A lot of twist endings over there, huh?

The sequel TV series was surprisingly good.

I’m sad he never ended up completing the sequel Buttercup’s Baby. I read the sample chapter ages ago and was very excited about it, but I’m pretty sure the author has died since.

Then again we already have The Fitz and the Fool books by Robin Hobb, which I think hit a lot of the same notes we would have gotten.

I remember in the early days I tried out several different services trying to do the same thing as Steam. None of them really worked. I would have been willing to run multiple apps for different games back then, but each one individually made me go “Eh, too much hassle.”

Actually, I dropped Steam as well in the early early days. The technical problems I ran into were so unacceptable that I had resolved to boycott them forever. Couldn’t say no to all of the bangers they were putting out, though, so I came back to try again and they had gotten much better.

If I wear a shirt for like 30 min and it’s not really dirty yet, I’ll hang it on the for right facing left. All of the clean clothes face right so I know at a glance. When I wear it again it’s dirty no matter what.

One thing I think he missed, in my experience, is many of the critical dimensions may be in the user manual as a drawing. For example, the hole spacing for mounting the drives is standard so either the mount or the drive manufacturer might have called out the position and size. This would be way better than measuring, especially if they are using metric and you dimension in inches.

Great vid though.

According to my internet sleuthing, “prove” is a british term but “proof” is more widely used. I learned about baking through GBBO so I was also confused.

Seems weird to me to use the noun proof as a verb, but not the weirdest twist of english I’ve seen.

I’d hate to meet the kind of person who would spend time there, but at least they threw Microslop around enough to get the place shut down.

I waited so long for Horizon Zero Dawn that when it came out on PC I wasn’t really interested any more. Probably will pick it up someday, but it turns out you can get by just fine without PS exclusives.

Knowing Sony was behind the Spider-Verse makes me think maybe they can finally make a good LA one?

I was thinking Jack Black.

The first and last video of his I saw was this one: “You’ve seen the dystopian horror Squid Games where a crazy rich man uses his money to put a bunch of poor rubes through a series of deadly games for the amusement of spectators? Well now I, a crazy rich man, have used my money to put a bunch of poor rubes through a series of deadly games for the amusement of spectators! I couldn’t do the deadly bit because the laws don’t let me yet. No, I couldn’t say what the lesson from the show was. Probably ‘wouldn’t it be cool’.”

He’s got those dead eyes.

I found the rumble seats very off-putting, so I turned it off after a few minutes. Turns out, you can’t turn these ones off, just down. Very frustrating two hours.

Every time I clean something like this it ends up ruined. I have a nice soft leather jacket I wanted to protect, so I researched and bought this really nice beeswax leather treatment stuff. Applied it to the jacket and it got in all of the stitching seams and shows bright white against the black. No amount of hair drying, soap and toothbrush, or rubbing gets it out.

Cleaned my car seats and stupidly rubbed them with paper towels. Words can not express how many ways I’ve tried getting those little paper fragments out of the nylon/cloth seats.

Your shoes look great, though.

Somehow my boss at my last job added a page break that didn’t show up when I turned on show hidden characters. It took me about six hours to figure out how to remove the final blank page. Online help forums were useless because he did it in such an unusual way. Looking back, even I think that surely I must have been mistaken because it’s too absurd that it would be that hard to delete a page, but I vividly remember turning on the hidden characters and getting nowhere.

Sounded like a B-movie, I had very little in the way of expectations. Watched it and thought it was pretty good, wanted to tell my friends about this hidden gem. Found out it was one of the most popular movies ever.

Some of my friends blew up our group chat for three months over this movie. Like, it was good, but not that good. I don’t think any movie has ever been that good.

The day Steam enshittifies will be a dark day for me.

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Tabletop games are good because you can trust your DM to guide the failures in an interesting way. Unless it’s a bad DM and you can’t.

I had a DM who believed strongly that failure was what made it interesting, he loved to say “The characters in Star Wars failed almost every time and that’s why it was good!” But actually watching the movies, failures bad enough to result in grievous bodily harm are relatively rare.

One time during our first session of a new game we were somewhere dark and a creature was there. He had me roll athletics with no explanation and I rolled high. Then he had me roll acrobatics, high again. Athletics again, high. Constitution check, high. Athletics 11. Then he cackled and eagerly described how a dragon cut off my arm.

My character was built entirely around two handed weapons, this made me borderline useless. Based off of his comments, he didn’t have any plans to provide a way for my character to recover his limb, he just thought it would be cool to mutilate me and decided to force me to roll until I failed.

Needless to say I didn’t go back.

Even BG3 failed at this. A few times I had to navigate a minefield using a guide for something I didn’t want to miss out on. It’s more fun to just blast through without loading, but sometimes the consequences are dire for messing up some little detail and I can’t bring myself to just not have good endings.