Kaidan and Ashley aren’t in the Suicide Mission. And Mordin’s bio (which you see when selecting him) specifically says his specialty is biology, not tech.

Hope that’s a typo as the Camry is only 3800lbs.

A guy being investigated for trading federal pardons for money.

The Xenoblade games are some of the least grindy JRPGs I’ve ever played. And I’ve been playing JRPGs since Dragon Warrior on the NES. Monolith literally designed those games to be the anti JRPG in terms of game design. They provide so many ways to level up your party outside of combat. And you can just focus on the…

My mom tells a story about my Nana‘s reaction to Reagan becoming president. Nana was a teen/young adult during the depression, and her dad spent day after day wandering New York, looking for a job. They were dirt poor until about 1947.

This isnt a review of a game, it’s an editorial. Maybe the fact you can’t even discern that is proof enough you weren’t paying attention in the 80s. 

“I lived them, it wasn’t so bad” - probably because you’re the exact type of person Reagan and his administration liked - a white, straight, neurotypical , middle class American man. I know it’s the big scary no-no word these days, but y’know what that’s called? Privilege. It’s best you start recognizing you lived a…

From the word go, Call of Duty was always the slightly creepier, more jingoistic take on ‘historic’ AAA shooters. Early on, it was likely just a way to distinguish itself from Medal of Honor’s more Spielbergian approach to identical subject matter. But as time’s gone on and Call of Duty delved into more contemporary…

Sears sold Craftsman to Stanley/Black&Decker and you can get them at Lowes now.

To me this doesn’t feel like the “Cars and Coffee” I used to go to 10 or even 5 years ago. This is no longer a casual and quiet get-together of car lovers to check out each others’ rides while having coffee early in the morning on a Saturday. Over the past years, like you wrote, it has morphed into a massive social…

Effectively, any time a ferry would be shut down, so would an Ekranoplane, making it just an extremely expensive and wasteful way that we can already do something with the only benefit being speed.  Which is what killed the Concorde.

There’s a google street view of it. Here’s some quick snippets from Google maps.

I remember reading about ekranoplans years ago, and one of the issues that was raised was that they are only suitable for use on very calm seas which is why the Caspian was an excellent use case for them, but they won’t work as actual ocean traffic (haven’t got sufficient range) and any bad weather effectively grounds…

It would be possible to negotiate flight paths with the shipping lines eventually, though doing so could be legally complicated. The greater problem is that to be practical for commercial applications (passengers/freight), it would need to be far less sensitive to ocean and weather conditions. Unless your ekranoplan…

Shockingly there is also a Google Sphere view of that one parked in the harbor

Historical side note: The last, tie breaking vote to pass the 19th amendment and allow women to vote was cast by Harry Burn who changed his vote at the urging of his mother. 35 states had ratified, but 36 were necessary and of the remaining states only Tennessee would agree to even take a vote- so it was crucial that…

She certainly did: http://www.c-span.org/video/?c445233…

I remember years ago, a woman called into the C-SPAN morning show because she wanted to talk about conditions for injured soldiers at Walter Reed and how she was in Washington and had gone in to see them and was appalled at the state of the hospital. The host asked her some more questions and deduced (correctly) that…

I wish every single pundit/politician on earth lived in fear of their mom calling them publicly on their shit.