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The island of Madeira (off the coast of Portugal) is on fire -- (link) - decline Aug 10, 09:02
please hurry up, Apple -- (link) - gerald Aug 10, 08:57
Ocean's Eleven reboot rounding into form: Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Eliz Banks, Emma Stone, Helena Bonham, Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett -- (link*) - budice Aug 10, 08:56 13
- Yay to all, except Rihanna. -- nm - MDH Aug 10, 09:13
- #8 better gotdamn well be Helen Mirren -- nm - gerald Aug 10, 08:58 1
  - "Won't you be a dear and delay filming while I finish tending to this awful piece of business?" - Helen Mirren Aug 10, 09:03
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  - Blanchett ruins it. -- nm* - Max Aug 10, 09:08
  - i feel like this cast has a better shot at staying true to the tone of the "original" - gerald Aug 10, 09:02
  - What if we don't think the answer is just gender swapping casts? -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 10, 09:00 4
    - Meh - it was easy to tell the difference between, say, people who didn't want to see Ghostbusters because they thought it looked bad and people who - Roger More Aug 10, 09:04 2
      - Except, apparently, to Paul Feig, who seemed pretty certain they were all the latter. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 09:08 1
        
        Paul Feig was basically under siege. -- nm - Roger More Aug 10, 09:21
    - This. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 09:01
  - can I hate on reboots in general? - decline Aug 10, 08:59 1
    - Only if you vote for Hillary. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 09:00
Diva, if you're interested, the show (War Paint) was really very good. Patti Lupone and Christine Ebersol are powerhouses. It's a much more - pmb Aug 10, 08:53
British man being sentenced calls judge a c---. Judge: "You are a bit of a c*** yourself. -- (link) - ty97 Aug 10, 08:51
hilarious audio by Chris Bosio on Alex Rodriguez when he first came up.... -- (link) - groiny Aug 10, 08:50
ST EPL Challenge Game! Look inside! LOOK! LOOK! - CQ Aug 10, 08:45 3
- Man, your grouping, though I appreciate it, makes it very difficult for me to pick Spurs. -- nm - Volnelk Aug 10, 09:23
- Gimme some time, ill send it in -- nm - budice Aug 10, 08:51
- you have until Saturday at 5am eastern -- nm - CQ Aug 10, 08:47
Ayers on what was cut out of Suicide Squad (I can see why Leto is annoyed): (spoilers. DUH) -- (edited) - Spawn Aug 10, 08:40 28
- This movie sounds like an absolute trainwreck. -- nm - MDH Aug 10, 09:13
- the tidbit about the grill would have been a great piece to share.... - groiny Aug 10, 08:57
- I still see potential in Suicide Squad sequels... -- (edited) - budice Aug 10, 08:54 5
  - It is done. spoils - Spawn Aug 10, 08:58
  - Potential has never been their problem. -- nm - pmb Aug 10, 08:56
  - they should sign Robbie to a 5 film deal right fucking now. -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 08:55 2
    - "You want me to make *five* shitty movies?! No thanks." -- nm - TWuG Aug 10, 09:01 1
      - $$$$$$ -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 09:02
- A) Don't call the Joker a cameo because, by definition, it's not. B)If Leto didn't want to have his stuff cut, maybe he should have sucked less. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 08:45
- leave the damn directors alone...... -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 08:44 16
  - The running time as released was already 2 hours 10 minutes. - Spawn Aug 10, 08:47 15
    - no one gives a shit about running time if the movie is good. -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 08:53 13
      - Well then, all DC movies should probably be 90 minutes then. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 09:03 1
        
        I could have edited BvS down easily by 25 minutes, and that would have still included some of the deleted shit that needed to be in there. -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 09:04
      - Yes they do. There's zero need for a 3 hour superhero movie when you're gonna have 19 sequels anyway. -- nm - iSpam Aug 10, 09:01 1
        
        2 hours and 20 minutes is standard. (Avengers 1 and 2, Civil War was a bit longer) - groiny Aug 10, 09:03
      - Dude. You just lost your own arguement! -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 08:57 8
        
        and the director should have much more input in the editing process as well. -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 09:01 3
        
        They do, until management discovers they're making a movie nobody wants. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 09:05 2
        
        This movie was edited by a company that makes the trailers. - groiny Aug 10, 09:07 1
        
