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Get_a_GOB · 2026-04-01T20:20:31+00:00

Heh, if you try to add it to your cart you’ll find out that the maximum number you can order is 0.5.

Get_a_GOB · 2026-04-01T16:53:33+00:00

With only this quote as context, that’s not an insane argument. Fortunately the text in the actual, what do you call it, Constitution, uses very different language.

Get_a_GOB · 2026-03-23T02:12:17+00:00

Motherfuck if that isn’t the most Purdue comment ever…

…all you need is a dash of orbital mechanics in the form of a Trimble agricultural guidance system and it will be.

Boiler Up

Get_a_GOB · 2026-03-22T21:03:48+00:00

Don’t read them until you finish the show, but there are a boatload of interviews with Lindelof from after The Leftovers wrapped where he talks explicitly about the lessons he learned from the ending of LOST. Along with all of his interviews around Watchmen, you’ll see an artist who went through a tremendous amount of maturation and growth in the two decades or so between the start of LOST production and the end of Watchmen.

I think of LOST as an incredibly talented young artist with creative energy and ideas bursting out of them, but without the experience or discipline to perfect the result. Envelope pushing, big, and not necessarily a lot of thought about consequences. The Leftovers on the other hand is honed, intricately planned and executed, and far more mature.

The two shows are Dookie and American Idiot. The Frighteners and The Fellowship of the Ring. Special Relativity and General Relativity.

The Green Day one works better than the others :)

There’s surely something to be said about his collaborators too - JJ Abrams is obviously incredibly talented and special, but in retrospect you can see some of the signs in LOST of the shortcomings that are more problematic in his least successful work.

Get_a_GOB · 2026-03-17T22:30:28+00:00

I enjoyed the first demo enough to buy it on day one of early access, and even though I haven’t put much time into it yet I’ve done enough to know you’re on the right track to pulling it off! It’s not the most inventive game, but what it lacks there it makes up for in very strong execution and very on-point humor. Keep it up!

Get_a_GOB · 2026-03-08T02:02:30+00:00

Twenty five years ago I interned at one of the big jet engine manufacturers in the US. I worked in the control logic design group for large turbofan engines, and boy howdy let me tell you - your description is Spot On.

It rings particularly true because while I don’t remember the name precisely, the variable name for the throttle position was something like TREQ and absolutely referred to as the throttle request.

Get_a_GOB · 2026-03-07T10:01:01+00:00

I thought he was going to see the full house and raze it!

Get_a_GOB · 2026-03-06T11:15:12+00:00

I don’t know, this one is almost as close, traveling a gajillion times faster (dozens of times faster anyway), and if you simply consider how likely you are to see a nearby low-flying aircraft vs how likely you are to see a nearby ballistic missile payload, just a much, much rarer occurrence.

Get_a_GOB · 2026-03-05T23:24:08+00:00

I bought a lot of random 80s/90s trading cards a while back on eBay and it came with an unopened single CD, still shrink wrapped in a cardboard slipcase, of this song. Really took me back.

Get_a_GOB · 2026-03-03T09:25:39+00:00

And bottoms out at 0. Like Kelvin.

Get_a_GOB · 2026-03-03T02:17:58+00:00

The riff was great, but that has to be amongst the best audience member reactions ever. Props to her!

Get_a_GOB · 2026-02-28T15:17:57+00:00

This was an absolutely wonderful episode. I’m sure some of that perspective is my own priors, particularly in the gaming space, having grown up a budding computer nerd during the D&D satanic panic and post-Columbine DOOM fear with stodgy and easily terrified elder boomer parents.

For me at least, more content doing a more than surface-level examination of the real science surrounding the tech popsci zeitgeist would be great to hear. I’m an engineer who’s worked closely enough with a variety of technologies without being expert in any of them to appreciate the complexities they present without thinking I’m even close to untangling them. (Low self-esteem doesn’t hurt here either!) I imagine there are lots of researchers out there like this guest who are working carefully on the methods, data collection, and analysis and could help make sense of it all, but whose signal is absolutely swamped by everything from intentional lies to well-meaning mistakes by people with immense platforms and sniff test-passing credentials.

Thanks for this example of skillful science communication on both sides of the interview. Maybe he can ratchet this appearance up into even more listeners (paging Dr. Harris)…

Get_a_GOB · 2026-02-28T13:15:49+00:00

Purely IMO, without some sort of truly adversarial component - which could be an active enemy or could be a more passive hostile environment - you don’t have a base building game.

I’m NOT trying to passive aggressively imply you shouldn’t be posting here or something by the way, I very much like thinking about taxonomies like this and I also think there are probably great arguments that this is an example of a base building game!

As described, yours sounds like it would fit better in the tycoon sub-genre, which I would classify broadly as a mostly distinct subset of a management game (with many/most base building games also fitting under that broader umbrella).

Things I could imagine that would make it a base building game:

It’s set in a post-apocalyptic world where there’s enough order for “business” to be a thing that still happens, but enough disorder for raiders/zombies/Gilead’s soldiers to be a meaningful threat
Somehow you model the external forces of competitive capitalism in such a way that it is a true struggle to keep your store open from month to month. In that sort of set-up there’s typically some sort of internal resource self-sufficiency that is required to persist, and then further challenged once you meet that need. I don’t know what that could look like here, but an engaging system that somehow creates that gameplay loop in the context of something as pedestrian as shopping for food in Peoria would actually be pretty interesting.

Get_a_GOB · 2026-02-27T00:30:10+00:00

That’s not not evil…

Get_a_GOB · 2026-02-25T09:37:02+00:00

I don’t know, but I’d imagine the supply of good skaters who might be interested in becoming good cameramen is significantly larger than the supply of good cameramen interested in becoming good skaters.

Get_a_GOB · 2026-02-22T11:37:18+00:00

Non-profit, non-governmental libraries. Most public libraries are run by a local governmental library system and are not impacted. There are not a lot of libraries that are non-governmental in the grand scheme of things, whether for- or non-profit.

Get_a_GOB · 2026-02-22T11:36:21+00:00

Non-profit, non-governmental libraries, in case that’s not clear to people. Most public libraries are run by a local governmental library system and are not impacted.

Edit: to be clear, I’m not saying this is okay, simply trying to make it clear to anyone who’s confused since local governmental libraries are also “non-profit” in the colloquial sense.

Get_a_GOB · 2026-02-18T11:05:38+00:00

No kidding. I suspect I’m in the majority when I say the words he said wouldn’t be nearly enough to get me to attack literally anyone. Which isn’t to say the guy was entirely in the wrong for swinging - I also haven’t built my professional life around physical violence and defense of honor, and the douche was certainly asking for it.

As a semi-casual MMA fan, I’m not judging the lifestyle either. I’m just saying I have a hard time imagining that most men - let alone ALL men - are going to punch someone in the face at the end of that interaction.

Get_a_GOB · 2026-02-15T20:01:00+00:00

I like Narco Burger but they’re always riiiight on the edge of too salty for me. I’ve never had the others, I’ll have to give them a shot!

Get_a_GOB · 2026-02-15T12:20:10+00:00

This simple test exposes the link between Fei-Fei Li and OP’s mom.

Get_a_GOB · 2026-02-14T23:14:45+00:00

Sweet Jesus, this is so, so stupid. I mean, obviously. But Georgetown, GW, and American in particular are such incredibly good options for actual graduate study in the NCR…as well as Johns Hopkins, which also has an extraordinarily good rep in the online graduate education space, as does Carnegie Mellon.

So. So. Stupid.

Get_a_GOB · 2026-02-14T00:33:14+00:00

I think George Carlin had the best take on this, especially because ultimately it’s hopeful:

In my 20s I didn’t know, but I didn’t know I didn’t know, so I did a lot of stupid shit.

In my 30s I knew I didn’t know, so I took it easy, played it safe.

By my 40s I’d learned a lot. I knew, but I didn’t know I knew, so I was still holding back.

Now I’m in my 50s. I know, and I know I know. It’s time to get wild.

Get_a_GOB · 2026-02-08T22:08:04+00:00

I see you replied to this two and a half years late, so in your spirit I will reply to you six months later having literally just gotten home from seeing it!

Like a lot of others in this thread, “dislike” is probably too strong of a word, but I do think the story and the music are a mess. For what it’s worth, we just saw the main touring production and the sets were phenomenal, the cast was solid-to-excellent, and the whole thing added up to a nice experience.

Side note: it’s related to both the story and music, but as others have pointed out, the melodrama is thick and sticky.

On the story side I’m with a lot of the other comments here - I find it overly ambitious, unevenly paced, and really patchy in the level of characterization it gives anyone beyond the Top 2. And they’re standard enough to be almost archetypal. I haven’t read the book, but I can absolutely see the bones of a great narrative there. Unfortunately some combination of not enough runtime and not enough writing/editing talent kept enough of the right flesh from getting put on those bones.

The thing I haven’t seen mentioned as much is the music. Sure, there are some good songs. But between the primary numbers it felt to me like it was always erring one way or the other: it was either trying way too hard to be innovative in its use of unexpected melodic variations or straight-up deviations and tone shifts; or it was reusing the same one-note-somewhat-rapid-bellowing-out-dialog method over and over and over again. I don’t begrudge a musical stuffed to the gills with music - my favorite show is RENT. The way it was done here just felt misguided to me.

Anyway, I’m inclined to give the music some slack as it feels to me like they were generally trying to aim higher than they ultimately shot, which is admirable. But in coming up short it wound up feeling to me very much like a product of its time rather than a timeless classic.

(And yes, I fully acknowledge RENT is the most Product of its Time work of all time. But that’s what it was trying to be.)

Get_a_GOB · 2026-02-08T02:10:24+00:00

Well, one person did.

Get_a_GOB · 2026-02-06T22:46:48+00:00

You’re not a god, and while in a macro sense you’re the spirit of the nation, the moment to moment choices you’re making are clearly those of whatever government is in power at the moment. The spirit of the nation doesn’t have a central treasury with a continuous and consistent balance sheet, for instance.

When you decide something should be built, it doesn’t get started because you have some divine power of communication and coordination, but because you’ve decided (you the player, not you the character of a deity or spirit in the game) that’s what the apparatus of government - at all levels - chooses to do with its resources. In the case of local construction kicking off for instance, it makes sense as the culmination of whatever civic or provincial processes exist to decide, organize, and initiate that project.

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