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Yeah, my account is old enough to drink in the US.

Revelation34 posted...

With what? A privately owned mall isn't state owned.

Yeah, it is a mall code of conduct, it isn't like there are criminal charges associated to violating it. Now he could still get sued in civil court for wrongful death, but that isn't the same as being charged with a crime.

I've met very few cheeses I didn't like

captpackrat posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/6/AAQwHjAADdrw.jpg

OK, they should really stop putting that kind of stuff in my kitchen then. I mean, it doesn't even have any doors, that is pretty bad operational security.

That or walk into a room and then stand there trying to remember what you were going to do.

Straughan posted...

maybe that's all bullshit and he's a money enthusiast.

ftfy

BlackScythe0 posted...

I think that level of self destruction is unique to your side.

Oh I'm sure someone has said that, but you probably won't get conspiracy theories that she was murdered to prevent her from testifying about something.

Sahuagin posted...

I didn't realize Ivana Trump and Melania Trump were two different people

There was also Marla Maples.

First time that I didn't get anything. I barely even looked this time.

Far-Queue posted...

Also gone to movies alone while traveling for work

That too.

I've done it on business travel.

The bit with the cereal is one of my favorite Simpson's moments ever.

Cacciato posted...

No, they dont. It just so happens that almost all of them have been so far (with a possible exception of some random one).

"The Constitution lists only three qualifications for the Presidency the President must be at least 35 years of age, be a natural born citizen, and must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years. "

While there are some questions regarding what actually constitutes a natural born citizen, it mostly revolves around requirements of the parents citizenship, they all agree on having to be born on US soil.

Lokarin posted...

you have to be a naturalized citizen of the US and at least 35.. AFAIK

They have to be 35, a natural born citizen and they must have resided in the US for at least 14 years.

HornedLion posted...

No one wants to invent something new they much rather invent a new scam.

Most of them aren't even really new scams, just slight variations to scams that have been around for years.

_Kaz posted...

I'd vote for Schwarzenegger if that were the case.

He's getting a bit old.

BlackScythe0 posted...

lol https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.10.user=Bligh_with_no_T

Yeah, I was kind of expecting that based on the second part of that post.

Judgmenl posted...

Would be one of the cringiest things I could imagine.

Fortunately one you'll never hear unless someone passes an amendment to change the requirements to be a natural born citizen.

agesboy posted...

only chik-fil-a i know of is in a mall, so i'm assuming they didn't cause traffic issues there

but to be fair they were absolutely the most popular food joint there

For a long time all of them around here were in malls, it is probably only in the last ten or so years they started building standalone stores.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

It's a pokemon that possesses appliances, yes a washing machine is an appliance it can possess. This is faaaaaar from the typical pokemon laziness.

Literally has Rotom in the image.

He was talking about Pokemon that is a bunch of keys from the second post.

BigOlePappy posted...

You serious Willis? They rank as the national favorite fast food place. Anecdotally, I know people that used to spend hundreds of dollars there a month for their family.

(Pre Pandemic)
https://www.businessinsider.com/best-fast-food-chain-in-every-state-chick-fil-a-2017-10?amp

"Chick-fil-A dominates, which isn't surprising the fried-chicken chain generates more revenue per restaurant than any other fast-food chain in the US."

They have been an Oddworld style juggernaut For awhile.

I'm not saying they weren't popular, I'm just saying our's never had the same impact on traffic as they do now and the volume of people I see waiting at the drive thru seems more than what I would expect just because the indoor dining is closed.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Where exactly are you?

I don't think I've ever seen traffic at a Chik-Fil-A that was more appreciable than any other fast food place. At least not so much that I've even remotely seen it affecting traffic as a whole. But maybe you're in a more rural area with worse roads where it shows up more. Or maybe your area is more culturally motivated to eat tons of Christian-endorsed chicken. Or maybe some other factor.

The lines for the ones around here are insane. There is one I drive by fairly often that shares a parking lot with a gas station/convenience store and the drive through line routinely raps around the building and obstructs both driveways into the gas station. It splits into two lines at one point and they have people with tablets going down both lines taking orders to try and keep up.

I honestly don't know why they have turned into such an issue, they weren't like this prior to the pandemic, at least around here. I know their indoor dining is still closed but they were never that big in the first place and I would assume turned customers around more slowly than the drive through. I'm curious to see if their sales have actually increased during the pandemic, like people saw the crowds and figured it must be good so they got in line too.

Hop103 posted...

People need to learn to move on from their political foes when they lose or retire, it doesn't help that similar issues are in the US but on both sides (The TDS on the far left and the 2020 election on the right).

"NHK reported that the suspect served in Japans navy for three years in the 2000s and that he said he wanted to kill Abe because he had complaints that were not related to political views."

Lokarin posted...

20 seems like a lot... but I won't argue with minutia.

"Chauvins plea agreement called for a 20- to 25-year sentence and for him to serve the federal sentence at the same time as the state one in federal prison, The Associated Press reported.

He has already been sentenced to 270 months, minus time served, which equals about 22-and-a-half years in prison."

So this effectively added no time to his sentence. Explains why he accepted the plea.

VampireCoyote posted...

Why do millennials love sugar toast

Why do kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

ParanoidObsessive posted...

This.

Also to be fair, as Gen X I'd say you both kind of suck.

As a fellow Gen X, a lot of us suck too.

To be fair half the people that I see Millenials refer to as Boomers are Gen X

captpackrat posted...

