The Daily Dad

Things you might want to know, for May 23, 2023:

• Paramount Plus will raise its prices next month — At least you’re getting something extra to go with the price hike… with Showtime’s content catalog folding into Paramount+, all three seasons of Twin Peaks should be accessible at a better price than before.
• What is the function of these mysterious ancient Roman dodecahedrons? — If all else fails, assume it’s a freaky sex toy. You’ll probably be wrong, but it’s always a safe bet, assuming the Romans were doing something weird.
• Hands on with Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad — TL;DR: Logic is solid, Final Cut is a mess.
• $270, 2,561-piece Lego Pac-Man arcade cabinet will eat ghosts, disposable income
• Ivory for Mac Review: Tapbots’ Superb Mastodon Client Comes to Apple Desktops and Laptops — I haven’t tried the macOS version yet, but Ivory on iOS/iPadOS is a solid Mastodon client.

• What’s the Deal With Adulthood? 25 Years Later, ‘Seinfeld’ Feels Revelatory. — I’m still shocked to find out the Gen Z has embraced Seinfeld after watching Millennials snub it in favor of Friends. Gratified, mind you… but shocked.
• Max will stream over 1,000 movies and TV episodes in 4K at launch — This could end up saving me money, too… if the bulk of Discovery’s in-house programming moves over, I can cancel Discovery+.
• NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti (8GB) review: Better 1080p ray tracing for $399 — How quickly we become spoiled… a year or two ago, no one could actually get their hands on a decent video card, and now we’re a little bummed when year-over-year speed increases and downward price pressure are minimal.
• YouTuber Ordered to Read His Defamation Sentence Every Week on Camera
• Everyone should use Personal Voice; it does in 15 minutes what currently takes several weeks — When it launches with iOS 17, yes, do it. You never know.

• Alec Guinness’s well-paid half day of work on “The Empire Strikes Back”
• The Color Purple’s first trailer promises a powerful reimagining of the original film — I’m attached to the Spielberg version, but Fantasia alone is reason enough for me to watch this.
• Hypersensitive robot hand is eerily human in how it can feel things
• Did Scientists Accidentally Invent an Anti-addiction Drug? — Most useful scientific developments have been the result of an observant and rigorous person stumbling over a pattern no one else saw.
• A Brief History of the Concept Album — There’s nothing “brief” about Blue Oyster Cult’s Imaginos.

• Kurt Cobain: Guitar smashed by Nirvana frontman sells for nearly $600,000
• The fascinating reason why yellow dominates TV graphics — Because other colors are little bitches who aren’t good enough to lick yellow’s feet, that’s why.
• A Club for the Cancelled — “Damn it, someone tell me I’m special,” said a bunch of assholes at a party.
• TikTok star pretends to have sex with his ‘sister’ at furniture store — Better than pretending to have sex with the furniture at his sister’s house.