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tremain07 posted...

Weird flex to become the thing you killed but okay

We hurt the ones we love.

She's not ugly

no

Make sure to hit subscribe and mash that like button.

Life uh finds a way

"The FAKE...news...mediaaa"

Where have all the flowers gone...

thronedfire2 posted...

Textbooks are a scam

That's for sure.

Run the other way guys.

DirkDiggles posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/3/1/AAam6dAAE8Hv.jpg

lmao

gmo7897 posted...

students are pushed into college without a plan, and since college is now so ridiculously expensive (there are a lot of factors at play that made this happen), they graduate with a lot of debt and a lot of difficulty in finding employment

Yeah, I guess that's true. Maybe we need kids to settle on a career early. I think college is worth it, but yeah there needs to be an endgame plan.

Just tell them you get your whole paycheck every time.

SayHeyyShohei posted...

Well gee OP you surely convinced us!

I'm asking.

She don't know it's over already?

Most of you got degrees. How is it a scam?

Eh

Never wanted to go on a cruise.

It's kind of so-so.

RIP

Yeah, I saw a video about this yesterday. She's getting divorced and sausage wants half. He said ha was the one playing games and she was pretending. Then he told her to do react channels and wrote and edited all the videos, so they're going thru a nasty divorce. They've been married for the last ten years.

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/14/1205971022/netflix-house-brick-and-mortar-locations

Netflix recently shuttered the longstanding mail-order DVD service that led to the closure of video stores around the world and ushered in the era of streaming. But now the company appears to be embracing brick and mortar.

According to a Bloomberg report quoting Josh Simon, the company's vice president of consumer products, Netflix aims to open a network of stores offering retail, dining and live entertainment that leverage its TV shows and movies.

Netflix has not announced what it will be selling at the locations; it's unclear if DVDs or any type of physical media will be part of the inventory.

The streamer plans to open the first two of these "Netflix House" locations in unannounced cities in the U.S. in 2025. It hopes to expand the concept to major cities around the world thereafter.

"We've seen how much fans love to immerse themselves in the world of our movies and TV shows," Simon told Bloomberg. "And we've been thinking a lot about how we take that to the next level."

Netflix did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment.

Though Disney, a major Netflix competitor, has been in the retail, dining and live entertainment spaces for decades, such offerings have not yet been part of Netflix's core brand. But the company has recently been dabbling in these areas.

Earlier this year, the streamer opened a pop-up restaurant in Los Angeles featuring menu items created by chefs associated with Netflix cooking shows. The company has also launched pop-up stores offering merchandise from its hit show Stranger Things in cities such as Paris, Las Vegas and Chicago.

It was also involved in The Queen's Ball: A Bridgerton Experience, a traveling production that recreated sets from the Netflix show Bridgerton with actors, live music and dancing.

It's not unusual for successful online brands to gravitate to the physical world. Amazon, for example, opened brick and mortar stores and acquired Whole Foods Market.

"Netflix is an ecosystem. It opened a merchandise shop a couple of years ago. It's investing in mobile games. It's more than just a place for your remote control to gravitate to at the end of a long day," said Rick Munarriz, a senior media analyst with the investment advice company, The Motley Fool, in a statement to NPR.

"Success in the real world through location-based entertainment is the spoils of victory for a leading tastemaker. If Disney and NBC Universal can operate theme parks I give Netflix a decent shot of succeeding with this venture."

But NPR TV critic Eric Deggans is less convinced about Netflix's forays into the real world.

"It sounds like Netflix is trying to do what Disney does," Deggans said. "But Disney has been doing what Disney does for a very long time. And the amount of money Netflix would have to spend to actually compete with them doesn't make any sense to me."
Deggans added: "I think it's some kind of weird experiment that they probably will not do for very long."

Vampyr

Mineral water

Turkey sandwich.

Questionmarktarius posted...

"We have an arcade at home"

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/2/4/AAEhCpAAE7oY.jpg

Awesome!

SiO4 posted...

There are a couple at Lake George.
One still has a shooting Gallery, which has been there foreverrr..
Also, without looking up the hint, check out the team signs above and guess the state.
~I kinda just noticed it.

https://imgur.com/zleZOnQ

Awesome!

I have to be able to stand in it.

No deal fam.

Not sure

Hayame_Zero posted...

It's where I met my wife.

Cool

https://www.cidercade.com/houston/

Over 9000

See we got this one. It's a bad ass place.
https://www.joystixgames.com/

Like a classic arcade? And do you go?

We have one in Houston, maybe two.

