We had a lutefisk dinner during Christmas Fest when I was in college (St. Olaf). None of the students ate it, though, other than as a dare or to say they’d done it. I never touched the stuff. I think it was mostly for the alumni who remembered eating it as a dare when they went there.

It’s funny how quickly Bitcoin supporters have switched from “Bitcoin is the currency of the future,” to, “Blockchain is the encryption of the future.”

This change may have had some impact, but it’s worth pointing out that, over the last five weeks, Bitcoin has dropped $8,000 in price, only $3,000 of which came after this happened. And, in fact, Bitcoin had dropped $2,000 in value in the two days before this change happened and took a week to drop another $2,000…

You see, the crease is lava. And you can’t be in the lava with the ball or you catch on fire. You can be in the lava accidentally without the ball, but you have to leave immediately.

Really? I tuned in around minutes 14-18 and he just kept pausing the Super Nintendo version whenever the Nintendo version would load. That feels like cheating.

Noon is great for CST football fans because it lets you get the errands done in the morning and then hit sports all afternoon.

The one gripe I have about this tool is that it has a major, basically fatal flaw, which they admit: most school segregation is done between districts, not within districts. I looked up a couple of districts I know from suburban Birmingham and the tool said these districts were lessening segregation when it is a…

Except for when Alabama calls timeout with 1:40 left right before they punt.

No idea. I’ve never read the book. I chose American Gods because it is covered relentlessly by io9/Gizmodo/etc. and was named by io9 as the best show of 2017. It made sense, in reply to a comment asking why the Kinjaverse covers this game so much, to point out that it is pulling roughly the same live audience daily…

I mean, it’s an internet game show that’s drawing as many viewers daily (often twice a day) as most cable shows. I think last night’s game had almost 900,000 players, which is more than, say, American Gods gets live in any week.

Am I the only one who finds it odd that, in 2017 of all years, Kotaku decides to honor zero women but a man whose signature move is the “sexually charged” teabagging?

Bubbles tend to bring out naive investors looking to get rich quick. It’s not unreasonable to think that some people bought in without fully understanding how to cash out.

Her plan only failed because Shooty McShooterson couldn’t chill in his bunk for a couple of hours and had to play the hero. If Poe doesn’t devise a plan to break into the Dreadnought, Holdo’s plan would have worked perfectly. If Poe doesn’t also communicate, over an open channel in the presence of a mercenary, what…

Not even the colonials had perfect leadership.

I’d have to watch again to make a better assessment, but I would point out that, at the point Holdo decided to withhold the plan from Poe, nobody knew how the fleet was being tracked, only that it was being tracked. It’s entirely reasonably to argue that she was right not to tell Poe because there may have been a mole…

How so? Poe is well established the flyboy hotshot who can do no wrong, so it makes sense that he would go for the dreadnought, even at the cost of a dozen ships. It also makes sense that he would go behind the back of the vice-admiral (especially since they made it clear he thought he should be placed in charge of…

Exactly, the whole Holdo/Poe/Monte Carlo storyline is about teaching Poe that he is not the hero of this story. He doesn’t have all the answers. His way is not always the best. He has to fail - utterly, completely - in order to gain that realization. After the initial meeting, Leia tries to tell him this, but it’s…

To me, The Last of Us had the perfect difficulty scaling. On easy, it’s almost a run-and-gun. You never lack for ammo or supplies and there’s no doubt that you can kill everything in the game. Medium is the same way, just a little harder.

I don’t get how he beat the record of another run in a completely different category. Wouldn’t the other record still stand?

Your anecdote not withstanding, the data is very clear: Album sales started going down right as music piracy took off and pretty much cratered after the introduction of the iTunes store.