Except for the Last Jedi placement, this is just the default list of a guy who has seen the OG trilogy at a certain age.

This is good actually, because there’s no worse source for news than the NYT

We're so back

It is 2025 and Delta still doesn't give you a full can of coke in economy

Best stranding

Accidentally booked a flight to LAX instead of BUR and of course I'm sitting on the tarmac for 20 min after landing…

Maybe I don't need Star Wars Celebration Japan merch

They are pretending The Running Man is set in a dystopian world, yet there is a high speed train from Detroit to New York City

Really hoping The Bride! will be as good as the trailers make it look…

I always cringe a little when people are describing The Outer Worlds as a knock off of Fallout. Several of the original Fallout creators are working on the series!

Objectively the best horror subgenre

Every TV season these days has 5 episodes, plus the 3 extra ones that nobody needed. There's the weird filler episode in the middle of the season, then we get to the natural end but there's the 1h flashback that explains everything you already know and the epilogue that's somehow a full episode.

0:3 at the Avatar prerelease, but it was a lot of fun 🥲

Best music

You're telling me there's a console I can buy where I miss out on many of the best games, pay more money and it runs Linux, too? Amazing proposition!

Lumines Arise doesn't have a Switch version? That seems almost criminal

Wonder how the "all political violence is bad" people are protesting today

Seems like the "fix" for unreliable downloads was just to break downloads entirely? Overcast just feels like an elaborate prank at this point…

Made the trek over to Walnut Creek to see The Woman in Black as I had only seen the 2012 movie so far. It was really good!

My guess would be the strategy was to wait until after the elections. If those results didn’t get the Republicans to cave, nothing really will, so I think, unlike a lot of Democrat decisions, you can actually rationalize this one?

amazing review

I don’t think it’s good to sell some romanticized fiction of “Europe” to the rest of the world. For example: In Germany, busses are not free and people go to actual jail if they’re caught not paying multiple times.

Predator: Badlands is a fun time, it even has a Baby Yoda.

A bit wild that SF's fragmented transit system has lead to a situation where you need to pay like $3 to use the existing station restrooms if you happen to take Muni instead of BART.

People will be mad at me for saying this, but I think we have to do it. Nothing is more important for the future of this country, and indeed humanity, than the app that makes you schizophrenic and helps you forget how to learn. The juice is worth the squeeze.

Nintendo shipped a mobile app for their store which coincidentally has a feature that shows played games all the way back to the Wii U.

He already won, there’s no reason to sell him this hard after the fact

We must have reached the point where he could ask for a tax break in order to *not* endorse someone, right?

My TikTok feed is almost exclusively either people posting extremely long TSA lines or saying that there were no/normal lines. Also one with a very long line at JFK but it is impossible to say whether that is just normal or not since JFK is always awful

The Secret Lair site already struggling 30 min before the sale does not bode well…

I wanted to like Bugonia, but why does it imply that alt right conspiracy theories are all true

Weapons (2025)

Enjoying Outer Worlds 2 quite a bit, but the combat encounters are weirdly rigidly scripted for a game that generally tries to offer many approaches. It has happened to me multiple times now that a fight got out of hand because I didn’t kill enemies in the “correct” order the game wanted.

Funny how the vibe of SF freeway billboard ads slightly starts to shift. AIs to detect deep fakes and for reviewing AI generated code. They sold the disease, now they're attempting to sell the cure.

alex blechman: in my post i invented tech companies misunderstanding what the torment nexus is as a cautionary tale tech company employee: at long last, i have misunderstood the Torment Nexus from classic Alex Blechman tweet "Don't misunderstand what the torment nexus is"

Frankenstein was pretty good, not quite great. But I'm glad that I have seen it on a proper cinema screen.

The Winchester Mystery House Halloween event was fairly underwhelming this year. It felt like they had maybe 10 scare actors for the entire event? I didn't go last year, but I remember 2023 being quite good.

men will become VP of something they have absolutely no clue about instead of going to therapy

Whenever a server asks you if you have dined at the restaurant before, the correct answer is always yes.

The weirdest part about this is that they're explicitly taking credit for weakening an American company vs its Japanese competitor. I guess not that weird considering weakening America seems like their primary goal. www.polygon.com/microsoft-tru...

Somewhat ironic that WotC corporate gave into the Satanic Panic just slightly after magic.wizards.com/en/news/maki...

a former NCAA swimmer who was no longer allowed to compete killed herself *last week* fuck you gavin, to the ends of the earth

Wizard of Oz at the Sphere, hoping for a very Cats (2019) experience

Have only played at little bit but perf of The Outer Worlds 2 on the Legion Go seems really odd. It runs fairly well 99% of the time and then gets into prolonged stutters that even persist over reloading a save?

Sounds like Mamdani is already getting the criminals to turn away from NYC…

I guess a lot of tech company execs are behind on their corporate trainings that teach them bribing government officials is not ok even if it is for a fascist ballroom.

Best musical parody

I might be wrong since I'm not super familiar with the zoo of cop agencies in the US, but I'm assuming the name implies that the California State Patrol is a CA controlled agency? So the state is materially supporting the invasion of the Bay from day one. taskandpurpose.com/news/coast...

full details on this. ICE is in town for 24 hours and they already shot two people. fuck these people, I want them out of my home. www.google.com/amp/s/www.kt...