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I don't think I have ever spent a single dime at a J.C. Penny's. However I used to go thorough it all the time as a kid because it was the store at the center of my local mall, and it always had parking available in front of it. So we would just park there, go through the store, and into the mall proper.

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Yesterday, got groceries.

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Guy driving in a car with his two kids, the older kid sitting in the front seat with the toddler on her lap. Neither of them wearing a seat belt.

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I ordered a couple of things recently with the free 5-7 day shipping, both of them were at my doorstep 2 days later.

Probably depends on what you are ordering and where you are located.

CaptainStrong posted...

I ordered some CDs a month ago and they're just now about to arrive. You think that's understandable?

I remember back when you used to order stuff and it took 2 months to get to your doorstep (maybe even longer). So yea, a month is super fast all things considered.

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StriderQ posted...

I want to say, and I know many people, especially Americans will disagree, but for safetys sake and your life, everyone should leave your guns unloaded when youre not using them!

If you disagree, its your responsibility, Im not going to bother arguing with anyone on this.

Of course everyone agrees with this. Real life isn't Hollywood, people don't sleep with a loaded and chambered gun under their pillow. Usually you keep it in a gun safe that only one or two people in the house know the combination to and with the magazine and gun separated. At the very least it is stored in your nightstand or a drawer nearby (not loaded of course).

I don't own a gun (although I have a bunch of friends who do) and even I know that.

Jen0125 posted...

I probably wouldn't go weekly but I've never shot a gun so I don't know if I would find it actually fun once I do it. I just have an aversion to guns but I'd try to practice so I could be safe. I don't want to have any negligent incidents with a gun. I'm not trying to accidentally kill my pets, my boyfriend or myself.

I would say try the shooting range. I never thought I would like it but now that I have done it a dozen or so times I really enjoy it. Also, you should absolutely try and get comfortable with the gun you own. Probably should even go to the range every few months with it so you stay comfortable as well (and to make sure it is still in good working order). Also while I don't think it is required in Arizona, should probably take a gun safety class as well. Most of it is common sense, but you don't think about it until it is told to you.

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It variaies depending on my mood, but probably the ones I have done it the most with are:

Metroid
Zelda
Yakuza
Assassins Creed (only the last 2)
Metal Gear Solid

But really, it varies. Oddly enough I have never done it with 2 of my favorite game series (Doom and Mega Man) for whatever reason. Still haven't bought Doom Eternal even though I have every intention of doing it.

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3 weeks of PTO, which includes vacation, sick, personal holiday, etc. Goes up to 4 weeks after 5 years, and 5 weeks after 20 years. Also get 6 paid holidays (New Years, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).

Doesn't seem like a lot, but I almost never use it all before the end of the year unless I take the last 2 weeks off in December.

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Zangulus posted...

Why do people keep talking like having a high limit is a security issue? Literally watch your accounts, check them at least once a month. They are required by law to scrub it from your account if you didn't make the actual purchase. So someone just using your card without your knowledge doesn't hurt you in any way unless you need access to that credit immediately.

I wouldn't say it is a security issue, I know the banks handle it well. I had a fraudulent purchase in my account and the bank had my card canceled and a new one in the mail in less then 6 hours after it was made. And I balance my credit/debit statements daily, so again, not an issue of that.

It is just for lack of a better analogy I don't want to carry around a bazoka when a simple 9mm pistol is all I need. If I need $10K in credit for whatever reason I would rather get a bank loan then a credit card.

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$5K, and they litterally forced that on me because for the longest time I had a $2500 limit and they used to hound me to raise it until they just did it anyways my making $5k the minimum limit one of their cards can have.

I use the card for everything (except regular monthly payments) and I barely use $500 a month. Hell, I don't think in the 10 years I have had the card I have ever had anywhere near $1K in debt. And I always pay it off every month (sometimes twice a month if I have money left over from my paycheck).

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Definitely, ever time I have to type it (including this time), I always need spell checker to correct me.

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The PS2 version of Final Fantasy XII, using the "alternate" method to get the Zodiac Spear. I wasn't even reading a guide at the time, I just entered entered the Henne Mines (and just so happened to have a Diamond Armlet equipped) and got the spear on the first try.

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https://vinepair.com/review/old-grand-dad-bourbon-kentucky-straight-bourbon-whiskey/

I had this one, it is really good for the price.

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Lokarin posted...

Publisher is largely irrelevant. I mean, a book isn't better/worse if published by Scholastic or Wiley

Books are typically shopped to publishers as a means of distribution. Unless you are talking about smaller publishing studios like Devolver, publishers usually have a huge say in what/how games get developed.

Anyways I don't really have an outright ban on a publishing studio, but I haven't bought a game from EA since Battlefield 3. I also am not buying anything from Epic until the revive Unreal (which given the success of Fortnite is never going to happen).

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First taste: One of my dad's friends used his beer to rinse off my pacifier when I was two months old. He shoved it back into my mouth before my parents could protest. According to my father I smiled after tasting it.

