What I saw: NFL week one

I am, sadly, just one man, and though I enjoy watching football, I have both limited time and severely limited patience for car insurance, Mannings, and color commentators insisting that no, actually garbage player/coach/team X is not actually garbage. I can only do so much. But here’s what I saw. Chiefs vs. Lions Detroit’s legit, …

Destiny 2: Lightfall’s story is a big failure

Spoiler alert for Destiny 2: Lightfall’s campaign. The Destiny franchise is famous for starting out as a totally incomprehensible mess. The player wakes up with no memory, resurrected by a little robot guy that was Peter Dinklage for a little while, and you’ve got powers because the big ball in the sky says so, and …

2023 Major League Baseball Preview and Predictions

Since it’s that time of year when I gleefully fuck up all of my fantasy baseball drafts, it’s also time to crank out my traditional blog post expounding on the upcoming MLB season! In the past, I’ve attempted to bring my knowledge to the masses using revolutionary advanced metrics comparing the league’s teams to beer, …

I took all the social media apps and games off my phone because fuck that shit

I realized last week that I was spending way too much time staring at the tiny computer I bought from Tim Apple. I think that’s understandable: there’s so much doom and gloom to scroll through, so many memes to laugh at, and so many gacha characters to collect and train up, and this little brick …

Predictions for the future of robotics

I’ve had robots on the brain lately (thanks, Amazon). It feels like we’re right on the cusp of these things becoming a not-insignificant part of our day-to-day lives, like making breakfast or abandoning the MBTA when it catches on fire. The technology’s there; it just needs to be refined and implemented. So it’s time to …

Amazon’s acquisition of Roomba makes its data acquisition capabilities even scarier

On Friday, Amazon acquired iRobot, the company responsible for the Roomba, for a cool $1.7 billion. At first glance, that’s a little odd. What does Amazon want with a company responsible for a robotic vacuum cleaner? Does Jeff Bezos get off on scaring people’s dogs? Are they planning a future where my vacuum can bring …

Go ahead

Tell me again how the party that wants to criminalize reproductive health is the party of small government. Tell me again how outlawing procedures that can save a mother’s life is good and wholesome and in line with family values. Tell me again how the zealots working to eliminate the line between church and state …