I’m with you, bud! I’ve loved the shit out of all the Elder Scrolls games since Daggerfall, and in general I’m a big fan of “open worlds”, but Fallout 3 bored me to tears. I even found NV for cheap at Target and gave it a try, thinking ‘just maybe’ I’d get into that somehow, but nope, couldn’t do it.

Because if shipping insurance wasn’t a thing, then every asshole who had a package of dildos and rubbers lost or misplaced would claim it was full of diamonds and rubies.

At a former job we had a coworker in Paris named Pierre LeChat- we found every excuse to discuss anything he’d emailed about, just so we could say “Pete the Cat”.

They *do* have a PR department; that would be the folks who wrote “In reflection of recent feedback, the copy we used in our recent catalog was inappropriate and in poor taste.” Which is a grammatically incoherent way of saying “we had to be told this was wrong”.

“Who the fuck wants every car around them to go 5 under as soon as they see you?”

I’d imagine they realized they could never top the epic ‘arm simulator’ that was Trespasser and threw in the towel...

Another neat innovation would be some logic that, when I’m being re-routed through residential areas during rush hour, will bring me to an actual traffic light if I’m going to need to make a left turn onto an “orange” impacted thruway.

Borderlands 2 Season Pass was well worth it. “Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep” is one of the greatest DLC’s of all time, and was worth the price of the SP by itself, so all of the other content was essentially gravy!

OY, you get a star just for ‘dimestore pony’! What an awesome descriptor...

About a week after the Gliniewicz incident, it was reported that the Medical Examiner had said that suicide couldn’t be ruled out. I don’t recall if that was leaked, or if the ME had just suffered a brain cramp and said it, but naturally there was the appropriate- at the time- shit-storm of outrage.

When I began teaching my son to drive, this was *the* first lesson; never, ever- under any circumstances- speed in a residential area. Ever.

Was going to make a Rob Roy reference if no one else managed one- that is indeed the pinnacle of movie sword fights... and totally satisfying. Ugh, Tim Roth is such an ass in that movie!

Sadly, this is likely the most popular logical fallacy in use today.

True story; in 1972 or so, my family was vacationing on Cape Cod. One sunny afternoon we were driving to Provincetown, and a yellow jacket got sucked into the open window, went right up the leg of my shorts and in a fit of vespulian rage it gave me the sharp end of its abdomen very near to my privates. “OUTCH!”, said…

OY, that’s impressive, especially considering that the ball was eastbound... we’re talking some global circumnavigation with that shot! Magellan would be proud.

“This response is akin to the “if you don’t like it, get out.” Type response you see from people who discuss America. Sorry, no. That type of response doesn’t fly then and won’t fly now. “

Pro-Tip, Mike; when you hold stuff close to the camera, if you put your flat hand behind it, the camera will focus almost instantly.

I took him to mean that *in the UK* a functioning Syrena is likely rarer than an F1...probably a bit of hyperbole, but on the other hand it could well be true!