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Ten right away, and then another as often as there’s a 10% turnover in world population.

Hey, you never said they had to be my fingers.

look it’s not like there’s a titanium standard dude lodged somewhere in a vault in France, but I reckon we all know the difference between a short dude, a long dude, and a metric regular dude

I have never had a job where I spent the majority of my working time sitting. I really have nothing to compare it to.

like a Tuesday one

Like half a dude.

Yes, because I don’t use drugs recreationally.

Most real-world phenomena would be better represented as regular Directed Graphs than Directed Acyclic Graphs, even ones that are traditionally abstracted as DAGs.

Waiting and Party Down were both great about depicting the experience of food service, but gay men and Latinos were criminally underrepresented in both.

I have a strong relationship to what you get when you divide by zero.

Good ol’ NaN

Pi is a real number, though. It’s irrational, but real.

• Dwarf Fortress
• Fall from Heaven 2
• Minecraft
• ZZT
• Rogue Legacy 2

the best sim, the best 4X, the best FPS, my favorite level-editor engine, my favorite action platformer

I read an interview with him once where he said it was initially supposed to be the “house” version of SimCity, and be about how good or bad architecture shapes the lives of the house’s inhabitants. But their playtesters were spending all their time on the people, not the building, so the pivoted to making it more about the Sims’ interactions.

IME, you can really see the bones of that initial concept in Sims 1; but it’s stayed throughout the series.

Author Jim Butcher once said something like, “Give me one bad idea and it’s a bad idea. Give me two bad ideas and I’ll write a bestseller.”

Someone gave him “the lost Roman legion” and “Pokémon” and he wrote a series that’s yards better than Dresden Files.

USA, no paid time off.

But I make enough to take off a few weeks a year anyway.

Just pick any two Jason Lee characters and let them go at it.

I have, but it’s a huge amount of work and most mixes are pretty good. If they fell apart you probably either made it too loose, or didn’t press the patties enough before frying.

• fajitas

• pasta with zucchini jam sauce

• falafel sandwiches (I make all the components in big batches and eat this for days)

• pizza (using a no-cook sauce recipe)

There’s a short and sweet Zeldalike called Night Stones.

Enderal is so friggen good. Just, uh, remember that it’s not Skyrim. The levelling is different, enemies are scaled to their location not to the PC’s level, your dialogue choices actually matter, exploration is rewarded both mechanically and narratively.

And don’t start the game with kids around.

There’s a fan upmake of Daggerfall with Unity engine. They tried not to change anything except fixing actual bugs.