Huzzah.

And vastly decreased fuel economy + higher insurance. I went from an ‘08 Fit to an ‘09 CRV after the birth of our second kid, and saw my average fuel economy drop from about 32 MPG to arounds 22 MPG, and insurance almost double.

From a moral and ethical perspective, you would need to abandon every piece of tech and service you currently use to have a clear conscience. Which, at this point in human history, is maybe a decent plan. Go back to agrarian roots. Grow your own food. Process your own waste. Produce goods and services necessary for…

As a 45 year old mkVII GTI owner, I’m happy to report you’re correct. I despise the looks of the Civic and the Hyundai is too much into the Axe bodyspray demographic. The GTI hits the sweet spot though. It’s an utter joy to drive hard, it behaves around town, it’s ridiculously comfortable on road trips, the kids fit…

As a fellow former GSR owner and current mkVII GTI owner, yep. Agreed. The Integra had personality in spades, and revving the engine to redline at every shift (seriously, I never granny shifted that car, partly because it might stall) was a sexual experience, but the GTI is so damn good at everything that I rarely…

Society needs a

Those same numbers result in pretty solid fun in my GTI.

I LOVED the arcade controls, with the dual lever to control yaw. It just never played as well with the old consones’ single stick setup, but with modern controllers mostly having dual analog sticks it seems they could have adapted the arcade controls. I dunno... did they? Is it mappable? Just curious.

Yeah, we really had no intention of moving this year, especially as COVID was blowing up, but the house we’d been searching for these past 5 years literally landed in our inbox one day. We got a virtual tour and made an offer the same afternoon. We landed in the perfect financial window, too. Insanely low mortgage…

Sold our house, paid off my car with some of the profit, and literally the next day was getting calls from dealers practically begging me to come in and buy a 2020 model. No, y’all. Just... no.

For years I used a small Japanese yakitori grill that was a gift from an exchange family. I found that a couple of pieces of lump charcoal produced barely any smoke, and an open window with a fan was enough to eradicate what smoke there was. It was the perfect size for the bachelor version of me. 

For years I used a small Japanese yakitori grill that was a gift from an exchange family. I found that a couple of…

Yep. I’ve been washing my Lodge cast iron as well as my de Buyer carbon steel pans in hot water with Dawn. The chainmail gets off the crusty bits (the idea of wasting salt every day, especially good kosher salt, was enough to invest in the stainless pad) and a sponge gets the rest. I like to heat mine up over high for…

Yep. I’ve been washing my Lodge cast iron as well as my de Buyer carbon steel pans in hot water with Dawn. The…

VW in the Top 10? We truly are living in Bizarroworld.

I’m watching Long Way Down on Prime Video. It’s older (2007) but absolutely wild. Highly recommended if you’re looking for something that’s more on the adventure side of the spectrum.

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Always two there are - a master, and an apprentice.

Flip side of that coin - No Man’s Sky, which while yes, it launched with issue, has continued to grow and become far more deep and interesting than the original concept. Instead of buying NMS 2 or 3, we just get free updates with new features several time a year. I love that Hello Games is so passionate about this…

If Motive just built it on the starfighter engine from Battlefront (which I think is pretty good, aside from the control schemes - just copy Ace Combat, dangit), then it should be right on schedule.

I hope it’s not JUST VR though. I can’t play a VR game without vomiting. Doesn’t matter how simple or how sophisticated the system, they all make me ...

And New Republic Starhawk cruisers.