I’m here to add to chorus of people saying that setting it up beforehand is a terrible idea. Setting up your new... anything, is half of the excitement of getting a new thing. It’s part of the process. Maybe you like to just have an opened box ready to play, but you shouldn’t recommend that people do it as standard…

Do NOT get an Elite controller. They are trash and break easily, not worth the price.

Given that the most disappointed I ever was on Christmas morning as a kid was when Dad had opened up and set up all the electronics and toys ahead of time:

Nah, that’s whack. 

You do realize that the stock ones didn’t do 200 mph right?

I jsut can’t get past feeling that it’s just a load of 2nd hand BMW & G-Wagen parts cosplaying as a Defender whilst fairly likely not having the performance or dealer support of any of them.

But what is consistent? Do they have a published allowable pause length? How exactly is this length measured? An explanation of “more or less continuous” is not an enforceable or consistent standard by any means. I was watching this live (hey, I was waiting for Jeopardy! to start..) and thought it was a BS call.…

Behavior like this ultimately is the result of environmental influence, i.e. the type of media and thus perceptions of women these gamers grew up with. You can’t control all of that, but if we’re looking at how Halo started out, it’s difficult to ignore the fact how the franchise catered to boys’ fantasies in…

Seems like that would discriminate against those with speech impediments.

No reasonable person would have an issue with understand the phrase as she said it. She pause because she was thinking. This is stupid and ticky-tack.

This. Had she paused but still gotten “word” in before the buzzer she would have been fine.

GOD DAMN that was a terrible video you chose to embed. Really didn’t need the WAY Louder voiceover. 

Never watched How I Met Your Mother. I thought that topmost image was from a sequel—The Big Bang Theory: the Geezer Years.

Hire Black Hat Guy?

It’s the science denying that is not a great system.

Heh....as someone who works in the auto industry as a powertrain engineer, this whole “fleet economy” thing is incredibly dumb. It’s actually difficult to describe how stupid it is to regulate vehicles this way.

If you think the motion capture actor defined this character, you’re delusional.

How does having Black writers for Black characters make any sort of difference if the fantasy world doesn’t have any specific cultural context that Black people in reality have had hundreds of years of history for?

Except the main character being discussed here is from New York. Which means that this isn’t discussing what race means in a fantasy world, but rather how was this character by her experiences in this world.

I’m sure they were under the impression theirs was a rescue operation and not a recovery one, until they got to the woman’s body.