The location, modes, and featured cars are continually changing in Forza. I'm lagging on the titles and will probably skip Forza Horizon 5, but FH6 has great reviews on launch. While I can guess you aren't into cars/racing like that, I guess I can't really differentiate it from human sports games as much as I thought I could. A new football game has the same field shape, the same rules, and mostly the same teams, but just updates the roster and maybe background appearance? I don't get it. But I can see the correlation to racing games if driving is a chore (not me) and if you aren't up to date on the latest trends in cars (me). I guess both really come down to whether or not you can empathetically experience the game as something you actually want to do.

It's also been 4 years since the last FH. The shortest interval was 2 years, done twice. Six titles across 14 years. Forza Motorsport # is a different style and, unfortunately, has likely been ended.

My Xb One is already named XXXBONE

My car's suspension is currently a pile of old parts below it and new ones in boxes. Trying to be slow and methodical, but it's daunting. I wanted to do one piece (pair) at a time to assess improvement, but I don't have the time anymore. So instead, it's all one long project of aprts amassed across 4 years. Probably going to total over 2 weeks of sitting. Really minor in the grand scheme of things, especially when lensed as a true project car, but this was my weekend car and even my daily for a year, so it's hard to see that perspective.

But the golden lining is that it means I feel comfortable enough with my other transportation that I can lay this one up for a while.

Until you try your regular password for the first time in 6 months, it fails, you eventually give up and try to reset it, then you see the rules, and suddenly you remember the modification you made to the pattern but it's too late to revert.

Login pages should show their rules when the password fails.

Allow me to rephrase Starbucks' claim: "the plastic we said was recyclable decades ago but then found to be prohibitively expensive to recycle, information that didn't change our practice at all, is now considered recyclable again and wevre taking credit and celebrating but still pawning the task off on whoever takes our garbage"

Polypropylene is #5, which nearly all takeout containers are made form in my experience. My town hasn't taken any plastic besides 1/2/3 for at least a decade.

1: polyethylene, such as soda bottles
2: high density polyethylene, such as milk jugs (and a pretty good material for flat bearings)
3: pvc, such as medicine bottles
4: low density polyethylene, such as bags
5: polypropylene, such as most food takeout containers

Whatever it takes to quiet the thoughts. Plus, adding a base layer of familiar sound helps drown out the odd sounds that makes your brain assess the danger. I don't often use sound, but for a while I did key myself into playing a particular Deadmau5 album to knock me out for a lunch nap.

The thoughts can be a problem. You can't stop thinking about how to fix something from earlier. My favorite mental game is picking a category and going through the alphabet, naming an item for each letter. It's OK to skip a letter, come back later. You're still thinking creatively, but the speed is much slower. The "problem" is no longer something threatening you (bills, arguments, chores), it's just finding a one-word response at a time. Cities, towns but not real cities, desserts, bodies of water, car models, zoo animals, construction materials, colors...

Everything you said, I have nothing to add about movies. Practically anything that wins an award is an original movie.

But I will add on with complaints about movie theaters. The price of popcorn? If you can get through a movie at home without popcorn, you don't have to buy any at the theater! Crowded/noisy theaters? If you're waiting for it to stream anyway, then you don't have to watch it opening weekend because theaters have way lower turnout than pre-2020! Can't pause it for a bathroom break? Alright, I can agree this is an issue with longer and longer movies and the compulsion to buy 64oz of soda, but listen, I've peed in so many movies and never missed any life-changing events.

But I guess it's a cool bandwagon or something.

Old trucks gaf. Idk why you'd think otherwise. Most plugs are not expected to be submerged. If you go so old that there's no powertrain electronics (which tends to also predate water resistant electrical connections), water is still going to accelerate corrosion at connections, especially chassis ground taps. Submerging it is how you ask for undiagnosed gremlins. Sounds fine for a trail rig, doesn't sound fine if you still want your legally mandated lights to function.

Plus, it's especially problematic when you get water inside the cabin. Tons of unprotected connections in there.

Heeeeeere in my garage [...] knaawlidge

No one in my life remembers that early YouTube ad

I don't know how to objectively figure this out, but solar panels only convert energy from radiation down to far infrared of 1100nm. Water can absorb longer wavelengths, but solar output has less and less energy output at these wavelengths. However, the mystery is whether or not the panels themselves absorb or reflect such far infrared energy. I'm torn between "it might be the same" and "I'm wrong"

An expert in everything except the one thing you know well was never an expert in anything. I've been selectively repeating that as those around me find the cracks in their favorite chatbot

Most drivers I talk to, even the most clueless of drivers, seem to be aware of red light and speed cameras. Some people are aware they go up, but once someone gets a ticket mailed a month later by surprise, the news spreads like wildfire. Plus, many devices can locate them. My non-internet dashcam came loaded with their locations, surprisingly. And yes, I'm reasonably sure it has an internal database, because I bought it a couple years after my region banned cameras and removed the equipment.