Airplane tickets were *wildly* more expensive back then. It’s not even remotely comparable. Adjusted for inflation, coach tickets cost considerably more than first class tickets do today. A LOT more.

It’s so weird to think there was a time (before I was born, really) when traveling by air was a treat, something you looked forward to and even got a little dressed up for. Now it’s a cat and mouse game with travel hacks and airlines looking for every way they can possibly fuck you over from when you purchase your…

A 4 gb iPhone is not part of anyone’s childhood, in any meaningful or plausible way. The likelihood that a person with a lot of cash might be interested in hiding assets with collectibles is vastly greater than the likelihood that they are interested in overpaying for a mass-produced piece of consumer electronics with…

Not sure race has much to do with people believing it’s a hoax.

Unfortunately, I’m not petty enough to hang on to this comment/screenshot for a console generation/decade or however long it takes to Be Right Online, no matter how much I do enjoy it.

I hate that Call of Duty is the singularly focused part of all of this. I get it for the popularity, but that’s not the only major problem with a move like this. Microsoft has essentially bought up crap tons of IPs that have long existed on other consoles as well as crap tons of development studios that were making…

They just admitted that Starfield would probably sell 10 million copies on PlayStstion, and yet they’re keeping that one exclusive...

For now.

And when it happens—when Acti goes the way of Bethesda and being a Microsoft only studio—the same people who were saying it will never happen are going to say “well of COURSE this was going to happen, it’s a great financial decision, why would you think it wouldn’t?”

Unfortunately, I’m not petty enough to…

Literal monopolies aren’t required to stop a merger. If it’s enough to have a visible effect on the market and consumers, it’s already too much. If the 3 main brands are buying everything, even if none of them ever cross the 35% threshold, it should still have been stopped waaaay before that could happen. Ideally it…

And because this one went through the next major buyout/acquisition will surely be okay. And the next, and the next and the next until people are literally going “look...it’s not technically a Monopoly because there’s still, uh, Bob’s Dev Garage over there! See! Competition!”

Dad didn’t coach him well enough. 

They should’ve called the police on the airline for kidnapping their child.

Wait, corporations are irritated that consumers in a free market are modifying their behavior to get the best prices? You created this problem, airlines. These are your chickens coming home to roost.

I wonder what would have happened if they kid had answered “Yes, I am going to NYC.”

It seems like a bad idea to for the airlines to try and outright combat this. All it does is raise public awareness and point a spotlight on their “contract of carriage”, which they use to get away with all kinds of anti-customer service things.

To be exclusively using this for 8 years and “not know it was against all the airlines terms and conditions” seems like a huge stretch. The dad knew the practice was frowned upon. Also the ticketing agents usually don’t care where your ID is from. Most likely the agent probably made an off comment about visiting New…

Don’t sleep on the Flurry/Rapid Fire combo.  Gives you solid options for close and ranged damage.  Rapid Fire absolutely shreds, especially when upgraded.  

Oh come on. We all know that's not true. Your identity is directly tied to the 9000lb death machine you drive. I just hope the next time your kids are pedestrians (do you let them out of the house?) they don't encounter an inattentive driver with your attitude. Otherwise instead of rolling over the hood they'll roll…

Get some help

Wait until he realizes that his kids are sometimes pedestrians, and that 9000 lb blind spot shows him what “the crumple zone is everything else” actually means.