Well, as a great Christmas icon himself once said: “If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

Meh, with Dan and Dave gone, the world itself could be revived, they’d just need to bring in a proven “closer” like Sanderson since Martin clearly doesn’t have the stamina for consistent output any longer. I mean, obviously they won’t and it’ll probably suck, but it could happen...

That’s not really accurate, Tolkien repeatedly described the plains of Nurn around the Sea of Nurnen as being highly fertile and key to Sauron’s ability to feed his armies. If this wasn’t true, it would kind of make Aragon’s “gift” of said lands to the formerly enslaved native inhabitants after the War of the Ring a…

To say nothing of the fact that the agency itself was created by fucking Nixon of all people. But I’m sure that fact has been erased from their collective memory and that he’s long since been exiled from the conservative pantheon, as he possessed a visceral hatred of the wealthy; I personally find this incidental as…

Too bad the nomadic invasion loop that operated from prehistory up until the Gunpowder Empires isn’t still in effect, the Mongols were admirably effective at taking care of most all of the known world’s ultra-rich assholes last time around.

I say this as someone who owned both a Saturn and a Vita: hands down the Wii. Like, not even close. After you bowled a 300 and finished Twilight Princess, there was fuck all to do with that thing, the other games for the system, at least during the first year when I still had it, were an unfunny joke. Seriously, what…

Yes; I live in a far northern city that is situated on a somewhat dramatic hillside, with many stretches of streets having grades over 20% (my own included), and some at 25. You need only see the abject terror on the face of some clown on cheap all-seasons furiously spinning his wheels—pedal probably floored—as he…

Oh, I believe it, and unfortunately I missed out on that particular bonanza as I was out of the country for the first part of that time period, then preoccupied with beginning a career. But at least around here (upper Midwest), there are still a LOT of really solid deals posted on the various local CL sites, driven in…

You honestly seem not to realize that you can easily export audio from a display to a stereo without involving video whatsoever. Again, dingbat, I cited multiple pairs of AMPLIFIED WIRELESS speakers as alternatives in the same or lesser price range, but yeah, cats and dogs and shit.  Okay, thanks.

First off, considering you can buy an ARC signal converter for like twenty bucks, it’s irrelevant. Second, honestly, who even cares if it has HDMI anyway?  Literally the ONLY beneficial thing I found about it was the ability to control the volume from the TV remote.  I’m using the same cheap integrated amp and entry…

To each their own, but to my mind, if you’re willing to spend $600 on a soundbar, you could just as easily buy an actual amp/preamp or receiver and speakers that would be in another galaxy in terms of audio quality, if for no other reason than proper stereo separation alone. And there are plenty of awesome bookshelf…

YES; a few years ago the imbeciles at the local VW dealership (Duluth, MN) had my MkIV TDI Jetta for like six months (not kidding; I had a loaner Passat I made them give me after the first failed fix that I used the whole time so I wasn’t totally breathing down their neck) without ever fixing the problem. The car had…

Why can’t this just end the same way it ended for his hero and inspiration, with him and Melania swallowing cyanide capsules, him following up with a gunshot to the temple for good measure, and their bodies being carted up out of the bunker, doused in gasoline and set ablaze by toadies in the Reich Chancellery Rose Gar…

Shortly after 9am Central time, the email is time-stamped 9:27am.  FWIW, I had great luck with this tool in getting a Switch at launch, it should be good for the major retailers:  https://www.nowinstock.net/videogaming/consoles/sonyps5/

LOL, I hate to do this, but I accidentally left myself logged into PlayStation Direct last night when I went to check if they had stock; when I logged onto the computer this morning to begin work, I found that I had been placed into the automated queue for today’s allotment of PS5s, with a sub-10:00 wait estimate. It…

Meh, Michelin and Bridgestone are both better than Conti, and Yokohama is at least as good, often at a substantial discount.

Didn’t MacGyver already do that fire ant shit back in the 80s?

Meh, I wouldn’t split hairs, Bud’s is a trash operation as well, they play a lot of bullshit games like renouncing their own listed web pricing if the market value of your purchase moves at all prior to them actually shipping (plainly an issue for most of this year), and then will attempt to mollify you with a…

And yet it was the same shitty metro area that bestowed Michele Bachmann on the world for several terms, lmao.

and celebrity guests like Nancy Pelosi and Christ Pratt.