Even the New York Times food section with their fancy high-paid food photographers have a hard time selling the visuals on that shit.

I’m wondering if the shirtlessness isn’t a health code violation? I feel like it would be here in the States. Too much potential for injury and for body fluids (sweat) to get into the food with no barrier.

I would be more excited about final fantasy again if it looked this playful in the games. 10/10 would play.

I have also lost an old friend to heroin. It happened to be around the same time there was a lot of news about the heroin stock being stronger than usual and a lot of heavy users were dying of accidental overdose. I wouldn’t say he came from a poor background, although he wasn’t quite wealthy either, and he did have a…

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think this should be used as a metric to discriminate against blue collar workers or poor people.

I do wish that the article had gone further and compared the rates to other demographic groups. Is it the rapid rise that is surprising? How does the ratio of deaths by suicide and drugs compare to impoverished people of color? And so on.

I absolutely believe it, 100%

Could be. Combine that with an overreliance on prescription drugs for pain management, possibly a higher risk of chronic pain from physical labor/blue collar jobs, limited access to more advanced medicine and management practices, and a damaged economy, and it sounds like a recipe for public health disaster to me for…