You could mitigate that pretty easily. GPS and data pulls only when the phone is woken up and does other work. Ability to turn it off for those who worry about battery/spying/whatever else. And since it would just be different icon resources (sun, clouds, raincloud, snowflake) and you can do the temp as a badge. It’s…

I’m pretty sure that two of their most famous sandwiches, the Big Mac and Filet-o-Fish started in franchisee’s restaurants and not at Corporate. IIRC, the McD’s brass wanted a grilled pineapple with cheese to be the “Lenten Friday” option for people who would not eat meat but wanted a burger. No one wants that.

It doesn’t feel like it was that long ago that they did their redesign to the whole “Louisiana Kitchen” asthetic with the wood paneled wall, pictures of Cajunish food, and a rack of display spices like it’s a kitchen on the bayou. I guess it’s all fleeting. Honestly, I doubt most people will care. I went to my local…

What five year old boy doesn’t love a race car? That kid doesn’t need to know a thing about the film or its philosophical takes on how travel used to be “more civilized” (at least, if you were a white man like John Lasseter), but that kid will love him toys and clothes emblazoned with a cool looking red race car. It…

TI did a great job inserting themselves deeply into the education system so that they became the only game in town even if there are cheaper options out there. This is why they can keep charging what they do for technology that’s several decades old at this point essentially.

Unfortunately, I think that the current economic crisis caused by the pandemic--which is hitting the House of Mouse fairly hard, mind you--makes it less, rather than more, likely that we’ll ever see all the Muppet TV content on D+ in any forseeable future. 

I watched the original 1990 movie recently, and I agree, it really does hold up. Some of it’s campy, some of it’s dated, but it managed to stay pretty true to its roots. For being a movie aimed at capitalizing on the toy boom from the original cartoon, the filmmakers managed to keep most of the origin story from the…

Given that Square developed that and they had a major falling out after that game came out IIRC, I don’t see SMRPG ever getting a followup or reboot. The Paper Mario series is as close as we come to a Mario themed RPG these days.

I still fear that we’re due to get stuck in some Inception level nonsense. It feels greatly like they’ve been setting up this idea that major parts of these storylines have been taking place inside of a simulation created by Rehobalem (or, Big Giant Brain Ball, because this show isn’t always great at subtlety) and…

THANK YOU. I got the game last week and I’ve been excited to play. This is my first AC game since City Folk way back in 2008. Except, as I’m trying to gather resources to get through all the early stuff in the game, everything is eggs. One of my rocks dropped 3 eggs. How does that help me? I need iron nuggets right…

I appreciate that this show is approaching this season in a more straightforward fashion in some ways. It was pretty evident that at a minimum, the Charlotte Hale host was a copy of Dolores, and we paid that off pretty well. The other smuggled pearls also being Dolores is an interesting twist, but not much of a twist…

I’ll be honest. There’s a teensy part of me that misses the snuck in modern songs within the park’s worlds. All the player piano stuff was good, but when they got CREAM in during the visit to Shogun World last year, that was off the charts fantastic.

They planned six seasons of it? I enjoyed that show a lot, but it felt like it was collapsing under the weight of its own story by the end.

I’ve always thought that Maeve’s weird dialogue has been a smart choice by the showrunners and writers. We see that she’s woken up to the “reality” of the world she exists in and is trying to escape from, but at the same time, she is still a host and is stuck being bound by certain rules and means of control. I think…

Honestly, the whole Start Menu concept could just completely go away at this point. Just fix the search functionality and make it work like it’s supposed to and let’s be done with it. On both W10 and MacOS, I pin the stuff I access every six minutes to the taskbar/dock and launch the rest of the stuff via search. It’s…

This whole episode would have been way better served by kicking out one of the subplots and just having the A/reverse heist and B plots. I would have made it be the vending machine one, because you can easily see how you could have all the other members of the 99 in one place doing their pitches for the new vending…

If you like eagle cams, I can point you at the Duke Farms Eagle Cam from Hillsborough, NJ, which has been around since 2008! https://www.dukefarms.org/making-an-impact/eagle-cam/

It was in the finale of the series in 2001. I don’t think anyone was watching at that point so you can be forgiven for not knowing it. There’s even a small easter egg about it in Nemisis, where Janeway was promoted to the admiralty and she talks to Picard via subspace at the start of the movie.

If this means I can set Google Maps, Gmail, and Google Calendar as my defaults via a setting and leave it that way, I would be very happy. The last one is just a nice add since I sync my calendar with the built in calendar app, but not having to double up just to access things the way I want to would be nice.

The correct answer about “cookie of the sky” on a United flight is always Stroopwafel. There is no other correct response in this case. Honestly, wake me if United gets rid of these, because that would be a real travesty more than the end of Biscoff cookies.