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Jason Cross
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Nerd stuff and hobbies I’m into: games, guitar, bread, tech.
I work at Macworld, but nothing I say or do here is in any way the opinion or endorsement of that brand or our company.
Maybe they should climb some towers to unlock more of the map.
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Thanks for this!
When I get mine (this week? who knows!) this is the kind of thing we won't even realize was ever broken, much less what went into the fix.

Plumbing is thankless and heroic work.
November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Authenticity is the greatest currency of our time.

Newsom is skilled, slick, and well-connected. And that will get him far, but as is the case with all the skilled, slick, well-connected politicians of years past, he is terribly inauthentic.
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I find these approval polls interesting in that there's nothing any president can seemingly do to drop below an approval rating in the 30s.

Like no matter how bad things are or get, or how scandalous. a third of everyone, minimum, approves.
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Unironically true. Because Republicans walk in lockstep and use the same brief communication phrases repeated continuously, effectively blaming Democrats for problems they caused.

Democrats... have Schumer and Jeffries.
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
You guys are prepared for the "we can't release the files, there's an active investigation" coming up right?

You know that's what this is...right? They've had this info all along, they could have opened an investigation at any time.
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
People out there just literally watching Black Mirror and creating product pitches because they're too sociopathic to recognize they just wanted a cautionary tale.
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Josh Johnson should be the permanent host. He's SO good at this.
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Do you think it was a mandate that they had to give the operation a name that all his incel MAGA followers would see as a euphemism for "big dick" or was that just a happy accident?
November 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
15 is not "barely legal" it's "three years away from technically-of-age-but-its-still-a-crime-to-traffic-her."

Kelly has a daughter who is 13.

In two years will she be "barely legal"? Or would it be a crime for a 50-something year old man to sex traffic her?
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Vance: "and we need Americans to be low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Better than Series 5? Or Series 14? or Series 9? or 19?

I mean that's high praise. I'm only 3 episodes in so far...
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 AM
And the small handheld screen of Steam Deck makes that easier to tolerate, but on your big living room TV or 32-inch desktop monitor that's going to be a harder pill to swallow.
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It's honestly very interesting to begin with, but for a system shipping early 2026, they cut too many corners for price/size.

It'll run fine in the short term, but will age just like Steam Deck—2 years after launch it'll require cutting the settings way back to play the latest games.
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM