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There’s a Cirque du Soleil show written by Robert Rodriguez? -- nm - flavorize Feb 14, 08:04
Sonic the Hedgehog 65% (99), Fantasy Island still no score, Downhill 45% (80), The Photograph 79% (34), Portrait of a Lady on Fire 98% (185) -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 07:41 3
- Nice save on the Sonic Movie. man those first impressions pre-CGI fix. -- nm - budice Feb 14, 07:48 1
  - Agreed. I don't know how much it cost to retrofit it, but it was money well spent. -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 14, 08:03
- Portrait is low at that number. Best non-English film of 2019. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 14, 07:48
Karen Gillan at Call of the Wild premiere -- (link) - budice Feb 14, 07:37
RT if you single -- (link) - Shaun Feb 14, 07:34 2
- WHAT'S HE DOING WITH ALL THOSE TISSUES?! -- nm - Mop Feb 14, 07:53 1
  - Happy tissues or sad tissues? -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 14, 08:04
Sony Is Struggling With PlayStation 5 Price Due To Costly Parts - price could be north of $470 - decline Feb 14, 07:31 6
- We don’t have to do next gen this year if it helps. We’ve certainly had longer gen-cycles than the one we’re currently on. -- nm - Qale Feb 14, 07:56
- I wonder if the China supply chain will be an impact. -- nm - Mop Feb 14, 07:54
- Plus it takes at least a year for games to adapt -- nm - budice Feb 14, 07:46 1
  - Thankfully, they both have BC for current gen (at least), which is pretty huge. -- nm - Shaun Feb 14, 07:48
- Almost everyone already expects it to be priced at $500USD. Clearly, I hope it's less, but that's what I'm preparing for. -- nm* - Shaun Feb 14, 07:32 1
  - Microsoft should apply the mobile model to the Xbox. Free with 2 year Xbox Live subscription. -- nm - Mop Feb 14, 07:55
Wingstop on Valentines Day -- (link) - budice Feb 14, 07:28
decline: Dreams' Opencritic score is...good. -- (link) - Shaun Feb 14, 07:28
ahhhhh, voters -- (link) - ty97 Feb 14, 07:25 2
- If you are only wanting to look at age of candidate, Pete Buttigieg is their guy now. -- nm - Qale Feb 14, 08:00
- I honestly didn't realize he was that old either. I figured he was closer to Warren. -- nm - spamlet Feb 14, 07:28
Washington plans to release CB Josh Norman, sources confirmed to ESPN -- (link*) - Beaker Feb 14, 07:14 1
- He should sign with the Browns so he and OBJ can fight in practices. -- nm - Shaun Feb 14, 07:17
Man, you gotta feel for the poor intern running the Red Wings Twitter. -- (link) - spamlet Feb 14, 07:06
Has anyone ever taken a long-ass train trip? Considering Empire Builder, CHI->SEA -- nm - rollo Feb 14, 06:46 2
- I'd love to but I'd end up divorced. -- nm - spamlet Feb 14, 07:04
- don't recline -- nm - prayformojo Feb 14, 06:48
In honor of Valentine's Day, here's the 50 greatest break-up songs. -- (link) - Volnelk Feb 14, 06:35
Quibi: The Stranger trailer -- (link*) - decline Feb 14, 06:18 2
- It clearly states The Stanger, so they're obviously finally telling the Rodney Stanger story. -- nm - Reagen Feb 14, 06:34 1
  - About damn time. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 07:47
Stranger Things 4 -- (link) - Shaun Feb 14, 06:08 12
- I suppose I should get around to season 3. - Cuzzin Todd Feb 14, 07:34
- cool, can't wait -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 07:08
- Well, that definitely *seems* to answer that one question... -- nm - landbeck Feb 14, 06:44
- I can't remember if I finished 3. -- nm - Reagen Feb 14, 06:39 2
  - I maybe didn't even start it. -- nm - Reagen Feb 14, 06:41 1
    - It was okay. Not great, not terrible. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 14, 09:36
- Holy cow! Is there a release date? -- nm - Krusty Feb 14, 06:29 2
  - nope, but best guess seems to be this fall or around xmas time -- nm - decline Feb 14, 07:04 1
    - Cool -- nm - Krusty Feb 14, 07:09
- Well, they didn't leave anything to the imagination, did they -- nm - oblique Feb 14, 06:26
- What does it mean!?! -- nm - decline Feb 14, 06:14 1
