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Street of Rage 4: April 30th!! -- (link) - Shaun Apr 17, 06:44 1
- Such rage. They need to learn to use their words. -- nm - B-A-ron Apr 17, 06:45
Does anyone have an update on Don Homer's wife? -- nm - Krusty Apr 17, 06:26
Ok, time to find a hot deal on Xbox Gold so I can so the $1 upgrade to Game Pass Ultimate. -- (pic) - Shaun Apr 17, 06:13 [Attachment] 6
- You missed the NewEgg ones. They were so amazing, even I had to jump in on them, and I normally don’t give a crap. -- nm - Qale Apr 17, 06:49
- Enjoy! If you find a deal please let me know. My Xbox Live ran out yesterday. -- nm - Krusty Apr 17, 06:14 4
  - My deal probably won't be applicable to yours. Dumb different country rules and crap. -- nm - Shaun Apr 17, 06:15 3
    - Oh, right. That shit is idiotic. - Krusty Apr 17, 06:17 2
      - Yeah shipping stuff is outrageous. Truly. -- nm - Shaun Apr 17, 06:40 1
        
        I wish I had a picture of my face when I was told the cost the last time I went to ship something to your lovely country. -- (edited) - Krusty Apr 17, 06:49
Is there a new medium budget router fave out there or is it still the Archer C7? -- nm - Reagen Apr 17, 05:40 9
- Tactile-ack. -- nm - B-A-ron Apr 17, 06:19
- if anyone cares, I love my google wifi. god bless ebay. -- nm - amanda Apr 17, 06:09 2
  - Yeah, we ended up with the Orbi mesh system. Our router is in what used to be the garage at one end of the house so it really helped. - spamlet Apr 17, 06:17 1
    - I might get another one for the attic even. -- nm - amanda Apr 17, 06:23
- What would you classify as medium budget? I have a Netgear Nighthawk and it's been flawless. -- nm - Shaun Apr 17, 05:58 2
  - That's higher budget to me. - Reagen Apr 17, 05:59 1
    - Cool. -- nm - Shaun Apr 17, 06:00
- Wirecutter suggests the A7 -- (link) - spamlet Apr 17, 05:45 1
  - Looks like the A7 is the C7 + Alexa support. -- nm - Reagen Apr 17, 05:49
It's 9-5 in the top of the 5th between the Fubon Guardians and the Rakuten Monkeys. Guardians are leading. -- (link) - Krusty Apr 17, 05:35 3
- Cracks me up they still have the cheerleaders going for the fake fans. -- nm - spamlet Apr 17, 06:00 2
  - I chuckle at that as well. I love the cardboard fans too. :-) -- nm - Krusty Apr 17, 06:09 1
    - I love that players used to get translated names of products that the team owner made. - spamlet Apr 17, 06:36
nmb Bery... -- (edited) - Krusty Apr 17, 05:22 1
- Also, it's not happening every time. -- nm - Krusty Apr 17, 05:27
Xbox Series S rumour. -- (link) - Shaun Apr 17, 05:11 4
- Blah. -- nm - Mop Apr 17, 06:44
- Why are they insisting on the tower design? That won’t fit in any of our tv stands. -- nm - spamlet Apr 17, 05:41
- It sounds like the XB1X that I already own... -- nm - Qale Apr 17, 05:13 1
  - Seems about right. -- nm - Shaun Apr 17, 06:41
TV PSA: Charmed, Smackdown, Gold Rush, MacGyver, Shark Tank, RuPaul, Blacklist, Dynasty, Magnum PI, Live PD, Somewhere South, Dishing with Julia Child -- nm - Beaker Apr 17, 04:16 2
- Friday Night In with The Morgans, Andy Cohen, The Last Kids On Earth: Book 2 (Netflix), Star Wars Clone Wars (D+), The Phantom Of The Opera (YouTube), -- nm - Beaker Apr 17, 04:18 1
  - #blackAF (Netflix), Too Hot To Handle (Netflix), Selah And The Spades (Amazon), other stuff -- nm - Beaker Apr 17, 04:20
200 Days Until Election Day -- nm - Qale Apr 17, 04:15 1
- Why you block me? Did Logan deforest you? -- nm - Spawn Apr 17, 05:53
25 years ago a couple right wing assholes blew up the federal building in Kansas -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 02:51 2
- Oklahoma. -- nm - Inigo Apr 17, 04:00
- Two white male US citizens -- nm - . Apr 17, 03:03
Medical professionals account for almost 20% of the c19 cases (though their death rate is lower than average) -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 17, 02:33
Africa could see millions of deaths, according to current models, WHO says -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 17, 02:17
A bit of a tough read, but I expect a lot more stories like this will be coming out. -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 17, 00:52 1
- *this* is why we need to flatten the curve, not to stop the virus, just to keep the pile of bodies manageable (seriously, grim as all that is) -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 01:57
Former 'lawyer' for the Donald Michael Cohen to get early release due to c19 -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 17, 00:44
