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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Madonna stopped making music worth caring about in the 90s, and by the mid-2000s she was basically a sad grandma that most people didn't spend all that much time paying attention to or caring about.

Kind of like when Cher decided that wearing a fishnet body suit while straddling a ship cannon was age-appropriate with "if I could turn back time" in '89.

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OHJOY90 posted...

Well to be fair it was a 2-parter.

True, but by the last season the Prime and Temporal Directives are more like Prime "Suggestion".

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Just saw tRoS and I'll say this much. If I went in to it blind, knowing nothing about Star Wars or Jedi or Sith or any established canon, I'd say it wasn't a terrible movie.

That being said, what the fuck did I just watch? That's not how this works. That's not how ANY of this works. Ass-pull doesn't even begin to cover what I just saw.

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_AdjI_ posted...

Given that I don't pay attention to hockey and could therefore define my "favourite" team as the one that requires the least travel, this would probably be doable without having to take the full time off work. That said, if flights being cancelled costs me the prize, I don't think it'd be a worthwhile gamble. Flying in Canada in the winter is risky business. Flights get cancelled all the time, and with only a day or two to spare between some games, that could very easily be the end of it.

If flight cancellations (and other such uncontrollable travel interruptions) don't count against me, then I'd do it, otherwise, not so much.

This was my major issue. I live in the Hudson Valley in NY, so if I just followed the Rangers, all the home games are easy-peasy. Jump the river to Beacon and I have a train straight into Grand Central and from there MSG is a short hop. Given the geography of New England and a majority of NHL teams clustered in major cities of the Northeast, at least a third of the away games are more or less driveable if I planned ahead. Another third are going to be relatively routine and safe flights. However, this brings us to that last third of the away games which would be a total crapshoot. Minnesota and several Canadian arenas would come down to pure luck depending on what the weather was doing. Buffalo is also very close, certainly close enough to drive to but they get lake effect snow 4 feet at a time with frightening regularity.

I figure about 60 or so of those games are going to be in the bag before I even take the bet, but those remaining 20ish could get super sketchy.

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The grossest part about that video is expecting me to believe that anyone ever does aerobics in high heels.

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Brawndo. It has what plants crave.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

It's funny, because nothing about the whistle blower matters.

Trump did an action the constitution demands he be impeached for.

If only the CIA had been instructed to make the same threat, we wouldn't even have had this conversation...for 3 fucking years.

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Monopoman posted...

I am blown away that the NHL season is as long as an NBA season Hockey seems like a sport where injuries are far more common and that it is a very taxing sport on the player.

I mean yes and no to the taxing part. There's not nearly as much contact as say, American Football or Rugby, the periods are 3x20 without nearly as much stop and go, and players rotate in and out of play fairly often. That's not to say hockey is without pain and injuries, you are doing up to 20mph at points with what amounts to knife blades on your feet, but the padding does absorb a good deal of the incidental contact, and when you go down, unless it's a body pile you tend to slide rather than just come to an abrupt thud like you would on AstroTurf.

I might even go so far as to say that basketball might be harder on the body, or at least the joints with the quick changes of direction, whereas hockey is more...arcing. momentum swings instead of stop and reverse type moves. Not a lot of jumping in hockey either for obvious reasons.

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The major hitch I could foresee in this scenario would be that hockey is a primarily winter sport and with that comes unexpected travel delays, particularly to the furthest north cities. I could see a bad storm leaving you stuck. Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Buffalo...etc are risky bets.

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Voyager makes a lot more sense if you watch it through the lens of Janeway being bipolar while the EMH and Tuvok are trying to control her condition behind the scenes.

"You are all Starfleet Officers on a Starfleet vessel, and we must uphold the Prime Directive!"

*45 minutes later*

One dead First Contact being, 2 wars started and technology given to a primitive civilization.

And that's just the first episode.

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OTHER, Super Mario: Tactics

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helIy posted...

They're twins.

I wouldn't mind being the meat in that sandwich.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

I don't have Disney Plus yet

Get your shit together, Summer.

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Not to interrupt the riveting and mildly homoerotic conversation about male undergarments, powertools, and kitchen appliances, but how are none of you geeks talking about the season finale for The Mandalorian? Like holy shit.

Despite a few missteps here and there over the season, this last episode redeems it all in full.

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I'd actually like to see Trapt get another shot. I absolutely hated the execution of the original, but I liked the concept.

Also, back to my giant robot tangent, it *would* be nice to see another Zone of Enders game that isn't a SRPG.

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Both, many times. For a solid decade+ I caught 20 live shows a year and at least 1 three day festival, plus a number of sporting events.

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Most flavored teas taste like I'm drinking incense.

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100 hackers with no recoil try and stop a girl from accepting Colonel Sanders as her Lord and Savior.

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I do enjoy tea myself, but loose tea is hard to come by on the shelf in the grocer. Bagged tea tastes like it was strained through a gym sock to me. I'm more or less reduced to twinings loose English breakfast, gunpowder green, Earl grey, and if I can find it, Irish breakfast. I really do love the Irish breakfast but it's hard to come by where I am.

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Also, ostritch is very good, possibly my favorite bird meat out of the birds I've had, (chicken, duck, goose, turkey, quail), but gazelle is possibly the best meat I've ever had. It even edges out venison, and I really, really like venison. Gazelle is just on another level. Ibex is a close second, venison (deer) is a very close third. Venison is however far more available than the rest. Bear is hit or miss, so is moose and elk.

If I had to pick a last meal, a gazelle New York strip would be my first choice.

In a survival situation, all bets are off, but having sampled a surprising cross-section of exotic game, gazelle is by far my favorite.

