The Snark Urge

Any simple majority is, I suspect, systematically like this

Fuck all this. Let’s get a second opinion from the nothingverse, maybe they know something we don’t

Your in-laws are fired lmao

I’m not here to step on youthful wonder, it’s not my turf anymore…But I do feel a need to teach them that thinking involves more questions than proclamations.

My six year old has begun to plaintively declare his belief in both magic and Santa, unprompted. I think he fears children who do not play along are not as well rewarded.

I’m the kind of parent who doesn’t tell their kids what to believe, but I also don’t bullshit him. “You believe in magic. So, you’ve seen magic?” I don’t know why he’d think he needs to pretend. Maybe it’s just that he isn’t ready to face facts. I don’t argue, I just try to make him think.

Animals used to do that!

Okay grandpa, time for your Juvenat injection therapy.

They were pretty deliberate about having very similar creative aims, standing on the shoulders; they even got Yasunori Mitsuda to help with their soundtrack. The game keeps on surprising me with its self awareness, beauty, and a depth of gameplay that keeps unfolding long after you think you have the measure of it.

I would usually have said Earthbound or Chrono Trigger, but this year I’ve been playing Sea of Stars and it truly seems better. I never thought I’d say it. The writing, art, music, gameplay, movement, puzzles, characters, all are aimed in the exact same direction as what CT was trying to do and it goes farther in every way.

But it’s fun

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I am given to understand it is an article of oblique humour.

Snack of Theseus

Shitting in a garden is good for the plants… Maybe this is like that?

This is outrageously practical. I’m honestly impressed

I can’t help but feel that one way or another, the money is there - clean energy is always getting cheaper, it’s just a necessity of taking money from oil barons that becomes politically difficult.

They’re not even required to plug in at port? They can just run their diesels wherever they want?

Fuck them and fuck the ports for allowing it.

This is gonna sound silly but I use my instant pot as a bain marie with the warm function or as an air fryer, depending on the dish. My lunches are in tupperware and I just leave them to warm around 10 am, or I throw on the oven lid and roast it up.

Pretty much the only thing I think I’d use a microwave for is to reheat old coffee. Instead I just make it new.

Same. Haven’t had one for over 3 years now and I’m not sure I’m missing anything good. I make popcorn in a stock pot with ghee, powdered salt, and a little turmeric for color. Sometimes a little nutritional yeast or jalapeno powder. My popcorn game has never been better.

I’ll say something: Michael Schur is a legend, and he’s in top form throughout this show. His blend of wry wit and genuine warmth would be incredibly comforting for a lockdown binge.

In no order:

The Forbidden Zone (1980)

Psycho Goreman (2021)

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

Blade (1998)

Ernest & Celestine (2012)

Patrick Stewart’s PBS production of Macbeth from 2010

MFKZ (2017)