Guatemala says their main source of c19 virus is flights of returnees from ICE detention -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 17, 00:31 1
- Our new export. -- nm - . Apr 17, 01:50
It's like, Tifa has feelings for me, but Jessie HAS to have me. - David Apr 16, 23:57 2
- Yeah. Playing the demo, I was thinking, holy tone it down lady. -- nm - Shaun Apr 17, 06:14
- Is this a FF7 reference? -- nm - Qale Apr 17, 05:11
iFixit Is compiling manuals and repair guides for medical equipment so hospitals and their bio med technicians can repair ventilators and stuff. -- (link) - Mop Apr 16, 23:30 [youtube]
Election Day is 200 away. -- nm - Spawn Apr 16, 23:25 2
- Now would be a great time to start preparing for mail-in ballots across the country. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 16, 23:26 1
  - It would be illegal for me to vote absentee by mail. -- nm - mara Apr 17, 05:56
29,567 cases yesterday, down 775 from the previous day. Growth rate is 4.6%. Just to confuse mafic, I have no opinion on this. - David Apr 16, 23:24 4
- I don't disagree! a bit worse than the last couple days, but a bit better than average? slightly fewer tests than yesterday, but a few more cases. - mafic Apr 17, 00:03
- I heard two different death numbers - one in the 2,000 range, one in the 4,500 range - for today. Not sure which is more accurate. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 16, 23:26 2
  - the one from the official data is 2,492, but likely undercounting. -- nm - mafic Apr 17, 01:52
  - they started adding suspected but not confirmed by test, hospitalizations and bodies -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 00:04
The next podcast after I finish the Orion miniseries is going to be on the Kiss movie that never happened, The Elder. -- nm - Mr. Havens Apr 16, 23:16
Huh. LEGO Ideas has a Flintstones set. -- (link) - Mop Apr 16, 23:16
Dallas' 2 drive-thru testing sites have doubled the number of daily tests to 500 each. -- nm - GregW Apr 16, 23:13 1
- At that rate it'll only take 3 and a half years for everyone in Dallas to get tested. We need to be testing tens of thousands a day. -- nm - Krusty Apr 17, 05:26
HBO Max better market right. "Stay at home with Friends" is a perfect slogan. So obvious, so simple. Watch them blow it. -- nm - Mop Apr 16, 22:50
In local news ... -- (link) - Beryllium Apr 16, 22:37 4
- they need a better photo department. -- nm - mafic Apr 16, 22:56 2
  - The photographers are in lockdown - otherwise there'd be headlines of mass casualty horror stories -- nm - Beryllium Apr 16, 23:00 1
    - hahaha, photo departments? hahaha, most news photos are lifted from social media these days, reporters have to shoot their own photo/video now -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 00:03
- I'm sure he's relieved they didn't name him in the report :) -- nm - Meg Apr 16, 22:41
2.178M reported cases - Spawn Apr 16, 22:31
Steve Jobs would have been a better President than Donald Trump -- (edited) - JD Apr 16, 22:00 6
- and he's been dead for 9 years!! -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 16, 23:26 1
  - what's your point? -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 17, 00:06
- One is successful businessman. -- nm* - . Apr 16, 23:20
- Don Swayze would be a better President. -- nm - Mr. Havens Apr 16, 23:14
- The old lady that somehow forgot to tell her family that she was on the Titanic for 80+ years would be a better President. -- nm - ty97 Apr 16, 22:28 1
  - no ty, it was a secret. she did fake her own death and steal a giant diamond after all. -- nm - mafic Apr 16, 22:48
I just made these Cheddar Scallion biscuits and they were *tasty* (nmblink) - ralph wiggum Apr 16, 21:55
Here's Krasinski on TikTok promoting his live stream tomorrow. -- (link) - Mop Apr 16, 21:41 [tiktok]
My 11-year-old daughter has just completed her 2nd watch-through of every season of The Simpsons. -- nm - Mop Apr 16, 21:35 2
- For her birthday on Monday, she's asked for a Simpsons sweatshirt. -- nm - Mop Apr 16, 21:36 1
  - Raising that girl right! -- nm - Krusty Apr 16, 21:47
I look forward to the protestations from the antivaxxers once we get a coronavirus vaccine. -- nm - Mop Apr 16, 21:33 1
- They have already begun. I like to point out they're volunteering to self isolate until immunity and vaccination hits the proper herd immunity levels -- nm - . Apr 16, 23:19
now playing … a little late night Pink Floyd "The Wall" in its entirety ... - call me ishmael Apr 16, 21:06 2
