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DevsBro posted...

The Top Crusader posted...

My parents never tried to convince me, probably didnt want to distract from the religious meaning of the holiday. We had Santa decorations and watched movies and stuff with Santa but it was always clearly fake and just for fun.

My wife really wants to push the Santa thing on our daughter but I just think its dumb. >_>

I kinda agree with this. But it's more about honesty and trust. First of all, if you actually (try to) convince them Santa is real, you're lying. Secondly, you're setting them up to not believe what you tell them.

We're going to be honest with Baby DevsBro about Santa and the Easter Bunny. We can still have fun with it though.

Santa is at least a dude so it makes sense. A bunny? How in the world?! And if you go to see him at the mall or whatever, clearly guy in suit. At least a guy in a Santa suit *can* be real.
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About 12 years ago.
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My parents never tried to convince me, probably didnt want to distract from the religious meaning of the holiday. We had Santa decorations and watched movies and stuff with Santa but it was always clearly fake and just for fun.

My wife really wants to push the Santa thing on our daughter but I just think its dumb. >_>
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Never!!!!!!!

Never even been to Florida.
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creativerealms posted...

Yes it's okay to be a republican.

Note you can be a Republican and not support Trump.

While the allegiance of most of the party has me doubting my membership, I'm definitely not a Trump supporter and I suppose I'm a republican for lack of anything better going on. >_>
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Come to the other side of Ohio and clean my garage out for me. I'll buy you a one topping pizza from Domino's.
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Not remotely tropical, but the only type of vacation my wife and I have taken in years and years is going down to the Smokey Mountains and staying in a cabin. For a few days you may hit $2000 with travel if you are far away but you can find some pretty good deals so might stay well below that. Hotels are dirt cheap there if you are going in a slightly "off" season, so if you plan to be out and about a lot, that's a cheaper option.
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Yeah they wait until the shows been online a week or so before they cancel.
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I'm not here to debate if it makes sense or not, but I'd say most conservatives just don't see their local law enforcement as "government." Obviously they technically are but usually you kind of have home town pride or whatever, and even if it isn't a small enough town that you know the officers all personally, if you know a couple cops you probably just think of them all as good dudes doing their job and not government agents.

When they say tyrannical governments they are probably thinking of New World Order black helicopters piloted by Hollywood Hogan. Or Hillary/Obama.
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DarkRoast posted...

Waluigi is literally the only human Mario universe character to not get in.

Pauline and all the dumb baby versions.
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I don't know anything about Pokemon but I'm thinking of trying to main the weird wrestling cat monster thing, just because it seems like a real weirdo.

I used to main Mr. G&W just to be annoying. Also gonna try out Piranha Plant when the time comes.
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LividDK posted...

That's a shame. I'm a big fan of the first two but I can't just buy a Switch for this.

I mean its hardly a power house of exclusives but there are enough to be worthwhile, MUA3 is just a bonus at this point. I wouldn't own it as my only console but its still worth owning.
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Unlikely, but I'll take the impeachment.
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Heineken14 posted...

DoubleDare posted...

What are the chances he could lose the republican primary?

0.

As a lifelong Republican until the 2016 election, it would be awesome if he did, but nah not gonna happen.

I'm hoping he accepts he'll lose and doesn't want to be embarrassed so says, "Wow I am so amazing I made America great again in just one term!" and doesn't run.
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SaithSayer posted...

We'll see. The media paints a certain picture. Going by TV, I was beginning to think most people in America aren't religious anymore. Sadly the numbers don't reflect that.

People who actually attempt to follow their religion will reject Trump anyway so it's all good. I mean, I would regardless I assume, but my Christian beliefs are in direct contradiction to the man and many of his policies.
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Eat some during finals.
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The Trent posted...

Heineken14 posted...