First real drink: I had a glass of wine with an Easter dinner, I think I was like 12 or 13 at the time.

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Judgmenl posted...

No idea what you're talking about.
Still working from home for the forseeable future.

People like us who can do our jobs from home are probably going to be the last to actually go back to "work" since we aren't that impacted. Makes more sense to open up businesses that are actually hurting due to lock-down first.

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I haven't taken any time off this year so far, and the only time off I did have planned was a half day for a concert I was planning to go to in June (I could of just gone straight from work, but I wanted time to get ready and not have to rush and possibly miss the opening act) but for obvious reasons that isn't happening. I normally like to take some time off to do stuff around the house, but considering we are in quarenteen I have more then enough time now to do that.

I am basically going to be taking the month of December off because what else am I going to spend my time off on?

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There is good DLC and bad DLC, but the majority of the DLC nowadays is bad. I used to love when you bought expansion packs that cost 1/2 the price of the base game, and at the very least gave you 2/3 more content on top of the base game. Blizzard and ID were awesome with that. Valve too with the original Half Life expansions. Nowadays you are lucky if DLC gives you 1-2 hours of content, and that is for the $10 - $20 stuff.

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I used to have a pretty clean signature (for someone who's regular handwriting is almost unintelligible). Then I bought a house and about 30 signatures in it went from clean to scribble across the page for a second and hope for the best. Been that way ever since.

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Entity13 posted...

I'm with Zang on this one. Blood does not define family. It would be nice if it did, but the reality is that it simply doesn't. Almost everyone on this forum has at least one blood relative, bare minimum, that they do not call family for a plethora of reasons.

Oh I call everyone of my blood relatives family. They are just family that I only see when one of them dies and would never talk to under any other circumstance. And even then I mostly only go to the funeral for the free food and the lulz. Like my uncle who's "memory" table included a can of cheap local beer and Marlboro cigarettes. Yea, lets celebrate the reason he is dead in the first place, LOL!

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Oddly enough, morning commutes. As much as I hate driving in traffic, just having a commute to clear my head and prepare for / decompress from work was awesome. Now, sure I can sleep in and save a ton on gas, but work just kind of blends in throughout the day. There is no real start and stop point.

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$1336 a month mortgage for my 3 bed 2 1/2 bath home. Includes homeowners insurance and taxes.

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Sarcasthma posted...

I just wish the mods would spank me half as hard as they do with you.

Why Sarcasthma, I didn't know you were so kinky... ;)

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Working from home, regular hours, just get to sleep in an extra hour since I don't need to commute.

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313800 posted...

What is a smoke shop ? are we on about a vape shop to buy liquids ? or in america can you not buy cigarettes in supermarkets etc ?

Most supermarkets don't sell smoking stuff, but you can get them at convenience stores and/or gas stations. A smoke shop is basically just a store devoted to nothing but smoking, usually for the specialty stuff since the places that do sell smoking stuff only have limited stock.

Anyways, from what I have seen the smoke shops here are open, at least their "open" signs are blinking. I never see anyone parked in front of them or shopping in them (and I don't smoke) so I wouldn't know.

Oddly enough, comic shops are considered essential as well, mine is still open although they haven't gotten any new comics from the distributors in almost a month.

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Suprised no one has mentioned Daredevil: Born Again. It is probably one of the best graphic novels I have ever read (really it is a trade paperback, but you only need a brief knowledge of Daredevil to pick it up).

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Can't really comment because it is not my style of comic. I tend to like more of the grittier, more realistic stuff like Daredevil, Punisher, Black Widow, etc. My guess would be people don't like it because it is not as "mature" as Deadpool or even Spiderman (From the outside looking in anyways). It is clearly targeted at a different kind of audience.

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MICHALECOLE posted...

Who

JoanOfArcade posted...

Yeah who

Foxx, duh!

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Hey, welcome back, guess who became a mod last year?

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Town: 96,000
County: 741,000 (didn't realize it was so low until I looked it up, I was always told it was around 1 million)

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BlackScythe0 posted...

I'm also wondering why cities like Dallas aren't in the news. Dallas has a huge population and should be hard hit.

I just figured big population was the big factor with new York.

Population density.

NYC has almost 9X the population density as Dallas. Hard to social distance when the amount of people in a space makes it physically impossible. Part of the reason my area (which has over a million people) only has about 800 confirmed cases, our population is spread out so much that it is easy to avoid getting infected.

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Only Night Trap and Deadly Premonition

Night Trap is very much a product of its time. It was the kind of game that was being made once FMV was popular. Even the creators themselves said they made the game to be one of those VHS or LaserDisk player games, which honestly makes a lot more sense. It just got cancelled back in 88 when they originally filmed it, then revived it 4 years later for the Sega CD.

The main problem with Deadly Premonition is that the game was buggy and unpolished. Other then that, it is a great game.

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MichaelS91 posted...

Maybe they will if trump ends up with it. He needs to do what other countries have done and make people do it and stop people making none essential travel aswell as cancelling all social gathering events. If states won't do it then trump has to.

