Dwarves would probably love wrestling, weight lifting, and sumo. The kinds of sports where having good strength and constitution helps and a lack of movement speed doesn’t hurt.

I know it's kind of a trope, but elements of the Scottish Highland Games would be a good match here. Caber toss and stone lifting come to mind.

Right you are, Ken.

For a while there, this phrase was on stickers that people could put on their plates (IIRC). At some point, the city council and DMV got involved and just printed the motto/complaint right on the plates.

Assholes have never even heard of a thesaurus. Plus, we now have AI at our backs. Behold, what ChatGPT ginned up for me a second ago:

1. Global heating
2. Planetary warming
3. Atmospheric instability
4. Rising planetary temperatures
5. Ecological overheating
6. Weather system disruption
7. Global temperature shift
8. Planetary imbalance
9. Atmospheric warming trend
10. Earth system disturbance
11. Heat-driven weather extremes
12. Long-term planetary warming
13. Rising global heat levels
14. Ecological destabilization
15. Planet-wide heat surge
16. Environmental overheating
17. Temperature-driven disruption
18. Global heat imbalance
19. Accelerated warming of Earth
20. Planetary-scale weather disruption

I get that this works as long as they're willing to play by the rules they set. But if it comes down to getting the word out, and silencing science that could save lives, it's worth trying.

The only difference was scale: the man was using a walkie-talkie,

Featuring the svelte and portable Motorolla cellular model from 1988:

Which is an improvement from this beast:

The original idea was that the humans were a part of the simulation itself. Basically their brains were needed to make the whole thing tick, which is way more interesting and plausible than as batteries. My head-cannon is that the rebels are just misinformed or don't exactly know enough about the Matrix itself to come to a different conclusion.

Exactly. Where the fuck is the downside here? Sign me up.

Hell, sign me up twice. I can take it.

Right: American cheese on top. That's gotta be raw pasta underneath.

Left: "came away clean from the tray" in what I can only imagine is a congealed cheese+starch block.

These are terrible choices.

Survivorship bias, [...] when key parts of your identity are forming

You are absolutely right about this. The NES-era was formative for me, and I can recall the cream-of-the-crop right off the dome. But it's easy to forget about all the bad rental carts and disappointing titles that are in my collection too. Out of the 300+ games for that system, I want to say that the very best must-play ones are probably just the top 30 or so. 10% is not a strong showing when I think about it. I want to say that later Nintendo consoles like SNES or Advance actually had a better ratio.

Edit: After watching Jeremy Parish's videos, I'm left gobsmacked at how many more Famicom titles Japan had, and how many of them are objectively worse games than the West got.

Probably a million more amazing games I’m forgetting

These are all a matter of taste, but they're huge releases:

• Expedition 33
• Borderlands 4
• Civilization VII
• Silent Hill F

Monster-sized list here: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/2025-upcoming-games-release-schedule/1100-6526471/

FWIW, I support the message on display here. Intolerance for intolerance, karma, and all that.

Things at the workplace get prickly, and not always for the right reasons.

In the case of depictions of violence, it's deeper than the actions of the individual. Looking the other way only pulls management in, making them complicit. This opens the company up to a lawsuit, under some bullshit argument along the lines of "promoting a violent workplace" or some crap like that. Doesn't matter if it can be argued down in court, a lot of places would probably settle just to keep it out of the news.

Also, lets say none of that comes to pass. It also opens the door for right-wingers to go their way with this stuff. I'm talking way more hardcore than Punisher skulls.

My god. The bets you could win with people.

"Okay, so I'm going to eat this - what was in it again? Durian, sardines, kimchee, and muenster cheese salad? Let's add some onion for crunch and I'm in."