Same with Arrow. They built a whole new team at one point.

Burn Notice with Jesse immediately comes to mind.

Nope, no secret. Sometimes finding a good place is trial and error, but the availability of reviews is a good equalizer.

If you edit your comment with a general location, maybe some folks will have good recs. Pretty sure can search the sub and find some, as well.

Pick someplace and go, but by god, call and try to make an appointment. Plenty of shops are running low on mechanics and might not have a slot available right away.

Exactly. Actual terrorists (foreign or domestic) would be judging response times and protocols to better plan for the real event.

Beyond that possibly excessive conspiracy thinking, this kind of thing is a massive waste of resources, which is the point. Hundreds upon hundreds of first responders rolling out for hoaxes just drains money and manpower and inspires panic and terror across the response area.

I'm avoiding it as long as I can, because once we start, we don't stop until... what? October, now?

You are not alone. I support this wholeheartedly and usually get downvoted for it, but my biggest complaint has been bloat.

JW3 was too long by far. I've used this example before, but my wife fell asleep in the last third of the film, because it just dragged out too much.

JW4 is also too long, but it combats the repetitiveness by changing up the protagonists in fights. Jumping from John to Akira to Caine to the Tracker and so on broke up the lags... for the most part (the nunchuck fight and the staircase fight still went on too long by half).

I'll be the nerd that digs in on fighting style.

John Wick is a practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, which is a lot of grappling, positioning, and ground fighting.

Jason Bourne primarily uses a mix of Kali and Jeet Kune Do. Defensive postures and swift counterattack.

Ethan Hunt started out mostly with capoeira (flashy, acrobatic fighting) and shifted to Keysi Fighting Method (defensive postures and elbow or hammerfist responses) in later films.

All of this is dubious, because of the magic of filmmaking and how every fighter says their style is the best, but I'd say:

Hunt and Bourne would square off well in the opening round, but Bourne would win out.

If Bourne can keep his feet, he'd beat Wick, but if Wick can get him on the ground, shit's gonna go bad for Bourne.

Hunt versus Wick would be a mess, but Wick would roll it up in the end.

Three-way fight would go better for Hunt, since Keysi is designed with multiple opponents in mind and it multiple opponents plays more to Hunt's trickster tendencies, but Bourne is still going to win out just based on the level of violence in the methods.

Damn. Dude was prolific and talented.

I don't think that's impractical at all.

At one of my old jobs, I constantly dealt with short-term and long-term rental owners, and far too many of them lived not just outside the neighborhood, but outside the state. Those folks were doing a huge disservice to the renters and to the community at large. They had all but abdicated any responsibility that comes with homeownership, but still were allowed to profit from it and artificially shrinking the housing market, to boot.

That ring around the bottom of the wall is a sure sign that basement will flood much worse than this regularly.

AI-generated anything is a plague.

I know of businesses that have laid off their entire marketing teams and replaced them with ChatGPT. I've seen several instances of small presses being flooded with AI-generated content by people looking to make a quick buck, to the point of closing down submissions and making life harder for actual writers. There was even a post here not so long ago from a guy who self-published a book of poetry that was admittedly generated by ChatGPI, but he still claimed to be a writer.

I don't want to wander into the realm of the intersection of art and the human experience, but a program will never be able to generate a work with fresh depth and creative complexity. All it can do is regurgitate whatever it can access. It may be able to pull parts together, but it will never innovate or "create."

So it could probably churn out a few dozen James Patterson books in a week, but real writing ain't gonna happen on the back of a program.

Good concept, lots of potential, but I'll go out on a limb and say that the two leads are actually the bad guys who contributed to the fall of the titular organization.

The car market hasn't improved, but it has leveled out.

FYI, you can also post in r/Pennsylvania to get a better scope of answers, because Pittsburgh is in a very different climate than Tyrone.

I can say this having grown up in the Altoona area (which is down the road from Tyrone).

However, a competent driver with good winter tires will be just as functional with a FWD vehicle as AWD.

Note I said "competent driver." I rolled FWD most of my life, but as I said above, I learned how to drive in superior shitty conditions. For newcomers from the south, the two best things are AWD and staying the fuck off of the road when the ice starts to fly.

We train to drive greater distances in shittier weather on far worse roads than most of the country. Assuming everyone has that level of comfort and experience is why we're still on the roads while overconfident rookies are in the ditch.

John Cusack has said he considers War, Inc. to be the spiritual successor to Grosse Pointe Blank so I think that's kinda cool.

Yep. It tracks like every cold I've ever had as an adult, but it's still annoying and unpleasant.

Same. I hoped beyond hope it wasn't the 'Rona, and I've thankfully tested negative, but I was doubly pissed that I picked up a dumb cold after being bug-free for two years.

Guess it was going to be a humdinger to get through all the defenses and precautions.

I'm on day 7 today, feeling like I need to blow my nose (nothing left in there, though) and phlegm-y in my throat. Blech.

Thank you, you too!

I've been sick for a week. Started with throat and lymph nodes, moved into head cold symptoms that I'm struggling with now.

First time I've been sick in two years. And no, not Covid. I think it's just... whatever is going around.

He made shows that appealed specifically to the CW market. You can't fault him for that. And as much as I've hated some aspects of that "universe," there was still more good than bad. Hell, some of it, you can lay at Geoff Johns' feet since he pushed for the Flash and moving Arrow away from the more Nolan-inspired take of the first two years.

Because you pay a percentage of your income in taxes at federal, state, and local levels. Municipal / school taxes are the local level.

Like the Joker in the Keaton Batman movie, with the barrel shoved all the way down your pantleg lol

Given Gunn's track record, it'll probably be a more comedic take in the vein of Booster's JLI years.