Steamed Hams full transcript Well, Seymour, I made it- despite your directions. Ah. Superintendent Chalmers. Welcome. - I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable luncheon. - Yeah. Oh, egads! My roast is ruined. But what if I were to purchase fast food and disguise it as my own cooking? Delightfully devilish, Seymour. Ah- Skinner with his crazy explanations The superintendent's gonna need his medication When he hears Skinner's lame exaggerations There'll be trouble in town tonight Seymour! Superintendent, I was just- uh, just stretching my calves on the windowsill. Isometric exercise. Care to join me? Why is there smoke coming out of your oven, Seymour? Uh- Oh. That isn't smoke. It's steam. Steam from the steamed clams we're having. Mmm. Steamed clams. Whew. Superintendent, I hope you're ready for mouthwatering hamburgers. I thought we were having steamed clams. D'oh, no. I said steamed hams. That's what I call hamburgers. You call hamburgers steamed hams? Yes. It's a regional dialect. - Uh-huh. Uh, what region? - Uh, upstate New York. Really. Well, I'm from Utica, and I've never heard anyone use the phrase "steamed hams. " Oh, not in Utica. No. It's an Albany expression. I see. You know, these hamburgers are quite similar to the ones they have at Krusty Burger. Oh, no. Patented Skinner burgers. Old family recipe. - For steamed hams. - Yes. Yes. And you call them steamed hams despite the fact that they are obviously grilled. Ye- You know, the- One thing I should- - Excuse me for one second. - Of course. Well, that was wonderful. A good time was had by all. I'm pooped. Yes. I should be- Good Lord! What is happening in there? - Aurora borealis. - Uh- Aurora borealis at this time of year at this time of day in this part of the country localized entirely within your kitchen? - Yes. - May I see it? No. Seymour. ! The house is on fire. ! No, Mother. It's just the northern lights. Well, Seymour, you are an odd fellow but I must say you steam a good ham.

Today is officially the 30th anniversary of Steamed Hams. On April 14, 1996, "22 Short Films About Springfield" aired for the first time!

In the end, Hungarians showed us not only how to beat a thuggish nationalist, but also how to defeat our own stubborn cynicism. Set some Google news alerts. Get a little invested. The future can still be ours. Nothing is inevitable.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

TACO Tuesday baybeee

@shappy.bsky.social and @johnathan.bsky.social are on @theatlantic.com's Galaxy Brain with @cwarzel.bsky.social to talk about AI 🤝 management.

And this part pretty much spells out one of the loudest conflicts going on at work right now:

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NPCs giving you quests that would get you punched IRL.

“I forgot my boots in the meadow and I’m busy making eldergrass soup, can you go find my boots?”

No, you clown, I wouldn’t tolerate this from a toddler - but as the Grand Worldsaving God-Killer, this is what you want me to do with my time?

Too much else going on today so I forgot, but we did it! We launched this incredible thing that is going to be a ton of fun for millions of players.

Picard humor tip: Be thankful that April Fools' Day jokes fell out of common practice hundreds of years ago.

For a straight remake, I'm going NoX. You could make something truly magical of that on modern tech.

if I were ever to write a followup or expansion to 'A Pivot To Indie Won't Save Us' it would probably center around how much midsized indies benefit from the ability to poach producers, QA and other roles from AAA, roles that indie itself makes zero room for other than preexisting domain experts

You know, I’ve said for a long time that a big problem in the entertainment industry these days is people claw their way in so young and are so afraid to take a break that they have no time to have actual life experiences, so they write about media they’ve seen instead of things they’ve lived-

I continue to believe that smartphones should simply not have speakers.

CATAN has been on the BoardGameGeek bestseller list for 1,003 weeks - or, in comprehensible terms, 19 years, 3 months, and 3 weeks. 😊

Hey @boardgamegeek.com, you know how once kids are a couple of years old, it's weird to keep referring to their age in months? 😅

do you ever get tired of being right

Yeah, okay, I can get behind that. 😆

I have some follow-up questions...

For years my iOS devices have kept reminding me to set up Siri (“You haven’t finished setting up your phone!”) and I just wish there was a fucking option to stop that shit. I don’t even want a dumb smart assistant. Just let me fucking work, man.

Yep, the consistently bleak posts where some dev says, "My studio can help! Here are our three job openings!" when the 1,000-person layoff gets announced are gonna keep coming.

We can't resume/portfolio review or network our way out of the industry collapsing.

I don't know about the rest of the millennials but I make all purchases via real computer because I don't have to Download Yet Another App to do it and the browser there is better at blocking all the stupid fucking ads and trackers. At some point you gotta take control of the hamster wheel, kids.

If you were someone pinging critics with ‘it’s just lighting cleanup’ a few days ago, I need you to use this as a jumping off point to thinking about your susceptibility to talking points and marketing rhetoric more generally. It was right there in front of all of our faces.

The DLSS 5 thing is just NFTs all over again. A bunch of people who know *literally nothing* about game development are talking up how revolutionary it is, while anyone who has ever touched gamedev is absolutely uninterested (because they know better). Tired.

a man wearing sunglasses and a fake mustache says my biggest weakness Alt: my biggest weakness dot gif

Always a couple of bags of Lay's in the pantry.

It's unthinkable to these people to try and meet consumer expectations or be concerned about your brand in the face of just following the latest money bubble.

If I had a nickel for every game dev who told me “a good game will sell itself” I still couldn’t afford an effective game marketing campaign because it turns out the hard part is not making games (which is *incredibly* hard), it’s reaching players with them.

call yourself Cogsworth the way she's got you clocked

@lukeplunkett.com this is fucking gold, btw, well done

no but now I'm trying to rap it to Lose Yourself, so, close enough