This. Cutting and running to New England or the West Coast seems like a sensible choice in the short term. Other than the moving expense and higher housing costs (which are not insignificant), it’s certainly easiest to vote with your feet. But that doesn’t solve the problem. It leaves your friends and former neighbors…

Driving on what’s effectively a 2D plane is stressful enough. Having to worry about accidents in 3-dimensional space is enough to make me start taking the bus.

Part of the problem is that nobody in 1996 foresaw the rise of algorithm-driven social media and the potentially existential threat it could pose to public discourse. They were thinking in terms of blogs, personal webpages and random, largely anonymous posts on old-school message boards, not bad actors using the logic…

That could be a great plan…if they also got Manchin and Sinema on board and then opted to do away with the filibuster to keep the Republicans from jamming it up. But as-is, the Democrats legislative agenda is DOA until at least after the midterms (and even then, only if things go a *lot* better than currently…

I’m thinking it may be time to scale back on COVID vaccine production (or at least start exporting more of it). Because let’s face it: if you, as an American, haven’t gotten vaccinated yet…you’re probably not going to.

Twitter is already a mess, but if Musk makes it the bastion of “free speech” he’s claiming… it will likely go supernova in a fit of uncontrolled misinformation, hate speech, porn and spam, and then promptly implode into a digital black hole. See also Parler, but with a lot more investment capital destroyed in the…

Fat chance of that. There’s a lot of money to be made in dongles and proprietary cables (and related licensing). The only thing that might nudge them in that direction would be a successful - and very aggressive - EU antitrust judgment.

Amending or repealing section 230 of the CDA was one of the only not-horrific ideas to come out of the Republican Party in recent history. Social media was far less of an existential threat to civil society when it consisted of shoddily coded landing pages with blinking text and auto-playing musical clips, and feeds…

That’s basically been their strategy since the Reagan administration, so why change it now?

If he succeeds in this, the resulting tax hikes and scramble for resources will ensure that he has zero chance of winning any precincts along the I-4 corridor next election. It will definitely be a case of the dog catching the car if this comes to pass.

That’s kind of what I was thinking. Doing Zzazz or The Holiday Killer would be too close to the serial killer vibe this movie had, and the gritty, grounded setting wouldn’t mesh well with some of Batman’s more outlandish enemies like Clayface or Killer Croc. But bringing in the Court of Owls would build on the whole…

I don’t know that the Joker scene added that much to the film, really. It wasn’t bad, but it was by no means critical to the plot. It just felt like fan service.

You win the internet today.

And at the end of the day…it’s still an 8 year old game that’s regularly on sale for like $10. Don’t get me wrong - TW3 is great, and I still haven’t gotten through the DLC yet. But I’d rather they focus their efforts on producing a not-broken-and-buggy Series X/PS5 native TW4 and let TW3 fade away as a beloved…

If being stuck at home during a pandemic didn’t inspire people to buy Oculus devices en masse and fully embrace the whole metaverse thing, I’m pretty sure nothing will.

I loved my 2014 Fit for years. Put over 100k miles on it. Best combination of utility, economy and driveability I could have ask for.

Tacky on the BOP’s part, but not inaccurate.

As for a TV show to pull in, my vote would be for Gravity Falls. But with the game’s graphics for the world shifting to a 2D cell-shaded look, (consistent with the show) and the whole section of the game being a weird, meta kind of GF episode.

I’m about five hours in, and it’s been fun. The setting is interesting - definitely different than anything else I’ve played in recent memory. My gripes are mainly with the controls (kind of hard to aim with a controller - was definitely designed with a mouse and keyboard control scheme in mind) and the tiny font on a …

It’s an interesting change of pace. There are too many games where the sheer preponderance of side quests and the lack of any sense of urgency on the main story leave you just kind of…drifting (see also DA: Inquisition). This at least forced you to prioritize a little more purposefully.