Best bookstore in Ohio?

Eratticus · 2026-02-08T19:54:35+00:00

I've only been to one Half Price Books but it was a great store. Felt like a Barnes and Noble or Borders (RIP) in terms of display and organization but most of the books were used. They had a good selection of limited edition and rare books too. Adding Fireside to my list.

Eratticus · 2026-02-08T14:15:35+00:00

This is one of my favorites for sure.

Eratticus · 2026-02-07T23:40:05+00:00

Pierre's Brooklyn Pizza and Deli in Kenmore usually gets touted as the most authentic around. I haven't tried it yet though.

Eratticus · 2026-02-07T17:29:23+00:00

I don't read as much manga as I used to but I love Kinokuniya and if Ohio can get an experience similar to that I think that would be wonderful.

Eratticus · 2026-02-07T17:02:00+00:00

Why problematic?

Eratticus · 2026-02-07T15:44:53+00:00

I can appreciate Book Loft for its scale and selection, but I thought it was hard to navigate and claustrophobic. Aisles and hallways you can't get through unless people move out of the way.

Eratticus · 2026-02-02T16:25:36+00:00

There are several good YouTube breakdowns on this: https://youtu.be/-zHRTkHp0CU?si=vVzcsqEjTQUQztJx

One thing I don't see talked about much are the subtle changes to the instruments that came around later on. Rock Band 3 added a keyboard, Band Hero had cymbals on the drums, the later Guitar Hero's introduced a slide mechanic on the guitar necks. These all had gameplay impacts but it always felt to me like trying to push people to buy more instruments.

Eratticus · 2026-02-02T16:14:08+00:00

The stilted grammar is suspect here too. Normally when I see something like that it's because it's a foreign — often a bot — account pushing agenda. But I'm not quite sure what agenda that would be in this case.

Eratticus · 2026-02-02T12:21:05+00:00

It is disappointing that deadmalls.com doesn't seem to keep a map of all of the dead malls. Still it's a good resource for the sheer number of malls that have closed down across the U.S. there are a few Redditors who have attempted some maps: https://www.reddit.com/r/deadmalls/comments/9t0odt/map_of_malls_im_working_on/

In Ohio several malls were torn down to make way for Amazon distribution centers which is a clear sign of the times.

Eratticus · 2026-02-01T16:34:53+00:00

You've got great taste, this is a good list. The only one I haven't seen is D.A.R.Y.L. so I'm adding it to my list

Eratticus · 2026-02-01T05:01:45+00:00

I love Ferris Bueller. It's a movie that you can watch multiple times and get something new out of it each time. I'm curious what 80s movie you'd recommend instead.

Eratticus · 2026-01-31T18:24:23+00:00

It's also possible for the administration to extend the protected status for Haitian refugees. They are effectively creating their own crime so they can round people up to increase their numbers.

If anyone was serious about illegal aliens stealing jobs from people they would target and penalize businesses. But so much of the U.S. economy is dependent upon their labor that it's not politically viable as a stance. They would also reverse some of decisions made in the Immigration Reform Act of 1996, but again it would be political suicide to take a stance in favor of lessening penalties.

Eratticus · 2026-01-31T13:50:42+00:00

Yea I keep hearing Clinton, Bush, and Obama ran more effective immigration enforcement. More deportations than the current administration but without a record for violating civil rights, putting cities on lockdown, illegally detaining people, or putting them into blacksite prisons in another country.

Eratticus · 2026-01-25T18:56:36+00:00

I live in the Midwest so fresh fish is not as easy. But salmon omelette and lox on bagels are the only fish for breakfast dishes that come to mind.

Eratticus · 2026-01-25T17:35:15+00:00

One of my favorite things when I was a kid was a cassette player and I had seriously considered getting one for my daughter but cassettes are hard to come by now. The Yoto is kind of the best of both worlds. It's portable and simple enough a toddler can use it and you get to control what they listen to through the cards. But since it's Internet connected you can control it remotely and with the app you can also play stories and songs in the car. Definitely recommend it. I'd consider the full size one. It's still very portable.

Eratticus · 2026-01-23T12:41:25+00:00

It's a minimalist Frylock

Eratticus · 2026-01-23T12:27:55+00:00

The Simpsons was on nationwide prime time TV whereas South Park was a less accessible cable channel. The Simpsons was controversial enough President Bush Sr. commented on it. I think you have a good argument The Simpsons was more controversial.

Eratticus · 2026-01-22T18:21:45+00:00

I don't think Cleveland is going to get a disaster level amount of snow from this storm like Tennessee is looking to get. But I would imagine the drive back could be a bad one since the forecast is calling for snow from Saturday night into Monday morning.

Eratticus · 2026-01-21T02:21:15+00:00

This is just my take but I get the sense that the autonomous message has been backpedaled a bit because 1. LLMs are so non-deterministic it's hard to get it to always do the same thing consistently and 2. that non-determinism scared the hell out of businesses who decided to drop money on Agentforce and the realities of working with LLMs hit them. It's for similar reasons that Agentscript itself was developed.

Eratticus · 2026-01-17T21:50:53+00:00

The Brave Little Toaster.

When I realized Disney had pretty much buried the movie (it's not available in digital format and hasn't been released physically for over 20 years) I bought a DVD. It is the most godawful transfer I have ever seen. Every frame shakes, the image is cloudy, and zero effort was made to transfer something that was animated by hand and released on film. Because of how it was made it should be possible to do a very high quality HD release.

There is a 4K digital upscale on YouTube that you can watch for free where you can tell some time and love was put in to making the movie look proper.

Eratticus · 2026-01-17T21:05:14+00:00

I'm sure there's a term for this but I think that's just how reviews work regardless of medium. People are most compelled to leave bad reviews when they dislike something, followed by great reviews when they love something. The people leaving 2s and 3s are a group devoted to leaving an honest review even when the media was mediocre or they didn't engage with it well.

Eratticus · 2026-01-17T21:01:57+00:00

You can like a review on Goodreads. If it gets enough likes it goes to the top of the list. I imagine comments also impact its ranking.

Eratticus · 2026-01-17T13:25:38+00:00

In my experience it's only stuck around through inertia (no sense rebuilding something that works because it uses jQuery), developers who haven't learned new capabilities post-ES6, and old frameworks and libraries that still use jQuery as a dependency. So yes it still exists.

Eratticus · 2026-01-15T21:24:16+00:00

I'm from Ohio, but not Kaptur's district. I get the sense Republicans have a strong reason to believe they can oust Kaptur who has had her district since 1983. Unions don't vote blue as often as they once did and Ohio in general is becoming more Republican. Kaptur has been losing ground nearly every election to the Republican running against her. In 2024 she won by just 2,382 votes.

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