To be fair, these models are eight studs wide, amd it’s almost impossible to really recreate realistic sportscar shapes at that size unless you make custom pieces for every car - which would have dedicated LEGO fans up in arms complaining about “juniorization”. Some of the cars are better than others, and I agree that…

Ginger Baker was so freaking amazing. I saw him and Jack Bruce live around 1990, and it was just one of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen. No Clapton, no hype, just another day with Ginger doing 20-minute drum solos like they were no big deal.

I’ve had crappy Brand X suitcases, bought in assorted countries for a few bucks apiece, for over a decade now. We don’t travel every month, but at least a few times a year, domestic and international, road trips and air. The suitcases are holding up just fine for the most part. So I’m disinclined to believe that this…

There’s no “luck of the draw” involved in an advertising campaign. Child models are selected just like any other models, picked for having a certain look that the company wants. They are then dressed by professionals, with specific clothes, for the photo shoot. H&M aren’t just throwing hoodies into a crowd and telling…

Yeah, I get that all the time with Europeans. Like, have you read your own fucking history books? Who the hell do you think spent several hundred years destabilizing and raping Africa, if not Europeans? Who killed native South Americans by the million and made Spanish the de facto language of South America? Where do…

Nah, stealing another server’s tips will get your thieving ass terminated immediately, and I mean immediately as in get your coat and don’t be here ten minutes from now.

Because it’s not “literally everywhere”. Every country is different and every case is different. The article makes it sound like this is a universal thing, but it’s not. It depends on the country, on the circumstances of your visit, on how frequently you go fly and other factors.

This article didn’t make it all that clear, either. It sounds like a neat mixing toy, but somehow it’s a game?

This reminds me of American Movie, which I strongly recommend to everyone. Also a movie about a struggling indie filmmaker. Parts of it are so hilarious it’s hard to believe it’s an actual documentary about a real guy who actually believes he is going to make a great movie, but it is 100% real. And you really have to…

They play very differently in practice. Different speeds and weights, different dodging and jumping abilities, different specials. Ribbon Girl can double and triple jump. Twintelle can slow down other characters’ attacks. Master Mummy heals himself when he guards. Ninjara warp jumps instead of doing a regular dodge,…

My vote would go to “This Land is Your Land”. It’s beautiful, it’s happy, it doesn’t exclude anyone on religious or any other grounds and a freaking five-year-old can sing it.

I’m not disputing his popularity. I remember! But the fact remains he was just a bit character in the films themselves and did not need to be shown going out in a blaze of glory. Just being in TLJ at all was enough tribute, I think. Dude was an admiral 30-something years ago. Most admirals don’t get 30-year careers.

I love pink, but not that powder pink. That just looks sickly and almost as drab as OG computer beige in my opinion. Give me a hot, neon, Miami-Vice-called-and-they-want-their-color-back pink any day.

Right on. Ackbar is a background character who fueled a popular meme, nothing more. So many people are acting like he was some integral part of the story who needed to go out in a blaze of glory.

Ninja Squid is the best. I love ambushing. I’ve switched over to mostly sniping lately, but those pop-up kills are so much fun.

I dropped out of the console scene entirely after the Gamecube. Wii just didn’t excite me and I was already getting sick of the console wars at that point. I finally bought a used Wii just a few years ago, mostly so my kids could have some games that were made in the last decade or so, but never bought many games for…

You have statistics for the claim that the majority of white people are evangelicals? Wikipedia says that the most current estimates put white evangelicals at about 17% of the population, while the total white population is 76%. I grant you that’s still way, way too many evangelicals, but it’s not anything like a…

Okay, okay, but I literally just finished having a conversation with my 16-year-old wherein she disclosed that she and her nogoodnik 16-year-old friends are planning to go for fondue this Friday. At an actual, fancy fondue place. It’s the highlight of the weekend they have planned together. Like if you ask her what…

I still can’t figure out why this is a thing in the first place, and how it became (seemingly in the last three years or so) a “tradition”. But I usually just file it away in the very large file of “weird things Christians do around this time of year”, along with the ginormous blow-up alcoholic Santas on the front…

I love this game to bits, but I’m not at all sure I want it as a computer game. It’s so great as a card game.