It's kind of hard to say with total confidence because of the situation, but I do feel in my gut Texas would be a sorta blue state the same way Georgia sorta is (think Dallas moving the needle same as Atalanta). If not for texas being the voter suppression capital of the states.

Yeah they're all wrong. Iceberg belongs in sandwiches and nowhere else.

We were like 99% of the way to pulling the trigger on Microsoft's Data lake products When they came in and said the only lake they have for us now is one we can go jump in, Time to buy fabric capacity. whatever the goddamn that means.

Iceberg is like the only thing in existence that can do this. The only thing that can adjust the texture profile of a dish without also adjusting the flavour profile.

I will defend iceberg in one specific context. It is fantastic if you have a sandwich that is missing a sense of crispness. Iceberg being devoid of everything and anything except a little bit of a cool crunch comes in clutch in that one specific situation.

The amount of emotional stock that I have seen people putting into the Silent Hill 2 remake has been baffling to the point of kinda worrying. The absolute viciousness I was seeing being thrown at people for just saying they're not into it. People need to calm down.

It's a bit of an aside, but my favorite example of that last point is the fact that they had to rework "Jaws" into what is almost certainly a significantly better movie than it would have been because the robot shark sucked butts to work with.

Just as a gut feeling: Mechs kind of create this problem for themselves by being viciously impractical as military hardware. Lends itself to the setting being about the mechs as to justify their existence instead of being cool on its own.

I did not realize the depths to which the needles bit wasn't actually a bit. That's real terror.

The context that makes this critically funny is the way he talked about his next game being just "yeah they told me to make metal gear again" Like the idea of the suits being like "we're giving the Metal Gear guy infinite money to do W H A T?! WHERE IS OUR GODDAMN METAL GEAR"