  - It means the Duffer Brothers like money. -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 14, 06:16
Blade Runner: 7 Years since Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend -- (link) - budice Feb 14, 06:03
I have a crazy meeting at a crazy place today -- nm - JackDawson Feb 14, 06:01 4
- "I save money on office space by conducting my business out of a Chuck E Cheese." -- nm - Max Feb 14, 08:05
- Trump Tower: Everybody is innocent because Trump says so. -- nm - budice Feb 14, 06:14
- CIA blacksite -- nm - decline Feb 14, 06:03
- I've always wanted to visit the White House -- nm - ty97 Feb 14, 06:03
6F? I may have to call off work today. -- nm - Spawn Feb 14, 05:48 3
- Temperatures should have more than one syllable. No, "negative" and "below zero" do not count toward this total. -- nm - Beron Cherry Feb 14, 06:40 1
  - You get it! - Spawn Feb 14, 07:21
- It only got down to -5 at my parents so that’s barely brisk. - spamlet Feb 14, 05:56
Great Artworks with added search & rescue boats/vehicles -- (link) - LMS Feb 14, 05:27
off to fight the hordes at EB Games for deals. wish me luck!! -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 05:25 6
- Have fun storming the castle! -- nm - spamlet Feb 14, 05:39
- Score some decent $1 items for all of us! -- nm - Shaun Feb 14, 05:31 4
  - Catwoman EBG exclusive funko for $2! An Aquaman figure for my nephew, a couple GOT magnets and a Darkseid/Martian Manhunter Vinyl for $2 -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 06:58 3
    - heading there now - over the past week i have amassed a full set of 6 different Geeky Tikis.(different types, but, who cares, i just want tiki glasses -- nm - Andie Feb 14, 07:18 2
      - what'd ya get??!! -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 07:43 1
        
        nada. :( -- nm - Andie Feb 14, 08:05
Final Fantasy VII Remake Opening Cinematic -- (link) - Shaun Feb 14, 05:18 [youtube] 1
- Relatedly: Even if there is more information put out about Animal Crossing: New Horizons, we’re too close now. I don’t wanna know. -- nm - Qale Feb 14, 05:36
CDN people: Rakuten flash sale 14% cashback at select stores. -- (link) - Shaun Feb 14, 05:06
TV PSA: Smackdown, Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector, Gold Rush, MacGyver, Hawaii 5-O, Live PD, NBA All Star stuff, Bill Maher, Blue Bloods, -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 04:50 3
- The Weekly, Showtime Boxing, Visible: Out On Television (Apple), High Fidelity (HULU), The Thing About Harry, Utopia Falls (HULU), other stuff -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 04:52 2
  - *sigh* no new Magnum until April -- nm - SyrDragon Feb 14, 06:25 1
    - I'm a few episodes behind, but I had to turn off one episode with a hospital scene. Was NOT in the mood. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 07:45
Inspired by this podcast with guest Jane Espenson, what's your top 5 TV romances? Mine: - LMS Feb 14, 04:47 5
- Cj and Danny (West Wing), Leslie/Ben (parks), Chandler/Monica, Jules/Shawn from Psych, Coach Taylor and Mrs. Taylor (FNL) -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 14, 06:40
- Brian Kenny/Justin Taylor; Stef and Lyna Foster; Tim and Jill Taylor; Sam Malone/Dianne Chambers; and as much as I hate it Cliff and Claire Huxtable. -- nm - Qale Feb 14, 05:44 1
  - Maybe I’d put Eric/Donna instead of the Huxtable's so it’s still sweet but not Cosby. -- nm - Qale Feb 14, 06:57
- Hart to Hart, Trixie and Sol/Al, Ragnar and Lagertha, Archie and Edith, Ben Wyatt and Leslie Knope -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 05:03
- Homer and Marge, Luke and Lorelai, Lucy and Desi, Mitch and Cam and Bob and Linda. - Krusty Feb 14, 04:59
Astronaut Christina Koch reuniting with her dog after a year. -- (link) - Mop Feb 14, 04:46
"Woo, Brexit!" Cut to one hour later: -- (link) - Reagen Feb 14, 03:37 11
- ???? I'm confused. I don't think Brexit changed how UK folks enter Europe? - ty97 Feb 14, 05:21 2
  - It apparently hasn't but it's still funny to mock his indignation. -- nm* - Reagen Feb 14, 07:06
