Yeah, I didn’t even think of the ‘suck in’ factor of checking the phone. It’s a huge thing to be able to reply a simple “yes” or something to a text and be able to keep going about my business without getting into anything else. (or, since I’m old, getting distracted by something and forgetting what I went to do in…

Absolutely. This is why I got a smartwatch, too. No, seriously. The smartwatch lets me filter my notifications even further - yes, my phone still lets me know when my emails come in, but that won’t notify my watch. What does? Messages from my wife and my friends. Reminders, and calendar events as well (though calendar…

I just learned something in an otherwise toxic comment section. You, good person, are doing excellent work.

That line still makes me chuckle to this day. There were definitely a lot of good one liners like that in those movies.

Yeah the microwave I really don’t get... It actually seems like more work to say “alexa start the microwave on high for two minutes” than it is to press 2-3 buttons depending on your microwave setup.

As for #2, and that’s even assuming you’re not using the android auto app either on the phone or via the head unit (if…

...and it’s cheaper and works with other things that aren’t amazon branded, like iPhones, rokus, android phones, android tv, xbox ones, PS4... etc. Hell, my samsung tv recognized the damn thing out of the box, which schocked me.

I agree, though I also felt like this one had a lot more Peter than any of the other ones I’ve played, as well as the small parts you get to play as other characters.

I absolutely loved these little details, too.

They absolutely are, lol.

Seriously, version numbers are not meant to be flags of BIG GIANT features. They probably have to do with some internal release structure more than anything else. Yeah, generally 1.0 means it’s left beta, but that’s about it.

I’ve seen some organizations force users to run IE, claiming that it’s the most secure option out there. Not small ones, either.

This is all well and good, but considering the quality of a lot of people’s internet connections, it would probably be faster and easier to run a backup to a usb device of some sort and be done with it, especially since that would allow you to backup the install data for whatever games you happen to be playing at the…

....sad but true, I keep my ps4 on a UPS for just this kind of occurrence. Only keeps it running for about 10 minutes but that’s more than enough to do a manual save and shut down the ps4 properly if the outtage is longer than a few seconds.

Sure there is! Look up the Reliant Robin. It’s ugly as sin, though:

I hadn’t heard that version (the one I heard was the blood of your brothers - that is, the ones you’ve shed blood in battle with), but I’ve always liked it. I live my life by it, honestly.

I am not that surprised (though I also thought that was where the letter was going to go). My own relationship with my mother is about the same as this guy’s wife, and in my experience people who have/had loving family relationships just don’t get it. I had one ex in particular who made it her mission to try to repair…

I wonder if they store this data and are ever perplexed by the large volume of 118 year olds that like first person shooters and are also born on Jan 1.

Yep, their fur turns brown and red then falls out right before winter! It’s kind of a terrible survival mechanism if you think about it, though...

No kidding. For one of those stupid forced boss fights I was actually flying a plane, very high off the ground when I was suddenly hit by a tranq dart and blacked out. It made no sense and I stopped playing out of frustration for a few days.

I remember having one stint where it felt like no matter what I went or what I was doing cultists seemed to emerge from the very trees to come shoot me. I had to wonder why on earth they included things like fishing if no matter what you’re doing the nut jobs will know where you are and will come en masse to ruin your…