In the same vein as MetalGamer Jesus, Game Sack has some N64 episodes as well.

99% Invisible did an episode on this.

It’s a great listen. Basically it makes audiences think the show is funnier, or rather it gives audiences permission to laugh out loud alone.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-laff-box/

Mostly by accident, imagine what we could do if we were trying to kill everything off.

The final straw for me was the day after the episode where Beth died aired. It was the morning after that episode aired and I hadn’t had time to watch it yet, and I was scrolling through Facebook when a giant “RIP Beth” picture popped up on my main feed from the official Walking Dead account.

The official account couldn’t even hold itself back from posting spoilers for 24 hours after the air date and I realized I didn’t even care that the episode had been spoiled. I didn’t care about the characters, or the plot or the direction the story was going.

I haven’t watched anything Walking Dead since.

That’s where I am these days.

I’ve been the person to buy a console when there’s the killer game/feature worth upgrading for.

Historically I’ve bought the bundles with a few games just in time for the new launch of a new software.

I ended up with a PS2/GameCube/Wii, a PS3/Xbox360/WiiU and PS4/Xbox One/Switch. I don’t mind buying consoles to play a few games.

That moment just hasn’t happened this generation. I can still play most of the big exclusives on the last gen hardware anyways.

And is what they should do rather than trying to delete it.

Provide context so that future generations can enjoy what’s good about the media and acknowledge how parts of the content/media are problematic and not appropriate.

He offered Twitter more money than the company was worth with no due diligence.

The leadership of the board could have been sued by shareholders if they didn’t push Elon to actually pay over market value.

The end goal of any for profit leadership is to make as much money as possible and exit.

Any recommendations for PoE cameras?

They’re just going to order whatever they like anyways.

It requires personally identifying information to login. That’s a hard pass for menu people.

Still might be. It’s a $3500 device. Just because it’s getting press doesn’t mean it’s going to be successful.

They’re also like three times the cost of standard windows, which is why most buildings don’t have them.

I’m from the South East US and never heard of it until we had neighbors move in next to us from the North East when I was like 13.

There’s a great NPR podcast about this.

The Gecko effect.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1102496094

I much prefer the trickle of releases to a lump season dump.

It allows time to digest, discuss and catch up throughout the release schedule if you’re invested in the story. You can convince your friends to watch a few episodes to catch up and then watch the end of the season together. You can read fan theories online, formulate your own, and overall each weekly episode can result in a lot of engaging fun interactions.

With a series dump you have to binge it and wait for others to do the same in order to talk about it. The whole time you’re actively avoiding spoilers from friends/coworkers and avoiding reading about it online. The end result is you disengage from the fandoms/communities while you are getting through the show, which to me takes a lot of the fun out of a big show.

I compare the difference between Stranger Things and GoT. To me these are probably two of the most significant pop-culture releases in the last decade or so.

Game of Thrones resulted in hundreds of thousands of theories every week online and in public. T-Shirts were made based on popular online theories that never panned out in season. You would rag on friends who guessed the plot twist wrong and deify those who got their predictions spot on. Especially in my demographic the two months GoT was on was all about GoT.

Stranger Things on the other hand, while still wildly popular hits differently. It’s much more of a build up to release, a week or two of “man that was awesome” followed by “I hope they make the next season soon.” Retroactive discussions happen for a while, but the discussions and the hype fizzles much more quickly.

If I want to watch a trickle release show in one dump, I still can, I just wait until the whole season out, reactivate the subscription. Then I binge it.

For me it’s much more fun to have an episode or two a week and build momentum through a season than it is to set off a one time firework.

There’s nothing wrong with buying early access games. You as a buyer just need to be happy with the current state of the game at the time of purchase.

Sports. I can get a hundred tweets of highlights almost instantly on Twitter.

I don’t understand people who complain about things like this.

Just don’t play it. Easy as that. No conversation needed. Go play something else. There’s only an infinite number of other options that you can spend your time on.

Raised by Wolves made no sense and I had no idea where it was going. So naturally I’m disappointed that it got cancelled.