Yeah, I stopped after my second order when in lieu of the rice I had ordered, they gave me a couple of boxes of bowtie pasta. WTF, how is that even remotely proximate? And who in the hell runs out of rice, anyway?

Amen; grew up in tiny towns; typically so small they were unincorporated. My mom’s house (which is where I lived when in HS) is three miles outside of an unincorporated hamlet w/ one (1) stop sign and zero traffic lights. There is a coffee shop (I fucking hate coffee and always have), a tiny and wildly expensive grocer…

Yep, look at Michael Schumacher, who was supremely fit and properly kitted at the time of his accident.

Pretty solid, a substantial body of scholarship believes the Huns are either synonymous or closely linked to the Xiongnu, an earlier group of steppe nomads that fought the Qin and Han dynasties for centuries before supposedly eventually moving west around the end of the 1st century AD. In which case, one would presume…

I’ve owned every console (handheld included) Sony has ever released and will still eventually get a 5 in all likelihood, but petty though it may be, the $70 MSRP on some of the games (looking at you, DS remake) was enough in and of itself to push me off a Day One purchase. Since I’ve largely stopped playing…

Yep, fake black people are, sadly, kind of a UW tradition:

Stupid Ford, everyone knows utility poles, guy wires included, are the Camaro’s domain:

Amen; with very few exceptions, I refuse to pay the demanded $60 even now for new games and will religiously wait until I can get them on sale for half price or less. If this is how Sony wants to roll, fine, I’ll just continue to main my PS4 for another year, play down the backlog of titles I just purchased (e.g. Death…

Don’t buy new. I just mentioned this in another post in this section, but I got a Leap V2 that was fundamentally indistinguishable from new (for all I know, it was) for $200 from a guy who runs a business out of a pole barn on his property buying and selling large consignments of office furniture from places that were…

I didn’t need COVID to realize this, it turns out that multiple ruptured discs and lower back surgeries was sufficient. Bought a barely-used Steelcase Leap V2 several years ago for a song from a vendor who bought large lots of office furniture from closing businesses, it would’ve been a bargain at five times the price.…

I really loved that Spyro remake and actually finished the game to 100% (or 120%, if you like), which is something I never actually managed with the original. While we’re on the subject, I would probably kill for a properly remade Colony Wars (original and Vengeance both).

The fat PS3s also almost all eventually died due to thermal issues, typically involving the solder on the GPU weakening from the repeated heat cycles and eventually failing (which in turn was probably caused by the move away from lead-based solder and toward less robust formulas). I made a concerted effort to save…

Wow, that sounds awesome, I think I’ll have to look into picking it up, other than maybe Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa is hands-down my favorite Miyazaki film.

As a 44yo who once terrorized servers for MP games from Quake to BF3 but has largely retired from serious competitive play due to declining reflexes, I’ve recently got into World of Warships Legends (in a roundabout way, after having incidentally binged on YT documentaries re: capital ships and famous naval battles for…

Amen. I’m entering my mid-40s now and have no children, and absent a calamity never will have any. I’ve never inherited one dime from anyone in my life, ever, and the likelihood I ever will is effectively nil. I’m not trying to leave some sort of estate to someone else as my siblings (both also childless) are in my…

Sure they did, the Romans definitely had it at some level, and Egypt was of course long a captive Roman province. Perhaps fonio was part of the constant steam of grain exported to Italy as part of the “corn dole” maintained in order to keep the urban peasantry alive and minimally restive?

Mothers everywhere should definitely be telling children not to walk her way.

Bethesda is trash, but the Skyrim Special Edition (which is essentially what this is) was in fact a free upgrade for PC users, this is only marginally more generous in that in the case of Skyrim, you did have to own the DLC to qualify.

And not even then. Look at a map: there was never even the remotest shadow of a chance that Japan could hope to stage an actual invasion of the mainland United States. Zero. Even setting aside the obvious disparities in population, and ignoring how intensely resource-poor Japan was/is in terms of iron, fossil fuels,…

Glad I’m old and won’t be here that much longer.