My dear college friend is his state’s top rated spinal surgeon and we used to play a game where would throw increasingly heavy objects at each other’s spread legged balls and whoever quit first lost.
If you work in the games industry, this is a DAILY experience.
Sort of mind-blowing that this song came out this month. Sounds like it should be playing at The Bronze while Angel leers at Buffy. youtu.be/0rFVVzavii0?...
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JD Vance on CNN in an hour: what President Trump was clearly saying is that he's more of a folklore and evermore guy, and he's been disappointed by the direction Taylor has taken on her more recent albums
Whenever somebody argues the virtue of capitalism is that markets self-correct, I am tempted to point out that shorter seasons make shows harder to produce, harder to monetize, more expensive to market to create a success, and actually *contribute* to churn, the biggest challenge streamers face.
Watching the look on a player's face when they figure out the solution to a puzzle in your game is just the absolute greatest joy in life.
charting the relationship of CRPGs to elegance as design principle, particularly in terms of how they approach branching story material: Unintentionally inelegant (BG2, Arcanum) --> Intentionally elegant (Pillars of Eternity, Outer Worlds) --> intentionally inelegant (Baldur's Gate 3)
I've spent the whole weekend watching Shaw Brothers kung fu movies and it's been a fantastic time. I've just plunked down an irresponsible amount of money to buy another set of them and I don't feel bad about it.
I feel like everyone who listens to podcasts has a "podcast of last resort" that they only listen to when none of their other podcasts have updated.