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    Consider the Cannoli: Subjective Preferences and Conversations about Geek Media

    The biggest issues tend to be the cheese (should use cheddar cheese curds) and the sauce. But it’s not meant to be fine dining. More comfort food.
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    Consider the Cannoli: Subjective Preferences and Conversations about Geek Media

    Poutine is much more Quebecois than Canadian. It spread, but much more popular in Quebec.
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    Consider the Cannoli: Subjective Preferences and Conversations about Geek Media

    We called it Hawaiian pizza back home (Canada). That was the one with pineapple. I never had it, did not like it, but it was pretty popular.
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    Consider the Cannoli: Subjective Preferences and Conversations about Geek Media

    It is the texture more than anything. I cannot say about tuna as I don’t like fish in general but there certainly are some fish that I would imagine goes ok. Corn was terrible to me but quite popular in China. KFC sold little cups of corn. When I lived in Singapore I go used to spicy sauce...
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    Consider the Cannoli: Subjective Preferences and Conversations about Geek Media

    When I lived in China I experienced corn on pizza. That was a true abomination before the Lord.
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    Let's talk Virtual Tabletops!

    I have tried a bunch of these. I vastly prefer Fantasy Grounds except for Foundry using a web browser as a client. It I want only a light weight browser based VTT, I use Owlbear Rodeo. The FG interface is actually good to run a VTT, once I got used to it I found other programs that use the...
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    A Potential Earthquake in the Videogame Industry: UNITY Install Fees

    https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001810806/3322a6e7-cdea-4aab-ae85-bf9b96c59e9e.pdf Reasonably heavy quarterly loss. They did generate over $40M cash from operations last quarter. And have a ton of cash ($1.5B) so they have a lot of stock comp or amortizations in their results. I...
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    Consider the Cannoli: Subjective Preferences and Conversations about Geek Media

    In decades of going to, working in and living near NYC, I have never eaten chain pizza there.
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    Consider the Cannoli: Subjective Preferences and Conversations about Geek Media

    Just smoked meat, no Montreal in front of it. :p And St. Viateur for bagels if you want the best in the city. For those that do not know, smoked meat is the Montreal version of pastrami (or corned beef). Unfortunately my trips back to my home country are always to Toronto these days. Toronto...
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    Consider the Cannoli: Subjective Preferences and Conversations about Geek Media

    There are usually enough pizza places in the main business areas that any place that is crappy will suffer quickly for business and go under. I have run into the odd slice or 2 over 40 years of experience there that was not amazing, but I have found there is good pizza and even better pizza...
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    Consider the Cannoli: Subjective Preferences and Conversations about Geek Media

    There are only 3 cities I have been to where the average person walking down the street walks like they own the whole Fing world. NYC. London. Shanghai. I lived just outside of NYC and worked in the city and I have lived in Shanghai. People walk the same damned way in NYC and Shanghai. London is...
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    Consider the Cannoli: Subjective Preferences and Conversations about Geek Media

    It is not just the pizza places themselves (no pizza place in NYC survives if it is not good), the ruthless competition for quality has driven the supply of dough and sauce and cheese down to a very small number of suppliers that serve the industry there. So you have consistent and very high...
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    Consider the Cannoli: Subjective Preferences and Conversations about Geek Media

    What I have enjoyed about bagels is listening to New Yorkers go on about how they have the only one true bagel and then suggesting that maybe they should try the ones from Montreal (where I grew up) and then seeing confusion in their eyes as they admit that bagels can be good in other places as...
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    A Potential Earthquake in the Videogame Industry: UNITY Install Fees

    The conspiracy theories and outright weird takes on public companies used to annoy me, now I just find them funny.
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    A Potential Earthquake in the Videogame Industry: UNITY Install Fees

    The companies I have been at had pretty solid internal legal departments (I even ran a decent sized one for almost 5 years and I am not a lawyer). More company specific routine matters were well handled by them and we went outside when we needed to. The in-house team was always good and talking...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is Counterspell less frustrating now?

    Almost all the spells that impose conditions get an inital save and then a series of saves there after and other players can do something in many cases to get rid of the condition. Counterspell is about the same as the DM just telling them no, they cannot use their ability they have been waiting...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Is Counterspell less frustrating now?

    UU no. Balanced because players and monsters can use it but they used a super vanila design with only spell level mattering and the caster not being able to push a spell through unless they had counterspell themselves. The initial caster always wins a duel now because they can react to the...
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    D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Hit or Flop?

    All remaining intangibles would have to be evaluated and I think there is around $4B left. Goodwill alone is $3.1B. I am not a tax expert. I think in the USA certain goodwill is amortizable over 15 years for tax purposes and you do get a deduction if it is impaired, but that is just what I...
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    D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Hit or Flop?

    They already have lost enough to make “bloodbath” an adjective that I am comfortable using. I have a feeling that they will have another huge write off as well. I did not read through the risk factors and all the MD&A to see if anything was buried there.
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    D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie Hit or Flop?

    https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=46080&owner=exclude All the quoted reports can be found via the link above. I was off on the purchase price by about $800M. From 2021 10-K: "On December 30, 2019, the Company completed its acquisition of eOne, a global independent studio that specializes...
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