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I dont think its wrong, although I think a lot of entertainers make themselves look like idiots talking about politics.

I do think its wrong to make politics into entertainment, from Limbaugh through current late night TV.

Is your beefy A/C just a block of ice with a thermometer sitting on it?

If so the coolness is running off into your carpeting.

Lawful neutral. Or chaotic neutral if I lose the clip.

IronBornCorps posted...

but why did he leave the team when we were only getting along better and working more together?

Hard to say. Did his boss ask him to? Different opportunity? ...less temptation?

Probably just nice, especially if he's talking to his wife about you.

He might have a bit of the "if things were different I'd be in to her" thing going on, but it doesn't sound like he'd do anything about it.

VideoboysaysCube posted...

But it's 42, not 41.

Well heck. I'm surprised I got that close, anyways.

faramir77 posted...

Technology hasn't progressed enough to justify it.

They are starting to get to the iPhone plateau. Why should I pay $1,000 for a iPhone 13 when all they've added recently is bells and whistles?

I'm sure I'll eventually end up with a PS5 assuming there's ultimately a good slate of games I'm interested in trying...but then again the industry has done a crappy job of making anything that looks interesting to me lately, so we'll see.

4 8 15 16 23 41

Can't believe that still came to mind, really...

Look out for the clause about having to stay in a haunted house overnight.

Tails_64 posted...

Back in the day, I was usually one of the best players among my friends. Nowadays, I have connections to thousands of different players, so I have a whole lot more people to compare myself to. Also, I can watch videos of optimal speedruns and such that make my gameplay look pathetic in comparison.

I feel bad that kids can't be the 'big fish in a small pond' anymore. That was something truly great about the pre-internet days.

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

Now I amwondering. I know red onion does not agitate my stomach as much as regular onions, so now I am wondering if green onions are worse or "better" to my stomach.

Strike that, foremost I am wondering what green onions are...

Oh... Green onion is just spring/forest onion, which is just an immature regular onion... At least I know the answer to both questions then.

Well, the issue is that the green part of the onion contains quite a bit of air and it gets pretty...frothy if you eat them in bulk. The actual digestion probably would have worked out fine: it was more of a texture issue.

Strangest-feeling puke in my life. :)

rjsilverthorn posted...

And honestly unless you buy an unreasonably large number of tickets you aren't substantially changing your odds of winning.

Exactly.

I think they should change it not because of racial undertones, but instead because it sounds stupid. A jokey name feeds right into the narrative of anyone would want to mock/deny it.

"I'm supposed to be worried about monkeypox...really??"

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

Maybe, if I remember when I'm at a gas station.

But I only ever buy one ticket: I find that's enough to provide whatever dreaming of winning benefit there is.

VampireCoyote posted...

Whyd they cover it I cant say

I guess they just liked it better their way

Huh. Who knew THAT was a cover?

AndyReklaw posted...

And a cruise seems dumb. It's a big floating hotel where all you can see is water.

If you pick the right one you stop in some interesting spots that you likely wouldn't have gone to otherwise: I enjoyed the 'shore excursions' on my Alaskan cruise.

That said, the big organized-fun, germ-spreading party boat thing isn't for me. Trips to the Dominican/etc are cheap: just go to a nice/gated all-inclusive there if you want to sit around in the sun.

No.

That said, I once had a green onion eating contest with a friend at an OCB. We got a huge plate of them. He gave up after 10 onions or so. I ate 25 or so, took a break, then finished the plate.

I got fairly good notoriety from that. When I told my friends a few years later that I'd thrown up in the bathroom during my 'break' and came back to finish the plate it became a 'wpot' legend. Discomfort is temporary. Freak outs are forever.

Forget 66. The I70 to 115 Denver - Utah - Vegas stretch is where it's at. Except for the Nebraska/plains part: that sucks.

I'm 43 and my fingers are just a bit stiffer than they used to be. It's not something I notice for any reason other than peak video game reflexes, but in that case I just recently noticed that my 13-yr-old was able to defeat some bosses in Hollow Knight using reflex-based strategies that I just couldn't quite keep up with. That was disappointing, as I was (and still am) the king of button smashing in my video gaming friend group.

I agree with the comment that I'm hella better than him at pattern recognition/everything else in gaming, though.

Straughan posted...

I look back on a lot of Jim Carrey stuff nowadays and it's kinda cringe. I like a lot of it, but take for instance The Mask. I just don't see it like I did as a kid. I don't know what changed in me. It's like old Ernest movies. They just don't do it for me anymore.

I found Carney cringe from day one. But I still have a soft spot for ol' Ernest, at least the Goes to Camp version. Why the difference: I don't know. Maybe just that Ernest was likeably idiotic.

A new depth finder transducer for my father's fishing boat. I can't be certain, but I think someone cut the old one: it was very cleanly sliced for no apparent reason.

Decent. Not great.

faramir77 posted...

If it's less than an 8 hour drive, I'd drive. Otherwise I'd fly.

