Not even “non-major.” The Minneapolis suburb I just moved out of has plenty of townhomes available for that sub-$225k and a median household income of $85k.

I live in Minneapolis and, here, there are just a lot of 75+ year old houses with radiator heating, so it’s really expensive to run ductwork. And given how rarely it gets above 90, you can usually get by with a couple of window units or mini-splits. Newer houses have central AC, obviously, but I’ve seen places built…

I know it was a joke, but Johnny Cash wasn’t his birth name, either. His given name was JR Cash, but the army wouldn’t let him enlist as that, so he changed it to John R. Cash.

I think Lego Harry Potter was really the progenitor of that style of Lego game. The use of Hogwarts as a sandbox hub was super-smart and contained enough that it didn’t feel overwhelming, like Manhattan often does in the Lego Marvel games. I thought the use of spells as the differentiators was really clever, too.

I agree but...maybe that’s the point?  The beautiful facade was just hiding the evil beneath.  That’s kind of a theme in Bioshock.  Every attempt to create utopia ends in disaster because people aren’t perfect, so you can’t create any perfection that relies on humans.

I suppose. It’s still a hell of a price to pay. I played all three on PS3 within the last few years and I don’t think I paid $50 for the lot combined, netting them all through $20 or less sales. And, like I said, the collection was just free on PS4 and can probably be bought for $20 or so pretty frequently.

I just…

Buy The Collection and you get all three for $50.

Heather is the writer who finally got me to appreciate speed-running culture.  I hope somebody picks up at that torch and carries it as well as she does.

Bah! Of course, you’re right. I guess my brain wasn’t working yesterday.

Doesn’t it kind of depend on how much and how you would use the money otherwise?

NBC News and the Wall Street Journal ran a poll today where they polled head-to-head matchups with Trump for each of the six major candidates except for Warren. There was no explanation for why she was excluded. 

This! This! This! You want surgical masks, which have the wire. Then you just pinch the wire around your nose and no more fogging.

I do think there’s something to be said about the moving goalposts on some of these runs. Getting to the end cutscene never used to be the end point of an OOT run, it was when you made the last hit on Ganon. Triggering the end cut scene is a fine-enough choice but it seems kind of weird to change the ultimate goal of…

Seems like this would be a good use for a secured credit card. Get them a secured credit card with a really low limit (I think my first was $300). That way, they can never spend so much that it will break you and you don’t have to worry about unexpected expenses coming up on your statement.

As a librarian, it surprises me how often I have to say something similar to this, but: A book is not the thing. A book is a physical representation of the thing. When you recycle a book (which I assume he’s doing with these eventually), you are not destroying the information inside, you are only destroying one…

I feel it’s important to note one thing: the average person does not pay $7.69/mo in bank fees. The average person pays nothing in bank fees because, according to this same survey, 73 percent of people don’t pay any bank fees.

I would argue that what describe as “Millennial approaches to life” are an adaptation to the problems of housing cost and student debt rather than a pure choice, but then we’re getting into a “chicken and the egg” problem that I don’t think has a clear answer.

Like any government program, it depends entirely on your definition of “fair.” We have all kinds of programs in this country that aren’t “fair.” Homeowners get a big tax break in my state, but renters’ tax breaks are limited by income. Why do 26-year olds get to stay on their parents’ health insurance but not 27-year…

My baby was born 12 weeks prematurely and has Chronic Lung Disease of Prematurity. She’ll be fine eventually and, from the outside, you wouldn’t know that anything is wrong with her but if she gets a respiratory infection there’s a decent chance that it will send her to the hospital. So, no, I don’t want my child…

He wouldn’t need to liquidate $2B worth of shares every single day. A smart investor (which I assume Bezos is) would spread out his sales over the course of an entire trading year (about 253 days) rather than flood the market all at once.