I’ll preface this by saying that I know nothing of Twitch culture, but isn’t “simp” already a slur? I didn’t know of its current context, but I remember that word as short-hand for “simpleton” and typically being used as a slur against people with intellectual disabilities, much like the r-word.

That’s what I was thinking.  We have multiple “User” accounts on our PS4, but they’re all linked to one PS+ account. Though I could see a scenario where, say, roommates share a Playstation with multiple PS+ accounts so they can buy their own games. As others have said, though, this is likely an issue of one console…

Yeah, a couple of toilet paper rolls stuffed with dryer lint are as good as any store-bought fire starter.

Not even “non-major.” The Minneapolis suburb I just moved out of has plenty of townhomes available for that sub-$225k and a median household income of $85k.

I live in Minneapolis and, here, there are just a lot of 75+ year old houses with radiator heating, so it’s really expensive to run ductwork. And given how rarely it gets above 90, you can usually get by with a couple of window units or mini-splits. Newer houses have central AC, obviously, but I’ve seen places built…

I know it was a joke, but Johnny Cash wasn’t his birth name, either. His given name was JR Cash, but the army wouldn’t let him enlist as that, so he changed it to John R. Cash.

I think Lego Harry Potter was really the progenitor of that style of Lego game. The use of Hogwarts as a sandbox hub was super-smart and contained enough that it didn’t feel overwhelming, like Manhattan often does in the Lego Marvel games. I thought the use of spells as the differentiators was really clever, too.

I agree but...maybe that’s the point?  The beautiful facade was just hiding the evil beneath.  That’s kind of a theme in Bioshock.  Every attempt to create utopia ends in disaster because people aren’t perfect, so you can’t create any perfection that relies on humans.

I suppose. It’s still a hell of a price to pay. I played all three on PS3 within the last few years and I don’t think I paid $50 for the lot combined, netting them all through $20 or less sales. And, like I said, the collection was just free on PS4 and can probably be bought for $20 or so pretty frequently.

I just…

Buy The Collection and you get all three for $50.

Heather is the writer who finally got me to appreciate speed-running culture.  I hope somebody picks up at that torch and carries it as well as she does.

Bah! Of course, you’re right. I guess my brain wasn’t working yesterday.

Doesn’t it kind of depend on how much and how you would use the money otherwise?

NBC News and the Wall Street Journal ran a poll today where they polled head-to-head matchups with Trump for each of the six major candidates except for Warren. There was no explanation for why she was excluded. 

This! This! This! You want surgical masks, which have the wire. Then you just pinch the wire around your nose and no more fogging.

I do think there’s something to be said about the moving goalposts on some of these runs. Getting to the end cutscene never used to be the end point of an OOT run, it was when you made the last hit on Ganon. Triggering the end cut scene is a fine-enough choice but it seems kind of weird to change the ultimate goal of…

Seems like this would be a good use for a secured credit card. Get them a secured credit card with a really low limit (I think my first was $300). That way, they can never spend so much that it will break you and you don’t have to worry about unexpected expenses coming up on your statement.

As a librarian, it surprises me how often I have to say something similar to this, but: A book is not the thing. A book is a physical representation of the thing. When you recycle a book (which I assume he’s doing with these eventually), you are not destroying the information inside, you are only destroying one…

I feel it’s important to note one thing: the average person does not pay $7.69/mo in bank fees. The average person pays nothing in bank fees because, according to this same survey, 73 percent of people don’t pay any bank fees.

I would argue that what describe as “Millennial approaches to life” are an adaptation to the problems of housing cost and student debt rather than a pure choice, but then we’re getting into a “chicken and the egg” problem that I don’t think has a clear answer.