That's more or less what mine boils down to, although I'd drive a little further if it's somewhere I'm planning on staying for a while and would want a car (i.e. the Rocky Mts).

I mean, it kinda depends on how far I'm going, right?

Anyways, I live in MN and - while I like it here - there's not a ton in the states immediately surrounding us. I would drive to Chicago, or the Black Hills, or St Louis, or maybe Denver (although that's borderline). Anything further than that and I want a plane. All I see on the drive is corn unless I drive north to lake country so I don't feel I'm missing anything.

My agency has a small 6-seat commuter plane, and I happily use that to fly to meetings in the northern part of the state when available, too: I don't need two 5-hour drives.

Cruises are fine, but I don't like the 'organized fun' they try to force on you.

43 here. I just hang around to see what the young 30-somethings are doing.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

guys its not funny

I feel for you man.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

do you guys think that an American doing a really shitty impersonation of a British person would go over well as an album opener

...although you seem to have recovered quickly. :)

Indeed. My wife always tells me to drink water when I have a headache, which annoys me because I know it won't do anything right away. But I must admit that when I am more proactive about drinking water I get fewer dehydration headaches (which seem to have been most of those that I used to get).

Don't tell her I said it, but she was right... :)

DirtBasedSoap posted...

i have a date with a girl i really like on Thursday

So...? Is it going to work out??

:)

Me? No, not really at all. My wife and son, though, yes. We don't attend big fireworks displays and thunderstorms are nervous events with them. I open all champagne bottles and 'dough cylinders' (for cinnamon rolls or whatever) that might make popping noises. My wife warns my son before blending.

Not their fault, of course: they clearly just have more sensitivity to noise than I do.

Do you drink more water these days?

Krazy_Kirby posted...

dance*
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This, then yes.

DIDN'T I WARN YA??

Well, here's my advice:
1) Let it pass
2) Don't eat any more full plates of steak-refried bean-burrito between now and then.

:)

DirtBasedSoap posted...

Im afraid to go on my morning run now

I'm afraid it's past the point where I could help. Gotta work off those calories somehow...

DirtBasedSoap posted...

@wpot
bro my farts have been awful this morning

I warned ya. Didn't I warn ya??

JigsawTDCII posted...

How about you are? Is there a clown scene in your area? How do you feel about clown subculture?

No, there's no clown scene in Minnesota. I have no feelings about clown subculture...although, now that I think about it, clowns - even if creepy - seem better than culture wars...so have at it, clowns.

Then again - wait - we do have a legislature. Are they part of clown subculture?

Well, I would enjoy that dinner going down...but probably regret it afterwards.

7/10.

I went on an Alaskan cruise once and did a shore excursion where we flew a helicopter up a mountain valley and landed on a glacier near Anchorage. It was absolutely worth the $200 (circa 2008) and fear of fiery death.

*slow head shake with slow facepalm*

Metalsonic66 posted...

Cheesecake is actually a pie

OK then. See my earlier statement, substitute "pie" for "cake". :)

Metalsonic66 posted...

Also pineapple pizza is best pizza

*slow head shake*

Popcorn, hands down.

Metalsonic66 posted...

No u

There's cheese, which is excellent on it's own, and cake, which can be excellent on it's own. Putting them together is the same mindset that got us pineapple pizza. Leave excellent alone.

Lokarin posted...

I'm not big on cheese, but I do like cheesecake

Cheesecake is an abomination, but cheese is excellent. :)

I like pretty much anything other than the blue/overly smelly cheeses.

BigOlePappy posted...

I kind of want to play the new Metroid.

You might want to consider Hollow Knight also, which is a pretty solid old-school Metroidvania.

Dikitain posted...

Pre-covid: About 15K
Post-covid: About 1-2K, depending on if I take a vacation or not.

Basically this. My parents have a cabin and I go there 5ish times per year, but otherwise very little now that I don't go to an office.

In short, no. If you spent thousands of dollars connecting everything in your house, maybe, but as is they're basically amusing toys for the kids to play with. (And for corporate America to listen in on them)

Ozmose posted...

Modern country is hot garbage. It's nothing but pop music with an accent.

Pretty much...and it's basically just three songs repeated with minor variations: the one about partying and drinking in a bar, the sappy one about loving your family/country life, and the scorned lover one.

Ol' Garth actually had some variety.

I should have included my disclaimer: I played FF6 when it came out and didn't play CT until years later, so take me with that grain of salt. Still, I go back in time to play at least PS1 era games with some regularity and don't have too much trouble enjoying those.

agesboy posted...

I legitimately do not understand how people today could think Chrono Trigger is the best game of all time except nostalgia, and I've seen that opinion pretty often here.

I more or less agree. It's not a bad game, certainly, but it's basically a simple right-down-the-middle classic RPG. I love DQ, classic FF, and JRPGs in general and keep trying to love (not just like) Chrono Trigger, but it just doesn't hit enough storyline or gameplay highs to bring it to any kind of next level for me. I put it about halfway between Secret of Mana (a loveable and rather cute classic RPG) and FF6, which I decidedly prefer.