Good game. Love a pitcher’s duel. Venezuela ran it from the beginning. It was nice that Harper made it interesting, but that manufactured run in the 9th was a back breaker.

If it helps, the show really deep dives the consequences of that, and really all of Barry’s actions.

Take that! In 20 or 30 years…

I’m the kind of person that doesn’t even hear lyrics in music, game voice logs might as well be white noise to me. On the other hand, when the scene tells a story without words and you have to connect the dots yourself, I find that satisfying. Even basic examples like a corpse reaching toward the glowing red button.

Not that these are wrong, but I wonder about recency bias. Have these indicators been trending downward for 20 years, or is this just a response to our current crop of morons?

If Obama v2 was elected tomorrow, would these instantly reverse, like the international opinion seemed to when he took over from W?

Great episode, great finale, really strong first season. I had issues with some episodes trying to do too much in too little time, but for the last two episodes the writers focused on one story and did a damn good job tying up the season arc. Can’t wait to see where the show goes next season.

The one criticism I have of the finale, and literally everywhere else it comes up in new era Trek is: Stop moving the camera so fucking much! It’s unnecessary and really takes me out of it when the camera is wiggling back and forth, or spinning around in an arc, or acting like an unstable drone during the trial portion (particularly at the end). I want to drink in what’s going on, not be trying to puzzle out WTF I’m looking at, especially when stream compression turns a lot of motion into blurry pixels.

A little shaky cam when things are intense or exploding, sure, but overall I wish it was shot in a more conventional style.

Calling Downton Abbey a soap opera is pretty uncharitable. Soap opera implies melodrama - stereotypical characters and long, drawn out, unsubtle plots. Downton is written and acted far too well to be a soap opera IMO.

Imo’s in St. Louis is my favorite overall. Thin, crispy crust, square cut, Provel as the base cheese. It scratches an itch that all other pizzas don’t. I’d eat it 7 days a week if I could, hot or cold.

I’ve had pizzas with superior ingredients, made in fancy ovens, served with wine instead of cold beer, but if I could get any pizza right now, it’d be Imo’s black olive or veggie pizza.

Not to be too much of a downer, but all of these cute Google search results and other “quirky” “fun” things billion dollar corporations do used to seem so harmless but now it just reads like a friendly logo on a baby mulching machine.

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Because they took their husband’s family name, which probably doesn’t match their birth certificate.

I don’t think the convergence to x86/ARM is really lack of innovation, it’s more recognizing that being on a separate architecture doesn’t really help you. The innovation is now in form factor (e.g. the Switch), peripherals (e.g. VR or alt controllers) or software (e.g. streaming). Now, having an x86 just means your base platform is cheap and you don’t need a lot of custom work, although these platforms still get integration attention. Also makes ports much simpler.

The PS3 is actually a great example of the industry learning this lesson. The Cell architecture was really hard to leverage. It took years for any games/engines to use the Cell SPUs right.

As for Linux though, PS3 Linux was effectively just PowerPC Linux which was already fully supported years before in every major server distro. The Cell PPUs (main, boot cores) were pretty much off the shelf PowerPC. Similar to the Wii/WiiU.

Source: work in semiconductors, the Cell was one of my first platforms out of school.

I’ve always thought about that. There must be some quirk of how subspace comms work that makes it obvious when someone is aiming a message at you.

The real thing that gets me is how do view screens work? That would seem to require a shared format to encode/decode.

Absolutely. I’ve spent the last 20 years road tripping in TX and Bucees made it so much nicer that even the non-Bucees stops have had to up their game or people will straight up hold it for the next 100 miles.

If I have my family in the car, I have a mutiny on my hands if I refuse to pull over.

Oh, that’s interesting. It is pretty distinct.

Like the energy, but Comic Sans is also a war crime.

I enjoy the Orville but let’s not get too uptight about where the sci-fi ideas come from. Especially since the Orville is literally Seth MacFarlane’s powdered TNG substitute.

Have some links for the manipulation? I don’t think the Republicans really want to see either of them, frankly but I like Crockett.

Depends on the players. Some want to play pretend. Some want to play XCOM with dice.

That’s hilarious. I will admit, as a rank amateur writer, that reading or watching some absolute crap is more motivating than something complex and good.

Thinking “shit, man, I could do better than that” is a powerful force.