Surprising exactly nobody. Madden has been garbage since the late 90s, the 2K series was so much better it wasn’t even funny, like comparing a Chevy Spark to a 911 GT3 or something. As I’ve been railing ever since that moron Tagliabue first signed the exclusivity deal, and at Goodell’s inexplicable extensions, this is…

What is this heresy?  Where are the Little Sizzlers?  

It’s probably worse than an insult. As far as I can tell, all this stupid fucking plan will accomplish for anyone with serious student debt and no prospects of ever paying it off is to transmute $10K of what they owed (which is an irrelevant figure anyway as so many borrowers have capped payments courtesy of…

Tread lightly, I remember one of his spoken word records (possibly Sweatbox) involved a graphic story of him doing a very nasty nonconsensual thing to a sleeping girl.

In retrospect this is truly appalling and I retch thinking about it, but when I was in school back in the late 80s-early 90s, a number of us used to slather the school lunch cafeteria pizza with peanut butter.

Hell, it’s the same with cars. It’s fine to get excited about finding a 30- or 40-year-old classic sitting almost untouched in a barn or whatever, but just know that, beyond the obvious tires & battery, every single seal, belt, gasket, etc. will need replacement before you even attempt to start it, and have fun…

Who are the 1950s ones? The top marginal tax rate during the two Eisenhower terms was 91% (ye gods). I don’t believe there is a Republican currently alive who wouldn’t launch into an instant meltdown if the same thing were proposed today.

Nissan Rogue, it’s THE ne plus ultra of “car as appliance”. No one driving a Rogue actually enjoys the experience of driving, and it shows: other than Subaru’s Outback/Forester crowd, I’m convinced there are no more oblivious left-lane hogs on Earth than Rogue drivers. Don’t get me wrong, all of Nissan’s CUVs blow,…

Well, the ad-supported version is being offered at less than $99, so the credit wouldn’t be applied to it, but the no-ads year-long subscription at $105 just barely qualifies, so ultimately it’s $80 for anyone going that route (i.e. meaning anyone with an Amex card getting the ad-supported version is subjecting…

Thanks, I was actually about to start getting bids on a kitchen remodel and will definitely need new appliances; it looks like I’ll just barely slide in under the wire for the 50% rebate, so now I’ll just wait until it’s actually in effect before proceeding.

FWIW, if you have an Amex card there is a current offer for a $25 statement credit back on HBOMax annual subscriptions costing $99 or more.

The bad ones were terrible—the weak-ass, 4-cylinder, 145 HP 1982 model from Knight Rider.

I don’t think you understand what I said. You can easily set a routine with your themostat to make an adjustment, e.g., based on your phone’s geographic location, a/k/a “geofencing”. I.e. Once you’re detected as being X meters from the house, the temperature drops or rises according to what you programmed, on a single…

I guess you must have an impoverished imagination as the appeal is pretty easy to see, but since you’re flummoxed I’ll try to help with some very obvious ones: (a) not everyone is stuck on some fixed schedule like a robot, they may leave or arrive home at odd times, and it’s easy to set a routine via Google Home or…

Not me, I started back in the 90s w/ a pair of Camaros, had a Celica All-Trac Turbo in college, and just replaced my ‘13 FR-S w/ a ‘22 BRZ. Never owned a crossover or SUV, never will. On the exceedingly rare occasions I need to move something big, it turns out there is a little shop called “U-Haul” that’ll happily let…

Bring back scaphism just for this.  

White people shouldn’t either, in almost every instance it does nothing for them or their class. The notion that soldiers “protect our freedom” (or whatever nonsensical performative lip-service claims people love to make) has any basis in reality is ludicrous, as the United States enjoys by far the most advantageous…

I doubt it if >1 of them are from Anglophone countries, given the massive prevalence of high rising terminal (a/k/a “uptalk”) throughout the English-speaking world.

Pedro Martinez led Boston to an improbable championship while also dragging a tiny person around with him everywhere he went, does that count? :-)

About time. There are almost no “accidents”; a true “accident” is something like a tree falling right in front of you at the most inopportune time, or a landslide, maybe a particularly suicidal deer, something along those lines. Most of what society calls car “accidents” are simply varying degrees of negligence and/or…