After reading this, I have come to the conclusion that you would legitimately be surprised at how many companies still rely on tape backups for data archival, and yes even have robotic arms to grab them and hook them up for reading. Granted, AFAIK, the computers on these can automatically go and grab the tape you want…

No joke. Humble truth time, I honestly had no idea it was a thing until a female friend pointed it out to me just after college. Now I see it everywhere, and it’s the one thing my wife complains about more than anything in women’s clothing. My current pants - just my pants - have 9 pockets one of which is large enough…

So true, white people do a lot of weird things...

That sounds pretty awesome, I’d love to get a card like that. I think everyone needs a good laugh especially at this time of year.

It’s 85 degrees F here, I don’t think performance cars are getting any discounts here. :)

“Women don’t need pockets! Pockets are for people with jobs that leave the home! What do you need pockets for, when you’re home baking and cleaning house all day??”

Your wife plays civ with you? That’s awesome, I’m jealous.

I DON’T KNOW!! If it was freaking Jessica Rabbit I could get his point a little bit, but having seen that movie both pre and post puberty, I feel like my point still stands (um - no pun intended...).

That’s the other thing. Playing the first mission/tutorial it tells me to use a melee attack to incapacitate a guy and I’m thinking “Cool, non-lethal melee takedowns so I have more than the stun gun to take guys down”. Nope. He straight up strangles the guy with a neon green bungee cord thing. Totally killed the fun…

I totally agree that this game would be a lot better without guns - when the first one came out, I was totally hoping for just that. A game where you solve your problems with creative hacking. However, I will point out that Watch Dogs 2 has one big advantage over the first one in that at least so far, there have been…

Yep, pretty much. To add insult to injury most of them won’t let you play (at least, online) without updating so you end up waiting for something to download anyway. It’s basically a wash. The only upside is that the discs will be around if something crazy happens and (xbox live and/or playstation network) shut down.

Yep, pretty much. To add insult to injury most of them won’t let you play (at least, online) without updating so you…

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To Ms. UnDatable - Don’t do it! He might be a great guy, but getting into a relationship because you don’t feel like you have any other choice is always a bad idea. Take it from me; citing the very same reasons you do, I ended up in a very unhealthy relationship that lasted 7 years. Yes, I stayed with someone that…

My sister is in her mid-thirties and still doesn’t know how to drive... We live in a sprawling city, too - not dense like NYC - so while there are buses to take you places, they take a VERY long time to get from point A to point B. We’re talking in the order of hours to get a couple of miles down the street. But you…

This sounds like they’re making excuses for their usually arbitrary delay of updates to phones. Verizon has never to my knowledge released an update to a phone simultaneously with the manufacturer.

The bit about having to plant the Switch next to a ficus had me giggling for several minutes at work - thanks Kirk!

I think it’s along the same lines as what I call* the magical foreigner effect. Tell someone something crazy and preface it by saying that wise[men, women, llamas] in [foreign country] and have been doing this for thousands of years (it’s always thousands of years), and they’ll believe it no matter what it is. It…

I don’t play overwatch... but the first thing I thought when I saw the picture on the article was that she looked like she was wearing a Christmas-themed Ghostbusters outfit. No idea why, just did.

I instinctively cannot trust a bank that named itself after an improper fraction.

I think I had a high school class that covered it too. Anatomy and Physiology - although it wasn’t required besides counting as a science credit. Perhaps it should be....