Yeah, 1982 is to genre films what the 1927 Yankees are to baseball, or what 2008 or 2019 were to comic book films. In retrospect, maybe the worst part of E.T. is simply that it was so dominant that it crowded out a number of other classics financially. But as is, what you could see back-to-back, weekend-to-weekend, in…

Consider starting with games that are known for their user-friendly interfaces before advancing to games with harder or more finicky controls. For example, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has a stripped-down, easy-to-use interface that can be learned quickly, and which doesn’t require much adjustment for the monster in…

Yeah, I’m considering, and 11-12 isn’t that much younger than when I’d introduce my kids to classics that happen to be R-rated. Admittedly, I’d go more for films like The Shawshank Redemption or The Thing, but even those are pretty intense. So it’s not the potential for adult themes or even gore that might cause me…

Well, I for one have to admit that at first, I was a tad squeamish about letting tweens see the Saw films. That amount of violence might not be healthy to expose people to. But then I realized that I’d seen all of the Rambo films by the time I was six, and I’d shoot anyone who thinks that affected my empathy.

I get the impression that if it’s not a problem that can be Othered, they can’t even understand it as a problem at all.

“I’m married to an Asian” — Kellyanne Conway downplays White House official reportedly calling coronavirus “Kung-Flu” and Trump using the term “Chinese Virus”

Counterpoint: in general, we need to move away from the idea that every last policy needs to be means-tested, and granted only to “the deserving”, because “the deserving” is how they get us every single time.

Best guess?

Ah, so it is my childhood neglect talking. My apologies.

Or too big a fan of Chipotlaway and iron supplements, one of the two.

It’s possible that it’s my childhood neglect speaking, but have you tried letting your kids enjoy some unstructured free time? Like, the only rules are that it can’t hurt anyone or damage anything, and that at the end you have to learn something. I used to go nuts with that much freedom. And by “go nuts”, I of course…

Read it again a few years back. It holds up really well, perhaps even better given that I’ve seen how easy it is to screw up a Star Wars story.

Good thing for those who like irking the hell out of me, they also have complete lack of tapering on the leg. How the devil that guy walks around with ankles and knee joints that are a) muscled in and of themselves, when on actual humans that’s just where the muscles attach to the bone, and b) has ankles that appear…

That’s true, but it’s also the case that this is one of those “lies, damned lies and statistics” kind of things that underplays what that 8% means. Because that 8% isn’t a one-off thing.

It’s not about the incumbent being “bad”; it’s about the incumbent not keeping up with the times. The incumbent is, essentially, one of those residual Chicago Irish Democrats that served as the backbone of the Democratic Party back in the 50's and early 60's. Lipinski’s father, in fact, literally was one of those…

Yeah, the goal of individual-level acts like social distancing is not ultimately to reduce the total number of infected. At this stage, a pandemic is inevitable, and the question is most likely not if you get the disease, but when, and how severely it sets in.

When we’re talking about the general electorate that votes in Presidential elections, this small part of the Democratic electorate becomes even more insignificant. Elections are a numbers game. Young voters (and Latinx voters) have not been able to push Bernie Sanders to win by a significant margin in most states…

This honestly isn’t true, because the demographics Sanders has staked his campaign on are unreliable voters. They couldn’t even carry him to the Democratic nomination, much less carry him to victory in a general election.

Unsurprisingly, Barbara Ehardt, the Republican sponsor of the bill in the House, worked with the Alliance Defending Freedom when crafting the bill, and has defended the bill under the guise of “fairness.” Allowing boys and men to compete against girls and women shatters our dreams,” Ehardt said in an interview,…

Bought the game back in 2018, briefly played through some of White Orchard, found it to be a slog, and then shelved the game. Came back to it as a dutiful attempt to keep my interest in the franchise going after Netflix.