The linework and shading for the HD Trilogy is just atrocious. I love the series, but I have to play the DS versions because the HD art bothers me so much. At least HD Apollo Justice fares much better.

Being "as big as Twitter" was honestly one of the worst things about Twitter, so I'm not sure why we'd want it here.

Any time someone says that AI makes their work better, what I hear is an admission that they are embarrassingly bad at their job.

I do feel like you started to see a swing the other way in the 2010s with a wave of new shows that celebrated empathy and sincerity, so if you're younger than say, 30, you probably don't have context for what it was like before that.

While they weren't the origin of the sentiment, South Park sure did a lot to perpetuate the idea that it was uncool to care about things, and that there was no such thing as sincerity.

I don't know how much of the blame they held, but they sure didn't help things.

If anything it just makes it all the more impressive when a cheap game ranks high on the sellers list.

To be fair, the top sellers is ranked by dollars spent, not units sold, so a $5 indie game needs to sell at least 110 copies to every single 512 gig Steam Deck OLED sold to rank higher than it.

My first family computer was a Mac IIsi in 1990.

No one called them "diskettes". At least not conversationally.

Basically I find it hard to avoid the conclusion that conservatism is an elaborate defense of selfishness, no matter how refined, and that it always tends towards fascism and authoritarianism. And that I can't think of any "good" form of it ever existing. Whereas left politics have enormous variety.

I do wonder if the fact that the hotel industry employs a lot of immigrants leads them to be particularly concerned about being targeted if they don't capitulate.

Regardless, I'm never staying at a Hilton again.

Long story, but an ex of mine played one of those NFT/crypto games. I was absolutely baffled when she explained it to me. I told her there was no possible way that a game that cost $800 in NFTs just to play was sustainable, but she ignored me. It tanked about a month after I broke up with her.

My favorite thing about Triscuits is that no one could remember why they were called that, so someone tracked down the earliest advertisement for them and discovered it's short for "Electric Biscuits". Because electric ovens were an exciting new thing at the time.

Apparently the songwriters wrote the music for season 3 of Only Murders?

Dealing with inventory is already usually my least favorite part of games. Having to manage an inventory of items to figure out what other items I can make (and then have to manage) is just making the misery recursive.

I've seen it said that libertarians are just "conservatives who want to smoke pot", which is of course reductive, dismissive, and from my experience true more often than not.

It says a lot about how informed the public is that "would rather have a beer with" was the talking point frequently cited in favor of a man who is a recovering alcoholic.

The wilder part is, assuming they're operating the puppet the way they normally do, the right hand is being operated by someone different from the rest of the puppet.

Arrested for more crimes, sure. Commit far more crimes? Very doubtful. If you have a disparity that large, there almost assuredly needs to be imbalance in how crimes are being enforced. What that tells me is that officers are more willing to arrest immigrants, and judges are more willing to convict.

With numbers like that you should really be considering biases in your criminal justice system rather than assuming that immigrants are criminals.