I absolutely love using https://movielens.org/. The more I’ve rated, the better its predicted ratings have gotten for me. It doesn’t seem to be popular enough to be as gamed as some of the others. Be honest with your ratings, and it will steer you in the right direction. Don’t give Rashomon 5 stars if you didn’t like it. If Wedding Crashes is your favorite movie, that’s 5 stars for you.

When I’m trying to find a movie that my mother-in-law is going to like, I start with That Thing You Do or a Knight’s Tale and I check Similar Movies.

I’ve been playing pretty regularly since 2017. It’s the only multiplayer game that I play, since I normally don’t like letting my teammates down. I enjoy seeing the puzzle pieces of a random team and trying to figure out how to play in a way that will make them work. At its best, the matches are close and you feel like “It was winnable if I had…” They’ve spent a lot of time giving people the ability to avoid players you don’t want on your team, report trolls, and stick to the game modes that don’t make you angry. They’ve never known if the game should be competitive or fun, and so it’s never quite been successful at either. Most of us who play the game would not recommend it. If you start a match and say, “Anybody here ready to have some fun?!” Everyone will say “No, this is Overwatch.” And they’re right, and that’s okay.

Yes, it is a price increase, but the inflation has been wild. For context, the Switch in 2017 for $299 is equivalent to $389 in 2025 dollars. It’s really been insane. The Nintendo 64 from 1996 was $199, or $404 in 2025 dollars.

When the IRS is under-funded, they’re less able to go after the wealthy and are left the poor who won’t be able to fight it.

I wish I had known when I was young that you can stealthily flex muscles like hamstrings and glutes to end an unwanted erection. It draws blood to those muscle groups and away from the erection.

He relied primarily on Russian, Iranian, and Hezbollah support.

The people of the moon crave freedom from an unspecified tyrant.

Chants of Sennaar is absolutely one of my favorite games. It’s one of the few games I’ve played where the mechanics of the game and the themes of the game were in perfect harmony.

While it’s obviously weird to want the bill of rights and declaration of independence in your Bible; let me just say, if your goal is to convert kids to Christianity, the KJV bible is just completely opaque to children that don’t normally read 17th century literature.

Well, there’s still Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_or_Consequences,_New_Mexico

Steven Spielberg was the producer on Boom Blox for the Wii.

If you get a chance, she’s absolutely amazing in Gosford Park from 2001.

It’s odd that I find this incredibly encouraging. It tells me that for all the negative coverage, the protests must be working.

I’ve been thinking about why the assassination attempts have only just now started. I wonder if they become more likely when a politician or celebrity is seen as weakening in favor as opposed to when they are on the rise.

And multi-winner ranked choice with larger districts makes gerrymandering much less impactful.

Imagine trying to find shoes that don’t look like clown shoes when your toes are that spread.

In Albany, Georgia on July 20th, 2023, the relative humidity at 94 F was 54%. As someone who’s experienced dry heat vs humidity, I wanted to offer that context. Sweating just doesn’t cool you down as the humidity rises.

And this is a massive increase in authority for the courts. If there is ambiguity in the wording of a law, it’s open for a lawsuit.

They were basically illegal until 1982. It was considered, and I believe still is, market manipulation.