        Yes, because Ayers was making a somber movie that nobody wanted this movie to be. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 09:10
        
        give me a break, Civil War was damn near 3 hours. -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 08:57 3
        
        (the movie was not good, and therefore, it should not be long) - Spawn Aug 10, 09:04 2
        
        we have no idea what the movie would have been if WB had left it alone. - groiny Aug 10, 09:05 1
        
        Oh, don't worry, I'm 100% sure I would have disliked it more if they had included more crappy Joker. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 09:08
    - LEAVE THE DIRECTORS ALONE!!!!!! -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 08:51
- I am looking forward to the Director's Cut. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 08:43 1
  - This creates a huge dilemma, actually. spec spoils -- (edited) - Spawn Aug 10, 08:45
Futurama's "I'm a Viking" / "Yeah, Once" type line ... - Beryllium Aug 10, 08:37 [youtube]
ST may finf this interesting. About 7 minutes of video of the set-up for Nixon's resignation speech. So interesting candid moments with the president - TWuG Aug 10, 08:31 [youtube]
TAR Canada goes internationally. about 2/3 stays in country though. - Reagen Aug 10, 08:29 1
- Plus it helps a ton that TAR Canada is CTV and BB Canada is Global. Saves wasteful cross-overs. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Aug 10, 08:37
Brazil’s Senate votes to indict disgraced president -- (link) - budice Aug 10, 08:28
Findings of Police Bias in Baltimore Validate What Many Have Long Felt -- (link) - ty97 Aug 10, 08:27 2
- i don't believe Baltimore is particularly unique in these regards, but David Simon's latest in a long line of speeches explaining why policing is so -- (link) - gerald Aug 10, 08:48 [youtube]
- Welp -- (link) - ty97 Aug 10, 08:43
Patriots WR Julian Edelman is back on the practice field today. -- nm - budice Aug 10, 08:25 1
- ...the Dolphins practice field. -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 08:26
Chris Christie allegedly “lied” about his staff’s involvement in the 2013 George Washington Bridge scandal, according to new court filings. - ty97 Aug 10, 08:22 1
- where's znu's shocked face? -- nm - decline Aug 10, 08:22
It's been caught and then freed! -- (link) - Krusty Aug 10, 08:15
If Malcolm Tucker’s Sweary Quotes Were “Winnie The Pooh” Comics -- (link) - LMS Aug 10, 08:10
BB18 live feed spoils - Ender Aug 10, 08:09
John Saunders (ESPN) Dead at 61. -- (link) - Diva Aug 10, 08:08 13
- This news sucks. :-( -- nm - ReluctantCynic Aug 10, 08:51
- He always seemed under the weather on SR. this is sad. -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 10, 08:27 1
  - yeah - Diva Aug 10, 08:30
- I remember him being a local guy 30 years ago. A real good reporter. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 10, 08:21 1
  - Yup. WMAR from 1982 to 1986. One of my favorites. -- nm - Inigo Aug 10, 08:23
- :-( -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 08:20
- Oh no. -- nm - David Aug 10, 08:19
- August of last year: ESPN has wrapped up one its longest-serving personalities. John Saunders, who joined the sports giant in 1986, has signed a... - Spawn Aug 10, 08:16
- 2016 can kiss my ass. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 08:10
- Whoa. -- nm - budice Aug 10, 08:09 2
  - David Aldridge says it best -- (link) - budice Aug 10, 08:14 1
    - Hannah Storm did the announcement on ESPN -- (link) - budice Aug 10, 08:16
- Whoa was my exact reaction as well :( -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 08:09
ST Votes: If you could be so kind to vote for Amelia (Bery has linked above). You can vote daily, and on multiple devices every day - no registering! - JaxSean Aug 10, 08:00 5
- done. where is she in the standings? -- nm - Mel Profit Aug 10, 08:28 3
  - we honestly don't know. there is no ranking, and there's 1,000's of photos. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 10, 08:41 2
    - voted on phone and work computer. -- nm - Diva Aug 10, 08:43 1
      - thanks! -- nm - JaxSean Aug 10, 09:44
- done -- nm - decline Aug 10, 08:04
I have to stop watching people livestreaming NMS. Not only is it unproductive but I find myself yelling at the screen when they skip obvious points - oblique Aug 10, 07:57 46
- Is NMS a multiplayer game? Meaning, will you run into others playing as you explore? - TWuG Aug 10, 08:35 13
  - Cool. Thanks, all. This *might* get me to get a gaming system. -- nm - TWuG Aug 10, 08:49 1
    - just a few hours in, but it's completely living up to my expectations -- nm - decline Aug 10, 08:50
  - btw, it is unclear with no official word from Hello Games if that is a PS4 limitation, a launch limitation, or just network server limitations - oblique Aug 10, 08:38
  - with 18 gazillion planets, the devs say it's very unlikely you'll meet another player. There are tons of npc though - decline Aug 10, 08:38 1
    - two guys already found each other -- (link) - oblique Aug 10, 08:38
  - As of right, now, with only the PS4, no. Two players found each other on streams yesterday but could not see each other despite being in the same - oblique Aug 10, 08:37 7
    - huh, to the player thing. -- nm - decline Aug 10, 08:39 6
      - see my link above. it's already happened -- nm - oblique Aug 10, 08:40 5
        
