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I've been re-watching Archer, and how is Wave not Bionic Barry at this point?

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shadowsword87 posted...

I'm honestly surprised that it wasn't a bunch of writing being done, and more of a focus on the pre-work of shooting.

How to open up and do pre-shooting, and normal shooting, is the million dollar question right now. Or billions of dollars question.

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Spirited Away gets knocked down for me, because San is so damn annoying to listen to. Which is the point, but annoying is still annoying.

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Princess Mononoke>all

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Been having some Zoom meetings with local peeps/the film unions about how to re-open filming, at least in NM. Lot of doom and gloom and uncertainty so far. Governor recently said filming would remain suspended for the time being, since our numbers have started to spike (the counties that border TX and AZ, which are mostly barren, are spiking hardest, so thanks worthless neighbor states).

I would expect content made during this time, when it even can be, to be shitty akin to the writer's strike. A lot of the creative process is going to have to be done remotely and on-the-fly. It'll make for interesting results, to say the least. I also know they did a Children of the Corn remake in Australia recently.

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I've more or less given up pron entirely in the last year, and don't have a problem getting sex, so it wouldn't really bother me.

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argonautweakend posted...

I was thinking last night, not a routine beer buyer, that what I paid (18 dollars for 4 bottles) is a lot, but thats actually cheaper than a fifth of Cuervo in my state, or something really shitty, so its actually not expensive at all really.

I paid $48 for 4 cans the other day. The stuff is basically liquid sex, though.

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lolSkins is the only correct answer.

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I would say shame on Disney and Florida, if either entities were capable of such feelings.

Time to turn FL into an Escape From New York penal-style area.

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Ah, the good old days. I imagine it's no longer a moddable offense to make this topic?

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streamofthesky posted...

I think it can be important, to undo sentences that are too harsh or to release people that were probably wrongly sent to jail. The legal system is pretty fucked up. Even when a prisoner's innocence seems likely, there's all sorts of bs hurdles put in the way of getting an appeal or new trial.

The solution to this is a better justice system, though.

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About the only thing Trump has done that can be qualified as "good" is expose just how many problems the US government and Constitution has. Presidential pardons and the ability to commute needs to be stripped. Never a good reason for it to be there to begin with.

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knightoffire55 posted...

tinder babes love kristin wiig

my tinder babe said the all female ghostbusters was better than the original

You need to get very far away from this woman.

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Red_Frog posted...

Probably because you've never had Patron.

Anyway, I love 'em all.

People actually think Patron is something to write home about? The stuff I have at my house is either local, or true top-shelf stuff. And yes, I'm aware how snobby that sounds.

I honestly prefer smokey mezcal if I'm going to drink anything in that taste profile.

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adjl posted...

You're not wrong, but you're hilariously deluded if you think simply voting third party will be enough to change that reality. If you want to make third parties into legitimate options, you're going to need to campaign for them hard. It's going to take a lot of money, a lot of effort, and it's going to be a miracle if you break even 5% of the popular vote, let alone anything remotely competitive. Talking online about self-fulfilling prophecies and the importance of disrupting the establishment accomplishes nothing except to let you pretend to yourself that you're doing something.

And even then, you'd still get a 2-party system, since the winning 3rd party would just replace the GOP or Dems. But that's not how FPtP voting works anyways.

What's really saddening is that no opinion poll on Trump, being general favorability or on specific issues ("Rate how he has handled Covid") has approval lower than about 30%. Which means you could Thanos-snap away that 30%, millions of people, and have a net-gain for humanity in America. It really is a cult.

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I love that game. It really needs more attention. I have the deep aspects, and how there's so much hidden stuff to unravel. How stuff like a "Tale of Terror" is a tangible, currency-like thing, or that selling your soul on that one island can have consequences later.

I got Sunless Skies on a sale a bit ago, I'll boot it up eventually.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

People who drink long island iced teas love all 4 together.

We don't call them "people."

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papercup posted...

But it also means that yeah more or less the 3DS is officially dead.

I mean, the writing has been on the wall basically since the Switch came out. Still a bit surprising, since there's definitely a market for people that don't want to lug something as big as a Switch around, either. But with mobile (cringe) games now a main-stay, it probably makes sense that the handheld gaming market isn't worth the time to tap into anymore. Nintendo focusing on Switch-only versions of Pokemon and FE, long-time handheld mainstays, basically shows where they stand on the idea.

It's kinda sad, though. I still get some love out of my 3DS from time-to-time, and the restrictions of handhelds lead to some innovative game designs. Hope that part at least continues. I'll also miss being able to take FE/Pokemon/Advance Wars easily wherever I wanted to.

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I have a theory that out of the "Big 4" (rum, vodka, whisky, tequila), almost no one likes all 4. This is based off on me asking people a lot, and I don't believe I've ever met someone that likes them all. There's always one that's generally despised (for me, it's tequila).