Snakes suck unless frog is your jam. Snake is too close to tripe on taste and texture and I really dislike tripe.

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LinkPizza posted...

That is pretty surprising. I would have never thought of lasagna as a Christmas dish...

I mean I love spaghetti cake, but I thought my family was the only one that did that.

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Never had an Ostrich burger, but I have eaten ostritch, as well as gazelle.

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Turkey doesn't bacon half as well as Bacon bacons, but lamb knows how to burger.

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I am not surprised at the amount of ham and various birds in this topic, but I am surprised by how many people are doing lasagna.

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Revelation34 posted...

None since FF Ivalice isn't the same one as that one.

FF12 and Tactics would like to have a word with you, but the point still stands.

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Revelation34 posted...

So something that isn't a big deal. The game had a great story and gameplay.

Be that as it may, multidisc games cost more to produce. More discs. Custom cases. Vagrant Story had a great story and great gameplay too, and it fit on one disc. How much of Ivalice have we seen since '96?

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Revelation34 posted...

Perfectly normal?

I find it hard to think of many other games that didn't tap out at 2, one had 3. Iirc. 4 was pushing it and shows a design team that doesn't know how to optimize...it wasn't going to get any smaller going forward.

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Revelation34 posted...

I wonder why they never made another game when it sold so well.

Let's start with 4 discs in that era...

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Ham and lasagna.

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Revelation34 posted...

Too bad the controls were so terrible for Steambot Chronicles.

I really don't get the hate for the controls. The camera could be a little uncooperative at times, but I don't recall having major issues with the controls.

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trodi_911 posted...

Steambot Chronicles

That was fun too, but I'd rather see another RAD, or Zone of Enders than a Bumpytrot.

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Revelation34 posted...

All they would need to do is go back to their roots.

Even "their roots" had the mistranslated desert slog.

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CaptainObvius posted...

They aren't mediocre, they are excellent, but I would like to see breath of fire, and shadow hearts give it another shot.

After BoF: Groundhog Day, I'm not sure I want that series messed with any further.

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https://i.imgur.com/0iJMuxs.png

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Zangulus posted...

If I havent seen the first three, will I be able to follow the story?

Ever been hit in the nuts while other guys laugh at you?

If so, I think you'll catch up quick.

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For some reason I can't see Steve-O stapling his sack to his thigh now that he's sober.

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R. A. D. - Robot Alchemic Drive. (PS2)

The voice acting was so bad it hit Ed Wood territory, but the gameplay was like nothing else I've ever played. Giant robots with Fight Night controls, destructible buildings...on a current gen system this could be so much better again.

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Still better than Ben Franklins disappointed half smirk at how many times he's been used to snort cocaine off a stripper's ass.

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Even the less than stellar Marvel movies are better than most of the Star Wars movies at this point

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The real crime against pizza is this:

https://i.imgur.com/WGOtVCX.jpg

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There is nothing strange going on at the DOG PARK.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

What are you talking about?

They swore an oath, it's not about what they were "selected" for.

My point being, comparing them to ordinary jurors as if they were picked from a random pool of the populace by dueling attorneys is reducto ad absurdum. Oath or not, it's a bad analogy.

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The Senate wasn't selected for impartiality in the trial, because this isn't a standard trial by any simplistic analogy. If anything, they're more like referees than jurors. They were already "in the stadium" when a trial broke out. It isn't the same thing no matter how hard you try and reduce it to that.

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Jen0125 posted...

Technicality? It's not about total impartiality. It's about the fact that they are literally saying they are going to vote directly how they're told by the president. How is that a technicality? You and I can't get called for a jury of someone we know and say, "yeah I know them I'm gonna vote not guilty" and still get on the jury lmao. I can't believe you're calling that a technicality. It's completely corrupt.

*Speaks slowly as if to a child*

You do know the difference between a juror and a Senator, right?

I don't know how it works in Arizona, but last time I sat on a Jury back in Connecticut, I wasn't sworn in for 6 years.

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Jen0125 posted...

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. But you are also seeming to ignore that they are saying they're going to act at the directive of the person they're supposed to be trying. I'm not sure what is getting lost in translation here.

I get the technicality you are harping on Jen, but to pretend the vote in the House was any more impartial than the vote in the Senate is likely to be is pretty disingenuous.

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SpaceBear_ posted...

Says a lot about people back then when the chosen superpower they gave to their Messiah was getting them free booze.

To be fair, at the time beer, wine, and liquor were safer to drink than the water. When you live in a desert, liquids are kind of a big deal.

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Jen0125 posted...

??? That's not even what I'm talking about. Are you being intentionally obtuse? I'm not talking about people having their minds made up. I'm talking about Senators saying they're going to vote HOW THE WHITE HOUSE TELLS THEM TO. I want to put it in all caps since you seem to intentionally be not reading it.

By that logic Jen, with what, 2 or 3 exceptions, the vote to impeach in the Congress was cleanly split down party lines as well.

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Can we get a moment of silence for Hillary Clinton, the only woman in history to be screwed by two impeached presidents?

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DeltaBladeX posted...

No wonder I got the name wrong. I think of Mario Bros, that terrible single screen game.

As a kid that cut his teeth on the Atari 2600 and NES, the original Mario Bros can be fun, but only the original NES version in 2 player. The later add-on versions in later games and compilations don't really capture the gameplay well.

It's really just a Mario spin on Joust or 2p Balloon Fight.

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Super Mario Bros 2, the reskinned Doki Doki Panic.

Ironically, the game where Toad and Peach are strong choices and Mario and Luigi are meh.

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