        Murray kind of hinted that it was network related, but in all honestly, I have and always will treat NMS as a single player game, because it is. - Shaun Aug 10, 08:45 4
        
        Agreed. It is a non-issue for me though interesting. I didn't expect that even with the number of players involved you'd have Day 1 people running - oblique Aug 10, 08:46 3
        
        tbh, a coworker had read somewhere that they had messaged each other about where to meet on Player A's planet as Player B had discovered the planet. -- (edited) - Shaun Aug 10, 08:48 1
        
        Right, and I imagine Player B had "discovered" it using the find-nearest-discovered-sytem button in the map. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 09:02
        
        Ultimately I suspect it's a "we would have liked to do it, but it would have delayed the game by 6 months" type thing. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 08:47
- Jessica Chobot wasn't using the sensor ping at all last night. Inside my head was just "PING DAMN YOU! PING!!!! NO WONDER YOU CAN'T FIND YOUR SHIP!!!" -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 08:12 1
  - Give me a ping, Chobot. One ping only. -- nm - Inigo Aug 10, 08:15
- It was nice when a puzzle was "give them credits, or give them carbon" and I got it right because I understood alien for "credits unacceptable". -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 08:10 1
  - The number puzzles are a bit simplistic - I hope they are able to up the complexity a bit with those -- nm - decline Aug 10, 08:11
- One of the greatest things about this game is that walkthrus aren't possible. - Shaun Aug 10, 08:09 24
  - The complaints I'm seeing are mostly around how shallow the game is (ie: stuff is basically the same on every planet, just recolored) - oblique Aug 10, 08:12 23
    - there are similarities (the bases are all very similar), but the worlds are vastly different. Any complainors are just nitpicking ninnies -- nm - decline Aug 10, 08:14 21
      - I came VERY close to drowning in a cave last night. I've had two deaths so far, space pirates and a gaggle of sentinels on a high security world. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 08:17 8
        
        That's actually the kind of thing that really interests me. Finding X that means I have to go get Y and Z to be able to work through it -- nm - oblique Aug 10, 08:28 5
        
        You can straight up buy resources too, via aliens and/or trading portals. -- nm* - Shaun Aug 10, 08:32 4
        
        yeah. While I accept that trading is a part of it, I'm actually finding myself more interested in personal resource gathering - oblique Aug 10, 08:40 2
        
        I think if you wanted to play like that, you could, but I also think you'd be robbing yourself of the full experience. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 08:47 1
        
        it would also take a lot longer imo -- nm - decline Aug 10, 08:56
        
        you can, but still need to find one selling what you need -- nm - decline Aug 10, 08:35
        
        I jumped into the ocean on a planet and the water was so toxic it killed my shield in less than a minute. Space pirates got me twice -- nm - decline Aug 10, 08:21 1
        
        I had one really toxic pool of water, but I had to dive to get to a monolith. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 08:22
      - landscape, perhaps, but at least what I was reading was along the lines of "same animal, different color" or "same animal but horns instead of nubs" - oblique Aug 10, 08:17 11
        
        *shrug* 18 gazillion stars, each with multiple planets. It'd be impossible to make unique flora/fauna on each one. - decline Aug 10, 08:20 6
        
        Yeah, I'm not sure if it will bother me either. The only other thing I noticed from watching a few people was just the "where do I get X" for certain - oblique Aug 10, 08:24 5
        
        that's my only complaint so far, that and your dude walks *slooooooooow*. -- nm - mafic Aug 10, 08:51 1
        
