That’s funny, I really need to redo my ceilings. I’m incredibly lazy, however, so my current plan is just to take down the crown molding and picture rails, nail up some art deco tin ceiling tiles and put the rails and molding back up over the top of it, bam, done. The prep and cleanup from scraping that popcorn shit…

To be fair, tanked-up ships aren’t entirely without precedent:

No, it isn’t. And I didn’t even mention Naomi and the obvious importance of the role of her ex and son. Family dynamics play a central role in the story. The fact that they’re frequently on opposing sides is beside the point; I seem to recall some of the GoT families occasionally disagreeing from time to time as well.

Nothing to forgive; coincidentally, I literally just cited him last week in the same breath as Trotsky and Che when my stupid brother was braying that my owning a single AR (it’s a fucking Grendel, not a 5.56, it’s totally and completely legit for deer hunting) meant I was becoming a rightist. If you take reprisal…

They’re finally opening a store in my town later this year or early next (they just wrapped up their city and county tax break deals a few days ago), and based on what I saw from when I lived Olympia, I expect I’ll make up the membership fee on rotisserie chicken and gasoline alone within the first 2-3 weeks.

Yeah, except for the fact every named member of the Mao clan looms huge in the story in various ways, and Avasarala is repeatedly portrayed as being the scion of an ancient political dynasty, but sure, whatevs.

Amen; 44 and have never once owned an automatic, and expect I never will:

That’s funny, because the lion’s share of the best single-player games of this past generation were first- or second-party Sony exclusives, e.g. Bloodborne, God of War, Spider-Man, Horizon Zero Dawn, Ghost of Tsushima, Last of Us Part II, Persona 5, blah blah blah, not even counting stuff like the two Uncharted titles,…

In short, yes.

Hugely pro-screen protector and have never broken a screen on a mobile device apart from an old Canon ELPH that was in my pocket when I slipped on some loose gravel and fell on it (and which of course didn’t have a protector installed). I’ve used them on all my phones, PSP, Vita, Switch, etc. I’m really more concerned…

This shit goes back millennia. They’re largely retrograde pastoralists who are still lamenting the loss of their lifestyle (chiefly centered on a brutal, pre-Iron Age organization of life and society into clannish units following a single “big man”). Read, e.g., basically anything Cato the Elder (a despicable cunt who…

Nioh 2. I’ve entered the stretch run now and will probably “complete” it tonight, but it’s awesome so I’ll plat it, and there’s a lot of work to be done in terms of wrapping up collectibles and the various mystic arts. Probably the single most evocative game I’ve played since the 2008 Prince of Persia, and a testament…

I use audiobooks for that. Will Durant’s The Story of Civilization alone is about 480 hours, enough to drive the USA from coast-to-coast ten times over. :-)

I bought an integrated amp/pre-amp back in 1996 which I still have, and which has served as the heart of my main workhorse stereo ever since. It has never had a tuner attached to it at any point in its life (although the input labeled “tuner” has been useful for things like MiniDisc decks and the streaming device…

It’s hilarious to me that so many dead-enders here are dying on that proverbial hill in support of Roku’s bogus toll-collecting practices, they’re entirely to blame for the lack of HBONow and this NBC service, and the fact of the matter is that a manufacturer of hardware that can easily be substituted for $40 or less…

Yep. My mom is still on 1.5mbps DSL (CenturyLink, a company that would rather drink battery acid than invest one nickel in infrastructure). Less than three miles away there is fiber line that was installed five years ago, but no service was ever made available to the neighborhood. There’s a local wireless provider…

To be fair, I’m sure she likes some masks...

Sweet, reading another wall of posts from all my rowdy crypto-fascist Jalopnik friends has me primed and ready to go enjoy some more of that sweet, sweet regressive thought, such as it is. I’m off to consume today’s ProFootballTalk comments and then a little Cato the Elder to wash it all down.  Enjoy your weekend…

WOW, great catch. And yes, they should; 3 was by far the most compelling FC to date, and I could see 6 being at least as good if they leverage Esposito properly. I find Ubisoft’s cookie-cutter design philosophy pretty repellent, generally, but this is some awesome casting and enough to keep me interested despite being…

I take it you haven't visited the comments section there in at least a couple of weeks, it's absolutely been flooded with "they were illegally arresting him", "he was accelerating OUT of the crowd, not into it" and a bunch of similar horseshit, much of it with triple-digit likes, so, yeah, not grays.