Opposite interpretations of nearly identical plays leading to 2-goal swings against the Flyers are at least a monthly occurrence.

I’m mildly terrified at how much the blind hatred of Philly has subsided. People used to dismiss us as just another Cleveland or Baltimore, so we were the best kept secret on the East Coast. But now, people are realising that we’ve got everything DC and Boston have, and like 80% of what New York has, but we’re…

stop making me want to try EVE again. It’s always the same, I get fed up with the rpg character creation nonsense, rush though to the gameplay, marvel at how cool it is to fly around lovely rendered spacescapes for a few days, and then give up because the only way to climb over the brick wall of a learning curve is to…

No info, I just remembered reading that Dust was going away. I tried it on PS3 when it first came out, didn’t find it very good.

Dust has left than 2 months left, they’re shutting down the servers Memorial Day.

It’s not quite that bad. The problem is you’re not so much in direct control of a ship as you are its captain, giving relatively simple orders about what to do. So you can say “fly toward X”, or “orbit X at Y distance”, or “fire lasers at this bad guy”. Mostly though you just say “fly to this system”, “mine that…

So basically a Stryker or a modernised Warsay Pact BRDM?

Remember that commercial building staircases are often larger than home staircases, and lobby levels can be the equivalent of multiple stories. In my current building, walking up to the 3rd floor is essentially 5 “flights” of stairs.

Well, the Union will have a few early games where they look really good, but they tie or lose on either a late defensive lapse or an egregious example of terrible MLS officiating. Then they’ll settle into a midseason malaise of losing a bunch of 1 goal games, while they make another random run in the Open Cup, losing…

My version of this question is: what is the most fun, fuel efficient car .. with a short wheelbase to parallel park easily ... but still able to fit a 6'4" dude built like a defensive lineman under the steering wheel.

American “football supporters” blindly mimicking English soccer quirks? Never!

Yup. I live in Philly and on the rare occasion you run into a sixers fan, it either feels Stockholm Syndrome or a casual NBA fan who desperately wants another Iverson era to make the team safe to bandwagon again.

I still wonder if it would be this bad if the original hockey-friendly arena design had been used. I’ve never understood why arena builders sacrifice so much capacity and flexibility for the sake of moving basketball seats slightly closer.

Unfortunately, I don’t know where in Queens they’re going to have better luck at…

Clearly she’s a Rich Peverley fan.

Mega bloks sets have been improving dramatically in recent years. They’ve figured out how to make very detailed, well articulated action figures at minifig scale. They’ve also gone after brands Lego won’t like Call of Duty, Halo, and Assassin’s Creed, filling a market gap.

That’s actually old, from the 1st time Megabloks had the Star Trek rights.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

people who refuse to cruise control are usually the same people who stay in the left lane for miles, or buy a prius and wonder why they don’t get good mileage.

hopefully the movie is good enough to justify buying the set

It would be a neat line in the movie too:

“Ecto-2? Shouldn’t it be Ecto-1?”
“Ecto-1 was taken. Apparently back in the 80s. Weird, right?”