My favorite bit about right wingers daily flipping their shit about her being stupid is, they will turn around and talk about how smart Donnie is and what a great job he is doing. lol

they're both morons obviously

Yeah I am firmly in the camp that neither of them should've been elected to public office.
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I'm pretty sure its a joke question.
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Am I the only one that struggles to open pull tabs? >_>

I think I pulled one open really fast once and somehow managed to cut my hand and now I'm afraid to put any real strength into it. I prefer regular cans that I can use a can opener on. >_>
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Maybe, *maybe* if they are as easily hacked as the NES and SNES Classic I'll pick one up eventually, but the included game list is pretty terrible, and even if you can add games I assume you are stuck with the junky original PS1 controller.
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I've not actually used one of the Sega ones but they have a pretty bad reputation, so unless you see one dirt cheap I'd avoid. I guess if its inexpensive enough it might be worth fooling around with.

So if you are specifically after Sega Genesis stuff this may not be useful, but the Super Retrocade had close to 100 licensed games from Capcom, Data East, and some other big name companies and is pretty great... at least, it has a lot of stuff that I'm a fan of.

It also has an SD card slot that, uh, if you really want to play Sega Genesis games or other older console or arcade games that aren't already preloaded... then I guess you could seek permission from said companies to legally use roms.
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I'm a big fan of more or less all the other content he puts out--I wanted to like it, and appreciate it for being what it was as some above have said, but wow, I just didn't like it. >_>

I only watched it when it was brand new, though. Maybe would be worth giving another watch.
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Bass_X0 posted...

I liked the Snob, Critic and Nerd crossover.

Yeah, I'm not familiar with Snob at all and not particularly a huge fan of Critic, but it was a good video. Maybe it's just me and I'm a weirdo, but I really wish I could've joined in on the conversation, lots of good memories!
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I think the AVGN stuff is still decent overall, but I do tend to enjoy James and Mike Mondays (although Mike can be tough to stomach on there sometimes... he's at least reigned in a little more there then on his own Play channel) and currently the movie rental store stuff he's doing--always loved his older style movie reviews when he did them, but the new format is fun, too.
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I mainly am gonna be playing single player, more unlocking the better...
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ZannoL posted...

Chick-Fil-A is honestly overrated trash.

Eh, I would say they are good, not great or trash, but overpriced. I dont think their chicken is special, the waffle fries are kind of nice.
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Joey doesnt share!
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Trump
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EvalAngell posted...

t_paynes_ghost posted...

If they're only 6 months old should your wife not still be on mat leave? I don't know how it works in America, but in Canada you get a 12 month, or 18 month Mat leave option. (18 month is reduced pay obviously, but it works out to getting a little bit more). My wife is getting ~70% of her usual take home pay on the 18 month, though we got really lucky with ours, I believe it's usually 50% with a max of ~$1000 every 2 weeks.

you only get 3 months of paternity leave. Then there's something called FMLA but she would only be eligible for up to half her regular salary. And that only lasts 3 months as well. Count your blessings bro

Do you mean maternity leave? Because I don't think the US does paternity leave, unless you have an awesome job. But yeah my wife just got time off with no pay, but had short term disability insurance, but that's only like 6 weeks, not 6 months, before you're back to work. >_>

I totally get how your wife must feel crazy being at home, especially with two babies. Like I said, due to work schedules, we don't have to have a sitter constantly, but that means I've got lots of weekends and evenings where it's just me and the kid, and as much as I love her it can get really, really rough sometimes when you just flat out can't do anything you want or need to do most of the time. Nearly impossible to get actual work around the house done, and even more impossible to just chillax and play a video game or whatever. You said you guys were in your early 30's, and I'm in my mid, I wonder if we had too much time with no real responsibility and its harder to adjust then our friends who were having kids 10 years ago.

I bet my wife and I make way less money, but cost of living is dirt cheap around here. >_> Our mortgage is like roughly a quarter of what you would pay for day care. Luckily with our work schedules we don't need full time day care, and my mom watches our daughter. We pay her, but not $1,700 a month. >_>
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Genocet_10-325 posted...

But conservatives get super offended over "happy holidays" lololol such sensitive, delicate little flowers they are

It's a very small subset of conservatives. I live in SUPER CONSERVATIVE TOWN, USA and no one really cares.

