Honestly, the way interest rates are right now - if you can get a loan at a rate that low, you’re probably better off financing the car and investing that cash at a nice index fund somewhere. Of course, a lot will also depend on what car you’re getting as well - don’t buy new, and go with something that will hold up…

I agree! it’s like every game company collectively forgot that people have friends/family they’d like to play games with that also happen to be in the same room.

Yeah, no kidding. It’s getting hard not to become numb about things - but if we do, we’re in for big trouble down the line.

I’ve found that personally, the best tactic is to know what you can afford and go with that final number in mind before any car is even looked at. Also, secure financing for yourself ahead of time - if you do that it hamstrings their ability to con you with talk of monthly payments. I’ve gotten great rates from my…

You should see how much water is used for irrigation in CA. It far exceeds how much individuals used by a ridiculous margin. The numbers are here, but it’s about 2/3 of the total water supply in 2010.

The phrasing used there includes the author... Second, I really don’t think it’s insulting to any individual reader to make a statement saying that we, as a collective humanity, aren’t doing something well because we just aren’t.

One trick I’ve done is a tweak to my office chair: I keep the armrests set at a high level coupled with a keyboard to encourage proper typing position for my hands. Basically, the hands are forced to stay elevated above the keyboard while typing and I don’t rest my wrists on anything. Finally, I pair the setup with a…

All I can say for sure was that I wasn’t watching it. I did read about it after the fact, and I remember being skeptical about touch screens (and to be honest, I’d still love a physical keyboard, but that’s no longer an option). At the time, I’d already seen a lot of big dreams come and go, so I’d learned to be…

Haha, I had pretty much the same reaction. My dreams of writing about video games for a living were dashed as quickly as they were created.

While going for the balls is definitely effective, it’s not your only option. Eye gouging, the neck (go for the adam’s apple, not the muscular sides of the neck), solar plexus (center of the body, right at the bottom of the rib cage), floating ribs, knee caps (3lbs of pressure is all it takes to break a knee cap) are…

And don’t forget, he wants to neuter the Paris Agreement as well.

I had that happen in one of my games. Fortunately they weren’t going after my guys. I had a privateer set to explore the oceans and I found a huge fleet of the guys out in the water just sailing somewhere. It was a bit nuts.

Yep, no CEC, and because it’s always ‘on’, you can’t get a device that uses an active signal to automatically turn on. I have a Roku connected to the secondary monitor on my PC in my bedroom to use as a tv set, and it works great in that role - except that since it’s always on, the monitor won’t ever sleep so it has…

Aw man, those were awesome little phones!

One of my favorites on my play-through is actually one of the prompted photo opportunities at that first fancy beach area you go to in Chp 1. It was night with the moon over the restaurant that’s over the water so I thought it would be an epic shot. I hopped off the chocobo I was on and I got a great shot. Of the choco…

No problem! You’ll love it. I’ve had both this and the Roku and the Shield absolutely wipes the floor with the Roku. Plus, Nvidia has been absolutely awesome in supporting the old Shield TV. They’re even backporting the features of this new one to the old one this month!

True, I forgot about the Mother-in-Law Rule since that wasn’t an issue in my family (grandparents have always lived multiple hours flight away my whole life).

You might be surprised on that last one. I remember reading about it a while back but I’m at work and really don’t think Googling “Amish sex” is a great idea, lol, but they’re probably more liberal than you’d imagine especially compared to other protestant groups.

To be fair, I’m not sure this ridiculous culture of mommy-shaming was a big thing until today’s age of helicopter parenting being the norm and anything less is considered neglect.

Yes, it does download apps from the Play store, with the catch being that it must be built for Android TV. Playstation Vue is one such app, as are several others (Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, most Google stuff).