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SquirtleSkwad posted...

How the hell did they hold out so long against Blockbuster? Were these hipster bought locations that finally admitted to being outdated?

Yeah, it's weird, we still had three in town when Blockbuster and Hollywood Video died, and they all chugged along for quite a few years. Then one died. Then another. We lost the last one a few months ago. So the entire chain going down isn't a shock. Can't say I had been in side any time recently, but it was kind of nice to know it was there. >_> I was gonna take my daughter when she was a little older so she could at least have the experience of picking out a physical movie instead of browsing streaming services.

We haven't been back to my wife's hometown in a few years--well, technically her hometown is like a few houses in the middle of nowhere, but the nearest town that had a few stores 20 minutes away--small rural area that didn't have high speed internet yet so the Family Video was still pretty popular because no one could stream without paying crazy amounts for half decent DSL or something. I wonder if some Mom and Pop's will show up in places like that where internet isn't quite there.

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Nah if Mike Judge wants to do a reboot, should be King of the Hill.

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...was there supposed to be a link or something?

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I'd probably have eaten out a handful of times and maybe gone to a movie or two (if old release schedules had stayed in place). Otherwise I don't think I don't think I'd have done anything different.

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It is one of DC's best movies.

It still isn't particularly good.

I'd probably put it above a couple of the worst MCU movies, though.

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My understanding is Pence an actually override him if he wants, but Trump can't. I certainly could be wrong, but a random dude who usually understands governmenty things told me this. >_>

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Obviously 2000 per adult is better, but yeah, that'll net 1800 for the household and we were legit going to have to just pay some stuff late, so hey, I'll take it.

Fingers still crossed for another 2800, though. >_>

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Last Christmas did you give her your heart?

But sorry to hear that. It sucks but rarely does it not work out for the best.

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I mean he's still terrible and I don't trust his motives, but he's actually right on this (not just the low amount in stimulus, but the huge money being tacked onto to a US Covid relieve bill that is going to other countries) so I'll give him credit.

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Pay the taxes I owe before the deadline, hopefully. >_>

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I'm sure I've returned movies or games a day or two late, but nothing too exciting.

I still have books from the library from like 1998 though.

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dolomedes posted...

who the fuck does he represent?

Literally me, lol. I hate my district. >_>

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I live in a low cost of living area, so that actually would be rent most apartments locally, but still only one month with not much change left over to be sure. Pretty pathetic.

...but I mean I'll take that over zero I guess.

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^pics

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Grogu posted...

Dude she died 500 years ago. Who cares what she really looked like?

Hence the "I don't really care" in my post.

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Yeah.

Used to eat absolutely terribly, but I've slowly been improving that with some relapses... but yeah I'd still say I land on the "unhealthy" side, lol. I cut out a lot of fast food and have been eating more vegetables, but the rest of my diet isn't particularly healthy.

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That's cool, neat to see Molina back, but man Dafoe was the best (if worst costume).

I'm sure it isn't happening, but I'd be perfectly fine with Dafoe just being Osborne in the MCU.

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I don't really care, but I do think it's weird to not basically just cast a person that looks the most like the real person if its something historical. Skin color is at least *part* of that equation. Not something I'd lose sleep or boycott over or anything.

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Itachi157 posted...

December used to drag forever as a kid waiting for Christmas.

However as an adult October through December combined feel like they shoot by in less time than just December felt like as a kid.

My daughter will be three between now and Christmas, and I was just thinking about this the other day. Maaaaan its crazy how December used to drag as a kid. Now it's like "wasn't it just August?" But yeah my wife wanted to put the tree up early but I was against it because having it up for a month for an adult isn't a big deal but for a little kid its like mocking them for 3 years. >_>

But yeah, on topicish, having a kid definitely makes me look forward to Christmas a lot more. Not that I ever reached the point of hating it, but for quite a while it just felt like "Oh hey cool I get some time off of work" and presents are nice but I buy anything I really want and other than my wife its almost all gift cards buying for and receiving from these days. It's nice but its not exciting. There is definitely a certain hollowness now as traditions that lived through my childhood have died out as older relatives died, no longer at the same old location, other relatives not showing up because they've moved off and have other extended family now as well, etc. This year probably just home with the wife and kid, which I do kinda wish my daughter could have similar experiences to me with bigger family, even if not at my grandparents' house with them alive, but this isn't the year for it.

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There have been some surprises so anything is possible, but any character that was very likely to make it in that I want is already in. I will still hold on to that ray of hope that we get one more anime-inspired swordsman.

Nah I want Q*Bert.

I could see it being a semi-big reveal since they are doing at the awards thing, though. Maybe Master Chief finally? Not a character or series I'm into but it would be sort of neat.

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They may finally accept the inevitable, but they'll still be complaining about it for four years.

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Quorthon109 posted...

These two were definitely the biggest gut punches for me, too.

Yeah, I'm probably a bigger fan of Connery (huge Bond fan) but he was like a million years old so you kinda knew it was coming. Kobe and Chadwick were just a big shock out of nowhere.

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I'm excited for Godzilla VS Kong. Kind of bummed it seems unlikely I'll get to see it in theaters but if I can see it streaming sooner than later I'm okay with that.

I loved the last movie, felt like a Showa film on a big budget. 2014 was kind of meh.

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I assume he's referring to Donkey Kong Country, but I don't get why it's bittersweet.

