If you’re talking an Android tablet/headunit, separate from Android Auto, that makes sense… But Android Auto is essentially a simplified interface for specific apps installed on your phone, and is generally quicker and safer than using the phone interface. No one here is arguing for a separate android console interface, so I’m not sure we’re talking about the same things. The whole point of Android Auto is to take a separate interface and OS out of the equation and to allow you to use your phone as the brain.

What apps were you hoping for it to support?

I am not sure how it could be much more intuitive, at least from a touch screen perspective. It’s just a touch interface with an app drawer, nothing much more to it than that. However, if it wasn’t a touch screen I could believe it not being very nice to use, as I have a friend that has an Audi that does CarPlay but the screen isn’t touch, so he had to use physical buttons to use the interface. THAT is definitely not good.

As for the apps, I use Signal, WhatsApp, Messages, Spotify, YT Music, Waze, and Google Maps and they all support AA, so at least for my purposes it does what I need from a car apps interface standpoint.

The main argument I have against just phone + bluetooth is that you have to unlock your screen, keep it on, and it’s a smaller size. I have wireless android auto set up, along with a magsafe case+charger, so my routine is to get in the car, slap the phone on the charger, and everything just comes up on my head unit display. For me it is way more convenient than having to deal with my phone display, and the larger screen is also better for navigation.

I have yet to hear any real negative points against AA or CarPlay for that matter, mostly it comes down to preferences like yours rather than actual interface issues.

I am curious why you think that? My reasons for liking it are the fact that it essentially just works, and gives me a consistent UI across multiple vehicles. What are your issues with it?

Hey, you’re right! I guess if I had said I did you’d have a point.

oh no

Well shit! That’s awesome. Can’t say that I’m a huge fan of the graphical upgrade actually, at least during gameplay. Looks too much like a flash game or something. However, maybe it’ll feel different during play. Definitely glad you can switch styles. Still will be getting this just to support Gargoyles stuff. Wonder if they’ll add any voice work from the original cast? Can never have too much Keith David.

i love potato

Is all of them a valid answer?

Burger Assembly Engineer sounds pretty impressive.

Remember when there weren’t podcasts at all and you would have to get on a radio station to broadcast stuff?

deleted by creator

I was and used to watch the Diggnation podcast all the time. Loved Digg in its heyday, and it was sad when it went downhill. Reddit ended up being excellent though, and better than Digg ended up being. Sucks that it died too, but hopefully the Fediverse ends up finally being the chosen one.

I was looking for this, glad I found it. Bidets are life changing on a level that’s honestly hard to describe. Basically, it’s kind of like that super addictive game from S5E6 of Star Trek The Next Generation, except without the negatives. I’ve you start, you can’t stop.

When I saw gallon of PCP, I hoped it was what I thought, and I was pleasantly surprised.

Comments here already extremely cynical, who I assume are younger and have already not used live TV much growing up. The sentiment does actually have a bit of a point though, as the experience of talking about a popular show the night after it aired is really something that is its own experience.

With streaming, and more specifically binge shows that release their entire season at once, that experience is lost. Yeah, live TV was only the way it was because of technical limitations and therefore the experience was one born out of necessity rather than choice, but it was still a unique experience to, as the article says, know that you are watching the same thing at the same time with possibly millions of others. Hell, stupid things like watching the first episode of ALF when I was in elementary school, then the next day literally every kid was talking about it at recess. I had countless experiences like that in my life, and it actually does sadden me a bit that it has happened less and less as streaming and on-demand content has become the norm.

My daughters have grown up in a YouTube and streaming world, and their tastes are so different than a lot of their friends, and the amount of varied content out there makes it so there is no longer that shared experience and for lack of a better word, bond, with their peers that used to exist. The bond nowadays I guess is more the apps you use instead of the content.

All that being said, the convenience of streaming is great and I don’t know if I’d give it up for only the experience of live tv, but the fact that I can’t say that for sure says something.

Nice! FFIV will always be my favorite, but 1 is an absolute classic.

I tried FF7R’s attempt, but it just doesn’t do it for me. It is nice that they tried though I suppose.

I’m not one of those people that says “why make this” when it’s a game style I don’t like, so I’m all for anyone who loves this style of game to be happy and enjoy it. That being said, I long for a day where we get a turn based Final Fantasy again (that isn’t just another remake of older games).