Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is an interesting game to me because it has, indeed, aged poorly but, at the same time, you see all the elements of future games there. You play it saying, “How did they make Uncharted 2 out of this,” while at the same time saying, “Of course this is the precursor to Uncharted 2.”

“How to display your books like a more sophisticated adult.”

I, too, make my threes this way after I broke my pinkie in middle school.  Thank God I’ve not yet passed the Jeopardy test.

I really wish we had a games and fandom culture that allowed a person to say, “That thing you like? I get it, but it’s not for me,” and have that be acceptable.  Hollow Knight is a little better than most for this, but there are a still a lot of people who insist that if you don’t like the game it’s because you just…

I know this might not be the advice you’re looking for, but Hollow Knight is a game I absolutely recommend letting go if you’re not enjoying it. I powered through it enough to get the Platinum trophy, but it didn’t really get fun until 20+ hours in and, Jesus, who has the time for that? I now enjoy the game through…

I think the FHA is a much worse loan product without many more benefits. For example, a 5% down payment will get most buyers a conventional mortgage. With a conventional mortgage, your PMI is going to be much lower (we’re paying $50/mo on a $300k loan with a conventional whereas it would be $212/mo with an FHA loan.).…

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.