nintendo bad company in many ways but kind of incredible that mario games still just give you all your capabilities up front and unfold in a series of interesting level designs rather than making you grind xp to improve mario's jumping or whatever
Why don't computers let you say no anymore when asking you if you want to do something? Your options are always limited to "yes" or "maybe later". Feels like some used car salesman style tactics. I don't like feeling like my computer is trying to manipulate me!
it really is not an exaggeration in the slightest to say that the trump vance plan for reducing housing costs is ethnic cleansing
Sonic and Zelda make it look easy but I bet in real life it's a lot harder to inhale oxygen from large underwater bubbles when you're seconds away from drowning. there's probably like a trick to it or something
Falling victim to the sunk cost fallacy with AI might be the thing that destroys rich people. They pissed away a ton of money trying to make the metaverse happen and had the sense to bail when nobody wanted it, and that was pennies compared to what they're throwing at AI, with no sign of stopping.
I know we're not supposed to talk about this publicly, but I can't believe how successful the operation to get conservatives to engage in risky behavior has been. When we came up with the idea to trick them into drinking raw milk I thought that'd be a bridge too far, but no, they really went for it.
Someone should pay me to come up with weirdos.
I don't know shit about NYC politics, but my memory of the online discourse during the election was basically leftists being like "Wow Eric Adams seems really bad", and then centrists responded with "If leftists think he's bad he must be great!"
Normalize reenactments of things other than historical war battles.