Andrew

Pretty sure I've seen a youtube video defending and exploring this position. Seems cute to think about, anyway.

Something about exploring the new stuff has inspired a lot more play of Slay the Spire II than I'd put into the original in the last ... year or two?

The new characters are interesting so far.

In the past when y'all have interviewed conservative media people, they've usually managed to say something that seemed to me to be of value even if I disagreed with it. This guy either couldn't or didn't bother.

Interesting interview, anyway.

That's not a special night; that's every day for the rest of your life!

It's doing quite enough of that on its own, but I appreciate the thought!

I certainly remember enjoying the shareware episodes of Keen, Duke, and Jazz Jackrabbit well enough, but if the argument is that consoles had better platformers, sure, granted. (but playing them did require having a console)

I played a ton of Silent Service II, but I'm pretty sure I couldn't go back now, and not just because my keyboard overlay won't fit. SimCity was all right (tho I didn't have "goals" as such at that point) and there was a serviceable Tetris.

One thing I have come to understand over the course of my life is that I have a *very bad* sense of what constitutes "basic knowledge" (and not just for computer programming).

As a fairly regular LRC listener, the cadence of the AI voice is similar and the voice overall is close, but it's not as rich as the real thing. That said, I'll be curious to see how the lawsuit goes (even if the voices are differentiable, the claims might still be live).

Thanks for the gift link!

In the Hall of the Mountain Swing YouTube video by jasperiscool

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqFC...

FTR, even with nice intentions, there's almost nothing you can yell at someone from a window of a car that won't unnerve them, IMO

Growing up in Seattle, my parents called it the "parking strip".

(I should say: ten-hour screenplay, not that there was that much footage or anything)

I mostly enjoyed Jupiter Ascending, but I remember coming out of it and turning to someone I'd seen it with and saying something like "so that felt like it was cut down from what was originally five hours, right?" They looked it up and the conclusion was: more like ten.

Take me down to the Paradox city where the map paints slow and the excel sheets tricky

I disagree with this thread, but I appreciate the spirit of it.

look, as an Iranian American I can safely say that no one really cares about kidnapping and hostage taking at foreign embassies and it is not something that countries hold long grudges about - so I think this will quickly pass.

as it always is, part of the trump problem is that describing his behavior in plain language makes you sound like you should be on a 72 hour hold

they gotta be trolling me

It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo

It took two years (with other projects in between) but I've finished 44,703 stitches of DMC 162 — Very Light Blue that make up all the waterways on my 20-inch wide cross stitch map of the NYC subway system.

If I never touch another skein of 162 again it'll be too soon

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

(does not help that my first couple of reads of the series were at an age where I would not have picked up on that sort of subtlety)

I've read it multiple times, but it's been 10-15 years at this point. I guess I could see "different voice" -- I don't specifically recall the extent to which Donaldson tries to separate the real world from the fantasy in that way, but I'd believe that he does.

It ... is and it isn't. The series has its share of heroic fantasy action, clever plot bits, and (more occasionally) zippy dialogue, to be sure. But it's also got no shortage of the protagonist characters living in their own heads, which IIRC is largely what the intro chapters are like?

Hmm, sure, whereas before the default sense was "oh that's a neat gadget that will behave as advertised", now it's "oh that would be a neat gadget if it behaves as advertised, but it probably won't"?

I agree with you that there's probably more to it than the bit I outlined; that part just looms larger to me because I mostly stopped getting sent that sort of catalog once I was on my own (though Amazon did send me a hard-copy catalog this year, which was weird, and as you say unfulfilling).

Now if I want the thing I can just have it show up on my doorstep in 24-48 hours, and while occasionally this is fun, I have enough self-preservation instinct to realize that doing it all the time is unsustainable (to say nothing of the disappointments).