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…

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.

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…

“Fall apart” may be the wrong phrasing, just imagine how annoying it’d be to have music constantly piped into the place where you live, particularly when you have no control over it. Sure it might be okay in the central square, like with the dance party at the end, but it’s portrayed as playing pretty much everywhere…

The whole “music over Knowhere’s speakers” thing falls apart when you spend more than five seconds really thinking about it, but I do really appreciate the way Gunn blends his needle drops from diegetic to non-diegetic. The music production side, in particular, which I assume is not actually him, makes the transition…

Hard mode is bad. It does not actually require any more skill, it just makes the game harder by introducing more randomness and luck.

I mean, Hikaru won an over-the-board rapid match a week ago because his opponent made an illegal move by moving his king next to Hikaru’s king. Hell, they have a term for it: “over-the-board mouse slip.” Mistakes happen, no matter what input mechanism you’re using.

Most get between 1 and 2 million viewers. I think the Today Show might average 2.5 million.

Yeah, this seems like a clear case of Paramount shopping the rights before consolidating their streaming services and now regretting that move and trying to get out of it. 

Do you have a 34" waist or do you wear a size 34 pant? Because those are different things. I’m a little heavier than you and have a 42" waist but wear a 36" pant. I doubt if I lost 15 pounds, I’d lose eight inches off my waist, but I probably would go down to a size 34 pant.

At 5'10", I would think a 34-inch waist…

The weird thing is, I feel like there has been a lot of fanservice so far (particularly in this episode). It’s just done really well, and The Last of Us is cinematic already, so you don’t notice it. After the big fight in the hotel, Joel gives Ellie a rag to bandage her wound and uses a roll of tape to wrap Tess’s…