What games in the same vein as KCD2 have shoved hat relationships down players throats?? What would they even be referencing as the "woke" games?

Imagine finding a way to piss off everyone simply by opening your stupid mouth....lol

U promise?

Stroll is going to dump money into this team until it is dragged, kicking and screaming, into the top of the midfield.

Also sucks for Audi, who was looking pretty damn good all things considered. New-ish team, new PU. Looked like the best of the lower teams, imo. Williams isn't killing it, Aston is Aston. Cadi is brand new. Alpine, Haas, and RaB look well ahead of those teams.

Slow down just a little there

I thought it was fun for the first 10minutes when I wasn't trying to get back to parity with my Windows install lmao. Wore off real fast. Nothing that 3 weeks of crawling the internet and typing in literal gibberish into the terminal can't fix.

Except for the stuff I haven't fixed, and band-aided into working. But it's minor stuff lol.

I assume the baby is in the other hard case, seeing as the one on the ground is no longer "on board"

BMX race I was at this weekend

My big issue with starter packs was that I'd follow them, and they'd have some random content creator in it that was tangentially related to the starter pack. Great, that's fine. I don't need the same 12 people giving me news and updates, etc.

The problem was that they would inevitably be on my feed, constantly talking about other stuff I am not interested in, and hardly ever discussing the starter pack subject. Which again, is fine. But I don't want that, I wanted the starter pack subject matter, and get unrelated content. So I just unfollowed all the starter packs.

It's hard to say that unequivocally; I have family members who's internet options are HughesNet, where they get data caps and speeds approaching a whopping 1mbps on a good day, 5g coverage that hardly works, or Starlink. Starlink has worked for them leeeaaaguesss better than any other option they have.

Doesn't change the issues with the company or Elon, though. It just sucks that they are the only currently viable solution.

If income tax was the secret to the Panthers success, then Nashville should be experiencing the same boon, no? It stands to reason a millionaire tax is going to have similar effect on sports performance as no income tax: minimal to none.

Sure as hell ain't helping for the Predators, or the Titans, or the Grizzlies...

Yes

As a matter of "fact", I work with a bunch of people in the left half of the bell curve. We regularly complete psychological testing, and it's uncommon that clients are above 100 IQ, tho it's not surprising when it happens. I would be hesitant to call anyone under 100 IQ "dumb" though. There is a certain level of intent behind it, I think. "Willfully stupid" is a better description.

However, I have recently had a client who called out of work because he "had a horn growing out of his stomach".

It was a skin tag.

One of the few games I enjoy buying on multiple platforms.

I mean I guess technically racing motorcycles. However it's more of a circumstance thing, getting back into it would take, pretty easily, almost $10k. So I'm getting into MTB and BMX instead now. I absolutely will be back into it the second I'm able to though, up until very recently, I'd spent more years on a motorcycle than off of one. Age 4 to probably 23 I raced. 0-4 and 23-35 I haven't. Miss it dearly every day, but I'm still very involved in it when I can watch it in-person.

Reagan and Citizens United continue to be the largest umbrellas of resulting bad policy in American history, imo.

I'd say you'd be more likely to enjoy it than not. Obviously racing is a big part of it, but exploration is another, and it usually does a decent job of that. It's a little hamstrung because you have a GPS, so you know where all the roads are, but they usually tuck some stuff away and have some things to find and collect, if it isn't just a little over done (I think Horizon 5 had you breaking signs to get followers, and there were like almost 300 signs?). They've had some car unlocks hidden as well, but you get pointed to the area and it's pretty hard not to find them. But it gives you plenty of visuals to look at, usually some decent music, and a good variety of driving activities.

Story is usually a little rough, because the premise railroads you on every game. You're usually a festival goer in-universe with a "normal" car and you work your way into better cars by winning events and such. Not much else to it, and how else do you get the progression to better cars?

One of the aspects you may enjoy, especially if you're artistic, is designing car liveries and staging photo shoots and such. I haven't done in-depth liveries since Forza Motorsport 4, and I think people have found ways to basically import images to the car, but doesn't mean you have to.

Controls are going to be basically bog-standard car controls, and controller is perfectly fine for Horizon or any Forza game, really. I've put, pretty easily, probably 2k hours into various Forza games, all on controller.

I'd say it is not Sim racing. It's not Mario Kart, you do have to brake and understand a little bit about racing, but the AI is usually pretty forgiving and adjustable as you see fit, and also usually has some built in slow-downs to keep things close. Fits somewhere on the sim side of the scale, but it's definitely not difficult racing by any means; car damage I don't think exists outside cosmetically, and you can ram AI cars all day without much penalty.

What's the free music streaming service you use that has no ads? I'd like to try it, I'm obviously in the market.

Lmao buddy resorts to this and then blocks me. What a small human.

To give a little more nuanced answer, I don't think these are really mutually separate at this moment. They may not always be allies in the future but I think given current mechanisms, they're pretty intertwined with each other and will be for the foreseeable future.

I have a reminder to cancel before the increase. It was, imo, a good deal for no ads, bolstered creator support in YT (Premium views were worth more than free, iirc), and to get YT Music, which I liked more than Spotify.

For $16/mo, I'll set up ad-free options for YT and I'll figure something out for music.

Concord didn't last long enough for anyone to notice anything lol