January 6, 2021: The Insurrection

Yeah, "standard" is definitely becoming an obsolete term, especially now that a lot of manufacturers aren't even producing cars with manual transmissions anymore.

They do have that sweet sliding door though.

That said, I don't really see anybody in minivans these days except Latino moms with large broods.

 

But sometimes compromise is exactly what you're looking for. Like I wanted something that was good for camping but better on gas mileage than a truck, so SUV is what I went with (CRV to be specific). Very happy with my purchase, AWD to get me where I want to go on the weekends, enough room for my camping gear (or me, barely, if I want to just crash in the back), but still gets almost 30 MPG for my daily commute.

 

This seems insane to me, I know several people with Fits (including my wife who has a 2019). Maybe it's a Bay Area/California thing or something. We had a running joke about how hard it was to find my wife's white Fit in a parking lot because there are so many around, until she finally put a sticker on the back that made it stand out.

 

In fact I heard that some arcade games were more successful in Europe than in the USA (or the opposite), so it's very possible that this particular game, that was quite popular here, wasn't as much in your arcades.

 

The grift goes on.....

Former President Donald Trump is actively encouraging his supporters to donate to his PAC and not to the RNC. pic.twitter.com/fsYJKz0ojE

— DJ Judd (@DJJudd) March 9, 2021

 

That's possible. It's also possible that I'm confusing my arcade days with the later era of PC games, which I never had much interest in. I believed in consoles, and still do.

I came of age in the era of Sea-Wolf and pinball games like Dracula and Mata Hari. I'd go on this or that trip with my folks and on more occasions than not, there would be a game room, or just a room with two or three different games. I'd beg my folks for a few dollars and then go play. I remember that they found it a tremendous waste of money, but they'd indulge me a bit. A few years later, Space Invaders started the real craze.

Did you have access to Gorf or Phoenix? Those are two lower-popularity games that featured the Space Invaders/Galaxian/Galaga rounds, as well as a couple of other rounds they designed themselves.

I remember the first Nintendo soccer game when it first came out as an arcade game, long before the 8-bit console. It was crap, but it was soccer.

 

As @The Jitty Slitter mentions here above, it looks like you had "1942" as most successful as a PC game, while here in Europe (or at least in Italy, where I always lived) it was mostly known as an arcade game.

Gorf, I don't remember, but Phoenix was one of the most successful "first era" arcade games, here, and of course I played it (as well as Space Invaderes or Galaga).

Actually, maybe "first era" isn't accurate: I remember in the late '70s or very early '80s, when I was in elementary schools, some ancient pioneer arcade games, that still were mostly black and white and with very basic graphics.

Then I distinctly remember 1982, because it was the year Italy won the World Cup: I will always associate my memories of that summer with Italy beating Argentina, Brasil, Poland and Germany in soccer and with the first "real" arcade games that I was playing in bars of the little town where I was passing my holydays: Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Amidar... I guess it was the beginnning of the so-called "golden Age" of arcades.

 

The randomness of DK means that a theoretical "high score" is probably not achievable as with Pac Man. But people have scored more than a million

 

My first non-manual was when I was 33 or so. A Chevy Blazer...

 

Well, that was short and on point! 100%!

The magic is racism.”

— Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher, in an interview on MSNBC, responding to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s comments that he’s trying to harness Donald Trump’s “magic.”

 

True story: When I was a kid, I used to spend the summer vacation with my oldest sister, in a medium sized town, two hours away from Bogota. She used to drop me at the clubhouse around 2 pm, go to work and picked me up around 6 pm in her green Renault 4. One day, after she picked me up, we got in a green R4, but the car would not start. Only when looking at the seats and other features did she realize that she had got in the wrong car, parked a few spots way from hers.



Notoriously, the locks on all R4 five doors were extremely easy to pick, and the sliding windows required a high tech security device (a slim bar inserted in the tracks).

 

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Nope.

You try getting three kids into car seats. The sliding doors on a minivan are a godsend.

 

So yer saying it's a Broadway tryout for you primadonnas?

 

This is fantastic and I hope every single Republican donor follows these instructions.

Less money for all of the "RINO" candidates (and it is hysterical that Trump, a "RINO" for sure).

Starve the larger Republican Party. Couldn't be better.

Excellent.

Let the crime family grift, let them steal all of the money, all the way to jail.

No way he runs, he just continues to say he is running.

 

His charitable foundation proved that he can't take money from other people without breaking the law. It's a matter of time before he and his crime family are indicted.

 

I am not a mini-van person but we had two during the time our kids were growing up. It was just easier and while I went into becoming a mini-van owner reluctantly, in the end I was glad my wife talked me into it.