        He can sprint and apparently you can, while sprinting, hit melee and then use the rocket pack to propel forward quickly. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 08:54
        
        that can be frustrating, but is part of the learning curve. People need to learn the symbols from the scans and also realize not every element is on - decline Aug 10, 08:27 2
        
        the last part is the part that's probably hardest. It would actually be nice if there was (or maybe there is) a kind of planetary scan - oblique Aug 10, 08:29 1
        
        yup (more) -- (edited) - decline Aug 10, 08:30
        
        Toxic rain was green on one planet and then purple on another. LAME!! -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 08:18 3
        
        Gold was a green crystal on one of mine. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 08:24 2
        
        yup, and on a different planet it'll be huge golden domes (gold is a real good trade commodity) -- nm* - decline Aug 10, 08:28
        
        Haven't see gold yet. I do like that there was only one species of hostile wildlife on my planet though and it was a crablike creature. - Shaun Aug 10, 08:27
    - As I've only seen one planet so far, I cannot comment :) -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 08:13
- I'm such a grandpa, the only game I've enjoyed watching live streamed is Mario Maker. -- nm - Qale Aug 10, 07:59
- NMS terror -- (link) - decline Aug 10, 07:58 1
  - that's awesome -- nm - oblique Aug 10, 08:01
RC warning: My gf just found the biggest spider I've ever seen inside an apartment. - Krusty Aug 10, 07:53 21
- can you please put your hand up next to it for scale comparison -- nm - oblique Aug 10, 08:02 3
  - When did kilbo block me? - Spawn Aug 10, 08:37
  - What if he has Trump hands? That won't tell us anything! -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 08:07 1
    - 7.6" -- nm* - Krusty Aug 10, 08:16
- I've got the gasoline and the blow torch, be there shortly. -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 08:02 5
  - Lots of people who try this end up homeless -- nm - Beryllium Aug 10, 08:06 4
    - It's not my home, I'll take the risk :) -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 08:15
    - you ever see a spider on the side of the road holding up a homeless sign? -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 08:14 2
      - Heheh. Yeah, once ... -- nm - Beryllium Aug 10, 08:31 1
        
        Here we go again. ;-) -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 08:40
- a glass and a piece of paper. scoop it into the glass (take a picture) and cover it with paper and take it outside. -- nm - Andie Aug 10, 07:56 3
  - I was going to try using a piece of tupperware. It ran up the web when I got close so I'm going to wait and see if it goes back to the web where -- (edited) - Krusty Aug 10, 07:58
  - he needs a water pitcher and a piece of posterboard. -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 07:56 1
    - I hope he tries this but then realizes the pitcher had a spout and then the spider escapes and then we make a fortune on YouTube - Beryllium Aug 10, 08:29
- Need something for scale. -- nm - Spawn Aug 10, 07:55 5
  - Banana for scale -- nm - Beryllium Aug 10, 08:03
  - put your penis next to it -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 07:59 3
    - the Spider's penis would be bigger. -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 08:01 2
      - Not as big as Hillary's. -- nm - Shaun Aug 10, 08:07 1
        
        would explain the pants suits -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 08:11
- let it bite you... - groiny Aug 10, 07:55
Local news: family home hit by car for the 9th time -- (link) - Beaker Aug 10, 07:45 6
- A friend had a house like that, their driveway was the 4th side in a T intersection, they might as well have painted a target on their garage door. -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 07:53
- There is an Arby's in Indy that has been hit twice in the last two weeks. -- (link*) - Spawn Aug 10, 07:49 2
  - their food isn't *that* bad -- nm - decline Aug 10, 07:52
  - was it the Hamburgler? -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 07:52
- after the 3rd time, I would probably be looking to move. -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 07:45 1
  - "Newly remodeled home, buy now!" -- nm - ty97 Aug 10, 07:51
When it comes to big event broadcasting and social media, I think it's easier to adjust to an awkward starting time than to avoid spoilers. - Volnelk Aug 10, 07:44 2
- It's ALL streaming live, right? Even if they didn't show last night's gymnastics on TV until primetime you could still watch it online live, right? -- nm - Ender Aug 10, 07:48 1
  - I believe so. -- nm - Krusty Aug 10, 07:56
why can't we use guiilotines? they're easy to produce -- nm - Beaker Aug 10, 07:42
Hill probably prefers a big wad of chaw anyway. -- nm - groiny Aug 10, 07:41
Word. -- nm - Jim Aug 10, 07:40

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