Cranky Old Man Take #417: I'm willing to give restaurants and hotels a tax break for using good toilet paper. I'm too old for crappy paper tearing my ass apart.

This is a piece of butterscotch banana cream pie from Toulouse Petit in Seattle's Queen Anne district. It was a big as a porterhouse. I am more pie than man now.

Mt. Shasta is gorgeous from any angle.

I can forgive Wemby's "Revenge of the Sith" take ... but having "Attack of the Clones" as your second-favorite Star Wars movie?

Happy Ten Cent Beer Night Riot anniversary to all who celebrate.

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

I'd like to play a game where I'm a big gelatinous cube.

At this point I'd rather release a game next to GTA VI than in September lol

I wonder if Tom Steyer will make an independent run for California governor if he doesn't win the Dem nomination in today's election.

Might’ve laughed a bit too hard at this.

A, That's not a "four-dot ellipsis," as it's often identified, because there's no such thing as a four-dot ellipsis. It's a period followed by an ellipsis. B, It shouldn't be a period followed by an ellipsis; it should be, simply, an ellipsis. It's not a complete sentence; it's a fragment.

Niners and Seahawks fans united in hoping the age cliff comes for Matt Stafford this season.

Thanks to a discovery in the far-flung mountains of Canada, the origins of sex have been pushed back by millions of years. Discovery of White Sea assemblage fossils from Laurentia🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Ediacara Biota represent key steps in animal evolution before “Cambrian Explosion”

Mando is much better than it really had any right to be. A good fun adventure, just like the original pulp westerns and sci-fi Lucas always sought to capture.

Giants announced they have reassigned third base coach Hector Borg and Ron Wotus will replace him on an interim basis. Had to happen.

explain starship beeping noises

lmao at this example of why AI built by corporations will always have some motivation to fudge details. To think anyone imagines "lost the farm" more commonly means "built too many houses in the sticks" and not "our family farm got dissolved by CropCorp and/or we just have no money."

Pair with Jean Grey-Poupon

Report: Dad Wants To Show You Where Fuse Box Is https://theonion.com/report-dad-wants-to-show-you-where-fuse-box-is-1819577825/

please stop writing "understate" when you mean "overstate," i'm begging you. if you're trying to convey the overwhelming impact/effect/etc. of a thing, you can't "overstate" said impact. you can very easily understate it.

A photo by Asher B. (Launch Heaven Media) of pad LC-36A following last night's explosion of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket. The water town and one lightning tower appear intact. The second lighting tower, mobile erector, and of course the rocket itself are destroyed, and the pad heavily damaged.

so for those keeping count of the heavy launch systems (me, i'm the motherfucker keeping count) that's elon's starship: 12 test flights, 11 damaged, 6 explosions bezos' new glenn: 3 test flights, 2 explosions nasa's space launch system, in development for 12 years, 2 launches, 0 explosions

Gaming is going to suffer so people can use IP theft and plagiarism engines to make fake crap.

"The full impact on pricing is still coming... The damage from this is going to be immense and widespread."

Today In 1962: Negro League #baseball legend Buck O'Neil becomes the first African American coach in #MLB history with the Chicago #Cubs

I said this is the most unimpressive, uninspiring crop of Democratic candidates for governor in my voting lifetime earlier, and I stand by it.

Gawd, I hope we prosecute the criminals in the Trump administration, and while I hope we put Trump in jail first, I'll be especially happy when this miserable worm gets what's coming.

dude could not be more determined to prove that he's an ugly, racist, transphobic fuck

Scotty: "What in the bloody hell is this?"

This piece asks for a follow up: Is save-scumming something Chinese players embrace? Is it commonplace in Chinese gaming culture? (Note: While I rarely save-scum, I don't look down on it. Let people play the way they want! What I'm curious about is how other cultures approach gaming!)

I'll write about this probably next week for BP, but that initial cap proposal tells me MLB isn't serious about this. Which is good, for the record. The floor is fine but it nets out to a loss for the players with a ceiling so low, which makes the actual intent clear.

do holodeck safeties prevent spanking

Another strange Cambrian critter hits the spotlight 🧪

We're building a space bridge at the White House. Are we sending energon to Cybertron?

look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work

Greetings, citizens! #StarTrek #JellicoTrek #SpaceGhostC2C

starship keyboard shortcut fire phasers

Every "Mina" mention in my timeline results in a question: Is it about Mina Kimes, the NFL analyst, or Mina the Harrower, the video game?

Bob Horner and Dale Murphy are the epitome of a "Hall of Very Good" 1-2 punch.

"Antisemitism and autistic bigotry, all in one convenient package," he snarls in his best Londo Mollari impression.

Just look at weapon degradation as a way to feed rust monsters in your dungeon.

The great irony here is that miHoYo is one of the most litigious gaming companies on the planet right now, having filed hundreds of legal cases (some precedent setting) against companies and individuals that have infringed on its IP or even leaked game assets.

May 26, 1993: In Major League Baseball, Carlos Martinez famously hits a ball off Jose Canseco's head for a home run.

My favorite "bonehead" play in baseball history.

And name with "Homeland" in it is bad.

from the moment it was founded activists and human rights watchdogs have warned that DHS was constructed to be an almost unaccountable private paramilitary force at the president's sole disposal.

Babar's father eating the poison mushroom.

Just started Thaumaturge, which is set in Imperial Russia. The first tutorial encounter is against deserter Russian army guys. Reminds me of when my grandma, whose family left Imperial Russia in 1911, told me about the time her uncle punched an uppity Russian army soldier and lived to tell the tale.

I doubt this is a record that'll fall anytime soon.