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Like 'cash' if I absolutely have to pronounce it, but it's one of those words that I try to avoid because it feels like it should be pronounced differently.
Depends on the length of my shift. If it's a 4 or 5 hour shift, I'd take the extra hour of work. If it's already 6 or 7 hours I'd take the hour of working out.
Not much changes. My dislike of cooking has nothing to do with my capability.
K181 posted...
Yeah, maybe in Saskatchewan, though.

Do you have any proof that there are actually houses in Saskatchewan? No, because that would require going to Saskatchewan, and nobody wants to do that.
Probably eventually, but not anytime soon. So far I've beaten Metroid, Metroid II: Return of Samus, Super Metroid, and Metroid Fusion. I've started on Metroid Prime, but not gotten very far in it. So it'll be some time before I get up to Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.
Main games: Super Mario Odyssey
Spinoffs: Yoshi's Island
Was the metallic cylinder flying? Because if not, it's not a UFO, it's just a UO.
It was just a normal Monday for me when it happened last month.
The way I usually hear the term is referring to a good friend of the opposite gender in the workplace, and I find that having its own term to be silly, I would obviously have no issue with it. Of course, I also wouldn't have any issue with an open relationship, so I would be fine with a significant other having another literal spouse (as long as they are also aware of and okay with the situation).
ReturnOfDevsman posted...
No? Don't you know any people? It's what they do when there's an an impending apocalypse.

The survivalists I know mostly stock up on water and canned food. You probably just know crappy survivalists.
ReturnOfDevsman posted...
It's almost like that's exactly my question.

So, you made up a weird scenario, and are then questioning it?
WizardPowers posted...
I mean by marriage age there is no reason to be making minimum wage. You should have been in the workforce long enough to at least have a handful of raises.

If you're getting fired enough that you keep starting over at the minimum that's more of a red flag than the actual money problem

In this fictional world you live in, how often are people guaranteed raises? And what is marriage age?
Why would you specifically need milk and bread in an apocalypse?
Honestly, if they started dating at 14 and 17, that's even weirder to me than 17 and 20. Like, no, if two people are a year or two apart and dating as teenagers, I don't think they should have to break up when one turns 18. But with a 3 year age difference, I question them dating at all as teenagers.
There's multiple problems, but one of them (and not sure if this applies to the specific companies being talked about here, but it certainly applies to a lot of companies) is prioritizing short term gains over long term sustainability.
I'd take the power, even though I don't care for McDonalds, just for those days where I'm too depressed to actually make or even get food, so at least I don't go to bed hungry.
  1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  2. Terminator
  3. Predator
  4. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
  5. Terminator Genisys
Apparently I need to see more of his movies. Genisys is one of my least favorite movies of all time, and only makes it onto this list because I've apparently only seen 5 of his movies.
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kirbymuncher posted...
I don't think it's necessarily about how much you're up all at once it's more a general tiredness thing

I tend to take a nap when I reach the point where I feel like I might unintentionally fall asleep if I closed my eyes for a couple minutes

What am saying is it doesnt matter how tired I am. I can be so tired that Im not even able to read, and I can barely keep my eyes open. I still wont be able to fall asleep in twenty minutes. Thats just not a thing I can do.
NocturneD85 posted...
Used to think cartoons were animated over and over again then I learned about reruns and archives.

This reminds me of before I understood the concept of reruns, when watching the first episode of a show Id been watching for a while, I was very confused by some of the main characters not knowing each other.

On the other side of things, and a little later on, I would only sporadically watch Tiny Toons, and by whatever coincidence it was always the same two or three episodes, so I was under the impression it was just a couple specials rather than a regular show for some time.
Oh right, I came into this topic to question what kind of preparation you would need for kindergarten, but yeah, I wouldn't have even thought of being potty trained, as that to me is just something that obviously should have already happened prior to then. The not knowing their own name confuses me though, do their parents just go, "Hey you!" whenever they want to get their attention?
Around here you generally start kindergarten at 4 or 5 (depending on when your birthday is in the year).
kirbymuncher posted...
I think the high rate of nap haters is just because no one understands how to do it right

1) lie down, set a timer for 20 minutes. maybe 25 if you're really tired
2) nap or whatever
3) get up when the timer goes off. and I mean actually get up not just lie there for another 10 minutes

and if your reaction to this is "but I can't even fall asleep in 20 minutes!" that means you are not tired enough for a nap

Huh, I guess I'm never tired enough for a nap. If I'm up for 24+ hours straight, I'm still unable to fall asleep in 20 minutes.
__aCEr__ posted...
The State Department put out his list last month:

Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas

A bunch of bullshit, basically.

Oh, I know it's bullshit, but I more meant I'd be curious to see what he himself would say if asked about it.
I'm curious (in a morbid sort of way) what he would list if asked to list the 8 wars that he has stopped.
Zikten posted...
Yea he thought the banana was designed for our hands. If anything it's the other way around. Ape hands probably evolved to hold a banana

It wasn't the other way around. The modern banana shape was designed, it's just that it was by humans using selective breeding.
I remember that as a small kid, like 3 or 4 years old, I for whatever reason thought that sheep were carnivorous and primarily ate pigs. Once had a nightmare where sheep were coming out from under my bed to eat me.
Glob posted...
It was the other way round for me. I worked weekends as a younger man because I needed the money. As Ive got older, I have more options and Id prefer not to work weekends so I dont.

Working at a grocery store, I've noticed it's generally the older people that are more likely to schedule weekends off. Younger people will occasionally, like a couple weeks ago when the local comic con happened, but it's not nearly as often as older people.
creativerealms posted...
Does Trump think (no he doesn't) that because he's no longer a Democrat that nothing he did when he was a democrat matters anymore?

