I wish I were more bullish on the Steam Frame VR headset. It looks like nice hardware, for sure. There just haven't been enough enticing VR games lately to make it feel like I need new hardware, so the cart is a bit ahead of the horse on that one.

If you have not used the Steam OS Big Picture console UI, you should check it out. (4th icon from the top right launches it.) It's pretty smooth, and intuitive enough that my 7-year-old likes using it. Only thing that annoys me about it is user switching takes way too long.

What I desperately need at this point is more than 4 HDMI inputs. With a Switch, Xbox, PlayStation, and Apple TV, I have no room for another console/Steam Machine. HDMI switchers are an absurdly clunky solution. It's crazy that TV manufacturers don't make an add-on that gives you more ports.

Obviously price will be make or break for this thing, but if it's like $600-$700 for the 512GB model the Steam Machine will be a fantastic point of entry to PC gaming for a whole lot of people who want something affordable that plugs in and just works.

Parents of formerly picky eaters: does it get better gradually, or is there a switch that goes off in their heads where they will suddenly voluntarily eat things other than pasta with no sauce and baby carrots?

That’s Iron Man done - and he’s eager to roll right into Captain America. This kid blew through the entire Batman animated catalogue pretty quick so I think he might have the stamina do basically the whole MCU on a tight timetable.

Finally watched Fantastic Four: First Steps and was entertained. I liked how detached it is from the MCU - literally in its own universe. If only they'd taken this approach with a few more movies (X-Men, Blade, etc) before mashing it all together in Doomsday.

Went to Costco the other day and right by the entrance they had a 98" mini-LED TCL TV for $2,000. It had me looking at my 85" QLED and trying to come up with a way of justifying that one to my wife. ...so far I'm coming up empty.

The grand jury refused to indict felony charges so DOJ brought a misdemeanor. The trial jury acquitted—note: that means that every single person on the jury voted for acquittal. There wasn’t even a single vote to convict. joycevance.substack.com/p/prosecutor...

Nancy Pelosi should've retired so long ago that her successor should've been looking to retire right around now.

While I agree that the POV of someone who doesn't like a given genre isn't valuable to a fan of that genre (which is most of the audience for a review), there's no rule that fans must be the *only* ones allowed to review anything. No single review is for everybody, which is why we need lots of them.

Nintendo’s embargo for Age of Imprisonment stipulated that reviews could not cover ANY non-public story details. None. Avoiding spoilers or surprises is one thing, but we simply could not agree to such a broad restriction, so we decided to hold our review until launch. ign.com/articles/hyr...

Okay I'm doing it: gonna get me an induction cooktop. Anybody have recommendations? Wirecutter recomments Bosch and I messed with one at the store today that seems good.

Catching up on Gen V season 2 and it occurs to me that Hamish Linkater is actually an extra large Peter Dinklage.

@willsmith.fun this cannot be happening to you *again*

…but it might work for me.

I roasted pumpkin seeds and my son says “they taste like yummy salty finger nails.”

Realized I’ve never actually seen The Thing. Now seems like as good a time as any!

I stand... corrected?

Kinda trippy that I saw this news story this afternoon just after I'd finished chaperoning my daughter's 1st-grade class to a field trip at that very museum.

Change one letter, ruin a candy. S&M's.

Kids’ Jack-o-lanterns came out alright! They draw the faces and I do my best interpretation of their artistic intent in the medium of pumpkin.

For years people hated Steam, but they used it because it was attached to Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, etc. Eventually the client got good enough that most dint mind it running at startup. Amazon never had a must-play game to draw people to its store and it never had a good client.

Was challenged to do béarnaise sauce tonight and, by all accounts, nailed it on the first attempt. You do *not* want to know how much butter is in béarnaise sauce.

In 3 days The Outer Worlds 2 will have been out for 5 days.

Watched Weapons last night - I’m not a big scary movie guy but I really enjoyed it. Good amount of spookiness, and somehow it looked like a lot of the kids in it were having a fun time despite the nature of the story.

It's mind blowing when you think about how the phrase "trumped-up" meant that legal charges were total BS with an ulterior motive *long before* Trump started trumping up charges against people on his enemies list. We don't even have to change the term going forward, it's just a proper noun now.

Just dumped about 80lbs of HDDs, digital cameras, scanners, routers, USB hubs, TV tuners, DVI cables, non-functional UPS backups, and 15-20-year-old laptops at Staples (which does free e-waste recycling). We can now start the countdown clock for the time I'll definitely need a 250GB HDD from 2012.

Tonight I'm gonna put the kids to bed and settle in to play The Outer Worlds 2 like a normal person at a normal pace with zero pressure to have opinions or create content about it.

Halo is definitely on the list of games that deserve a remake: iconic, but that genre has seen such leaps and strides in the decades since that it inevitably feels creaky, even when it's remastered. No complaints from me - especially if it helps reconnect a new gen of developers with the original.

This is one of those decisions you look at and think "This person can't actually be crazy - she must have some logical reason to demand this seemingly unrealistic profit margin." Not knowing the details of the business, maybe she does. But man, does it ever look crazy from the outside.

I turned up to a Halloween party dressed as The Dude and everyone was like “Lebowski!” But then it was warm so I lost the wig and the robe and I spilled some stuff on my white V-neck and at a certain point I’m just an actual slob.

Guess which one I did

What do you use to organize your loose USB cables and keep A>C, C-C, A>Micro, and misc/proprietary stuff separate? My current solution of "giant rats nest" is not serving me super well.

Classy.

Keeper's definitely gonna be the next thing I'm playing with my family. We love puzzles and it's so vaguely creepy looking that I bet it'll make an excellent Halloween game.

My 7-year-old daughter is getting pretty decent at Forza Horizon 5 with the wheel. This should give her credit toward drivers’ ed!

It is just insane that Trump can bitch about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize on the same day he brags about extrajudicially murdering alleged drug smugglers and plays coy about starting a war in Venezuela, and half the country doesn't bat an eye.

It was definitely a mistake for Xbox to put its branding on a $1K handheld when the 3-year-old Steam Deck is a perfectly viable option that plays almost all of the same exact games at less than half the price. They Series X'd when they should've Series S'd.

My policy has always been that I would rather take the time to make a better review that doesn't burn out my writers than rush to hit an arbitrary marketing beat a publisher didn't actually give us enough time to meet. In that context, it's not a hard decision.

Barn closed after horse's departure

Is it possible to retire harder than have already retired?

We're at a time when we can ask an AI a complicated tax question and it will probably get it right or maybe catastrophically wrong and also straight-up fascists are taking over the government and I really hope you notice.

Every time someone complains you shouldn’t call the Trump administration fascist, ask them to define fascism. They either have no idea or are here a lying fascist.

This is terrifying. At this point I can only hope that our military service members remember their oath is to the Constitution and not these fascist lunatics, because Miller and his friends are not going to give up until they're stopped.

It's starting to feel real Constitutional crisis-y out there tonight.

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

He's shitting all over freedom of speech. This should be thrown in the face of anybody who claimed Trump is better on this issue. I never voted for Dianne Feinstein again after she supported an anti-flag burning amendment in 2006. It's actually not hard to swear off people who cross lines.

I said yes! …When my brother asked if I wanted an Oura ring for my birthday.

This you, Trump?