Ashley B.

The Prose Edda is shockingly readable for a 13th-century text. Jesse Byock's Penguin translation is $12 on Amazon. If you love Marvel's Thor, read the source material. It is wilder than any comic.

Houndstooth is the gold standard for working. Fast WiFi, not too loud, and the staff does not give you dirty looks for staying 4 hours.

The Fort Worth vs Dallas comparison is accurate. I stopped going to Uptown for brunch when I realized I was paying 40% more for the same quality.

Your ISP selling your browsing data is the part people do not know about. Spectrum and AT&T in DFW absolutely do this. Change your DNS today.

Arlington having no public transit for a city of 400K is genuinely insane. They voted it down TWICE. The Jerry Jones effect.

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.

literally came here to say this

wish i knew this last year

Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff is screening Spirited Away this month as part of their Miyazaki retrospective. Seeing it on the big screen is a completely different experience than streaming.

I am a working artist in Deep Ellum and this exhibition was a slap in the face. I spent 15 years developing my technique. Some tech bro types a sentence and sells "art" for $15K? The models were trained on work like mine without my consent.

One Piece Chapter 1044 (Gear 5 reveal) retroactively recontextualized 25 years of storytelling. Oda had this planned from the beginning. No other manga author operates at this level.

The remote work pullback is real. I had 3 offers rescinded when I said I would not relocate to DFW. Companies are done with remote for mid-level roles.

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.

The moist vs lean distinction is critical. I see transplants order lean and then complain the brisket is dry. YOU ORDERED THE DRY ONE.

Geeks Who Drink trivia at Barcadia in Deep Ellum is my weekly tradition. The themed rounds are genuinely challenging and the crowd is great.

Mesh WiFi first. Cannot stress this enough. I tried building a smart home on a single router in a 2,800 sqft house and nothing worked reliably past the living room.

GTA 6 winning GOTY feels inevitable unless something goes catastrophically wrong. Rockstar games are once-a-decade events. The cultural impact alone wins it.

Ballerina is fun but do not go in expecting John Wick 4 quality. It is more like Chapter 2 tier. Solid action, thin plot. Worth a matinee.

not me reading this at 2am

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Changing DNS to NextDNS was the single easiest privacy improvement I made. Took 2 minutes on my router and now my ISP cannot see my browsing history. Also blocks ads at the network level.

Pixel 9 Pro camera is genuinely better than iPhone 16 Pro for night photography. The computational photography Google does is still ahead. But iPhone video is better.

Austin comp is higher on paper but factor in cost of living and DFW wins for everything below Staff level. At Staff+ level, Austin pulls ahead because of FAANG presence.

The comparison to dot-com is imperfect because the internet was also real and transformative. The bubble popped, Amazon dropped 90%, and then it became the most valuable company in the world. AI will follow the same pattern.

The remote work pullback is real. I had 3 offers rescinded when I said I would not relocate to DFW. Companies are done with remote for mid-level roles.

Indie games proving that you do not need $200 million budgets to make excellent games is the most important trend in the industry. The AAA model is bloated and unsustainable. Indie is the future.