Crossword as a category in general is terrible and needs to go. A huge part of the meta-strategy in Wheel of Fortune is figuring out words based on the context of other words. For example, if you get a clue that’s ****** ** *** *****, it’s a pretty good bet that the middle words are some form of “in the,” “on the,” or…

One trick I’ve picked up as an interviewer (though I’m sure it would work on the other side as well) is that I orient my Zoom windows and the browser window so that the most important person (in my case the interviewee) is directly underneath the camera. That way, if I am looking at them instead of the camera, it…

That’s what I was thinking.  It looks like a three-way intersection with a stop sign at each spot but it really should be a through street with the perpendicular street as the only one with a stop sign.

Given the aspect ratio, seems like the Game Boy Advance will be more appropriate for Zack Snyder’s Justice League.

It told me I had 835 hours played, which seemed like a lot until I remembered I was on paternity leave in March.

Yeah, I know exactly where they’re staying. It’s where my wife and I had our honeymoon and my in-laws lived down the hill for about a year. Most of those villas are ~600 sq ft 1-bed/1-bath condos with pretty basic amenities. Their appeal is that they’re hidden away up on the hill on a private road. It’d cost them…

Ha! I know exactly where they’re staying. That’s where my wife and I had our honeymoon. It’s really not that amazing of a place (nice, but not five-star or anything), though it makes sense when you have a retinue of Secret Service agents in tow.

Doesn’t this apply to every government spending program, though? I was responsible and bought half the house I could have, so I can’t take the mortgage interest deduction. Similarly, I live in a low-tax state, so the SALT deduction doesn’t apply to me either. Why should people with bigger houses (and thus higher…

I don’t know about that. To me, I think it’s a game that was always going to be divisive and then came along at the absolute wrong time. I played it through twice to get the platinum trophy and both times I was just utterly ready to be done with it by the time I was finished. I know they’ve added some increased…

I was going to say, I’ve spent the last six weeks or so playing Fall Guys and Hollow Knight exclusively and haven’t even gotten to Mordor yet.

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.