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https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/tesla-model-y-vs-ford-mustang-mach-e-gt-comparison-test-review/ Good article on MachE vs Tesla. Mach-E driving performance definitely feels behind and inferior but more cushy compared to Tesla.

Since I never played the Witcher, the ending was quite a shock for me. I mostly enjoyed it but felt it was generally a step down. Kind of like Altered Carbon Season 2 but without a change of casts.

This korean MMO has been out for a while but finally is releasing in the west. Expect all the usual korean mmo trappings: great visuals, grindy as fuck, and pay to win.

So would it be safe to assume your rent is now above two dot one k?

This needs a little bit of context - they're releasing a new champion in league and a new character in valorant that are very similar. They have the same voice actor and similar kits/abilities based around electricity. They were designed by the same game designer as well. This is a clearly intentional move to see if they can do a bit more to connect valorant and league (which they've done a bit in the past).

imdb - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8847712/ I wanted to watch this because I have a special place in my heart for The Grand Budapest Hotel, another movie written and directed by Wes Anderson in his unique style. While I did not enjoy it quite as much as The Grand Budapest Hotel, it was still fun. The way the movie is structured is more like a series of short stories, which I think makes a big difference compared to one long movie with one coherent story, but the pace is still fast and I am not sure how anyone could be bored watching this. If you want to just go on a little journey I think this is easy to recommend.

Spoiler-free. Finished this season and mostly enjoyed it. Even though there were definitely some real issues (weird power level differences between characters, inconsistencies, etc. ) I found it easy to just let it go. For some reason this season seemed like it dramatically expanded the world and that did appeal to me.

Anecdotally I will say that at both my last place and my current place that the rent goes up on the 1st of the year every year. If I do some quick napkin math, compared to when I first started renting years ago, my rent costs have gone up about 40%.

Looks like the peak prices are starting to level off at the moment, but it could spike again based on historical behavior since it is winter months right now. https://www.dailybulletin.com/2021/12/30/10-housing-questions-southern-california-must-answer-in-2022/

Matroda - Forget It (Extended Mix)

This gets referenced too often. Just started it. Will see where it goes.

I think the film felt very design by committee and "get this done, or we'll give it to someone else." I also want to briefly shit on the wachowski's because it's well deserved. They wrote/directed the matrix films and before that bound (which is worth a watch) - what have they done since then? Speed Racer, Cloud Atlas, Jupiter Ascending, Sense8 and now matrix 4 (at least one of them). So basically they've managed to create big budget garbage films ever since the matrix trillogy and let's be real, matrix 2 and 3 had some issues too. Why do studios give these people money? They've produced nothing of value. Fuck hollywood for enabling these grifting shitbags (and many others) to continue making garbage media.

La Roux - 'In For The Kill' (Skrillex Remix) Was in the mood some high energy Skrillex classics.

imdb - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10838180/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt I went into this expecting a bad movie after watching the trailer. It was a bad movie. It was also very weird and even confusing at some points. I don't feel that making a 4th film was doomed to failure but this could have been so much better. There were so many questions and ideas from the first 3 movies that were not even touched on in this movie. The frequent re-use of film, direct re-showing of scenes, from the previous movies felt cheap. The gun-play and fight choreography were just bad. A very noticeable step down from the previous Matrix movies (all done by the same person) and even from other recent work Keanu Reeves has done in John Wick. The acting all around was fine. The plot was fairly simple but there were some elements towards the end where I was just confused why/what everyone was doing. A few additional thoughts but spoiler heavy:

Having played the games, and read some of the books, they decided to go in some new directions with the new season. Most of my thoughts are spoiler filled so I'll just drop them below.

I think that's a really neat design. Ian also tested it out and while it did technically fail when he fully submerged it in mud, it was only because he couldn't rack the slide. Once he racked the slide it still functioned after a pretty nasty mud bath. The downside is that it's a little bit expensive right now... The limited edition pre-orders were $5,000 and the standard models are still really expensive. I'm curious if designs like this might be more widely made at some point.

Supermode – Tell Me Why (Official HD Video) [2006] | MINISTRY VAULTS Misanthrop - Feel Varien - Blood Hunter Pegboard Nerds, Stonebank & EMEL – Falling Apart [Monstercat Release]

A little cool and a lot ridiculous.

So I found this resource a number of years ago and continued to go there for tire information. Their website. Their youtube channel. Recent comparison video of summer tires. At the time that I started searching, I did not find other sites that had roundups across a good number of tires and also rated rolling resistance (not even sure if their testing methods were decent or not). I used information at the time to pick tires that seemed to be a balance of price-to-performance.