Sheesh. Yeah, I ended up buying from Autonation Superstition. Other dealers around the valley either kept trying to upsell me on things I didn’t want, wouldn’t consider my trade, or just didn’t care to make the sale. In the end I got ~$2500 off through various discounts and 0% for 60 months.

You know, it really depends on the thing. Is it something that expires? Will I use it eventually or do I almost never need the thing? It something you need to be responsible for and do.

2 by 2, hands of blue?

As a Phoenix resident myself, I’m curious which dealers. When I ordered my Camaro, I eventually settled on a dealer after vetting several. FYI, Freeway Chevy can DIAF. Literally had salesmen fighting over me, and then treated me like a moron. It was terrible.

Honestly that’s the way to do it anyway unless there’s a prepayment penalty. A few months and then paying it off is good for your credit, and you often get other incentives for financing with them.

Sure, but the base price out the door shouldn’t change. If we’ve worked a deal for say...18k on a car, it shouldn’t magically become 22k for the car because my credit is lower. That’s pretty sleazy. The only thing credit should affect is the interest rate on any loan I may take out.

I definately understand where you’re coming from. I prefer my games to have a defined “ending”, even if it’s an open world game. Some games do this well (The Witcher 3 comes to mind) and some do not. I’ve found that really it depends on how the main story is treated. Often times, it feels like more of a foot note in…

Grow the hell up. I read that book in high school and I managed to not turn into a racist asshole. Getting offended and pretending history or culture of the past didn’t happen is stupid. The book was written in 1884, and reflected the culture and attitudes of the time. As a parent, your job should to to teach and…

No, people suddenly started “caring” about them is a better way to put it. Frankly, I’ll take my anthropomorphic characters and whimsy over gritty boring humans any day. (or better yet, give me everything except the boring humans)

$1553 over 10 years, so about $150 a year. Not too terrible I guess, considering I probably spend around $500 a year on gaming, not counting upgrades to my PC and such.

I don’t really fit in a Miata (my shoulders are to broad for the seats and I’m a little too tall) but it’s one of those cars you really have to drive to understand. It’s a fun little car, and quite nice for the price.

Seriously. I’ve always liked HD, but their prices are insane, which is why I’ll never own one.

Yeah, that guy needs to wait his turn. As long as you are passing traffic at a reasonable pace and get over when you can safely, he can wait his turn, you’re doing nothing wrong. I can’t speak for other states, but our laws for speed are technically “safe and prudent”. Basically, as long as you’re not driving super…

The problem isn’t the spending time there. It’s the impeding traffic. If there’s no one behind you, I suppose it wouldn’t really matter. If you’re blocking traffic though, move over and suffer it for a minute while people pass you at least.

but, does it look cool? Yes, it does. Thus, bad idea negated!

Yup, after much mario kart I have mastered the wiley ways of the CPU and it’s mystical art of “rubberbanding” :)

Ah, no. I forgot about those. I was (mercifully?) Spared

Pretty much. I own almost all of them, because my mother likes them and insisted on buying them. However, they’re not fun for me anymore. A few reasons really.

MP has gone downhill with each successive game. Each game seems to have fewer mini-games, and the everyone in one cart thing just isn’t fun. The games are too short now.

Problem is it’s modern day snake oil. Total BS, and might do more harm than good. Everything that’s going on should be suspicious to anyone. I suspect the most common excuse is “I don’t get these computer things” or some such. MOST people can smell the BS from miles away, but some or too trusting, or simply don’t care…