Like I always grew up thinking it just meant "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!" rolled into one. Thanksgiving if you say it early enough. >_>
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I love you.
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Connery is my favorite, I think Brosnan was really good but generally had bad movies to work with.
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World Championship Wrestling, get this Woman Crush garbage out of here!
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Yeah, Smash looks fun and all but I dont really get what there is to spoil about a game like that, beyond maybe playable characters but Nintendo told us all that already. Finding out there is a Cobrat spirit is hardly a spoiler.
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I was working when I went to college... >_>

But yeah, that was a fun time even with work and school responsibilities. Pretty much all spare time went to goofing off with friends and no real significant responsibilities beyond the aforementioned work and school.

Obviously I love my wife and kid but that carefree time was pretty awesome.
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Im a conservative and dont do any of those things, weird.

I dont have any issue with interracial couples and I dont think Id call anyone a gang unless they were wearing matching jackets and flicking switchblades, but it wouldnt have to do with skin color.

The current big migrant issue, I dont really know what I think because its an awful lot of people to just let march in, but I do feel we need to make legal immigration as quick and easy as possible and also stream line the asylum seeking process.
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I went ahead and signed up with a different email and cancelled my account. >_> Kind of a bummer you don't get an option to pay the difference for commercial free, but eh, for 99 cents I'll try to live with the commercials.
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TheRealDill2000 posted...

0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

Hard to say. Seems like shed be a bit higher functioning than your average Trump supporter.

This is why Trump won. You people constantly assume that we're uneducated and the source of society's problems. We happen to be well-educated people who just want to see America become great again.

I didn't vote for Trump, but I live in an area where basically everyone did, and it does grow tiring to hear my family and friends insulted constantly based on politics. Almost enough to make me vote for Trump in 2020, but... not quite.

It's like if the other side could be reasonable and friendly I think more people would abandon the GOP ship but when you're treated like that, you just double down...
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Infinite 2003 posted...

Seen all of them.

FLUFFYGERM posted...

All of them except for the Hulk movie with Edward Norton, which if I recall correctly is not really part of the MCU.

It's the second MCU movie. The mid credits scene has Tony Stark show up and talk to someone about "putting a team together"

There is no mid or post credits scene, its all before the credits roll.

Anyway, I like it a lot. Weird now having a different actor and the Hulk model was too much an over-correction from the stinky 2003 Hulk, but they got it all squared away by Avengers. It's been outshined by later MCU movies, sure, but I never understood the overall dislike for it, it was right up there with Iron Man and easily better than IM2 and Thor. I'd put it over Cap but an argument can be made either way.
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CosmicShadows posted...

No love for Shipleys?

I don't think I ever heard of that.

Krispy Kreme seems fine the couple times I had them, but none local here.
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Worst ever was accounting. I did great in high school but I dunno, the college prof was bad at explaining things, and while I guess its fair enough in relation to if it was actually your job, if you messed something up early in a spreadsheet so all your other totals were wrong, you just got them all marked wrong, no partial credit for doing all but one thing early on right. Only D I never got in college.

Math was never my thing really, though. I barely squeaked by with a C in whatever math classes I took. This was all like 15+ years ago so it's all a little hazy now.
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I was all set to get the $40 PS Plus, then my account auto renewed right before the sale started. >_> So I just signed up for another year of it.

Didn't get tons of games this year, my backlog has always been bad but having a baby at home makes it a lot worse, lol. Did pick up the Street Fighter Collection, which is easy enough to play in short bursts, and Monster Hunter World, which I may never actually get around to, and a few things on the various digital storefronts. Tempted to get Dragon Quest XI today since its half price at Best Buy and Amazon, I dunno though.

And I got a ton of blurays. Nothing too exciting, but some good prices on half decent films.

And an air fryer and tablet/laptop hybrid thing.
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MakoReizei posted...

smoke_break posted...

They're okay. The best donuts imo are grocery store donuts.

what

the

fuck

I mean I guess its possible he has an awesome local grocery? But in my experience they are usually pretty average at best.

Dunkin being a tad better maybe. I only go there for the coffee. The donuts are FINE but overpriced and nothing special, better off with a local bakery.
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Bestbuy.com and amazon are pretty much all I need.
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