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Instead of offer a replacement, how about just not brick it?

I go out of my way to not buy Logitech products after the MX mouse (I posted a rant about that once upon a time, not sure if it's still around).  I have a Logitech Driving Force GT, and it works great, but, it only works if you have the AC adapter to plug in when you initially plug it in.  It also vibrates and whines annoyingly when plugged in, which is why I immediately disconnect the AC adapter after it calibrates itself.  It works after you unplug the AC adapter, so why it even needs it in the first place is a mystery in and of itself.

The fact that they and Google are doing such anti-consumer things lately is in a word, bullshit.  Imagine one day trying to run your home theater system that has zero problems, only to find that it doesn't work because Logitech decided to kill it.  And Google's devices are listening to people 24 hours a day in the privacy of their own homes, I just can't imagine how the hell convenience technology has become so damn 1984.

Finally a Thor movie that wasn't bland and uninteresting.  Red Letter Media was right, I can't remember anything that happened in Thor 2.  I do remember the first one, though.

Wait, you're younger than I am?  I don't remember when I joined, but I'm 32, turning 33 in February.  :|

Never heard of this Babish prick before, but as soon as I watched this episode it immediately became apparent to me that this guy watches You Suck At Cooking.  His jokes are just like YSAC's jokes, said offhand as if he didn't even make a joke in the middle of a sentence.  Anyway, I enjoy cooking a lot, but I don't really try to do famous recipes, I just cook stuff that I come up with myself or the old standards.

So months later, I've actually tried the new Coke Zero Sugar, and I have to say...  It tastes better than coke zero did.  It's pretty decent.  I still prefer Diet Pepsi, but that's whatever.  Anyway, still infinitely better than Diet Coke ever was.

Just saying, but it would be nice if they made another first-person shooter South Park game.

5. Spicy City
4. Ninja Scroll: The TV Series
3. Serial Experiments Lain
2. Dragon Ball Z
1. Miyu Vampire Princess

I dunno if this is an unpopular opinion, but in my opinion, Keanu Reeves is the best action star ever.

[5. Lake Mungo]

By Halloween movies I mean something that you like to watch around this time, maybe it scares ya, not necessarily the Halloween movie franchise (although your favorites might draw from the franchise!). 

My own personal top 5:
5. Lake Mungo (Found footage)
Lake Mungo is a faux documentary about a girl who dies in a freak accident, and through found footage they put together pieces of her life that reveal so much more about her.  It subverts the usual tropes and themes of found footage, which is nice, and the movie doesn't just look like a cheesy blair witch.
4. Bubba Hotep
Bubba Hotep is about a man who claims to be Elvis Presley living in an old folks home, who claims that he's the real Elvis and the one who died was an impersonator who he gave his life away to.  Living in an old folks home, he notices that folks around the home are dying much more frequently than they should, and with the help of his friend John F Kennedy Jr he decides to investigate.
3. The Evil Dead
The Evil Dead is the movie that launched Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi's careers, their take on Friday the 13th and other slasher movies.  When Ashly "Ash" Johnston and his sister go up to a cabin in the woods with their friends they are excited for a weekend of partying.  Not if the Necronomicon has anything to say about it!
2. As Above, So Below (Found footage)
A woman seeking answers to her father's death and seeking out the prize of his life, the Philosopher's Stone decides to investigate some leads that bring her to Paris, France.  With a group of urban explorers and some denizens living under the streets of the city they delve deeper into the labyrinthine maze beneath the streets of Paris, a world so strange that it seems like something out of the bible itself.
1. The Tunnel (Found footage)
An Australian reporter whose career is in jeopardy after a screw up she made last time decides that she needs to redeem herself, while looking into a problem surrounding the water reservoirs under the city of Sydney.  With a small crew she wanders into the sewers under the city, but after the group decides to tinker with a war-time gong in an underground bunker things go awry, and now they need to find their way out .. but they might not be alone!

I don't know if people would consider Evil Dead or Bubba Hotep "scary," but Bruce Campbell is one of my favorite actors, and I love the campy movies that he tends to be part of. 

I am tired of the Walking dead, I loved the first 4 or 5 seasons, but now I have no interest in it at all. Not sure if it was tied to Glenn or not, but it happened around that time.