  - Brexit! -- nm - Spawn Feb 14, 05:49
- “I didn’t think the leopards would eat *my* face,” says lady who voted for Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party -- nm - znufrii, human scum Feb 14, 05:16
- "I didn't think leaving the EU would mean we'd be out of the EU this is bullshit" -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 04:54 1
  - “They checked my passport like I was some kind of foreigner!” -- nm - mafic Feb 14, 05:09
- Yes, it is. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 14, 04:42
- It never occurred to me I can now act smug, maybe it's not all bad. -- nm - LMS Feb 14, 04:40 1
  - Smug it up, smutty. Smug it all up -- nm - prayformojo Feb 14, 06:16
- LOL! -- nm - Mop Feb 14, 04:24
- Hilarious. -- nm - Andie Feb 14, 03:53
Utah moves to decriminalize polygamy, from felony to mere infraction -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 13, 23:30
startup Loftium, offers low rate rent, half going rate, if the tenant manages the other half of the unit as an Airbnb (local tv news segment) -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 13, 23:12
Fast n Furious franchise gets in touch with their feminine side, after FnF10 (which will be a two parter) there will be an all female sideshow -- (link) - zeitgeist Feb 13, 22:16 2
- The Feminine and the Ferocious? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 22:56 1
  - The Fleeting and the Foxy -- nm - Qale Feb 14, 05:49
I made the mistake of looking up Michael Schur on IMDb. I’m exhausted just reading that list. - Mop Feb 13, 22:09 1
- Ken Tremendous! -- nm - Tim Feb 14, 03:46
“You can’t keep saying ‘mischief managed’ after we finish having sex.” Noted. -- nm - Mop Feb 13, 21:45 1
- Depends on how many times she gets off. -- nm - Spawn Feb 14, 05:50
A tribe has bought 157 acres here next to the freeway. They won't say what the land is for, but everyone is thinking casino. Three different thoughts - crash davis Feb 13, 20:56 15
- called Quest? -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 07:09
- Tribes are moving away from the casino model, IE: Great Wolf family resorts, convention centers etc. multi use residential/commercial complexes -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 13, 23:23
- Winterfell and beyond the wall theme park!!! -- nm* - Peglegpete Feb 13, 22:36
- Does it automatically become tribal land because a tribe bought it? I mean, I like that. -- nm - Mop Feb 13, 21:46 4
  - yes, a local tribe put in a gas station/shopette on our main street, you can buy gas, cigs, booze at much lower prices without all the state taxes. -- (edited) - zeitgeist Feb 13, 22:01
  - That was my first question and the answer is apparently yes -- nm - crash davis Feb 13, 21:47 2
    - so theoretically they could buy their country back -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 13, 22:01 1
      - One could hope. -- nm - Mop Feb 13, 22:10
- And if you're lucky a decent entertainment venue. -- nm - . Feb 13, 21:08 6
  - Yep, it would be cool to occasionally get rock bands on their last legs. But I know it would be a lot of country. -- nm - crash davis Feb 13, 21:10 5
    - I knew a guy who got Asia to play a small town in Alaska (I think Yakutat?). he LOVED Asia. -- nm - mafic Feb 14, 04:06
    - You’re getting Huey Lewis and the News... - Mop Feb 13, 21:48 3
      - I fucking hate Huey Lewis and The News. It has to be some of the worst music ever produced during its time period. -- nm - Qale Feb 14, 05:52
      - I was fine with that until I read the IM. Well played :) -- nm - crash davis Feb 13, 21:52 1
        
        Admit it, you want to hear a blues version of “I Want A New Drug”. -- nm - Mop Feb 13, 21:55
Crash, is there anything else you find weird, odd or disturbing about your wife? :) - Peglegpete Feb 13, 20:54 2
- Lots of things. Chief among them is at midnight, she will have stayed married to me for 19 years. -- nm - crash davis Feb 13, 20:57 1
  - Happy anniversary :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 07:42
