I just replayed Stranger of Paradise, and it's just so consistently satisfying. I want to dive into Rise of the Ronin, but I'm not sure how satisfying a Team Ninja game can be without, like, Tiamat and Lich.

I hope the inclusion of this short section was some cynical, trend-chasing editor's attempt to make the article "more relevant".

As it stands, it's just deceptive bullshit that's as crass as going to a kindergartener's costume party dressed as Epstein and Trump.

These tools require unfettered access to all past, present, and future human achievement in order to write a text.

The literal opposite of "doing more with less".

If these charlatan-made tools shared a kinship with procgen for games, they would run on your phone while in airplane mode.

I hope I can properly cook again some day. I lost a lot of feeling and control while I was in a coma this year.

I wanna make stir fry.

I've only ever done one food photography shoot, and it was the most grueling day of PA work I ever did. I cheered the first time I saw the Quiznos commercial featuring our shots.

On the way to that handful of good shots, there were soooo many bad ones.

I realize my friendship with you is almost entirely parasocial, but you might appreciate my somewhat opiod-addled first thought on reading this:

"Hold on, Trick, do you even know how Dia is shaped?"

Modem handshake sounds followed.

"I thought not."

I'm getting too old for this shit.

PC games have still not delivered on the promises made to me as a child!