WesternInfidels

I don’t know about paint exactly, but

• Control uses yellow markings, like tarps, in some places to offer some hints about which ledges the player can reach
• Wolfenstein II uses yellow markings to indicate surfaces that can be destroyed
• Doom (2016) uses distinctive lights (green in this case) to give the player a hint about which jumps are safe

On one hand, I would guess the current talk is about newer games, but on the other hand, it’s not a brand-new innovation, either.

No one becomes a billionaire by accident. People who have an insatiable urge to dominate are hugely over-represented in the Epstein class, through their own efforts.

I never see any Christians decide that the president was chosen of God – as a punishment.

That would actually plug seamlessly right in to the whole evangelical world-view and aesthetic. It’s an idea with so much explanatory power, right there for the taking. “We live in a fallen world, and the president is the proof.”

If you’re going to sneakily change what the creator drew or wrote, why stop at the creator’s name? Why not fix up a dull punch line or tidy up a drawings weaknesses?

How would we know you aren’t doing that already?

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seem to be minimizing the risk

So now that we’ve all been filled in with the facts, what is that risk?

Oil wrestling shows up in the classic heist film Topkapi.

I haven’t got the stomach to watch the whole thing, but in the bits of it I’ve watched, he seems so much more alert, so much more present, so much, dare I say, smarter, than he’s been when speaking publicly recently. He makes jokes, he’s funny, he smiles. He completes some sentences. He doesn’t seem like the tongue-tied partially-senile Fox-News-grandpa he is when he talks to the public or the press.

He quips that somehow he’s a “king” but he can’t get his ballroom approved. He’s a piece of shit, he behaves like he’s here to destroy America as we know it, but that’s a legitimate by-God joke. I’ve never seen him make an actual joke before.

Am I imagining that? I don’t know what to make of it. Is the “flailing senile dumbass” just a character he’s playing? Is it a ruse? So many people who have had face time with him say he’s genuinely a moron.

Photo for Life magazine by Alfred Eisenstaedt, gallery here.

I had a visit with a PA who pantomimed the use of an inhaler she didn’t actually have on hand. The note-taking robot decided that was a “demonstration” with a billing code, and that it should be billed as $800.

You’d never really get those ducks in a row, but it would be entertaining to watch you try.

Patents are a (relatively speaking) newfangled trick to turn ideas into legal “capital.” In the same way that a corporation “is” a person.

The backbone of capitalism? I’m not following that.

The issue may be real. The article sucks, and it should be brushed aside. What are you contributing, here?

Rest assured that if the risk is worth it to you, even if they’re banned, you’ll be able to pick one up under the guise of some other use case.

I described a cheap, safe grill-cleaning system. You’re inviting me to go eat needles.

They’ve got model numbers, sure, but the pictures and descriptions are just the most generic, most common types of grill brushes that you’d find just about everywhere in the US. Could all of the brushes of those styles really have been made by one brand, Nexgrill? Could there really be only on the order of 10 million of them sold in the last 10 years?

How big a risk is this in real terms, compared to other risks we take all the time, anyway? They’re admitting to 68 cases and 5 medical interventions (over an unspecified span of time). Meanwhile, over 300,000 people have been killed by automobiles in the US in the last 10 years. The point being, not that you should be careless with an old wire grill brush, but that the Times isn’t even trying to put this in perspective. How many man-years of seasonal grilling does it take to get you a 50-50 chance of having this problem? That might be useful to understand.

…he began wiping his cold grill with a wet paper towel before cooking food.

One of the few things I do right in life: I wipe a hot grill with a sopping wet pad of 2-3 paper towels, after cooking. The grease and oil steams off immediately, while it’s fresh and the cleaning is easy, and this step takes almost no extra time or effort. And the grill is clean for next time.

You don’t have to use paper towels, you can use cotton rags. But they will become so stained that you won’t want to use them for any other job.