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All our income goes into one account but I am the one that generally manages the finances. But we don't really have any particular "rules" or whatever, we obviously aren't going to go out and spend hundreds or thousands on needless stuff for no reason.

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CosmicShadows posted...

That's a basic snack for me. <__<

Plus it seems like a lot of places, the price differential is dumb, like $5 for a 6 inch but $6.50 for 12 or something. So you're practically THROWING MONEY AWAY not to get a 12 inch! But yeah 6 inch isn't usually very filling.

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lww99 posted...

8800 cases today. Were def gonna hit 10k per day, before thanksgiving.

practically newrecords every day

It's weird to me how things are so much worse now than when we kinda/sorta sheltered in place in April but everyone is just like "okay whatever" and doesn't seem to care anymore.

We've been told at work to expect sooner than later that we'll probably be closed to the public again.

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ImAMarvel posted...

I WISH I could say the same thing for my state. Fuck FL.

Yeah, same here in Ohio. I figured Trump would win here, but I thought it would be closer.

Florida looked like it had real hope of turning blue based on the polling.

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Yeah, its rare to go anywhere and not see a ton of people either completely maskless or wearing it under their nose. Although I haven't been out much since the "extra special" mask mandate. But *most* stores thus far aren't really enforcing it very hard, and stores that do try just have workers getting yelled at, etc. I'm glad I don't work retail, but my wife does... they are really strict at her store but they always get people outraged that they are enforcing the mandate there. It's inside a mall, I don't know why the mall isn't responsible to make people comply upon entering so individual store owners aren't under attack constantly.

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We were the first county to get a star way back when this started but we've been back to red for a while now. Honestly don't know how we don't at least have a star or gone purple yet, our numbers are atrocious every day. >_>

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I must be lucky, no one ever held a gun to my head and demanded I take out a student loan that I would likely have a hard time paying back, so I didn't.

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Mine's original, the plural version was the name of the super hero team one of my best friends and I made up in elementary school, when I first got on the intrawebz in... 1997 or 1998? I singularized it for my first AOL login and used it for forums etc over the years.

I did come across random dude also using the same name, I messaged him just to hear his story out of curiosity, and he said he saw it on another forum (that I was on) and liked it so stole it. >:(

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Eh yeah I kind of am in the same boat... never really thought about it honestly, but I do have some really close female friends, and it is a little weird for some reason when they want to hug. Even though I'm comfortable hanging out with them all day some little spark in my brain goes back to being in junior high or something and makes me feel awkward.

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Not sure I was much on the same page as Herman Cain politically, but I stand by Godfather's Pizza as a pretty decent chain.

Plus to this day they still have Sunsetriders arcade machine at my local restaurant.

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_BlueMonk posted...

death by snoo snoo is real guys im dying

We couldn't get pregnant naturally, but tried all the advice like you are for a few years, and yeah, it seems good on paper but when you're just trying to have a baby and have a strict schedule for years it starts to get weird. >_>

Yay for IVF though?

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I suppose there is some chance that they stay married on paper but just are never in the same place at the same time ever.

Maybe now in their old age they are together more but I think that's basically what the Clinton's did.

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jpenny2 posted...

I don't understand this view that Trump is on God's side. From a Biblical viewpoint, Trump is objectively a bad person. All the other "fallen" men he lists repented of their sins and turned their lives around. Trump has never admitted to being wrong in his life. I mean, if you're going to argue this from a religious point of view, at least make sense.

Yeah, they always want to bring up King David, and its like, for one thing, David was horribly grieved by his sin and begged God for forgiveness, and even then it eventually led to a civil war IIRC. I, uh, I'm not sure we want that.

But yes the key is they ALL see the error of their ways and repent in the Bible. Trump is just like "well I never asked forgiveness because I've never done anything wrong."

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Why would Hogan, Hall, and Nash care if people wear masks or not?

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I got it for free from my cell carrier as some promotion, lol. It's... okay? I would've been annoyed if I paid $60 for it or whatever, but I like comic booky stuff and it was sort of fun the little I played of it--but it feels like a budget game, no way it should've had the massive budget it apparently did.

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As soon as a well established republican speaks out against Trump, they are the RINO, even though they have much more historic cred. Basically every living President and nominee except I guess Bob Dole hated Trump when he got the nomination. The Bushes, McCain, Romney... all RINOs now.

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Yeah, it's rough. I'm not totally a stay at home parent but am the only line of defense most evenings and all day on weekends. Not the same thing but it can be rough. My daughter is three in a couple months, and while them being older adds more challenge in a lot of ways, it is nice being able to communicate with them much better and actually have some fun playing with them (even though it gets old eventually and you have other things you want/need to get done), etc.

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Obviously she would be if Biden steps down for some reason, but I dunno, I don't think she's super electable. Doubt she could win a general election, but I guess we'll see.

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Not hearing much from many of them, I think they were realistic enough and saw the writing on the wall by Wednesday afternoon, so were prepared.

Not all of them, though. Got a couple going nuts on the Facebook.

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CADE FOSTER posted...

Trump should resign and Pence can pardon him

If he resigns, prosecutors probably just wait a couple months to press charges once Pence is gone as well. >_>

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I... hope not?

Shows like that were fine back in the day when you couldn't just stream whatever all the time and had to watch whatever was on TV, but like... why watch something like that in this day and age? >_>

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