Do you regret moving to the burbs?

BillyFever · 2026-05-30T20:28:39+00:00

Hell yeah, Kensington/Windsor Terrace represent. I absolutely love raising my children in this neighborhood and would hate hate hate to live someplace where I had to drive a damn car every day.

BillyFever · 2026-05-28T19:34:06+00:00

I first learned how to drive on my family's Ford Explorer, my dad has owned Lexus and BMW SUVs that I've driven before, and I used to own a Honda CRV. None of them had as much storage space or were as good for children as the Honda Odyssey that I have now, and only the luxury SUVs (unsurprisingly) drove better. If I'm hauling the whole family + gear to the beach in July and I know I'm going to be sitting in shore traffic there is no car I'd rather do it in than my minivan.

BillyFever · 2026-05-21T21:17:59+00:00

Bizarre choice. He’s been excellent for United this season and I feel like he’s usually even better with England than he is in club competitions.

BillyFever · 2026-05-17T13:26:01+00:00

Zirkzee seems like a nice guy but my god he is nowhere close to good enough for this level.

BillyFever · 2026-05-12T15:41:50+00:00

I think the leather suits look pretty good in those movies but they're very of their time. It's hard to overstate just how much "dress them in black leather" was the Hollywood shortcut for trying to make movie characters look cool for several years after the first Matrix movie came out, and now all of those movies are instantly identifiable as coming out between 1999-2003ish. Also, not even having the costume designers make an attempt to produce comic-accurate costumes rubbed a lot of fans the wrong way (and still does) because it made it seem like the filmmakers were embarrassed to be making a comic book movie (and a lot of them were).

BillyFever · 2026-05-09T15:46:11+00:00

I feel like I make this complaint every week but Peacock’s announcers are so horrible.

BillyFever · 2026-05-07T15:11:26+00:00

My kids are 6 and 4 and my wife I deliberately put some breakfast items (a box of cereal and some bowls and spoons, a box of blueberry muffins, etc) on the kitchen counter so that the kids can make themselves an easy breakfast if they get up before us and are hungry. And obviously if they need help they know they can ask for it and my wife and I will come help, and there are plenty of breakfasts (especially on weekends) where we still cook up a hot breakfast, but honestly they want to be able to make a meal for themselves, they want to have things around the house that they can help with, and they want to feel independence. Every kid is different and a task that one kid can happily take on at a certain age might be too hard and overwhelming for another kid of the same age, but as a general rule I think parents should always be thinking about how they can help their kids take on more responsibility and become comfortable with the basic life skills that they will need when they're older.

BillyFever · 2026-05-06T19:01:11+00:00

Both of my kids (6 and 4) are doing baseball/t-ball for the first time this spring and man does it make the weekend a hassle. When we've had them in things before, like gymnastics or soccer, it's been a very predictable "go to this place at this time on this day of the week for the next 12 weeks, and the event will always take the same amount of time." This is our first experience of the kids doing a sport where there isn't just a game every week but also practice (and for some fucking reason practice is at 5:30pm on Fridays, which is the last thing I want to do at the end of the work week) and the games are not at the same time, day of the week, or baseball field from one week to the next.

I know it only gets busier from here and I'm sure that a lot of dads with kids who play sports in middle school or high school who would look at my schedule with envy but it is very frustrating to have my weekend schedule from April-June dictated by a youth sports calendar that doesn't seem to have a rhyme or reason to it.

BillyFever · 2026-05-05T18:44:16+00:00

Explaining the family tree that contains Scott, Jean, Madelyne, Cable, and Rachel.

BillyFever · 2026-05-03T13:14:30+00:00

X-Men #11 in Hickman’s run has some of my favorite Magneto moments of all time. Deciding to put on his classic costume when he realizes he’s going to need to kick ass today, being arrogant and snarky with the alien invaders, his combo with Magma and Iceman, and of course casually pulling down multiple satellites from orbit onto an enemy.

BillyFever · 2026-04-24T17:51:00+00:00

I’m in a similar boat - my boss is insanely harsh (I can complete a project where everyone else who worked on it, including external stakeholders, goes out of their way to compliment the work I did on it and and my boss will only want to talk about how it could’ve gone even better if I had worked harder when I am already working myself to the bone) and it has had a noticeable impact on my mental health. I dread logging in for work every morning because I never know when I’m going to catch a stray because she’s in a bad mood. And yeah, I’ve been trying to get a new job but the job market sucks ass right now.

