Second the forum route. There are some really old school parts of the internet that are awesome for stuff like this that aren’t necessarily hard to find, and go back many years. And people on them love to debate back and forth, so you get lots of opinions. Example: budgetlightforum for flashlights and components.

Toothpaste is just condensed tooth soup. Cream of tooth.

Red Faction was great for that. You could go around, sure. Or just bust through the damn wall.

The War on Thanksgiving continues

Halloween project in elementary school: “peanut house of horror.” Had a little diorama of peanuts with googly eyes in a dungeon getting destroyed in every way a peanut could. Swinging pendulum halfway gouged into one. Another on a stretcher rack cracked in half. One getting crunched in a press. Shells all over the floor like a damn Texas Roadhouse.

Slop it up!

That’s it!

No, it was something else I’ve never heard of, geared specifically towards camping.

REI sells a liquid that pretty much does this for when you go camping.

Deadly Premonition. What a sloppy mess but damn it’s fun.

The market doesn’t give a shit about you or your company. The people who bet lots of money on your company’s success or failure give a shit about whether your company is a pile of rubble in x amount of time when they can cash out.

Pipes are cancer loop de loops.

Not especially hard, depending on your choice. But the choices tho

Can they run Crysis?

Transcumstantiation

That’s horrific.

I meant that credit cards specifically tend to get a preauthorization hold at gas stations, at least in my experience.

I will get declines on debit cards from my credit union if I don’t tell them I’ll be out of area within about two states. BofA has a feature where if you open their app with location on, it’ll register you as traveling in whatever area. Amex, never had a problem. Can’t speak for the others.

$150 is the most they can, I believe. It’s normal and it fucking sucks. That being said, I have debit cards that will only authorize for the amount you use (like, I have $30 in my account, it clears, pump for $15 of gas, no residual hold). I know there’s good reasons to use a credit card on a trip, but they’re a pain for the pre-auth. It’s supposed go away in a few hours normally — maybe by the end of the day?

Standwipe gang

We called that “reading diagonally”