Any good ones?

The alt text says 90s VHS style letters, my brain parses it as a Jeopardy answer.

As I'm listening: yeah definitely rougher than usual but I've still had plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. I think your (?) assessment of "skippable" is fair but I'm still glad you published it.

As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

I'm sure I've posted about this before but whatever, here's a new thread on the subject: why it does not bother me in the slightest if my clients did what they are charged with doing.

As a friend puts it sometimes, "I live in the future! It's great!"

Butlerian Jihad means no computer-based training, I'm pretty sure.

(The premise is that the main character is someone who's published on how to write crime fiction. Everything is lampshaded.)

I enjoyed "Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone", by Benjamin Stevenson, quite a bit -- genre-savvy mystery that ... just goes for it, pretty much from the prologue. Also has a good sense of humor.

Ideally in a way that doesn't wrap up with "I am Darkwing Duck!"

Me watching Hector walk out to fight Achilles by himself

An outdated screengrab of Wikipedia's page for 46 BC, noting, "the actual planetary orbit-year remained the same."

Alas, since the last time I did a thread on this, someone changed Wikipedia's old hilarious note that this didn't change the orbits, but I have it screenshotted and include it here for giggles and posterity.

25/

Out to get revenge for the untimely extinguishing of Sirius, previously one of the brightest lights in its world.

Pretty sure I've seen a youtube video defending and exploring this position. Seems cute to think about, anyway.

Something about exploring the new stuff has inspired a lot more play of Slay the Spire II than I'd put into the original in the last ... year or two?

The new characters are interesting so far.

In the past when y'all have interviewed conservative media people, they've usually managed to say something that seemed to me to be of value even if I disagreed with it. This guy either couldn't or didn't bother.

Interesting interview, anyway.

That's not a special night; that's every day for the rest of your life!

It's doing quite enough of that on its own, but I appreciate the thought!

I certainly remember enjoying the shareware episodes of Keen, Duke, and Jazz Jackrabbit well enough, but if the argument is that consoles had better platformers, sure, granted. (but playing them did require having a console)

I played a ton of Silent Service II, but I'm pretty sure I couldn't go back now, and not just because my keyboard overlay won't fit. SimCity was all right (tho I didn't have "goals" as such at that point) and there was a serviceable Tetris.

One thing I have come to understand over the course of my life is that I have a *very bad* sense of what constitutes "basic knowledge" (and not just for computer programming).

As a fairly regular LRC listener, the cadence of the AI voice is similar and the voice overall is close, but it's not as rich as the real thing. That said, I'll be curious to see how the lawsuit goes (even if the voices are differentiable, the claims might still be live).

Thanks for the gift link!

In the Hall of the Mountain Swing YouTube video by jasperiscool

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqFC...

FTR, even with nice intentions, there's almost nothing you can yell at someone from a window of a car that won't unnerve them, IMO

Growing up in Seattle, my parents called it the "parking strip".

(I should say: ten-hour screenplay, not that there was that much footage or anything)

I mostly enjoyed Jupiter Ascending, but I remember coming out of it and turning to someone I'd seen it with and saying something like "so that felt like it was cut down from what was originally five hours, right?" They looked it up and the conclusion was: more like ten.

Take me down to the Paradox city where the map paints slow and the excel sheets tricky

I disagree with this thread, but I appreciate the spirit of it.