Yeah…the author being 6’ tall seems to be a critical factor here. Her pool of potential suitors who are noticeably taller than her are pretty limited. I would be very curious to see if a woman who’s 5’5 would be all that cool with a dude who’s 4’10. Not a legit little person (that comes with its own, albeit…

Here’s a simple, incredibly effective compromise: make student loan debt dischargable in bankruptcy. Like a credit card or any other unsecured debt.

I don’t disagree that people who incurred student loan debt are often in better places career-wise than people who went straight into stocking shelves at Walmart after high school. But the thing about student loan debt is that if you get in over your head with it, there is literally no escaping it. Student loan…

I’m all for that. But doing that will require some some major adjustments to the plot with Alex being dead, since the whole Alex/Bobbi storyline is a big part of the last couple novels. Not saying it can’t be done (especially after seeing how they effectively combined Drummer, Bull and Michio Pa into a single…

Counterpoint: You’re wrong, and Amazon has increased the show’s production values dramatically since it moved over from SyFy.

You have a choice as to whether you’d rather risk the actual negotiation/trade-in/transaction turning into an entire Saturday afternoon of frustration in a local car dealership, or whether you’d rather risk some uncertainty buying a car you’ve only seen online from a company that may or may not know how to deal with…

Xbox gamers with GamePass who may have sat out Avengers when it launched?

Don’t know if it’s reassuring that they’re not just putting the least competent employees in charge of the online orders, or if it’s frustrating that they’re intentionally shorting customers who choose to order online.  But either way, it does explain a lot.

It didn’t make the list, but one of my favorite fast food apps is Wawa. Ok, so I get that it’s a gas station/convenience store, too…but their sandwiches are better than a lot - I would dare say most - of the big sub chains.

About the Chipotle app - the online experience (at least at the Chipotle near my home) is nowhere near as good as actually walking in and watching/directing them as they make your food. Errors are common and quantities are inconsistent. Might just be that our neighborhood Chipotle sucks, but consider yourself…

Yeah, I was thinking about giving it a whirl once I beat/got bored with Hades, but man…that’s some fucked up shit that I distinctly do not need in my life.

Thank you! I thought I was almost alone in that opinion. Combat in the Ascent with an Xbox controller is absolutely maddening. Maybe it works better with a mouse and keyboard, but I bailed out and deleted it after half an hour of frustration.

This!

Maybe it’ll get better with some updates? Probably not.

“I got mine, screw the rest of you” is a very Republican approach to things in general, so it’s entirely plausible that some white/privileged Hispanic groups could certainly use that logic to vote for Trump & Co. and still be fairly logically consistent. Add in the overlapping Catholic anti-abortion angle, and it…

Counterpoint: if those hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars had been spent supporting Democratic candidates in a handful of tight Senate races, we might actually have a realistic chance at M4A. And at that point, St Judes wouldn’t need to exist as a charity because parents without insurance could just…

And the 512GB storage very quickly becomes an issue. Sure, external storage for last-gen games is a workable near-term solution. But once you pony up for a solid-state X|S drive for more next-gen storage, you might as well have just bought a Series X in the first place.

I get it - the pandemic was awful, killed a lot of people and was hugely disruptive. But most of the damage was our own damn fault. If half the country hadn’t dismissed it as “just the flu” or “a liberal hoax” and had put in just a bit of effort to contain the situation instead of effectively putting their fingers in…

Eh…it wasn’t that good. Janky camera & controls, slow story, not that scary for a horror game. Was initially excited about it as a GP-Day 1 title, but lost interest and deleted it within a couple days.

Snowboarding down the entire mountain in SSX 3 saved my sanity many an evening in my mid-20s, when the unpleasant reality of adulting all day long at my first couple “real” corporate jobs crushed my unrealistic college-fueled hopes and dreams.