Achievements have made games worse.

I discovered this after buying a steam game that I had pirated. All of a sudden I’m doing boring and repetitive stuff that I don’t enjoy, just to unlock some dumb trophy.

Any enjoyment for the players and creativity by developers has been long eclipsed by the lazy paint-by-numbers boring achievements who’s only function is to artificially extend “engagement”.

They should just sell the platinum trophies.

It’s so gratifying to hear from people on the internet who are older than I am. And this article reads like it bounced off a Listserv to a yahoo email address.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw7AIXQhFWw

In America, they often cut the lampshade off right after manufacture.

Not even for religious reasons, just some 19th Century health nuts like RFK jr convinced everyone that it was good for your health.

Dr Strangelove saw one possible future and it had 10 women to each man.

The thrust of the article is good. However the Chamberlain/Munich “appeasement” is a bad reading of history.

First, Chamberlain had a mandate to prevent another war. 1914-18 was fresh in his constituent’s minds. Second, he had fresh intel that if a Czechoslovakian resistance existed, Britain was not in touch with it. Thirdly, Chamberlain had zero leverage because Britain was powerless to prevent German tanks from rolling East. The idea that Chamberlain didn’t do enough implies there was something else he could have done. Something Churchill would have done! But what was it that they could do?

Czechoslovakia was not “given away” by Chamberlain any more than Poland was “given away” by Churchill. What Chamberlain achieved was to make Britain 5 years behind when war broke out instead of 10 years behind.

How the hell is Brad Dourif not in this movie!? Was he busy with Chucky or something?

Reproductive rights, the right to healthcare, prison reform, within a system that accommodates if not encourages parents in different situations to work and live with children is the best way to support young fathers and boys.

We just need something to call this besides feminism.

Basically to be anti-work would be to wish to remain asleep and unaware.

The right only offers three choices, take the red-pill and be racist, take the black-pill and hate women, or take the NyQuil and sleep like the dead.

This is dumb. If you don’t have any balls, how can you pee?

Hamburger Helper is one of the biggest rip-offs in the grocery. You get what? $0.50 of noodles and $0.15 of spices? You have to provide the beef and the milk.

I was a sucker for years buying those salad dressing packets before I figured out how to make my own.

It’s like every business is out to rob you if you’re not paying attention.

Stupid people destroy society? That’s not Dietrich Bonhoeffer, that’s Charles Murray. “Stupid people ruin society” is the “problem” to which Eugenics is the solution.

Like many people of a certain age, I feel like I owe Monica Lewinsky an apology.

We learned about a study in Psych class where the researchers asked elementary school students what their favorite activity was. Drawing was the popular answer. So the researchers paid the kids $8/hr (even 6yo get better than Min wage) to draw. Then they would poll them again about their favorite activities. Guess what was on the bottom?

Dowd is right. There should be some kind of standard so you understand dosage. When I try an edible, I eat a tiny amount and wait an hour. This isn’t because I’m smart, it’s because I’ve had bad experiences with potent stuff.

I know how many beers or shots I can get away with. With edibles, it’s a gamble every time.

These devices are a great help to the elderly and disabled, and Amazon’s offerings are the least expensive. My buddies Mom can call emergency services from anywhere in her home with just her voice. I don’t think that’s foolish at all.

It’s always been this way for the cheap speakers. They’ve no processing power on-board and need the cloud just to tell you the time.