Pretty much, yeah. You spend a resource called Insight to summon phantoms to aid you in combat by ringing a bell. You can also offer up help by ringing a different, smaller bell. It’s not an entirely elegant system at times, but it does work better than it did at launch, and co-op is really fun, and supremely useful…

I’m going to be embracing my inner Jalop with Forza Horizon 4 tonight, then rolling the dice on Massive Darkness or Dark Souls: The Board Game on Sunday. I just found the Spitfire last night, and boy oh boy is it a stupidly fun car, and insanely awesome for the jumps due to its light weight and cheap upgrades to S…

It’s all fun and games until Snake Eyes T-poses and smashes through the ductwork of Cobra Commander’s Base, agitating every plate of fruit in a 500 yard vicinity and causing Duke to reload a broomstick.

That was actually the other repair, which only took 45 minutes and the time it took to run to O’ Reilly’s and buy the new clips. Is there a different common failure on that that I’m unaware of?

This is the correct take. Damn near bulletproof, stupidly easy to work on, and available in that all important AWD for a life lived almost entirely off the tarmac. My 2001 is a comfortable ride with almost 250,000 miles on it and still running like a top. Biggest repair I had to do on it was a water pump, which was a…

Cheap, stable miniatures for things like Modern20, with the bonus of actually being customizable to a decent extent. Or if you’re just a genuinely big fan of Call of Duty and want some official toy merch, since no one over at Activision had the same bright idea as Bethesda to make a GI Joe style figure for Soap and Co.

I usually do that about once a week. If a game wasn’t interesting enough to me that I could muster myself to play it on the weekend, it goes bye-bye.

Still done in-house, in Sweden. Volvo’s owned by Geely, but it’s more been a relaxed partnership of “Keep making good, safe vehicles that sell, pass on some of your design tech, and we’ll stay out of your way and keep sending checks to keep the lights on”. Not entirely dissimilar to the arrangement they had with Ford…

Smart money says you’ll need some kind of membership on top of gamepass, which may end up being gold, or possibly a gold expanded kind of thing, where existing members pop up an extra few bucks per month for the streaming stuff.

Agreed. It’s not a bad thing that people feel more free to explore non-conventional relationships, but the thing these people need to keep in mind is that they aren’t for everyone, and not every potential partner is going to be on board with you scratching your itch for some extraneous booty from time to time, just…

Ya know, you might be on to something there. Facebook was still a collegiate thing when I was in high school, and my social media experience all occurred with the comforting buffer of a screen name between me and my growing pains of understanding social constructs. Then when I went to college, I made a fairly clean…

Are friendships getting increasingly weird for people in their 20s? I have a younger brother who’s 23, and some of those weird friend circle issues seem to be common among people his age, where there’s all these silly little stipulations and drama over things that really aren’t anyone else’s business. Also, spot on…

The problem now is that /pol/ is always leaking, mostly into /v/, but also into /gif/, /wsg/, /k/, and all of the other boards with a decent posting rate. It’s frustrating because where 4chan used to be known as the off-kilter corner of the net with weird porn and the birthplace of most memes, now it’s Stormfront 2.0.…

The upshot of the XC70 is that like all of its Volvo stablemates, it’s a stupidly pragmatic vehicle with thoughtful, user-oriented design and was engineered with the explicit intent of protecting the passengers from even devastating, ruinous car wrecks. My only concern would be that from my general understanding, the…

Probably, but who can ever tell with NAS whiskies.

The price is too high, but this one is in pretty solid shape, barring the usual interior issues of that era Pontiac. I’d say CP, but only because it’s about 1-2k too high for a high mileage, much maligned crossover. The real problem is that the dash is already warping, so in about another year or so it’s going to be…

Sour Cream is a gat danged fib. Kroger has a hard time keeping their stock in every week.

This is good information. Thank you.

1792 is a decent cocktail whiskey from Buffalo Trace, and their Sazerac Rye is a bit pricier than I usually jump for, but worth the money. But if I’m being 100% honest, if you’re mixing? I go for the Jim Beam Pre-Prohibition Rye and Double Oaked. Both solid, eminently sippable whiskeys that punch above their weight…

The post that kicked the whole thing off was a long, well-formatted but very lightly profane breakdown of all the problems he had noticed as a long-term user of the service, with an appeal to the powers that be to try and rectify these issues. Since this was not entirely dissimilar to the problems brought up by the…