I had listened to TBS off and on since Louder Now, and my wife was a fan since Tell All Your Friends, but Happiness Is is what really sold me on TBS

I’m a big fan of the glove box on the 2nd gen Mazda3.  See, you open the glove box and it seems like a bog standard pop out glove box.  But then you peek over the back edge of the pocket in the door and you’ll see a fairly deep compartment behind the glove box that can hold a surprising amount of stuff

Let me put it to you like this. Real world situation. Local dealership was selling two minivans for $14788. A 2018 Kia Sedona SXL with all the bells and whistles and 108k on the clock, and a 2011 Honda Odyssey EX-L with less features (still pretty nice though) with all of 39k on the odometer. The Kia had not been…

My favorite will always be the Sega Sports edition Dreamcast.  Was nice to have a black Sega console under the TV again after all those years

My favorite will always be the Sega Sports edition Dreamcast.  Was nice to have a black Sega console under the TV…

Mine has only clocked about 56k miles so far.  I drive daily at work, but outside work we take the Odyssey everywhere.  Just means my Mazda will last that much longer I hope.  My only complaint about the car was that they didn’t offer Celestial Blue Mica for 2013 so I had to settle for Velocity Red Mica.  The VRM has…

We recently went used van shopping and its fucking weird. We found a 2017 Sienna base model with 100k on the clock for the same 5 figure price as a 2018 Grand Caravan GT with only 68k. We ended up with a 2011 Odyssey EX-L with 38900 on the clock for $14,800. Yeah its a 10 year old van, but its equivalent or superior…

First car I bought new was a 2013 Mazdaspeed3.  I still drive it every day.  Best car I’ve ever owned

My first playthrough of Fable II ended with me entering The Homestead late in the story and being unable to move my character.  I could open my menu and fast travel to any destination I had available, but was unable to move.  That save file never recovered and I had to start completely from scratch...

I feel like setting them at a 90 degree angle would’ve been mind numbing in its asymmetry

The automotive equivalent to ‘you dropped your pocket’

White interiors look great in press photos and nowhere else.  Give me a black interior with some bluewhite LED interior lighting at night

Anyone else remember that time Sega threw the Burning Rangers theme into a special event in Phantasy Star Online v2?

Or worse, it breaks after the first attempt

South Ocean was such a slog...made worse by the fact that enemies now have access to the instant death spell before you have access to items to revive dead characters...

Best/worst part about it was that you could hear them coming...which gave you a second and a half to dread yet another random encounter...

What about Geoff?

Our local transit system has a few of these.  Took me ages to get close enough to see the badging so I could look it up

Yup.  My 07 Odyssey navigated the recent winter weather in Oklahoma with far fewer problems than the morons around here in fullsize pickups with 4 wheel drive.  FWD is good enough for me

I've owned two Mazdas including my curre t daily driver and they were both excellent vehicles (even if one is just a rebadged Ranger). My Mazdaspeed3 has been easily the best car I've ever owned, so thank you Mazda for making my daily drives so much fun

That ‘55 logo could work