It’s a little pricy, but we absolutely love this Cuisinart Air Fryer/Toaster Over thing for anything that was properly cooked elsewhere, though I’ve used it for halfway decent roasted potato wedges straight from the knife. Basket Air Fryers hold so little as to be more frustrating than anything, and stacking deep defeats the purpose half the time. I have no idea if the grill setting works well, though.

Bake setting, 325, 2-3 minutes is all you need for most pizza reheatings.

I know it was all simple tricks and nonsense covering up a fairly generic dungeon crawler, and that most people preferred the direction the franchise went afterwards, but as a kid I fell in love with the original Shining in the Darkness. Those sprites were friggin’ HUGE!

Rura Penthe is rough.

I needed her to be pointing…ish!!! I felt bad enough breaking one Majel-Barrett elbow. I didn’t have the heart to break three.

Luke, son of Anakin, of House Skywalker.

I heard that you were feeling ill,

headache, fever, and a chill.

I came here to restore your pluck…

If anyone stumbles upon this with an actual need to remove cyanoacrylate glue from skin, acetone nail polish remover will do it very quickly. It’s not great for you over the long term, but it’s safe enough for occasional use. Just keep it way the hell away from ABS plastic.

He did. I also am not entirely sure I structured my meme properly. Archer is probably the worst of the first five, but he’s of course miles ahead of Trump Papa Palpatine.

When you watch the “OW!!!” video when he gets to relive meeting Jennifer, I think it counts as joviality. His joviality is just punctuated by socially awkward noises.

That was odd. There was a “blink and you miss it” reference that it’s not poison for Cardassians, and another indicating that the Maquis and Cardassians simply traded colonies after Eddington did a bio-warfare and Sisko countered with a chemical-warfare.

This is inconceivable.

Fair, and maybe I’m stepping in it a bit, but thought a post about a 4-switch Vader 2600 might attract a lively crowd.

I wouldn’t presume to have even 20% of the 2600 games that bring something different and good to the table, it’s just (to misquote Samuel Johnson), for so many of them the good parts are not different and the different parts are not good.

And again, that’s completely apart from a personal nostalgia (god knows I indulge in that) or to propose that they’re simply not fun in a binary sense. If I’m 12 and I get 2600 Venture I enjoy the hell out of it, but if I’m a middle aged man in 2024, at the bare minimum I’m going for this.

So, real talk? Most 2600 games are rough, and barring personal nostalgia, there’s little reason to play most of them in the age of emulation, especially arcade conversions, which sometimes nail the gameplay (but often don’t), and generally have to perform acts of violence on the visuals to make them work with the system and the business realities around their development (i.e. staffing, timeline, budget for ROM chips, etc.).

Some worthwhile ones that come to mind:

• Combat (multiplayer only)
• Warlords (multiplayer only)
• Pitfall
• River Raid
• Pitfall II
• Space Invaders
• The Empire Strikes Back

It’s not that so many more weren’t fun, or even still aren’t in isolation, but it’s like we’re all the rich fat kid from Pee-Wee’s big adventure and have access to every single game on every single system, at least up until the end of the 90s. There’s no reason to play the nice port of Berzerk that looks like it does, or play the flickery Pac-Man mess, or even (I’ll say it) fight with the groundbreaking but still primitive and abstracted gameplay of Adventure.

Also, pretty much everyone I’ve known into model railroads is into HO scale, so who is even going to buy this?

Sounds like some of them nerds need to go big or fuckin’ go home!

Looks like it’s built to model railroading “O” scale.

EDIT: Oh, duh. It says so right in your picture. I guess if you want the sweet authenticity that only product placement can buy, this is your set.

Why do they only modulate the frequencies? They should try modulating the amplitude! The Borg or Dominion don’t stand a chance against Tradio, conservative talk radio, and Spanish-language evangelical sermons!

hyphenated

Just your usual Smith-Jones or Louis-Dreyfus hyphenated name.