Don't be silly. He doesn't think something he did as recently as five seconds matters unless he thinks it makes him look good.
Looks like I'm at 530 games on Epic. Didn't purchase any of them.

Dungeater posted...
do you or have you played them all

i really dont get ppl who get something just cuz its free even if its trash or not something theyll touch

In my case it's because I don't know what I will all want to play in the future. It takes a couple clicks to add a free game to my account, and then I have the option to play it in the future if I want to, and it's not like it takes up space to do so as I'll only download a game when I'm actually going to play it. Plus I just enjoy collecting things, and this does that without the negative aspects of cost and taking up space.
Although I haven't played any Tomb Raider games myself, I've seen streamers playing some of them, and I am fully convinced that Lara Croft would be able to survive this on her own. I don't know enough about Resident Evil to say the same about Jill Valentine, so I would go to save her based on the aforementioned assumption that Lara Croft would be able to survive on her own.
Now, for legal purposes I have to say this is hypothetical and I have never had access to time travel equipment...I mean time travel equipment does not exist, yes, that is what I mean. But hypothetically speaking you would actually have to tie the location to a specific gravitational point (such as the Earth), otherwise you will not only appear in a random spot in the universe, but every single one of your atoms will end up in a different random spot throughout the universe. Poor Alex...hypothetically speaking.
I'd say my company, but I don't have a company...
BakonBitz posted...
Baby Bowser = Bowser as a kid, appears only in the Yoshi games
Koopa Kid = Bowser's minions who only appear in spinoffs/Mario Party
Bowser Jr. = Bowser's kid
Seven Koopalings = (currently) Bowser's minions/captains in the mainline series

Just one addition to that, while Baby Bowser primarily appears in the Yoshi games, he also appears in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time.
I'm in Canada, no such law.
Dakimakura posted...
None of this applies if you are buying Nintendo games lol

Two of them apply to most Nintendo games. The guides/walkthroughs point and the better understanding point.
I guess, if you're still buying games that are relatively recent (last two or so decades). Most of the older games I buy don't have DLC, patches, or mods because of being on older systems that don't have those things as an option. And many of them cost more now than they did back then. The guides and walkthroughs, as well as better understanding tends to be fairly accurate though.
I don't really ever introduce myself to people. At work I actually have multiple coworkers that I will greet when I see them, but I don't actually know their names because we were never actually introduced. We do have a spot on our work shirts for our names (but some people where a sweater or something which covers that), and another spot that can be used for either pronouns or our department or if we know any other languages, and I do put my pronouns on there.
It's hard to keep track, what with how quickly slang becomes official, and new slang appears.
Star Wars as a franchise is primarily aimed at kids. Something like Andor is the exception, not the rule.
  1. Andor season 2
  2. Andor season 1
  3. The Bad Batch season 3
  4. The Bad Batch season 2
  5. The Clone Wars season 7
  6. The Bad Batch season 1
  7. The Mandalorian season 2
  8. The Mandalorion season 1
  9. Obi-Wan Kenobi
  10. Tales of the Jedi
  11. The Mandalorion season 3
  12. The Book of Boba Fett
  13. Young Jedi Adventures season 1 (I'm only partway through the first season, so it could theoretically change position, but while it is a very well made series for what it is, what it is is a series aimed at younger kids)
Haven't seen the rest yet.
Maybe the real Christmas movie was the friends we made along the way.
SSj4Wingzero posted...
Does Rebels also count? Because that shit was A++++++

Rebels predates Disney+ and was made for TV. But he did leave out The Bad Batch, Visions, Tales of the Jedi, Tales of the Empire, Tales of the Underworld, and Young Jedi Adventures. Also the final season of The Clone Wars was made for Disney+.
Not sure, mostly because I'm not sure how many friends I have in general, due to not being very good at distinguishing when someone goes from being an acquaintance to a friend.


Its a 30-year effort to monopolize a very important thing. Now, in two years, well have magnets, all the magnets we want. Because of tariffs, listen I called, I said youre going to play the magnet, were going to play the tariff on you.

Huh, today I learned that the USA doesn't currently have magnets.
Do both at the same time, with a controller in each hand.
DipDipDiver posted...
I took 5 years of Spanish in school, but I don't speak Spanish. Without any practical way to use it in conversation it's basically just a bunch of vocabulary to me, which admittedly has come in handy when reading signs and things

I took...8 years of French in school. It was basically mandatory here from grades 4-9, and then I took it again in grades 10 and 11, but I had such a bad time with it in grade 11 that I decided not to take it again in grade 12. But yeah, haven't really used it since, and even back then I would never have said I was fluent. I could slowly read stuff (as long as the vocabulary didn't include too many unfamiliar words), but my conversation ability was fairly limited, and nowadays pretty much the only things I can still remember are how to introduce myself and say that I don't speak French.
Choco posted...
great post but WHY did they put in the effort and take the risk to travel the sea? was it ever necessary/useful or did they just want to explore?

For the glory!
UnsteadyOwl posted...
I think part of what fuels people's feelings that their vote doesn't matter and it doesn't affect them anyway is that there's so much focus on national news and it seems people don't follow local news as much as they used to. Depending on where you live, it can be hard to follow local news even if you want to since so many small town newspapers no longer exist.

What's happening nationally is important, but on a state and especially local level your vote counts for a lot more and what happens there is more likely to have a direct impact on your daily life.

Even if the vote is worth more on a local level, that doesnt necessarily mean it will matter more. Last time my city had a local election there were three mayoral candidates and all were older conservative men with essentially the same platform. And for city council there was only one more person running than there were seats.
Depends on what the rent is.
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