I like the Knives Out movies. I like Rian Johnson. I like Daniel Craig. I love Benoit Blanc as a character.

The movie’s going to be in theaters exactly long enough to qualify it for awards, and I would rather watch a light murder mystery romp at home anyway.

When you watch the “OW!!!” video when he gets to relive meeting Jennifer, I think it counts as joviality. His joviality is just punctuated by socially awkward noises.

That was odd. There was a “blink and you miss it” reference that it’s not poison for Cardassians, and another indicating that the Maquis and Cardassians simply traded colonies after Eddington did a bio-warfare and Sisko countered with a chemical-warfare.

I had fun with my daughter doing the Minecraft one, and the Kimmy Schmidt one had its moments, though I gather that’s staying. Still, it was very much a solution in search of a problem, and almost certainly more expensive than a comparable linear narrative.

Upvoted partly because it’s funny, but largely because it still scans.

Mormon theology also pretty much just cuts the Gordian knot proposed in this post by saying, “Fuck yeah he’s got a dick. Uses it ALL THE TIME.” I believe that a “perfected body” was the verbiage I was taught in Sunday School. Tritheistic heresy, Shmitheistic Shmeresy…

Never mind. That game doo doo.

TCU at Baylor

The Revivalry is a good game this year.

This is realistically the best that could be hoped for after Lagway got hurt, but this is the insidious hold that college football has over a soul. Why should I have hoped at all? Hell, I don’t even really like Billy Napier, LOL.

Kind of? We have a “GameChanger coordinator” who is the idiotic title of the off-field ST assistant. This year we also have a GameChanger Senior analyst who I guess was well regarded as an assistant for the Patriots, and I understand he is there to have an adult in the room, but it’s still weird.

Well, FURK

Lean in! You know you love orange team! 🤣

You know, you’re probably right, but Carson is trying his best to prove you wrong.

Was out and about a lot in the first half, but between audio and streaming, I have been able to keep up to date more or less, and I’ve been all over the place. This would be a job-saving win for Billy, maybe even more so with Lagway out. Sounds like a bad hamstring, which makes me suspect we’ve seen either all of Lagway this year, or at least the best we’re going to.

This is inconceivable.

Fair, and maybe I’m stepping in it a bit, but thought a post about a 4-switch Vader 2600 might attract a lively crowd.

I wouldn’t presume to have even 20% of the 2600 games that bring something different and good to the table, it’s just (to misquote Samuel Johnson), for so many of them the good parts are not different and the different parts are not good.

And again, that’s completely apart from a personal nostalgia (god knows I indulge in that) or to propose that they’re simply not fun in a binary sense. If I’m 12 and I get 2600 Venture I enjoy the hell out of it, but if I’m a middle aged man in 2024, at the bare minimum I’m going for this.

So, real talk? Most 2600 games are rough, and barring personal nostalgia, there’s little reason to play most of them in the age of emulation, especially arcade conversions, which sometimes nail the gameplay (but often don’t), and generally have to perform acts of violence on the visuals to make them work with the system and the business realities around their development (i.e. staffing, timeline, budget for ROM chips, etc.).

Some worthwhile ones that come to mind:

• Combat (multiplayer only)
• Warlords (multiplayer only)
• Pitfall
• River Raid
• Pitfall II
• Space Invaders
• The Empire Strikes Back

It’s not that so many more weren’t fun, or even still aren’t in isolation, but it’s like we’re all the rich fat kid from Pee-Wee’s big adventure and have access to every single game on every single system, at least up until the end of the 90s. There’s no reason to play the nice port of Berzerk that looks like it does, or play the flickery Pac-Man mess, or even (I’ll say it) fight with the groundbreaking but still primitive and abstracted gameplay of Adventure.

Also, pretty much everyone I’ve known into model railroads is into HO scale, so who is even going to buy this?

Sounds like some of them nerds need to go big or fuckin’ go home!

Looks like it’s built to model railroading “O” scale.

EDIT: Oh, duh. It says so right in your picture. I guess if you want the sweet authenticity that only product placement can buy, this is your set.