Huh. I use uBlock Origin and it’s great with the ads, but I do get the click delay. I’ll have to try AdBlock again; I switched a while back.

Leaving aside for a moment how gross that is and not using that specific term, I would like to note that Rebecca Romijn is a brunette in Strange New Worlds - a series that debuted 16 years after that movie came out, no less - and looks incredible.

My cousin had pancreatic cancer and took his own life last year at 55 because it was totally unbearable. It was terminal and they couldn’t even mitigate the pain; his abdomen kept filling with fluid and I can’t even begin to imagine how horrific it was for him.

That reminded me of this clip from Class Act:

Yes.

That’s my stance as well. I think she was the best companion of the original RTD run and her departure was absolutely heartbreaking on top of the fact that it was sad to say goodbye to the character at all.

I long for the days when shows like this were totally innocent and above-board.

I look forward to hearing about their run as the Folksmen.

The funniest part was that he was trying to flex his wealth by implying that it means he can do whatever he wants with the platform and doesn’t need advertiser money to keep it going. Believe me, he could completely self-fund it and it’d be a rounding error! Many people are saying it!

I thought it was “murdering Mr. Jesus.”

Fortunately, the only problems I had with it weren’t transmission-related. The transfer case threw a bearing (the tech said it looked like a glitter bomb went off in there) and somebody PITed me while I was trying to legally pass on a two-lane road. But maybe those were the devilish influence of that 9-speed, looking…

Oof. My old Pilot had a ZF 9-speed but it was fine. It wasn’t nearly as buttery smooth as the DSG that was in my 2012 Passat, and the 10-speed Honda transmission in my 2023 Pilot is smoother and more responsive, but it felt like a perfectly cromulent gearbox.

Weirdly, my 2017 Pilot had a 9-speed transmission. Fortunately my 2023 model has a 10-speed.

That’s a great point. Being an out-of-touch asshole who preys on people they establish toxic parasocial relationships for financial gain is bad, sure, but it’s a hell of a lot better than actively grooming children or being a racist/homophobe/etc.

As Steadysoul points out, though, it wasn’t on GamePass or a similar service at launch, so there’s going to be a different skew in GP vs. non-GP since Starfield has been there for its entire (short) existence.

Walter Goggers

Games are especially fraught to adapt. The nice thing about Fallout, though, is that they’ve (they being Bethesda, Obsidian, Interplay, Black Isle, etc.) created a very richly drawn setting over a quarter century that each of the games takes place in a different part of.

One factor that may or may not be interesting is that people playing on Steam paid for it, and thus would have more incentive to keep at it even if they weren’t necessarily enjoying it enough to justify that thanks to the sunk cost fallacy.

Terrible!