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Atwater Alley being hidden is part of the charm. If you can find it, you deserve a good cocktail.

Nintendo Switch 2 backward compatibility is the smartest decision in the console space. My entire Switch library carries over. Sony and Microsoft should take notes.

If they tie it into Secret Wars, the multiverse jokes write themselves. Deadpool breaking the fourth wall about how confusing the MCU timeline is would be gold.

Hacks Season 4 continues to be the funniest show on television. Jean Smart's delivery is in a league of its own. If you are not watching this, fix that immediately.

Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha in that black-and-white arena sequence is the most unsettling villain introduction since Heath Ledger's Joker. The man disappeared into that role.

Naruto having 40% filler is criminal. Imagine a 430-episode version of Naruto with zero filler. It would be the undisputed GOAT anime. The filler killed its legacy.

Genshin Impact's gacha system cost me $400 before I realized what was happening. The dopamine loop of pulling for characters is identical to slot machine psychology. I uninstalled and do not regret it.

Got laid off from Match Group in November. Took 4 months to find a new role. Ended up at Toyota in Plano making more money. But those 4 months were the most stressful of my life.

Online mode being delayed is actually the right call. GTA Online launched broken and took months to fix. Staggering it means they can focus on the single-player experience at launch.

Turkey is the sleeper pick. Pecan Lodge smoked turkey is incredible and half the price of brisket.

The resale value point is the one that actually matters financially. I sell my iPhone every 2 years and the trade-in basically funds the upgrade. My wife's Samsung trade-in covers maybe 20% of the new phone.

sending this to my group chat

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Lockheed in Fort Worth is the most underrated employer in DFW tech. Below-market salary but the pension, healthcare, and clearance premium add up to insane total comp.

I attend the DFW AI Meetup regularly. It is the best free networking in DFW tech. The Capital One office in Plano hosts frequently and always has free food and great speakers.

The FIFA Ultimate Team model is the most predatory monetization in gaming and it targets children. EA makes more money from FUT than from selling the actual game. Source: EA quarterly earnings reports. That tells you everything about their priorities.

Death Stranding 2 is my wildcard pick. The first game divided people but the people who loved it REALLY loved it. If Kojima evolves the formula, it could be transcendent.

Online mode being delayed is actually the right call. GTA Online launched broken and took months to fix. Staggering it means they can focus on the single-player experience at launch.

From Hell is Moore's most underrated work. 500 pages of meticulously researched Jack the Ripper mythology that doubles as a thesis on Victorian England. The appendix alone is 40 pages of endnotes. The man is a scholar who happens to write comics.

Both publishers are essential. Reading only Marvel or only DC is like only listening to one genre of music. You are missing half the conversation.

Ultimate Spider-Man by Hickman is the book I look forward to most every month. Peter Parker as a dad juggling superpowers and parenting is the Spider-Man story we have needed for decades. Checchetto's art is clean and expressive.

Jason Aaron understood that the best Thor stories are about the burden of godhood, not just the power. Gorr asking "are gods worth worshipping?" is the most compelling villain motivation in modern Marvel comics.

The Annihilation event deserves more recognition. Keith Giffen took Marvel's cosmic characters — who had been neglected for years — and turned them into the foundation of a decade of great stories. Nova, Galactus, the Guardians of the Galaxy revival all trace back to this.

Serial Experiments Lain predicted the internet's effect on identity in 1998. Watching it in 2026 is terrifying because everything it warned about came true. Prescient does not begin to describe it.

The Ymir Fritz interpretation is the most misunderstood element. People read it as "abuse is love" when Isayama clearly depicted it as the ROOT of the curse. Mikasa choosing to let go is what breaks the cycle.