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It only lets me do that when I'm logged in. I don't necessarily tend log in that much.

I hear it was way worse until about 1985. People say you used to be able to smell it all the way on the South Side of Columbus some days.

Yeah the new algo totally sucks. The 2018 algo was where it was at. If you watch one thing that ends up sucking (and even stop partway through and switch to something else) it suggests that thing and similar ones for months and months. Like I clicked on something that I didn't know was pick-up artist crap and made it maybe 4 minutes in. More and more PUA trash for months. I don't log in though. Maybe you get the 2018 algo back if you log in, I don't know. I'd hate to see if I clicked on conspiracy theory barf or Proud Boy rubbish. Used to be I'd click on a '90s motorcycle race and afterward it would suggest all these cool old bike programs from Europe that we never got to see in the States. That's way over.

^carrying lots of loads of car parts from Michigan to Florida

Re: Pins/16-bit combo locations. So every time I went to 16-Bit Downtown it has been hopping. Day, night whatever. But that was in 2015 and 2016. And the Downtown Pins had plenty of people both times I went in 2018 and 2019 (day into evening weekends). What happened in 2017 through 2019 was a big retro gaming crash where all of a sudden only N64 and GameCube mattered. I was thinking arcade was probably different. But when we went to the Pins/16-Bit combo at Bridge Park in late 2019/very early 2020 one Saturday night the Pins side was doing awesome with wait lists for most games -- even Jenga. Video game side was a ghost town most of the night acting almost as a Combo Breaker. Now with the virus retro gaming has roared back with a vengeance and all games from all eras are ON FIRE once again. I haven't made it back to a Pins, 16-Bit or Pins/16-Bit Combo since and won't be until the virus goes from Fever to Chill. Before COVID, had anyone else noticed a drop off in video game activity at these locations? Now during the virus it's harder to get good data at these places since a lot of people are staying home. I'm wondering if say later in 2021 and in 2022 if the video game side will be back to normal after a horrible 2017-2019 (The Fortnite Years). The video game industry is full of these boom and bust cycles and has been since the beginning.

When was this picture taken?

Between 35-80 years old is the big danger zone for buildings being considered expendable it seems.

Almost positive they're brothers.

Hmm, Ohio has so few areas with houses more than 1/2 mile apart that you have to wonder if any area bigger than that in a park didn't have houses torn down. Like Slate Run Metro Park. No way was there only that one house for 1,700 acres in northern Pickaway County in the '70s when it opened up. Or how people thought what is now Chestnut Ridge Metro Park near Lancaster was super creepy until it became a Metro Park in the 2000s even though it was just one guy that died and had his house torn down. We thought the whole thing was super old, like 1840s old and haunted until they put up an interpretive sign showing a picture of the house in the 1980s. The house was clearly built after 1930 and probably had an automatic garage door opener by the looks of it! Or when I'm near Rickenbacker and I remember all the 1960s ranches and split levels that got torn down next to it on Pontius and Hayes Roads in the '90s with nothing to replace them for "crash zones".

With as much medical that has moved out to the suburbs it might be time for more medical downtown -- also considering the huge growth in medical. When I was a kid in the '80s most medical was in the core or at St. Anthony (OSU East). Pretty sure Groveport didn't have a doctor at all while now it has at least 6. There were dentists in the suburbs though. Also there were a lot of totally non-ADA compliant medical buildings that had all kinds of narrow stairs and levels that you had to traipse like the one that was at 400-ish East Rich Street. Like you literally walked in there, had to decide whether to go up or down stairs the minute you got in there (you couldn't stay at street level) then you'd be walking along, have to go back down a set of stairs, walk for a bit then go up a set of stairs again and find yourself back up to the level you were before 3 doors ago. It was nuts. I think if you went in the back you could take an elevator up to some of the levels. It was almost like the old Benchmark building at Kenny and Henderson. There was also a medical building at Hamilton Road and Winchester Pike (behind the Thornton's gas station when it had a smaller footprint) where you could not enter at street level and was like an old motel that was all outside entry. I had a root canal redone about 6 years ago on Riverside Drive and the building was still one of those "up or down?" deals but still not as intense as the other two I described.

I don't think that Main Bar building would be all that special if it wasn't on its own like that. Thank you 1970s

Everybody gets the extended warranty calls. Then there's the "sell us your home" calls since there's no supply.

It was a panty raid

Lodi?

Southern and Appalachian accents stick out more in Cincinnati than they do in Columbus. People in Columbus literally do not notice them. Nobody goes "Are YEW from the Souff?" Now the clench-jawed universal conservative accent that's come around in the past 15-20 years does not stick out in Cincinnati and that's the best Mandel should hope for.

Hi, I'm Josh MENDLE

Yeah SE Ohio doesn't have long enough of hills. It's a bunch of short steep ones. You could probably string some runs together with a lot of grading and blasting somewhere, but $$$. The only long steep run I can think of in the entire region was close to where Spice Run was. Then you're getting into SW Ohio instead.

So even post-COVID not too many games against Tidewater and Pawtucket anymore.

He'll no they don't! That stuff's for Woody Allen, not Real Men!

If they're 1099, they have no employer to pay half their Social Security and Medicare taxes for them. And a big tax bill waits for them every April since it's hard to predict their income to pay estimated taxes. But $500-1000 a month leaving for individual health insurance is fine since it ensures that someone who works an hour a week less than them doesn't have healthcare.

Nu-Metal had scratchboards instead of synths and violins.

Our generation brought the world Nu-Metal. That's unequivocally worse.

When I meet people from NEO in Columbus they say they're from "Up North" whereas people from Cleveland and its suburbs say "Cleveland".

That's so drastic that transit could barely function.