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I just looked it up and it seems there are rumors of a new Mass Effect game in the future. It would be strange to just kill the IP over Andromeda.

I'm still not convinced Spaceventure will actually come out. It is funny to compare this to Xenonauts 2, which is the main kickstarter game I'm waiting on. That game is a few years behind schedule and people are flipping out, but it has a playable alpha and very clearly is progressing regularly, albeit slowly. I can't help but chuckle at their impatience when we look at these early kickstarters that are still languishing.

Spies Like Us is a masterpiece.

https://www.axios.com/2022/08/25/teacher-pay-college-graduates-inflation-report?fbclid=IwAR0_UWNyIWujcKSrcyVi7Qy_MBlwhLWZKAh6kjcFEU5GqbMnNmICCUsA6vI Ouch. I'm not sure what happened over the last decade.

I guess this is getting released in September. I'm sure it will be terrible, but it is humorous to see it may actually see the light of day.

I dig it, John Hamm is great and is less cocaine-adled than Chevy Chase.

I imagine there has to be some wiggle room between "college is free" and "College graduates will leave school with a mountain of debt".

Funnily enough I just attended my daughter's back to school night, and the most impressive classroom by far was her Woodshop 2 class. It is an entire building/garage, and they have multiple work areas, including a full scale house frame for students to learn on. Unfortunately not every school has such a great set up. But in regards to your flawed premise, the answer is both are important. It isn't an either/or proposition. We can have carpenters that understand social studies and social studies people that know how to work with wood. As Amentep pointed out, Social Science or Social Studies covers a broad range of subjects. At the end of the day though, it is more about Bloom's taxonomy than having some obscure knowledge about a specific part of history. We want critical thinkers in our society.

Wait until you see our for profit prison system.

The internet tells me they ramge from 4.99-7.54 federally, and 1.29-12.99 privately. That doesn't seem too low. I'd say it should be minimal. 1-2%, enough to cover costs. 90% of the loans are federal, so should the government really profit on young people getting an education?

I've seen a bunch of people complaining online about the student debt forgiveness. The central theme seems to be concerns that taxpayers are footing the bill. 😑 It sounds like a drop in the bucket to me. Netx will they cry about how the banks will lose out on the massive interest profits?

I know I've said this before, but Funcom has earned a blank check from me for Conan Exiles, so I'm pretty excited for Dune. There is already a ton of stuff in the Conan game that would directly cross over and work in a Dune setting. Sandstorms? Crafting? Climbing? They've got a winning strategy already, so I have some confidence. I'm really curious if fans of the novels will dig the lore of the game. I'm a big Robert Howard fan, so all the little touches in Conan speak to me, but I never got past the first Frank Herbert book. Maybe the game will get me into them.

With Wall-E, I assume we don't see the robots purge 99.9% of the human race as the 0.1% flees into space.

I was actually surprised when I typed in : - ) that it popped up with the new ugly winker. But I was on my phone and in a hurry, and scrolling way down through the emojis is a hassle. See, that one typed in fine with : p Whoa, I just noticed this one 🏒

As much as Bart derides my taste in movies, I wonder how he feels about the fact that my end of the year movie for my students is Galaxy Quest? The kids groan about the choice for about 10 minutes, and then they are onboard for the best scifi flick ever made. 😉

Sweet! I don't imagine I will buy a gas car again. The Ford Mach-E is probably my favorite out now, but there are a ton of other good choices.

18-miles a day is a pretty stiff hike. We used to average 12 or so when I backpacked as a kid. Although it is probably only about 6-8 hours of walking, so that is doable.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow came out in 2004, so it was exactly 18 years ago that CGI became terrible.

I've got it on now. It's a movie, alright. I'd say silly fun, for the most part. Prey is better.

These folks go into a movie about fighter jets and expect more than a bunch of jets flying fast. I don't know what to tell you. 😉

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/hand-of-fate-devs-new-tactics-game-is-xcom-with-superheroes This peaks my interest a lot more than the Marvel Xcom clone. I mean I'm happy to see as many solid turn based tactical combat games as I can get, but a Freedom Force type game where you get to make superheroes and develop them sounds way better.

Everybody should try biscuits and gravy at least once. It will sit in your stomache for the rest of your life, so you only need to one time. 😉

I'm a pretty optimistic guy, but even I know better than to expect JA3 to be good. I think a big problem is people focus on Ivan, Fidel, and all the other characters as being important to making a JA game. They aren't. It is important to have a colorful cast of characters. It's important to be able to develop them over the campaign. That's it. The strategic map looked ok at the end. The camera seemed off in the combat shots. The inventory and equipment modification scenes seemed incomplete. I'm not going to hold my breath. At the end of the day I'm getting a better tactical combat experience from Xenonauts 2, Battle Brothers and Wartales. These nu-Xcom style games offer a fun cinematic combat experience, and maybe JA3 will fit that mold. But I'm not holding my breathe.

That's a cool cup, but it seems a bit impractical.