pinball_wizard

My little sister has two, and most of her friends do too. It's weird.

I suppose that makes sense. Support has gotten much stronger, in the last decade or two, for using multiple monitors.

James Gunn seems to genuinely love comic books. There's some very obscure comics references in PeaceMaker, and an loving understanding of different comics vibes comes through with every episode.

The picture was slow to load for me, and I expected Beanie Babies or some kind of precious metal or BitCoin.

Have you considered turning it into a paint ball arena?

It probably wouldn't be a good investment, but it would make a great story.

I had not heard of Trinity Desktop. That does look like a much simpler path to beautiful Windows XP stylings.

Apparently, many people want to make Linux look like Windows 95?

I don't see Dame Judy Dench's masterpiece "As Time Goes By" mentioned often.

It's about a love affair between the acclaimed author of "My Time in Kenya", and his publisher.

(This summary is intentionally reductive to the point of absurdity. But trust me, it's quite good.)

Cancelling Space: Above and Beyond was tragic. With a couple more seasons it could have become an enduring cult classic. If it has been made later, it would have thrived in the streaming era.

Paul Reuben's cameo in Pushing Daisies is a lovely part of an even lovelier show.

Lexx is brimming with campy nonsense!

But it has moments when an actor delivers a heartfelt performance that tells a meaningful story.

And then those moments are followed by a robot with a saw arm chasing some folks through a cardboard maze before a planet gets blown up.

A recurring villain and an ally to the party were identical twins.

It seemed obvious to me. But I figured it's a classic, and likely to briefly amuse them.

The party was great at ferreting out all kinds of mysteries. This would give them a quick mystery followed by a nice "spare my brother" moral dilemma to decide.

But the party did not give a shit.

The party blew right past a villainous monologue about "my brother" and similar movie tropes. They decided it was one dude with a personality disorder, and ignored all further information.

I had a big reveal planned, but it's their world, and they had grudges against another villain so I promoted that villain to be more central to the plot. I finally fully sidelined the twins to focus on other NPCs that the party was more engaged with.

So they finished the entire campaign without figuring it out.

It's no big deal, but still funny. I never know which NPC will resonate with the players and which won't.

It's funny that Ouya's brand recognition is so infamous that no additional explanation is needed.

I’d say Linux is somewhere around early Windows XP when it comes to usability for a normal person.

I was confused until it struck me that maybe you don't consider Windows XP the peak of operating system user interface design.

I'll admit, Vista really messed with my perspective.