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Tycho / 13 hours ago

Covidvaccinewa.org

The title of this post is a real URL, and you should go to it! That is Washington State's nexus for COVID-19 stuff. I used to use the Dashboard at the Seattle Times, that was my sort of go to ritual for the last year and a half or so, but you can actually interact with the official one - and it has big progress bars at the top, which clearly indicate that by either the CDC or our DOH metric we're doing this shit right. The State came back to us for another comic, a full three panels…

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Tycho / 2 days ago

One of the weirder things about Mario Golf: Super Rush is that purely from a mechanical perspective it demands more technical play than PGA Tour 2k21. Or, I should say, the subset of PGA Tour 2k21 that we play. For the mostly social way we play the latter game generally, Amateur Swing Timings and the raft of variables and interpretations of the game state provide ample opportunities to fail because it is still fuckin' Golf. We strip out putt previews, which are normal at that level, but if…

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Tycho / 5 days ago

Gabe hung out for the first half of GOLGOLFA this week, which obviously we appreciated fully - frankly, he stayed a bit later than we even had him for technically. He wasn't able to check out Speed Golf with Gary and I, and he explained why on the stream I've linked above plus today's comic. I expected to hate it - and I still don't think it has a lot of virtue against AI opponents - but against people? Those dynamics are pretty great, actually. I've played it since,…

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Tycho / 1 week ago

This isn't an affiliate link or anything, I think it's just the best example of what I'm talking about: Gundam Converge is a line of super-deformed Gundam models that are small and cute. They're collectible figurines essentially, impulse buys, which is strongly reinforced by the fact that they include literal candy in the box. Gabe discovered this line - which has something like twenty full sets now - but he came to it through an oblique angle, as both a neophyte and a…

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