Krusty, it's become one of those things people have *strong opinions* both ways about. - ty97 Feb 13, 20:47 7
- I didn’t know the seats did recline. I figured I was on Southwest for 2 hours, why would they? -- nm - Qale Feb 14, 05:53
- I noticed. I know things are tight so no one wants to give up the little space they have. - Krusty Feb 13, 20:53 2
  - Reclining seats are a relic of the days when they actually gave you enough space on airplanes. - Reagen Feb 14, 02:46
  - I'm 5'4" and there isn't enough room for my legs. Spent one cross Atlantic flight next to a guy wh was 6'2". Neither of us were happy. -- nm - . Feb 13, 21:38
- Is it as bad as Star Wars prequels vs. Originals? -- nm - Bacon Feb 13, 20:48 2
  - Reading twitter this evening, I think it's getting there -- nm - ty97 Feb 13, 20:49 1
    - Twitter would be divided on a cure for cancer -- nm - Bacon Feb 13, 20:51
If the flight is 6+ hours, I'm reclining (and you should too) -- nm - ty97 Feb 13, 20:45 27
- my threshold is basically 'cross-country or greater' which works out to over about 4.5 hours. always upright for meal service, or you're terrible. - mafic Feb 13, 22:03 1
  - (also any flight leaving between about 10pm and 6am is fair game regardless of length). -- nm - mafic Feb 13, 22:04
- If it's not enough recline to keep my sleepy head from nodding forward, it's just being a jerk for negligible gains. -- nm - Max Feb 13, 21:30 1
  - See I find the opposite. It's just enough recline that my head does not nod forward. -- nm - ty97 Feb 14, 05:18
- The best comment on this I saw is that the two people are both victims of shitty airline seat spacing. - TWuG Feb 13, 21:26 3
  - "Because I can" is what's ruining the world! - Reagen Feb 14, 02:50 1
    - You're not wrong. But some git deciding another passenger is the problem here and not seat pitch... - TWuG Feb 14, 04:29
  - also those seats are generally the last to be assigned, and given to people on the most discounted fares. - mafic Feb 13, 22:15
- I asked one guy to move back up an inch once. I couldn't focus on the screen. Other than that the seats aren't made for someone my height, and no am - . Feb 13, 21:07
- Seatpuncher couldn't recline because he was at the back. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 20:46 8
  - seatpuncher is a drama queen. -- nm - mafic Feb 13, 21:58 2
    - Seat Puncher is a drag queen. -- nm - Qale Feb 14, 05:55
    - see, if someone asked me nicely I'd like move it forward some; once they started punching I recline all the way back and microwave fish -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 04:55
  - I know, I'm speaking in general, because that video launched the general "should you recline" argument. - ty97 Feb 13, 20:48 4
    - I'm quite averse to the idea of sleeping on a plane, due to my snoring. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 20:49 2
      - I do kinda wonder if I snore on planes. I think my subconscious may be smart enough to stop me? Or I don't snore sitting up? -- nm - ty97 Feb 13, 20:51
      - I always book my seat in the non snoring section -- nm - Bacon Feb 13, 20:50
    - I think redeye flights I cannot get upset with a recliner -- nm - Bacon Feb 13, 20:49
- Okay that's it, I am voting Trump because of Ty's first board post. Fuck the world -- nm - Bacon Feb 13, 20:46 8
  - Ty97 always boards first! I’m tired of his elitism! -- nm - Mop Feb 13, 22:15
  - No, not again! -- nm - Roger More Feb 13, 21:16
  - Trump reclines his seat on flights Even flights that take less than an hour. -- nm - ty97 Feb 13, 20:48 5
    - Stands on escalators. -- nm - Reagen Feb 14, 04:04
    - And probably unbuttons his pants. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 20:50 1
      - takes his shoes off and puts his bare feet on the armrest in front of him. -- nm - mafic Feb 13, 22:00
    - Trump doesn't recline so much as he can't sit upright. -- nm - crash davis Feb 13, 20:49
    - He only does it because Putin does it -- nm - Bacon Feb 13, 20:49

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