It comes from south of the border.

ok

https://apnews.com/article/911-calls-lahaina-maui-wildfire-73aa7c2127c5183345dd4b772520d57a

Maui County officials released two hours of audio of 911 calls to The Associated Press that were recorded as frantic residents tried to escape the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century. The inferno that engulfed Lahaina killed at least 98 people and leveled more than 2,000 buildings, most of them homes.

Here are chronological summaries of some of the more than 200 calls recorded with 911 dispatchers between 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 8 obtained by the AP.

3:31 p.m.
A woman called to ask if she had to evacuate. When she said she was on Front Street and Baker Street, an area in the historic heart of the town that would ultimately be razed by the flames, she was told she didnt have to leave.

Thats not close to it yet, an audibly stressed dispatcher said before adding they were trying to answer all the calls coming in.

4:41 p.m.
A man called 911 saying he was seeking refuge in a big rig truck that he came across near the Pioneer Mill Smokestack just off Lahainaluna Road. He said he initially tried to escape by bike but ditched it when the fire became too intense. Vehicles were blowing up around him, he said.

The dispatcher asked if he could drive the rig to get away from the fire. When he said he didnt know how to drive an 18-wheeler, she asked him why he was in it.

Maam, I need help, OK! he said. Im getting burned up here.

The man said he was inhaling the pitch black smoke surrounding the truck. Near the end of the call, the panic in his voice rose notably.

Im running for it. Jesus Christ, he said. Oh my God. I dont know what to do. ... I gotta get outta here. I gotta do something.

The man called back about 15 minutes later to say he had made it out of the truck and was OK

4:42 p.m.
A caller who sounded like a little girl called from near Aki Street.

The fires all over already. Its all over Lahainaluna, she said in a voice wrought with panic. Shrieks were heard in the background as other people frantically debated what to do. At one point, it seemed they were saying, dead end.

You guys need to leave. If you cant drive away, get out of the car and run, the dispatcher said. Do not stay in your car and wait. Get out of there. You guys need to worry about your bodies, not your car.

4:44 p.m.
A caller could barely get her words out between sobs. She said she last saw her mom and her baby on Kahena Street, near Lahainaluna Road.

Do you think theyre there still, the dispatcher asked.

I dont know, she said, overcome by tears. My mom just took her to go up the road because we thought it was safer.

The dispatcher tried to gently reassure her that officers were in the area. But when she asked how old her mom was, the call dropped.

4:49 p.m.
A man called to say he and his wife were trapped because she couldnt get down the four flights of stairs in their apartment building.

The dispatcher said the best they could do was alert police, and then asked if the man had any neighbors who could help.

Theyre a bunch of girls, theyre not very strong. I dont think they could help my wife down the steps, he said.

Let me try my best to get a hold of somebody, the dispatcher said, and try to send them your way.

4:52 p.m.
A woman called from Front Street and Baker Street to say she was trapped in traffic. Saying the fire was half a block away from her car, she asked where she could drive to safety because the smoke was too thick to get out and walk.

When the dispatcher told her to go north to the Lahaina Civic Center, she said they were stuck and didnt have any way to make it there.

Neither does anybody else at that point, right? the dispatcher said. Weve got all these huge fires going on. If everybody just tries to stay calm and try to do things in an orderly fashion, thats the best we can do at this point.

The caller then asked if they should turn around and head south on Front Street instead.

No. Just keep going the way youre going, the dispatcher said, dont just turn around and make it worse, you know what I mean? So if you gotta go slowly, just keep plugging away.

4:55 p.m.
Another caller from that intersection said she and many others were terrified because they were stuck in their cars.

We are caught in massive traffic and were covered in ashes and embers and theres a lot of people honking and trying to get out of the road, she said. The ashes are engulfing our car and the flames are going on our car.

When she asked if there was anything the emergency services could do, such as clear the road for the trapped cars, the dispatcher said the fire department and other officers were on their way to the area.

Im sorry. Were trying to get somebody out there, the dispatcher said.

4:56 p.m.
A dispatcher briefly chastised one man when he called to report his elderly parents were stuck in their burning home.

Why did they not call us direct? They should have called us direct, the dispatcher said, saying that would make it easier to find their location. She also said the man should have told them to leave the house sooner.

Yes, weve been trying to tell them. My dad was trying to fight the fire, the man said. The last words he said is, I love you. Were not going to make it.

Good for you.

Hmm

Me too.

C_Pain posted...

No dude take a look at any other social board

What's a good social board to go to?

Zwijn posted...

I dont get paid at all

That's a new level of neglect.

I literally don't get paid enough.

Well it's sad :(

Used to we'd have like 52+ pages of topics. Now it's been 48. what's the deal. What, people are too good for CE now?