When I go to sleep Dry January kicks off so you best believe I’m finishing this bottle of Champagne we opened at midnight before then.

For the first time my kids stayed up until midnight for the actual new year. They did great, all things considered. Tomorrow we will find out if this was a terrible idea.

One is 17. The other is 3. They’re both handsome devils.

Just won a staring contest with my cat

I'm so glad they made this Fallout show because it proves that you *can* tell a good story within a game's universe without radically messing with its established lore or completely redesigning everything. It's a genuine "ain't broke don't fix it" approach and it works extremely well.

Oh no I've started playing Satisfactory again. This is very bad. It's the kind of game that pops up and tells you how many hours you've just played in the hopes that you might go talk to another human.

It is kind of insane that the Netflix Yule log videos don’t offer a way to loop them so we don’t have to restart it every hour. This has been a thing for a full decade and they haven’t added that feature somehow?

We’ve done it: we’ve created the robot that lets you kick yourself in the balls from the beloved sci-fi cautionary tale “Do Not Create The Robot That Lets You Kick Yourself In The Balls.”

Locutus’s Smorgasborg

Wake Up Dead Man is fun. The exact solution is so outlandish that no one could have guessed it, but it's easy to call the culprit from jump. It both made me feel like I'd outsmarted it and then showed me something clever I hadn't anticipated, which is a delightful rug-pull.

Wake Up Dead Man is fun. The exact solution is so outlandish that no one could have guessed it, but it's easy to call the culprit from jump. It both made me feel like I'd outsmarted it and then showed me something clever I hadn't anticipated, which is a delightful rug-pull.

Threw this together with (half of) a $22 pork loin from Costco and got rave reviews from the family. I was nervous about whether I could pull off butterflying and rolling it but America’s Test Kitchen has never led me astray. youtu.be/DdXvB9F0zFE?...

Christmas is good and all but have you tried dungeness crab with some good butter sauce?

I'm confused about a lot of things here, but pretty high on the list is why they went with the PS2 graphics version of this concept art.

I'm legit surprised at just *how quickly* Bari Weiss did something incredibly stupid that anybody could've told her would go very badly. I figured she'd ramp up to it with a series of dumb but kind of understandable errors first, but nope: straight to the worst possible scenario.

Age of Ultron is good, actually. Also Ant Man is *very* good.

It really is astonishing how shitty the support for WebP is. There are websites I will not naame where you upload content in JPEG or PNG that then convert it to WebP, but when you try to upload a WebP they say WTF is this GTFO.

I'm kind of surprised they didn't just release a bunch of files on Boris Epshteyn hoping we wouldn't notice.

It's kind of crazy they haven't made a Fallout Shelter 2. It has a great hook, great art style, and generally rewarding progression that had me coming back for 100+ hours... it just peters out and doesn't let you do anything with all that you've invested. A sequel with more depth could be fantastic.

The House Dems have a trove of Epstein materials from the estate they've slowly been releasing. Now that DOJ has started putting gout massively redacted versions, seems like the Dems should find some that were unnecessarily redacted and release the full version to show DOJ is abusing redactions.

Trump: “One year ago, our country was dead!” The Economist, one year ago:

"We have never been invaded" Bitch the British burned down the White House in 1814 - did they get a visa for that or what? I called out my jr. high school social studies teacher for making this same historically illiterate mistake.

well, the good news is, he didn't declare war. the bad news is that the president is a raving lunatic. 🤷‍♂️

Paying the troops a bonus = good. Sending the troops to be maimed or killed for oil in Venezuela = so incredibly bad it makes the good completely insignificant. Who wants to take a bullet for under $2K?

So wait. We’re declaring a war of conquest to take oil company assets nationalized half a century ago?

Yeesh. I wonder how much of this is just a giant, GTA 6-shaped hole in the market. Definitely not all of it, but if that game had come out as planned I bet it would have single-handedly changed the tone of this story.

I love how people throw around Rotten Tomatoes scores of ~70% claiming that's a failure. Dudes I'd love to see you make something that nearly 3/4 people (or even 2/3) said was good. Best of luck to you with that.

An Amazon delivery guy put an in-garage package directly behind my car's rear wheel and naturally it got run over when my wife went to work this morning. That's gotta be on purpose, right? A whole garage and you put it right *there*? Fortunately it was only gifts for the cats that got crushed.

People support him because he reflects their values and character. He reflects their souls.

Not since Phil Hartman in 1998 have I felt this kind of celebrity death/family tragedy gut punch. RIP Rob Reiner.

Nobody @‘d me so I assume there was no XCOM 3 announcement tonight.

Why does he look normal in the video game screenshots but in the real-life picture it's like someone put in the NBA Jam Big Head Mode code?

I’m up to Age of Ultron in the MCU rewatch with my son (10), and he’s now asking me to pause every few minutes so he can pepper me with questions, theories, and pointing out plot holes. Proud nerd dad here.

If movie theaters were a thing consumers loved, they would be there. They go there for horror movies, some action blockbusters. Let me reiterate a line I wrote decades ago about the nascent digital space: Consumers have taken control of their entertainment experience & they are never giving it back.

Tim Miller crushed this. He's a Republican who worked for Jeb Bush so obviously he's got a lot of views I don't agree with. But he's reasonable, and you should watch him go to bat against a bunch of extremists. He does lie when he calls himself a liberal at the start but other than that.

Just learned that I can put a $30 chunk of Costco salmon in the freezer and then a week later a billion dollars worth of sashimi comes out.

Oh. He wasn’t acting.

Have you ever seen anything this pathetic in your life?

Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel. ...I can only do one? I could do a dozen easily.

You can do this same very stupid logic all the way down, from countries to states to counties to cities to neighborhoods to sovereign citizens. I'm old enough to remember when we thought this guy was smart.

I'm actually not sure what the point of watching the TGA livestream is if you're not a games journalist who needs to write up the news ASAP. Why not just watch the trailers that interest you and any funny bits later, as curated by people who're being paid to watch it for you?

I’m just glad the Ellisons didn’t get it.

It is never a critic’s job to give the slightest fuck about a Metacritic score.

yeah the harsh reality is that we do take a chance on small games no one's heard of a lot more often than anyone thinks we do. but literally no one reads the articles, which then reinforces to the powers that be that they're not worth doing. I don't know how to solve that problem!

This is your reminder to periodically call your ISP and threaten to cancel your service unless they lower your bill. For example, I just got AT&T to take $35/month off of my fiber subscription.

I cant tell you how much stuff like this means to me. I know how IGN is perceived by a lot of people, and like this person says, how easy it is to say "IGN bad," But mannnnn, I really have been working my butt off to be a better, more knowledgeable person in the FGC

It sucks this asshole gets to walk free for the next three years, and that he'll almost certainly get a preemptive pardon *and by accepting it he admits he did the thing he's being pardoned for*. I can squint and kinda see where a lot of Trump supporters are coming from but this is full-on crazy.

Not to toot my own horn but I think it went pretty well. (Toot!)

Affinity isn't a perfect Photoshop replacement, but for free it's by far the best I've ever used. Paint.Net is good but a bit clunky and needs a ton of plugins, and GIMP is completely unusable.