It takes one square, hell, a quarter square with good shakes and a urethra stroke for that. It’s really not even an issue with daily showers. Us having a straw with a very exposed exit point is a much simpler device to dry than what the other half of the world is dealing with

What are the symptoms of an hdmi cable having too little bandwidth?

You’re probably not a woman who uses paper for both sides.

I at least appreciate the notice. I forget about annular but it’s neat to see one happened almost exactly 1 year ago on the Oct 14th. I’m aware of the April 8 total though

Meant as sarcasm, but I get it

It’s probably a split decade of 75-85. The 80s are probably worse by raw volume, the 70s are probably worse per capita. It all depends on which stats you look at. It also depends on what’s reported. Supposedly, part of Giuliani’s improvement comes from recategorizing crimes into untracked categories. Losing money would also have a delayed effect as the missing funds trickle down

The graves on Hart Island are over a century old. NYC is huge and lots of people die without anyone to handle their body. It’s unfortunate framing of the island’s use when people suddenly wanted to pay attention. The morgue trucks were real to isolate covid bodies, I will add. But the island didn’t exactly do anything differently than be a graveyard like it was since the Civil War

Just a friendly quiet older guy who chokes on pretzels like the rest of us at best, puppet for war profiteers at worst. Certainly not really responsible for any of the travesties related to him. He was just reading a book to children.

Rear view cameras have been federally required on passenger vehicles since module year 2018 in the US market. So yeah, regardless of the error, it’s a recall because the result makes the vehicle noncompliant.

NY metro here at the time. He was close to being shunned by 2001. He wasn’t performing well, he wasn’t that smart, he wasn’t effective. Then 9/11/01 we suddenly all had to band together. Nothing saves a term in office like massive tragedy in which everyone is emotionally charged and any act of rebuilding is “doing their best”. His platform prior to that was that he was tough on crime and took credit for a drop, but you can see the trend started prior to his terms and there was a national drop as well, so it’s not his sole doing. The 80s were a terrible time in NYC, way more dangerous than whatever fears the right enstills in their following today. Plus, statewide/nation wide impression of him won’t match the city’s impression, since he was still conservative. I will say, he wasn’t as far into conservatism in his policies as he and his cohorts are now. So while he may not have been as favorable across the board, he wasn’t so polarizing.

While I can see lots of things like drunk windows and droopy rooflines, this really doesn’t strike me as obviously AI. Have you ever been to a mountain town of former coal glory? PA/WV has many towns like that. 150-year old buildings fighting frost heaves, people tacking on decks just to bring a little joy, signs that look 50 year sout of place. Sucks that AI has so much overlap with a poor town of 200 people.

Seems like it’s up there with the killdozer Fandom. Casual terrorism… Or living the American dream?

Dropping in and not having to get back up to speed with a game has become more important to my gaming life than I wish it was. I don’t have time to change it. Even minimal-story games like Valheim or Elite: Dangerous have become too cumbersome because I have to spend a bunch of time figuring out what I did last, what I need to gather, and what I need to build to progress. I can either go mine/sail iron in Valheim, I can hope my pirate hunter ship and pirate activity are close to where I last docked… Or I can just play some basic game and take 5 minutes to get up to speed instead of spending the first 45 minutes recalibrating my memory. It makes a difference when you might only play 3 times a week and have less than 2 hours left. I’m hoping next year goes better, but for now, it’s battle Royale, team match, or racing games.

Obviously, there’s a massive competitive attractiveness for some people to games like PUBG and CS as well. But it’s not all trigger-finger addicts. Some of us are just trying to have an OK time, not the best time.

The pizza boy union filed too many reports about closed roads and having to find another way home

We know there’s users who want the cover but will never think it’s possible there’s one built in already.

For about 5 years, I ignored theaters and said the same things as you. Now I’m back to going a few times a year. You don’t have to buy the popcorn - I never have it at home, so why do I need it there? You don’t take a date to a movie to talk during the movie, you go to share entertainment and have something easy to talk about from a shared experience later. There are many new movies, they just don’t get the hype compared to movies with existing universes. It’s not necessarily a bad thing to reuse existing IP, either, because it can help skip the initial exposition and put more action and development in the screen time. Obviously, there are plenty of examples of poor writing and weak attempts to keep some IP rolling.

