Yeah, I guess I wouldn’t be surprised if Tornado Alley shifted or expanded, though much of the Great Lakes, in particular the northern parts (Superior/Huron/top half or so of Michigan) remains heavily wooded and the surrounding landscape is much more proximate to the boreal forests of Canada or Siberia than the open…

The timestamp pretty much explains it; it probably took at least 4 minutes to register that it wasn’t actually Tom & Jerry he was watching.

“In the U.S., these conditions are best met in the Great Lakes Region, especially on the colder lakes less prone to algae blooms, and the inland portion of the Northeast.”

No kidding, good grief, I took an Audi to 220K and a VW to 235K; I don’t think 100 has been acceptable in an age now for anything beyond maybe an ‘82 Sunbird or something like that.

I’d really love to know where these supposed places are, because in this, the Year of Our Lord 2021, the McDonald’s in my extremely remote small Rust Belt city of 90,000, which is several hours distance from the nearest metro area of any real importance and which has been economically depressed almost without…

Agreed, I recently picked up a Kasa color bulb for $15 or so at Amazon, and the ease of use has been indistinguishable from the 20 Hue white bulbs I have installed elsewhere around the house. I actually got it to replace a Hue that burned out barely a year after I got it, which is definitely not acceptable for a LED…

I dove into my backlog last weekend and finally got round to Gravity Rush Remastered, and ended up LOVING it. Extreme verticality and a great mechanical gimmick, compact story with no wasted filler, supremely inviting world anyone who enjoyed Miyazaki’s films (esp. Castle in the Sky) is almost sure to love, etc., etc..…

LOL, same boat, bought it on a sale in the knowledge an upgrade was coming, now twiddling my thumbs and waiting for the actual release (same with Metro Exodus and a couple others). With a vast backlog to deal with, I’m gonna keep holding out and wait for the upgrade.

I finished the plat of the PS5 version of Control the weekend before last and really loved it, the world was genuinely unique, alien and intriguing, kind of in the tradition of certain pantheon games like BioShock. In fact, I liked it so much that I even got over being pissed at Sony for putting it on sale shortly…

Agreed, as a former Motorola (an early G, no less) owner. To call the pace of their OS update releases “glacial” would be generous, and the security updates were pretty slow as well. The hardware itself is fine, but I wouldn’t buy another Motorola unless it was specifically an “Android One” model, so as to get the…

Argh, that is so annoying, but predictable, I suppose. The reasoning in this particular case is sooooooo stupid, though—no one on Earth is watching Beavis & Butt-Head and using the snippets of videos shown as a substitute for buying mp3s/CDs/LPs/music service subscriptions/whatever, the inclusion of the videos in the…

I would love an answer to this as well.  Absurd as it may sound, my decision as to whether to subscribe to this service hinges on this exact question.

If you think that’s boring, just wait until you get to NoDak and eastern MT.  

I lived a few blocks north of Irazú for six years and ate there a lot, good stuff and I’m happy to hear they’re still afloat despite present circumstances. God that neighborhood had a embarrassment of riches in terms of affordable restaurants—one of the best burrito joints in town was a few blocks up on Western,…

I just wish they’d crib a page from Sony and MS and release a bargain system alongside it for $100 less, in the form of a non-portable model, which they could do easily enough by shedding the screen and mobile packaging in favor of a conventional console design and replacing the Joy-Cons with a Pro controller. I have…

It’s their “John Smith”, lol.

Easy, Culver’s double mushroom and Swiss (total umami bomb), cheese curds instead of fries (w/ marinara), large Mt. Dew.

Pavement rules, easily a pantheon band for Gen-X, ranking alongside Pixies, GBV, Galaxie 500 and a couple of others, AFAIC. I’ve been going back through a ton of my CDs and LPs again as I bought a pair of awesome Usher mains in December and have been exploiting that upgrade, big time (also need to finalize the placemen…

Meh, my cousin and I damaged at least one (and probably several) of the ABS sensors on my old A4 when changing the wheel bearings, and when I went to test drive it after we had everything back together, the fucking brakes would just randomly fire on their own at highway speed, which was alarming. I just pulled the…

It’s the only real speed limit.