Which brings up the point of how weird it is that taste can differ so greatly from person-to-person, and why that even is a thing at all.

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I got it on the Summer Sale, which I hate, because I'm already trying to clear my backlog. Looking forward to it, though.

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LaggnFragnLarry posted...

my tinder babe is upset they delayed barb and star go to vista del mar till next summer

Fun fact, I worked on that show. Surprised anyone has really heard or cared about it, though.

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Mead posted...

streamofthesky posted...
Kavanaugh seemed to be a disturbed individual on a personal level and quick to anger, plus just...really obsessed with drinking. But his judicial record didn't seem too bad.

in any sane world he would be impeached for his partisan tirade about his perceived revenge on behalf of the Clintons against him

Gorsuch is the biggest surprise, his ruling have been pretty even, even if he shouldn't be there due to his occupying a stolen seat. Kav is trash, though.

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Yeah, CO and NM have the highest cases per year in the US (although that case amount is still very small). It's also very easy to cure these days.

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The Boys was fantastic.

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The Wave Master posted...

Now idiots on Twitter and Facebook are threatening to kill her, sexually assault her, and do harm to her family. Neil Druchman of Naughty Dog is getting the same death threats sans the sexual assault proclamations.

The good news is, death and rape threats are worthless, hollow, and never amount to shit. Not excusing them in anyway, but I doubt she actually has anything to fear. It basically comes with the territory of being anyone of any sort of fame these days.

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Zeus posted...

Kinda feels like you said the same thing almost verbatim about Trump =p

Well, considering Trump and his team himself didn't even think he was going win, and from all we know of inside his campaign leading up to it, that turned out to be exactly right, too.

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It's obviously a ploy to draw attention, especially since it's Kanye. But also an odd one, seeing as I doubt he would want anyone looking too closely at his finances.

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Which, if nothing else, debunks the political motivation claim because by your own admission it makes things *worse*, not better.

I didn't say it was a *smart* move, and it's not mutually exclusive. Trump's entire presidency is nothing but a long list of him doing stupid shit that ends up hurting him. Hell, his poll numbers are in the garbage currently precisely because he can't help but dig himself a grave.

If the investigation stopped, you might be able to claim ethics. However, if it doesn't stop the investigation -- which you pointed out it doesn't -- you don't even have that leg to stand on.

It's an easy obstruction of justice charge at the least, and it doesn't matter if it was successful or not. If I try to murder you, but fail, i don't get off scott free. This is exactly what he was impeached over.

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Mead posted...

I thought it was just ok, kinda forgettable tbh

This. It wouldn't even make my top 100 of the past 10 years.

Mad Max: Fury Road is the correct answer btw.

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RedPixel posted...

Lol dude they aint got shit on him. You're all blind to what ISN'T being said on the news, there's a silent war going on with DeepState right now. Trace it all the way back to 1913, this entire 2020 shit show has been a chess game against a bunch of rich fucks who own the Federal Reserve and control the Vatican.

Follow the money. It isn't Trump. They clearly hate him. I'm not into politics or religion, I just read everything I can so I have more dots to connect and rule out.

You guys all pick your favorite cancers/politicians and argue about it like it's a bar fight. That's not being a good analyst.

Oh man, he's one of THOSE.

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adjl posted...

You mean the impeachment? The one where everyone on both sides agreed to the facts of what happened, agreed that it was an impeachable offense, but then the side that holds the majority voted against actually removing their party's leader from office because they "felt he'd learned his lesson"? Yeah, that cleared him of everything and totally means he wasn't guilty of it. That's how that works.

Also, for somebody so insistent that everyone else is an idiot who blindly accepts the official stories instead of seeking the truth that the government is hiding from them, you're awfully willing to take Trump's claims about the impeachment at face value. To say nothing of the fact that nobody whatsoever mentioned the impeachment before you did and that that just makes you look silly.

He also wasn't even impeached for treason.

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GanonsSpirit posted...

The most worrying thing about that is his tendency to project the things he's doing onto others.

I mean, projection is basically been the playbook of the GOP for decades now. Trump just brings it to it's logical maximum.

The "Trump vs. Trump" tweets series is a goldmine.

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Imagine posting on system boards.

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RedPixel posted...

There are many bad players in government. Playing off of the premise that everyone who isn't Trump must automatically be a good guy is ignorance too.

It's a good thing I didn't at all suggest that, then.

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The hilarious part is, Audrey Strauss, the person who now replaces Berman, defeated Roy Cohn, who represented Trump in the 70's. She was also on the staff that went after Iran-Contra, which Barr is infamously tied to. And she's picking up right where Berman left off in investigating Trump.

Example #173739 of Trump and Co. being too stupid to get out of their own way.

RedPixel posted...

Crickets.

