I kinda just assumed this was a Sinclair owned tv station, as that would make sense why they fired her, but apparently it's not.

One of the best ways to drain people's energy nowadays, is via video game design.

I like to open my games with a long segment of walking while your character is injured, so they really just kind of slog along at a slow pace. Having them be injured at the start is good, because they can really get used to pressing a single button to move forward without having to worry about any other buttons. Since they're stuck going slow this is also a good time to have a narrator or other npc explain convoluted lore of the world that you won't really care about, but it'll be mildly important if you put in over 100 hours into the game, so we can include that unskippable dialogue here.

Then after 8 or 9 minutes of injured walking, we'll have a 3 minute unskippable cutscene in which our character gets healed, but then also gets thrown into their first combat. And me, I like a challenge, so the first enemy is a boss fight, but since the player probably doesn't know the buttons yet, it should probably take most players at least 3 tries. The fun part is, you can't save until after beating that first boss, so if you fail, you have to go through the 9 minute slow walking segment and 3 minute unskippable cutscene again.

At this point a lot of gamers go onto the internet to complain about stuff like this, and I just respond that all that stuff is unskippable to protect the narrative vision of our game. Even though really most of the story is just lifted from "A Good Day to Die Hard."

It's not as powerful a drain as you can get in person, but you can get little bits from a lot of angry nerds on the internet at once.

https://x.com/ADL/status/1881474892022919403

If you don't wanna click the x link, here's what it says in full:

This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety.

It seems that @elonmusk

made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge.

In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new

beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.

“Within the next two years, it will be completely normalized to have a relationship with an A.I.,” Ms. Cole predicted.

We haven't managed to really normalize anything outside of cis-hetero relationships yet and you're telling me we're gonna normalize relationships with a.i. in two years? Sure.

Coming up on 2 years with nothing memorable.

This implies Baldur's Gate 3 (8/3/23) was not memorable, and I take issue with that.

Shoulda gone with Dollarydoo.

The Boys, Fallout, Invincible, Good Omens. These were all good shows, though the Boys is kinda wearing thin and I'm glad it's ending next season.

Haven't seen em, but Jack Ryan, Reacher, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Marvelous Ms. Maisel...all these seem to have done extremely well and been popular.

Sure they have their absolute disasters like the Rings of Power too, but it's not like they're on the same level of quality as like the freevee's and roku original shows.

"Reject censorship!" cried the candidate of the party banning books in school libraries left and right.

Granted. Being truly clean will of course demand sterilization. As part of a daily cleaning cycle the house seals itself and becomes an autoclave. The building becomes pressurized and the temperature is raised to 270 degrees fahrenheit for 20 minutes. You'll probably wanna be gone when it happens.

A quick google says the tour doesn't end till December, so after the election anyway, unfortunately.

Rust and ruin, I knew someone would bring up this crem.

I love Sanderson, he is my favorite fantasy author, and you are correct about his marvelous job finishing WoT, but he is just not the right fit tonally for ASOIAF. He doesn't even write swear words, and GRRM's books are fairly liberal with the fucks and the cunts. I would however be in favor of Joe Abercrombie or someone with a bit of a darker bent to their writing taking over if needed.