I drive a truck for work; the radio is absolutely a lifeline for me. Usually just local weather/traffic updates for whatever city I’m passing through, maybe the news if I stumble upon an NPR station in time for All Things Considered. I stick to my music/audiobooks all other times though.

Unless I’m passing through home. Listening to my hometown stations helps me get out of “work mode” at the end of my rotation.

Also, car shifter boots.

I’m in my late 20s. I live in rural Texas, but I’ve got friends all over this hemisphere. Only one of my friends ‘owns’ a house, and at the moment, he’s only been able to afford it by renting out all the spare bedrooms. I don’t know how he managed to scrape together a down payment. Everyone else I know is renting.

edit: plenty of my family members have houses, some even paid off, but I cut contact with nearly all of them years ago.

My mother did, a few years ago. She won’t tell me the offer she got (aside from it being “a lot” higher than what she’d initially paid, but I don’t know that price either), but she regrets it, now that she’s seen what her house was later re-sold for.

I was always vaguely aware of it growing up, but I was never much of an anime watcher. Loved the theme song though, even out of the show’s context.

I didn’t sit down and watch it until 2021, when I was in my mid-20s. Loved every minute of it. The only other anime I’d watched before that was Initial D, a few episodes of Speed Racer, and an old Gundam OVA, but I forget which one. Kaguya-Sama was coming out around then too, but I think I got around to that a bit later.

Didn’t get around to End of Evangelion for another couple of years, when my local movie theater held a special screening. Now that was a fantastic experience… aside from watching the scene in the hospital room, projected on a 50-foot screen.

A gum/cheek tissue infection, when one of my wisdom teeth erupted. Pericoronitis.

My jaw was in so much pain I couldn’t move it. I ended up tying a bandana around my head to immobilize it. None of the medications I had on hand worked; took me several hours to get to an emergency room for proper painkillers. But even those weren’t much help; it took days for antibiotics to have an effect.

A close second would be a case of hiccups, the day after I was in a serious car crash. My pectorals were on fire.

The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Abridged. That’s the title of the show, I’m dead serious. A cast of three, trying to ram their way through all of Shakespeare’s works within two hours. Sonnets included. It’s hilarious.

Well, on one upside, if Vance steps in before the midterms, he’d only be eligible for one presidential term afterward, instead of two.

Admittedly, it’s not a reason why he should take over now, but an added silver lining is always welcome.

OCD by Neil Hilborn. His performance has to be seen.

Probably music licenses expiring. The game’s soundtrack has a lot of prog rock in it.

Eh, it was delisted a couple years ago because of expired music licenses. Game was banned in the UAE upon release though.

Still worth a playthrough. That game was the whole reason why I knew Deep Purple was a band.

And this is also like the third comment in a row I’ve made about the game lol

The video game Spec Ops: The Line is essentially both stories, but set in Dubai after a cataclysmic sandstorm.

Sandstorm also gives you the option to just throw away the magazine entirely, but you’ll get a faster reload that way.

Can’t afford housing close to the current job, any jobs close to home don’t pay a living wage.

In my small town’s case, if you want to live and work here, your options are fast food, a truck stop, or the police. And the latter two are not hiring.

So for me, I commute to the nearest city, which is luckily only ~40-60 minutes depending on the time of day.

Yeah, same here. It’s those damn alert tones. They aren’t even meant to get people’s attention, in America at least, they’re just a handy side effect of the digitally encoded audio signal the system uses.

The extra siren for Amber alerts though, that’s what would set me off.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Oh no, not again

Also Alaska and Puerto Rico! The interstate signage is more about the funding source than where the highway actually goes.

The snarky answer is I drive an 18-wheeler, but I wish I was just driving my car.

My “daily” in this case, is a 2016 Ford Focus 1.0T hatchback. As far as my car needs go, it’s perfect. All the cargo space I regularly need, manual transmission to not be boring, Ecoboost package for fuel economy. I’m keeping this thing until it dies, or I die. But I only get to drive it about 30 miles a week, tops.

I just wish we got the wagon version in the US; I’ve frequently slept in this car, but even with the seats folded down, there’s not enough room for me to lay flat in the back.

Aa for other cars I wish I drove? I’d want something else in addition to my Focus, to cover the kinds of driving it can’t do. Some kind of dedicated, high-end sports car, maybe with a convertible roof. Or some kind of 4x4 for off-roading.

The Last Ship: The crew of a US Navy destroyer is faced with a new reality, as a pandemic wipes out nearly all of humanity.

Basically, mix together the good parts of Battlestar Galactica and The Walking Dead, and distill it down to five seasons, 56 episodes, with no filler.

The whole show moves at a breakneck pace in the best way; for instance, the virus that kicks off the show’s plot is cured just nine episodes in. Most of the following seasons’ underlying plot revolves around the struggles just to mass-produce and distribute said cure.