What brings me to the theater (usually on a Tuesday with a discount) is the immersion. It helps me really get into the characters’ experiences. It’s not required because I certainly get into plenty of movies using my phone on planes (work travel), but it’s something I choose to utilize. I’ll also try to see movies where I expect dramatic cinematography. Movies like 1917, Dunkirk, and La La Land come to mind for originals while I’d include Bladerunner 2049, Dune 1+2, and Mad Max Fury/Furiosa in the reboot list. Anything Wes Anderson, too, if that’s your flavor. I’m indifferent about superhero movies because the CGI is so overwhelming that it’s indistinguishable from a video game to me, so it loses value. I understand your aversion to reboots, but I’d say one I missed and absolutely wish I had seen in theaters is Tron: Legacy because that has become one of my all-time favorite movies. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but it’s a beautiful crossroads of my visual and audio interests at the time with the score by Daft Punk. It’s as if it’s a sequel to Interstellar 5555, their album anime movie.

Pixar has some bangers, too. I realized at some point I was ignoring them because they seemed too hard to get into, when in reality I just wasn’t trying. I thought I was too old, ignoring that I obviously already knew about the deeper themes in my childhood Pixar films. They’re pretty original. Inside Out 1 was an emotional trainwreck and Coco and Soul were enjoyable as well.

I’m not trying to say you’re wrong. It’s your opinion. I’m just seeing what I used to think and want to offer some insight on where I am now. It’s easy to miss the original titles because there’s so much rehash out there. There’s always another formulaic Marvel movie and a shoddy DC film coming up. We’re flodded with content, so it’s harder to get attached to a particular movie. I saw a meme or tweet that said something like “what ever happened to having families develop entire cult followings of some mediocre film because they only owned 15 VHS films?” and it stuck with me. Marvel is flooding theaters with mediocre superheros, Netflix is flooding streaming with mediocre everything, and Disney is flooding their platform with 80s-90s rehash. I get it. I was rolling my eyes when I heard Alien: Romulus was coming because I thought “yet another Alien?” and, when complaining, I looked up the list and found there’s way less Alien movies than I thought. But the gems are still out there, even if you never visit a theater again. I keep a list of loose recommendations, torrent them, and will randomly press play on one and let it rip.

Reasonable reason: pre-2020 theaters would be packed sometimes and it’s helpful to have assigned seats. It resolves seating disputes and gets people to go straight to their seats. When I saw Avengers End Game (or maybe Infinity War), they had to have employees spotting empty seats for everyone walking in.

Cynical theory: they’re logging seat selection trends and going to move to tiered pricing like airplane seats

It doesn’t say the screenshot must be full resolution and it doesn’t say the screenshot is immediately uploaded. A couple seconds to downscale and compress would work the same as far as content identification is concerned

You say you don’t care for Porsche IRL. If you have any interest in driving performance vehicles and have an opportunity to drive one, try to not pass it up. 10 years ago, I drove a 10-year-old 911 and it remains the best driver’s car I’ve ever driven. So precise, so confident. It’s what they’re known for. I knocked them before because they always looked so understated and the owners seem pompous. While both can be true, it’s still an excellent sports car. I’m out of the car scene and can’t talk about modern hybrids/electrics/SUVs and wouldn’t recommend a Panamera as the basis for your opinion.

FH4 just went semi-offline (no more seasonal or promotional content, still has online play/free roam randos). I wonder if that played a role in that pricing inversion. Last minute cash squeeze? Maybe it ushered the market away from 4 and into 5?

I do enjoy the FH titles. I wish there were more normal cars, but that’s probably partly due to not keeping up with the latest hypercars. With limited time to play, I spend a ton of time cruising in semi-normal cars across the open world. One of the unusual activities is 4th+ gear highway pulls in some blundering V8. Just hear it wind out from idle to redline. FH1 remains my favorite story because it actually had a story, it felt. It was shallow, but it had a clear progression of races, rivalry, and all the world building for the horizon festival. The rest have just too many races, tournaments, and events thrown at you at once. Every race unlocks 4 more. FH2 did an amazing job introducing the open world, drive anywhere style although I found the European map to be bland. FH3’s Australia was more diverse, but I was further overwhelmed by the number of map icons. I’m currently in FH4 and I suppose have finally accepted there’s never going to be another “campaign” style title. I guess that’s really the gaming industry as a whole with all the battle Royales and similar arcade-style games.

I guess I should hurry up and get FH5 before all the time-sensitively content runs out there, too, right? Damn consumer cyclism.

It depends on the situation. There’s plenty of games that made the DLC era notorious by putting out games with only half the content as prior games. In the case of Forza Horizon, I feel they’ve provided substantial content in the base games, at least as far as maps and modes.

I will agree with OP about the number of DLC cars though, because it’s excessive. I wish I could filter out DLC and stop being teased. It’s particularly annoying when basically and entire manufacturer is DLC (Porsche in FH4 I think) or when some 3rd party sponsor brand drops a ton of “sponsor edition” cars. Maybe I’m just out of the pop loop but I do NOT need Hoonigan cars when I can modify any of the base cars to be stupid fast. I rest my cane.