I assume the premise of the topic is how is it ethically OK for this to happen, and it isn't. But if it wasn't obvious before, the Trump administration has shown just how terribly the checks and balances system of the US government has actually been set up is, especially when it concerns the Executive branch.

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I like both cats and dogs. The difference is, I've seldom met a cat I didn't like (unless it's the psycho kin that attacks the hell out of you), whereas there's plenty of dogs that are annoying, even when(or because of them) trying to act cute.

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I don't have a lawn, as most homes here in NM use xeriscaping.

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Zeus posted...

-Simon, a rival arms dealer in Lord of War

Lord of War is one of my favorite movies ever, and I probably thought of that one before any other.

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RIP Ian Holm, who had proper nerd cred.

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TheWitchMorgana posted...

it is a caricature of a mammy which is basically a stereotype of a female slave who enjoyed being enslaved. also i believe the name aunt jemima itself comes from a folk song that was typically sang while in blackface

they tried to tone down the image but its hard to get away from the name

Bingo. And for the record, people HAVE complained that the imagery was racist, since, like, forever, which is why the company has constantly updated the look to tone down any mammy aspects. And they weren't cancelled, Quaker did this on their own, likely to get ahead of the game, here.

But really, who gives a shit? It's a fucking syrup brand, and the Bud Light equivalent of the syrup world at that. Even though enough time has passed that hardly anyone associates it with its racist past, it's a harmless olive branch to rebrand it.

Mead posted...

Im sure it will be worth millions

Probably a quicker and safer return on investment of Beanie Babies.

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Its already happening.

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*looks at username*

This checks out.

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You don't own a Blu-Ray player of some sorts?
DD is kinda must-see TV. The rest less so.

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IIRC, WarioWare was the series Miyamoto wished he invented.

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The Wave Master posted...

Am I the only person that likes the design of the PS5?

Actually, I don't mind it. Their consoles have always looked like ugly bricks (actually, the PS4 in most cases looks slick), so I don't mind them hamming it up and making it look like a loud space-age thing. And you know me and my indifference to the Playstation over the years.

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Depending on how you define "aristocracy", it's been around since forever.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

I really liked JJ season 1. It kept me hooked.

I haven't watched any of the rest though.

I just never understood why anyone did, but eh, opions/10.

I'm glad everyone agrees that DD was the superior choice, and DD 1 was damn near perfect TV. In a large part due to how great Kingpin was. Was really one of the first times a villain pulled a "you and I are kinda the same" to the hero, and it actually felt genuine.

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Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...

NASCAR has been trying to give its image a uplift for the past 20 years.

I'm legit curious how.

They have to know that it'll never cater to the high-brow, even medium-brow types. Keeping a stranglehold on the redneck market is not only smart, but basically it's only realistic option.

Banning the Confederate Flag is likely a win-win though. I'm sure they will lose some supporters, but not many, since where else are their fans going to turn? It's already the most redneck sport by a mile, and the least progressive.

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The Wave Master posted...

Yes, those last systems sold like hotcakes, but the Quality of the games was questionable. Well, not the Wii U, that was trash.

The only way that will ever make any sense is if we admit the PS2 is the biggest failure of all time, since the amount of shovel ware and barely playable garbage basically started the idea of mass producing low-energy games for whatever console happened to be selling the hottest. But that would be silly, because like the PS2, the sheer volume of Wii games means there's likely some between Nintendo and their 3rd parties that will be enough to appease most.

It makes even less sense for the DS, seeing as how long it's legacy lasted, it's sales, and it's responsibility for hosting some new IPs, some that went on to be huge (Ace Attorney comes to mind), or breathing new life into other IPs that went on to become huge (Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, etc.). Hell, the assumption the DS line is dead stems from thinking Nintendo won't bother anymore now that the Switch fulfills the portable console need.

The Wii U, definitely a failure, mostly doomed by a terrible marketing scheme more than anything.

Random response to piggyback off of Zeus' Marvel TV spiel, it took me like 2 months to watch JJ1. I just couldn't get into it, the characters, and the super 1-D story. Like, I get the point that JJ is moody and unlikeable due to her history, but someone should have clued the showrunners in on how that still makes her un-fun to watch. Especially when it became a one-trick routine to have everyone question her on if she'd ever stop being a cold bitch.

I also remember the most excited I got with the show was when Kilgrave seems to honestly suggest that even he isn't aware sometimes when he's using his powers, and suggests he wasn't sure if he made JJ like him via powers, or naturally seduced her.
"What's this?", I thought. "An actual story telling dilemma? Could it actually be the case that Kilgrave is telling the truth, and that how he hurt JJ could have come from lack of control, and not malice? Would that threaten to upend JJ's entire life view up until this point? Is he just lying through his teeth?". But no, the show has JJ instantly discredit and ignore this idea, and it's never brought up again. The one chance it had to be complex or interesting to me went right out the window.

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We live in a timeline where NASCAR is more progressive than the President/some states.

This is truly weird.

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