That was when a lot of fans basically lost interest in the show, was right when the graphic novel's big bad antagonist (Negan) showed up.  The comic book readers have known for years now what was going to happen, and it's not really the type of stuff that your typical viewer wants to watch consistently, just like Game of Thrones.  People don't like it when characters they like and have some emotional attachment to just get killed without warning or fanfare, and that it's a potential looming threat at all times.  Just pfft like a fart, and they're gone.

Unpopular opinions, eh?  I'm sure I can excel at this.

Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, and several other TV shows to come out within the last 10 years have contributed to the degradation of culture and of the medium, and are low quality crap that never should have gotten on TV in the first place.  I fail to see what was interesting about Breaking Bad, and I slogged through the whole series waiting for "the good part" that people told me was coming, but never did.

David Lynch, while an interesting director who has done some stuff of merit, is not infallible and has made more than a couple projects I would consider terrible.  And the new Twin Peaks was definitely among those terrible projects, the fact that they doubled the episode count for the new series is readily apparent, the pacing was bad, there was so many nonsequitur scenes that went nowhere for no reason other than because he saw them as interesting visual metaphor.  And our hero spends 95% of the series as a vegetable, completely ruining the most interesting and beloved part of Twin Peaks.  The Sarah Palmer scenes were completely stupid.  And the ending was the laziest form of resolution that I absolutely detest in storytelling, not to mention the ending was bollocks.

When you go to the store and you buy something just because you see it on sale, and you didn't need it, you are not saving money by buying it.

Not too bad, but still feels like Battlefield Lite.

That's Star Wars Battlefront in a nutshell, though.  People keep saying how the new games are nothing like the old games, but they're not really all that different.  Nostalgia vs new, nostalgia almost always wins.  Still, I wouldn't give LucasArts a red penny on principle.  If you went to a restaurant where it's rumored that there's a piece of poop in your food 1/5th of the time, would you really be surprised if you got pooped?  Would you pay for it?  That's kind of how I feel about LucasArts, people keep complaining about what publishers are putting out and ignoring what people are saying, but they keep paying them for their games that they complain about.     The last good Star Wars game was Jedi Academy.

At least Ubisoft is finally on the verge of collapse.  Speaking of Ubi, They made a deal to purchase back something like 40% of their shares, in an attempt to go private.  Because clearly the issue with Ubisoft is that they are a publicly traded company, and that's why they're going broke... 

They say that you can do all these things on the Xbox One without an internet connection, but I remember my friend and I wanting to watch a movie at his house last year.  And it was a Blu-Ray so we had to use his Xbox One.  And as soon as we turned it on, it was like "hey I wanna check the internet for an update."  So we were like "cancel" and it just turned off.  So we turned it back on, went through this a couple times, then tried connecting and declining the update...  And it turned off.  Microsoft says that your Xbox One can work without an internet connection and without the latest update, but if that's true, I don't know how.  Maybe it's not such a pain in the ass anymore, though.  Just how I remember things.

I wish I could say I'll miss it, but I haven't logged into that awful client in years.  The only add value that AIM had over the competition was that a person could leave a message for you when you were offline, and it would show up when you logged in.  Although everyone adopted that feature within the next 2 years anyway.  Nowadays I use Discord and Steam, I can't think of any strictly IM clients that I would want to actually use.  Skype is a mess (no surprise, considering Microsoft owns it these days), and Discord just does every aspect that Skype does much better.  Hell, even Teamspeak and Ventrillo have been overshot by Discord.  And they even added screensharing and video calls a couple days ago.   But for all the "good" that AIM provided, it had major issues.  Service outages all the time, no chat history for the longest time, no real security features (including not being encrypted) .. plus it was owned by a dying company, so there wasn't anyone working on it most of the time anyway.

In 10 years' time, I'm sure that Discord will be the old app and something new will have replaced it.  That's the thing about technology, you gotta always be updating and improving.  AOL stopped functioning as a business, stopped doing anything meaningful with AIM.  If you want an AIM like experience there's the TOR IM client.  It's got heavy duty encryption and it's lightweight as far as memory imprint goes.  And it just so happens to look exactly like AIM.  I wonder if that was intentional.