Yeah, that makes sense; the way the difficulty scales leaves me feeling like I'm always on my back foot, no matter how much I level up. (Especially if I level up and put resources into, say, building up the base instead of upgrading my equipment.) Still haven't played XCOM 2; I conked out on Enemy W...

Analogue is making a Genesis clone ; 8bitdo is making wireless controllers for it. Sounds like they've got the audio figured out and everything. Also sounds like it's just going to be cartridge-based, with no official support for playing ROMs off an SD card. On the one hand, that's kind of expected...

The first episode of The Conners was good. It took a little bit to get warmed up, but it had some good laughs, and the way Roseanne's been written out of the show is timely and emotionally resonant. Turns out she had a secret opioid addiction and died of an overdose; the emotional core of the episod...

Whether MBS actually faces any repercussions whatsoever for this is still very much an open question. We're talking about a country that faced no consequences for 9/11.

My guess? Global industry largely boycotts Davos in the Desert, waits a couple news cycles, then resumes business as usual.

OK, yeah, I'll buy that. I think networked printers are here to stay, but a lot of consumers DO seem to be getting more wary about the IoT, and that's a win.

That said, MS's update tactics over the past few years are similarly dangerous.

It would be if the result was going to be "learn more about security and make sure you handle it personally, or get somebody who knows how to help you." You know that's not going to be the result. The result is going to be that end users refuse any updates they're given a chance to refuse,...

Epson follows HP's lead, pushes "security update" that disables third-party ink cartridges. I've already been over what a catastrophically bad idea this is, when HP did it. And I'm not even talking about the DRM. My opinion on whether or not it is okay for a vendor to restrict the way in ...

I looked over the judicial nominees and here's what I came up with. (I already shared a couple of these links earlier, but again, I'm sharing these notes with a few different people, so some straight links and some redundant links will be included.) Judicial review scores are available at https://ww...

Mongrel wrote:

He says "an anti-Muslim campaign against a person who isn't even Muslim" as if that's surprising.

Guys, the Obama Administration really wasn't that long ago; it just FEELS like it was.

Paul Allen, at 65, from cancer.

Well, we've already got plenty of the former - I'd say we've averaged one news story per day for the last week about violence at a protest/"protest". Today alone, there's something like three or four different stories out of Portland, including a cop joining the "Proud Boys" in ...

The Good: Battles are, with the exception of at sea and bosses, entirely avoidable! Every monster shows up and can be simply walked around! (Though they will chase you, you are faster.) If you're higher level they actually run away from you after spotting you instead of chasing you! They got rid of...

Well, someone could still pull a John McCain, but I'm not hopeful. Tweet sternly about how it's a bad idea and vote for it anyway? lul Anyway, I saw the post above before I saw the news about Murkowski rolling over, so yeah. Murkowski was the sole "nay" on the Republican side. You're thin...

Here are my notes on the ballot props (so far; I'm open to changing my mind if I learn anything different in the coming weeks). I still need to look at judges and nonpartisan candidates. (Pardon the straight links, but they're to make it easier to copy and paste this into e-mails and other things th...

Maximillian wrote:Lady Doctor is giving me some Tennant vibes on her line delivery.

Yeah, I'll agree.

zaratustra wrote:there's something not quite right with the writing.

The line in this week's episode about "It fried their circuits. We've got a few minutes before they reboot" sure could have used another pass.

Got my ballot in the mail today. Need to research the ballot initiatives and the nonpartisan candidates, as per usual. I also need to do more research on this: #RedForEd Supporters Want To Oust Arizona Supreme Court Judges Teachers Target Arizona Supreme Court Justices in Elections After Tax Ruling ...

I don't know how I missed that Noelle Stevenson (Nimona, Lumberjanes) is the showrunner on this, but she is. I think it looks pretty good!

Maybe at least two of Flake/Collins/Murkowski vote against him. We'd need all three of them. Or two of them and Manchin. I don't expect any Democrat to be the deciding vote. Not even Manchin. I'm not saying he won't vote to confirm. But I don't think he'll vote to confirm unless every Republican do...

Jason van Dyke, the policeman who shot Laquan McDonald 16 times, has been convicted of second-degree murder. And 16 counts of aggravated battery.

Jon Favreau’s live-action Star Wars show will be called The Mandalorian - Dave Filoni, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Taika Waititi will also direct episodes of the series

I like the sound of that.

Though I think it means we probably won't be getting that Mangold Boba Fett movie after all.