Exactly. And the reason they’re testing the milk is to identify farms where cows might be infected but not symptomatic so they can alert those farmers and take precautions. This is the system working as intended.

I’ve been referring to it as the DadStation. I don’t need a device that I can take with me everywhere I go. I want a device that will let me play games while I snuggle on the couch with my kid on Saturday morning as she watches Bluey on the television or Moana for the 1,385th time. Also, being able to play something…

Will seems like a pretty decent dude. He was one of the driving forces behind the end of the vibecession (or at least how it was reported in the media).

I’m not sure how you can responsibly report this without noting that Elon Musk has literally paid tens of millions of dollars in fines to the SEC for lying about his companies on Twitter.

1. A story guy, not a data guy. A story guy doesn’t care what’s true or accurate, he just loves a good story.

Seems like there’s enough there. It’s a minimal graphical upgrade and comes with a new game mode that, by my count, has at least three separate articles discussing.

I thought Rogue and Unity (the two titles between Black Flag and Syndicate) suffer from an imbalance of story and sidequests. There’s way too much side material for the length of the overall story. Syndicate finds a much better balance, with a smaller map and more missions spread throughout the map, so collecting them…

Yeah, this would be great for me. A lot of evenings, we’ve got something on the television that my daughter wants to watch and I just want to hang out with my family and I relax. This lets me play games while sitting on the couch with them while still letting her watch what she wants. We just use a Roku instead of the…

One of the first pans I ever bought when I first got into cooking was the 12-inch All-Clad stainless steel pan. Looks like it still runs for $100-130. It is the best pan I’ve ever owned and has been a staple in my kitchen for 15 years. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

Sounds like software developers should unionize and get a collectively bargained contract that requires their employers to pay them residuals when their software is sold and used elsewhere.

If you invent a tool that nobody else has ever invented before, you would damn well patent it and require somebody to pay you if they wanted to make it themselves. That’s what intellectual property rights are for.

This article has more details, but France, Germany, and Sweden all have some kind of residual system set up, though they’re somewhat different and pretty opaque.

You’re misconstruing residuals, which are paid to writers, directors, and actors when their product is aired or sold individually, with licensing fees, which are paid to the producers, who are occasionally actors, writers, and directors involved in the show.

It really isn’t that complex, though. The fundamental problem is that streamers (most of which are now owned by the production companies themselves) have decided that the existing rules shouldn’t apply to them because they’re “different,” in much the same way that Uber decided the taxi regulations didn’t apply to them…

Then streamers should be paying higher upfront fees for the work. The deal with writers always was, you’ll pay us a smaller amount up front and, if the show becomes a hit, we’ll make more money on the back end because the show gets sold into syndication and we’ll get paid a little whenever our episodes air.

And the “impossible,” was never related to the actual feat of beating 64 heat (which a few players have done with seeded runs). It was considered “impossible” because of the luck required just to get the right setup, and then the odds of beating the run after that.

It is possible to have grounded, two-prong outlets. My mom’s house has them in the living room. They’re not very common because, if you’re going to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars running ground wire, why wouldn’t you spend $2.50 for a new outlet? But it is possible to safely use 3-2 outlet converters in those…

I think this is on point, but I also think that a lot of people *hate* ambiguity in art, and so it’s not surprising to me that people would use AI as a means of resolving that tension. I think of things like the ending of The Sopranos, or how so many of Lost’s mysteries were never answered and the desperate need so…

Does TLOU2 need multiplayer? Like, I played the first game’s multiplayer a fair bit, but does anybody look back on that game and think, “TLOU’s multiplayer was awesome!?” Or do they remember the story, which was great. The multiplayer was fine. But, like a lot of games at that time, it felt like an amazing…

Fun fact: Craig Mazin has long been involved in WGA leadership. He was on the Board of Directors for a few years before the 2007 strike and actually had a blog during the strike. He had a decent defense of residuals at the time that helps explain why writer’s went on strike then and are doing so again now.

The fight…