Lol! Of course! What ever were we thinking?!

I never thought I would see the day when the RTS rivalry between Blizzard and EA would come back. Not only that, but the outcome turned out to be different than anybody expected.

No, it’s not agitation from air bubbles, it’s boiling point. In general, no substance will get higher in temperature than its boiling point without transitioning to gas phase (superheating phenomenon excepted).  In GHDave’s case, it’s 15F below boiling point at sea level.  If you are wondering whether that would make…

“But the way GeForce Now rolled out seemed to have caught many developers by surprise. Last week, director of The Long Dark, Raphael van Lierop, wrote on Twitter that Nvidia never asked permission to stream the game on its service. “Please take your complaints to them, not us. Devs should control where their games…

Interesting. Except that game streaming isn’t broadcasting anything. The media comes only to me. Not to me and my apartment building. Hell even if it did stream to my entire building, all my building would get to do is watch me play Borderlands or something. A thing they can already do on Twitch.

Last week, director of The Long Dark, Raphael van Lierop, wrote on Twitter that Nvidia never asked permission to stream the game on its service. “Please take your complaints to them, not us. Devs should control where their games exist.”

They can do it because the software industry has long since differentiated between a normal workstation and virtualized hardware, especially when you own one and not the other. I am not saying that is right, but it gives them the flexibility to restrict running the software on virtualized/remote access systems and…

Maybe someone can explain to me why these publishers can actually do this.

I recently soaked some dry chickpeas overnight with an entire teaspoon of baking soda and a good amount of salt. Before cooking, I drained the soaking water and added another half-teaspoon or so of baking soda to the cooking liquid. They cooked up super tender but also, uh, mostly nude; the skins slipped right off…

And while this sounds reasonable - nobody eats a “serving” of cereal, which I think is just a half cup, by volume.

Trader Joe’s sells Amarena cherries which are a very good $5 substitute for the Luxardo cherries. Not the same but miles better than fake-ass Star Maraschinos.

Hopefully someone manages to upload the whole catalog of “You Can’t do that on Television” I would probably have to intentionally hole up if that were to happen.

I’m ready!

in everything but the name since it has to come from scotland to be scotch. the father of japanese whiskey went and studied in scotland for years before coming back home. he even married a scottish woman.

Whisky pricing has very little to do with flavor and everything to do with scarcity. In the American whiskey world Pappy Van Winkle sells for thousands and thousands of dollars a bottle, it’s probably the finest example of a wheated Bourbon, and to many the finest American Whiskey. Because of that, other wheated…

To this day, I still use the sheepish explanation “I have a drinking problem” every time I spill something on me. And even people who do have alcoholism laugh at that joke, because the joke only works if you recognize that clumsiness does not constitute a serious problem. It’s a joke that, just like the rake gag from T…

What Airplane! and other movies of the era get so right that comedies today get wrong is not dwelling on the jokes.  No reaction shots or commentary to say “Hey, we just told a joke!  Get it?!”  Kareem getting pulled out of his co-pilot seat to reveal he’s in Lakers shorts and his signature kneepads is a perfect…

You can’t Google in a theater, though (ok, you can, but you shouldn’t!)
I know the translator, and this particular point was one they spent a LOT of time thinking about. Parquet is very, very meticulous and ultimately it was decided that jjapaguri required too much screen real estate to convey effectively to an…

That that’s what Yeon-kyo asked for says something about her and implies, as other moments in the film did, that she married up into a higher social strata.

The first season was decent. It felt kind of like a knockoff “Good Place” in some ways, and they could barely keep the premise going for a mini-season of 7 episodes, but it was pretty good.