Not to worry, I'm sure Trump's sharpie works on geomagnetic storms too.

Burning Man jumped the shark when they did a Malcom in the Middle episode about it. (Shit, that was 21 years ago.) These days it's just for wealthy-ish people to LARP as hippies in the desert for a week.

You kind of have to think of it as if you were going out to dinner with a large group of friends and you're all trying to decide on a place. A few of your group just says that they're "fine with whatever the rest of y'all pick."

Would you really blame them when you end up at some restaurant that kind of sucks, or blame the majority who actually chose to go to the lousy restaurant in the first place?

The OTA subchannels usually tend to be SD resolution and heavily compressed. Even the main networks looked pretty bad compared against what's available on the high seas (usually ripped from Amazon/iTunes, if the NFOs are accurate). A lot of the issue is just MPEG 2 showing its age. That's why I've not bothered investing any money towards fancier hardware for recording OTA TV.

Be careful what you wish for.

I've been sending this clip to all my friends so they can feel old too.

I've always thought that was a weird position to take. If someone can't even be arsed to vote in the first place, what makes you assume they'll cast an informed vote that is statistically distinguishable from randomness?

If you want to move the needle, you have to convince the people who actually do vote to vote differently.

Say what you will about "No Kings", but it was the most effective protest in recent memory. Do we have a king now? No. So, obviously it worked!

TiVo was a passible substitute for a Hulu subscription for content from the major broadcast networks, before they moved everything worth watching behind the paywall of online streaming.

These days though? I'd be surprised if there's that many people who have hardware that even still works. Mine's died twice already.

I have a TiVo HD with the lifetime subscription too. It shit itself again sometime within the last few years (the post-Covid years have all kind of blurred together). The previous time it died, it was because the hard drive had failed, so I bought a new one and reimaged it.

This time I just unplugged it and still haven't gotten around to messing with it. Pretty much the only thing I used it for was so I still had a means of recording OTA TV (which could then be transferred painfully slowly via the TiVo's Jurassic era Ethernet connection, to my media server). I've since bought an Elgato HDMI capture dongle and a generic HDMI splitter (which removes HDCP), which if I can watch it - I can record it. That was the last nail in the TiVo's coffin.

Granted, it was nice to be able to schedule a recording, so resurrecting my TiVo is still on my to-do list if I'm ever bored enough to mess with it.

One vehicle from the game that will be missing from their "Vice City Motor Fest" are those dockless rental scooters that have popped up in most major cities, because Miami banned most of them back in 2022. I'm gonna be super disappointed if the game doesn't feature a mission where you round up every rental scooter and assemble an electric scooter mountain on top of the highest hill you can find.

I figure it's also probably too late at this point for Rockstar to add some sort of in-game equivalent to all of the Flock cameras that are scattered around Miami. Maybe we'll get that as a DLC update.

So, you'll actually be able to drive around the city without being stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic that barely moves?

Political ads were slop even before AI. I doubt this moves the needle. At least AI will probably remember the Oxford comma.

Pretty much any place that allows vaping is going to have no way of telling whether a vape contains nicotine or THC. Edibles look like any other snack food, so those are even easier to bring to social gatherings. Alcohol on the other hand, you'll be paying the prices a venue charges, or you're stuck drinking at home (which kind of defeats the whole social aspect of drinking that the OP was extolling).

Source: Attending Halloween Horror Nights, where despite having to go through a rather extensive security screening (including an X-ray of all bags), a lot of people there are clearly high as a kite.

Go back far enough and the land was just sitting there vacant waiting for someone to stake their claim on it. Provided of course that you didn't die of dysentery first.