Immortality sounds good, until you reach the heat death of the universe. Then what do you do?

Also terrible if it doesn't come with some form of healing/regeneration since you can just get trapped in endless pain with no hope of relief.

I had one where they left it on the steps of my porch in the rain, when they literally could have taken one more step and put it on the porch under the roof and out of the rain.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Ok my bad I didn't go to the end, I guess you were promoting that we have a major problem with mass shootings.

This might legitimately be the first time I've seen someone admit they were wrong on the internet...

Far-Queue posted...

Republicans couldn't wait to push protections for Supreme Court justices through after Kavanagh was threatened, but lowly commoners actually dying every damn day to gun violence and... nothing

Of course, if something happened to Kavanagh then Biden would get to appoint his replacement.

To some extent the original point still stands though. What is the point of having banana flavored things taste like a banana that nobody has tasted in the last 70 years?

A friend of mine did a factory tour and ended up with quite a few of those.

wpot posted...

American cheese? No, no thank-you.

I could be white cheddar.

Monopoman posted...

China banned it but they aren't doing it due to the monetization, apparently Blizzard had some tweets recently that made China look bad so they are punishing Blizzard by banning certain games like Diablo Immortal and maybe some future games.

Someone made a Winnie the Pooh reference on the official Diablo Immortal Weibo account.

The person that first taught me to play MtG back during Revised pretty much played Blue/Black with counters and discard or Blue/White with stuff like Stasis. I've never really gotten over my dislike of Blue ever since.

argonautweakend posted...

I passed a cop legally in a narrow street with stop signs. He says he SAW the stickers.

This has never happened before. I've got half a year or so before. this time it's only from April to now, but damn.

Never thought i'd see the day

I got tagged for that once. I don't know if it is true everywhere but they are color coded here, which makes it a lot easier for them to spot even in passing.

I'm kind of surprised there was never a wrongful death suit brought against him...at least not that I've seen on the news anywhere.

Ferarri619 posted...

How much of that 24 million is from China?

Ferarri619 posted...

I'd like to see what sales in China are like.

Zero. https://www.engadget.com/diablo-immortal-china-delay-weibo-netease-blizzard-200834353.html

Monopoman posted...

Well Genshin is a unique case I remember people being hyped as fuck when it came out, I heard stuff like Breath of the Wild but with Gacha or the first big time AAA game on Mobile. You have to remember when Candy Crush hit the scene it wasn't some huge game changer it was Bejeweled sorta but with a few unique changes.

Genshin was one of the most hyped Mobile games I have ever seen and to be fair their Waifu factor is off the charts, Genshin has some of the best looking characters in all of gaming. Even if you think Waifu shit is dumb millions around the globe care about it a lot.

Right, but this is a Diablo game so it isn't exactly an unknown franchise that nobody knew about. That is why I went with GI...well that and because I don't follow mobile games so I didn't really know anything else to compare it with.

I got my first at $325 but my second didn't come until around $2600 later

Monopoman posted...

In the world of mobile games they don't always hit peak profitability early on, Candy Crush for instance was making a lot more on their game years down the line then they did in their first year.

Mobile is nothing like normal video games where typically most of the sales will come in the first month or so.

That can be the case, but it isn't always. That October 2020 figure for Genshin is the most profitable month overall. September 2021 and January 2022 are close but the rest are substantially lower. The other thing to consider is downloads. Diablo is estimated at 8.5 million downloads over the same period that it earned 24 million. Genshin Impact had 6 million downloads for the two days of September 2020 it was out and 18 million for October. Again, that second month is the highest by far with every month since then averaging around 5-6 million.

So I think what will be telling is what the next month's numbers look like.

Far-Queue posted...

lunacy

Nice

The thing is, is $24 million actually a lot? Like if you look a Genshin Impact, it earned $14.24 million for September 2020, despite launching on 9/28. October 2020 it made $175.91 million. Now they don't list out what regions it was available in at that time and we know that Diablo isn't in China yet, but that is still a SUBSTANTIAL difference in earnings between the two.

Figures are from App Magic, which is the same source quoted for Diablo so it should be fairly apples to apples as far as that goes.

I'm not saying it won't end up making them money, but currently we just have one month without a lot of context as to how it compares to other games.

Jen0125 posted...

I love amusement park rides in general. I went to Marine Land in Canada when I was 12 and they unsafely let me on a Rollercoaster where I proceeded to pass out and almost slip from the harness to my death. I have a little perspective here. It took me a few years to be able to go to an amusement park after that.

When I was little I rode on a coaster with my dad that just had a single lap bar across both riders. Well when one of the riders is a grown adult and the other is a scrawny 8 year old, that bar isn't going to do anything to restrain the kid. We went down the first hill and into a turn and I slid right under the bar and onto the floor of the car...scared the bejesus out of my dad.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Could be oil price related.

Plastic is a petroleum product. If oil prices rise, plastic prices theoretically rise, and thus things made mostly out of plastic would potentially become more expensive.

Plus, there's the general reason why pretty much everything is becoming more expensive right now - rising oil prices mean higher gas prices, which means increase cost for shipping supplies and finished products, which increases the overhead and leads to prices going up.

I mean that all may play a role but I think a lot of it is that rather than selling it as a toy to kid's parents they are selling it to adults with more disposable income as nostalgia/collectibles.

My dad has been dead for more of my life than he was alive.