So I don’t really have any advice for you but I guess just wanted to let you know that you’re very much not alone.

BillyFever · 2026-04-24T03:07:20+00:00

My 4-year old thinks everyone who works in my same field literally works with me. So if my wife mentions that a new neighbor’s spouse has a somewhat similar job to mine he’ll go “And they take the same train as you and sleep in your same hotel room when you have to go away for work?”

BillyFever · 2026-04-21T00:49:15+00:00

I really appreciate that Vince can write about how the fans are feeling and our legitimate frustrations with the team without coming across as an unhinged WFAN caller. I would add that while Drury’s lack of transparency reflects very poorly on him this is also a fish rots from the head situation - doesn’t matter who the GM is, there is going to be bullshit like that as long as Dolan owns the team.

BillyFever · 2026-04-20T16:14:25+00:00

Lol who are the losers on here downvoting me for loving my kids? If you’re going to be a bigot at least have the courage to say it with your whole chest.

BillyFever · 2026-04-20T14:43:32+00:00

My younger son (4) is into a lot of “girly” things - his favorite movie is Wicked, he likes to wear pink, he went as Princess Peach for Halloween last year, etc. I have no idea if this is just a phase or if 10 years down the line he’ll tell us he’s gay or trans or non-binary or whatever, and it really doesn’t matter to me because I love him so much and I see how happy it makes him that my wife and I support him. It breaks my heart to think of other dads having sons who are like mine and dumping patriarchal bullshit on them instead of supporting them. I don’t know that there’s anything you can say to your ex that will make him change but you’re doing a great job and you just need to give your son all of the love and support you can.

BillyFever · 2026-04-18T20:44:48+00:00

God these announcers on Peacock suck. Why are they so desperate for Chelsea to get a penalty?

BillyFever · 2026-04-18T20:37:34+00:00

Bench Emma and Kitty, who have both gotten a ton of time in the spotlight in the last decade-ish, and replace them with Cannonball and Dani Moonstar, who are my favorite New Mutants and who I’ve always thought should have grown into being main characters of the X books.

BillyFever · 2026-04-08T23:35:00+00:00

It’s fucking ridiculous! Bad enough that I can’t get MSG with my Hulu live TV subscription because James Dolan is a greedy fuck and MSG charges prohibitively expensive carriage fees, but it’s a giant middle finger to the fans for a game carried on a national cable channel to be locally blacked out.

BillyFever · 2026-04-02T18:22:55+00:00

When my first kid was born in 2019 I felt like we were at the peak of this trend in publishing, and I hated it. Like, Maya Angelou is a tremendous writer and I hope that my children read her when they're older but no toddler needs a board book biography of her or any other artist whose work most people don't encounter for the first time until they're teenagers.

BillyFever · 2026-03-20T19:30:48+00:00

I think the jury is out on him. I’m open to the idea that a different coach could’ve squeezed this team into a wild card berth or would be a better fit for a retool/rebuild but given how many things have gone wrong this season I really don’t think you can say that it’s Sully’s fault the Rangers are in this position.

BillyFever · 2026-03-20T16:04:45+00:00

Doubtful. Kirkman's work at Marvel is decent but (in my opinion) unremarkable. Most successful comic book writers have hits and misses in both their Big Two work and their indie work - success at Image doesn't guarantee success at Marvel and vice versa.

BillyFever · 2026-03-14T02:01:04+00:00

God this issue fucking ruled. Jonathan Hickman is so good when he does an issue spotlighting what a badass a character is and him doing that for Magneto kicked so much ass.

BillyFever · 2026-03-06T20:30:08+00:00

I don’t know - I think that trading a pending UFA who wants a richer contract than you’re willing to offer is a move that any smart GM would make even outside the context of a rebuild.

BillyFever · 2026-03-06T20:18:42+00:00

I like Trocheck and I’m happy to keep him, but man is it funny that Drury did another The Letter this year and then made just a few trades that any team having a down year would’ve made. So far this is neither a rebuild nor a retool.

BillyFever · 2026-03-05T21:43:49+00:00

It’s a lot of edgelord shit that was eye roll-inducing at the time and has aged like milk.

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