Except the president doesn't have the power to do that, only states do. I mean if you want to get technical, states probably don't have that power either, it really comes down to the local governments.

Best the president can do is try to halt international travel (which he did almost a month ago). Everything else is just a recommendation.

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I am going to walk a path around my neighborhood so that the map of said path spells out "Brazil" in cursive.

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Our campaign picks up random NPC's as party members all the time, and our DM just rolls with it and builds character sheets for them pretty quickly. I think it just depends on the DM, but the #1 rule of DMing is you need to make the game fun for the people playing it. If the DM can't do that, they probably shouldn't be the DM.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Wow, you are really reaching.

In-N-Out: 347 locations in the US.
Burger King: 7,226
McDonald's: 14,146
Taco Bell: 5,604
Wendy's: 6711

No one is considering In-N-Out a major chain with those paltry numbers.

I would consider anything over 10 restuarants a major chain. Most of the "chain" restaurants I eat at don't have more then 5-6 locations, and even those I feel kind of bad eating at over a smaller restaurant.

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I try to get a meal a week from a local chain or restaurant. I get it delivered since GrubHub is basically doing $1 delivery on all orders.

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I think I have used a total of one TP roll since this whole thing started.

I only have like 29 left.

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I remember having to go through my dad's browser history and go to the same sites he did so I didn't get caught with porn sites on my history.

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4 hours. I could eat earlier, but I have been used to eating that late since I was in college, and I never broke that habbit.

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https://resumegenius.com/

This is the site I used, but it is one of hundreds of sites that give you a resume by just answering a few questions. And bonus, if you are using it to collect unemployment, you don't even need to worry spending the time using fancy language to make yourself stand out.

MICHALECOLE posted...

you see, in America, one person will put their resume as they have been instructed to do and actually legitimately look for a new job after they have been truly laid off, and they will receive nothing.

If you have been laid off, then you are collecting a severance (unless you were fired, which is different). You can't collect unemployment and a severance at the same time, that would be double dipping.

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Isolation has been used as a form of torture for centuries, and that is effectively what people have been experiencing for the last month or so. After a few days you get the constant headache that never goes away. Eventually you loose track of days, you stop showering, grooming, etc. Eventually it just eats away at your psyche.

Granted, I love it and part of me hopes CNN is right when they say we could all be in quarantine for the next 2 years, but I understand that not everyone can handle it.

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I have a half acre and used a cheap push mower for the first 5 years, no real problems. Just make sure to drain the gas and oil before winter (you can use stabilizer, but draining does make it last longer) and clean it and maybe replace the spark plug and/or air filter once a year. Sounds like a lot, but probably only takes about 20 minutes or so.

Reel mowers sound good in theory, but you usually have to mow twice as often as with a push mower and sharpen the blades regularly (which compared to the above is NOT FUN).

Battery power works for smaller yards (mine is actually too big for most of them to do in one run). Main thing is replacing the bateries can get expensive, and it is also possible they stop selling the battery type you have, meaning you would need a whole new mower.

I have a self-propelled now, and I like it but it does have a lot of extra stuff to deal with. Plus it is a lot heavier then a standard push mower, which is probably not what you are looking for if storage is at a premium.

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Frog in 8th grade, fetal pig in high school Biology (typically 10th grade). I never cared much for Biology so I didn't take it in college (I opted for Chemistry as my science) but from what I heard they actually dissected human cadavers.

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Almost 3 weeks now, and other then going shopping once a week I could probably last for another 2 years if needed. I can work from home, I have plenty of things to entertain me, I have a ton of projects around the house, etc.

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Technically hourly, but I am required to put in 40 hrs a week (no more, no less) between work and PTO. Anything I put in under 40 automatically is PTO.

I used to be salary, and while it was nice to just cut out early if I had nothing to do, it was also an excuse for me to carry a pager without needing to get payed for it, so I'll stick with being hourly.

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Lokarin posted...

I don't know American conversions

1 gallon is about 3.7 liters. So rule of thumb is usually multiply by 4 and round down to the nearest $.10. Not fully accurate, but close enough.

Looks like my usual gas station is at around $2.10/gal. But I haven't need gas in a couple of weeks. I still have over half a tank left in my car.

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My mom is 70 but is in a nursing home so I have nothing to worry about. They aren't accpeting visitors until the COVID-19 scare is over and they screen anyone before they enter the doors of the facility.

My dad is 65, but he has worked from home for the last 5 years and has pretty much practiced quarantine/isolation since then, so again, not worried.

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I just buy broccoli fresh. You are cooking it anyways so it will kill off any residual virus left over after washing and it tastes better. Plus none of the hoarders are going after produce.

And if you want it to keep more then a couple weeks, you can freeze the fresh stuff.

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It honestly felt like an MMORPG where you are litterally the only person on the server.

Oh, and:

Noop_Noop posted...

If you like programming a game to play itself for you it was fun, but I personally like actually playing games.

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Either leaves, magazines, or shower.

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