- I have Holly Bowling playing Terrapin Station on -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 16, 22:14 1
  - now an 18 minute Dancing in the Streets from 1977 -- nm - Peglegpete Apr 16, 23:39
When Donny read off a 10 min list of top corp CEOs who are helping open the econ again, not so fast, they got an email to join a conf call, that's it -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 16, 20:48
Workers at American plants in mexico along border protesting having to work without protection when facilities in US are closed -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 16, 20:35
Ermehgerd. Taranturlers!!!!! -- (pic) - Turd Ferguson Apr 16, 20:24 [Attachment]
China's quarterly GDP growth chart -- (link) - znufrii, stimulated Apr 16, 20:21 6
- How is it their GDP was so high in '94? I thought their economic miracle was in the '00s (which is high but not as high as '94). -- nm - Mop Apr 16, 20:54 3
  - Also GDP basically tripled every decade from '80-2010. it's kind of been going for a while. only double since 2010 (in real terms). -- nm - mafic Apr 16, 21:07
  - It's GDP growth, so growing from a smaller number is easier. -- nm - Reagen Apr 16, 20:58 1
    - Ah, thanks -- nm - Mop Apr 16, 21:01
- *slide whistle* -- nm - Max Apr 16, 20:44
- that looks worse than when Mao took over -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 16, 20:30
"What did everyone think of Midsommar?" "It made me want to get a bear rug." "That feels like the wrong takeaway." -- nm - livestream I'm watching Apr 16, 19:47
the only mass testing of a community, the sailors of the uss Roosevelt reveal awful truth, few of them showed symptoms while highly contagious -- (link) - zeitgeist Apr 16, 19:40 6
- lots of places have done mass testing. cruise ships, at least a few entire towns in Italy. -- nm - mafic Apr 16, 21:09 1
  - Iceland -- nm - . Apr 16, 21:13
- We're about to start doing mass testing here in town in the nation's first study of it's kind. -- (link) - Mop Apr 16, 21:03
- They really shouldn't have licked everything. -- nm - Mop Apr 16, 20:55 2
  - clean the latrines with their toothbrush -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 16, 22:06
  - Those navy boys are squirrelly. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 16, 21:04
My hair today... -- (pic) - David Apr 16, 19:11 [Attachment] 10
- My hair a couple days ago -- (pic) - Beryllium Apr 16, 19:20 [Attachment] 2
  - If you put on some armor you could do an Oscar Isaac shot. -- nm - Max Apr 16, 19:29 1
    - And I could title it "Poe DAYAM-eron" -- nm - Beryllium Apr 16, 19:33
- Mine. -- (pic) - Dark Callisto Apr 16, 19:19 [Attachment] 4
  - Don't steal my bit. -- nm - David Apr 16, 19:20 3
    - the gif makes it better. -- nm - mafic Apr 16, 19:34 2
      - Nobody asked you, hatchet man. -- nm - David Apr 16, 19:44 1
        
        hey, you never know, I might agree with you today! -- nm - mafic Apr 16, 20:20
- Got my haircut a week before all the lockdowns started -- nm - budice Apr 16, 19:14 1
  - I cut mine last week. Whatever, it'll be fixed later. -- nm - amanda Apr 16, 19:21
Now multiple top bball prospects skipping NCAA to play for GLeague NBA -- (link) - Beaker Apr 16, 18:56 1
- End of any One and Done talk -- nm - budice Apr 16, 19:08
Looks like June 12 for Artemis Fowl on Disney+ -- (link*) - Beaker Apr 16, 18:42 1
- Nice. -- nm - Shaun Apr 17, 06:40
Also, no one should want to be trapped in a house with Gonger. -- nm - Reagen Apr 16, 18:32 3
- Bery went to the puppet-fucking rather quickly -- nm - con_carne Apr 16, 18:45 2
  - Indeed - within seconds after my original reply. It took a bit of finesse to phrase it delicately, though. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 16, 18:47 1
    - (However, my original reply was rooted in who would be able to out-complain me. Those are the folks I'd prefer to spend the time with.) - Beryllium Apr 16, 18:48
Here's the weirdest TikTok you're gonna see today. -- (link) - Mop Apr 16, 18:29 [tiktok] 4
- You say that as if I'll see others. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Apr 16, 20:34 1
  - so what you're saying is he's not wrong? -- nm - mafic Apr 16, 20:51
- I'm impressed with the amount of choreography in this Fern Gully lip synch -- (link) - con_carne Apr 16, 19:25 [tiktok]
- The problem with those TikToks are once you hear the song, you know what’s going to happen. -- nm - Qale Apr 16, 18:39
Westworld thoughts - Reagen Apr 16, 18:28 2
- it's genius! nevermind! -- nm - mud Apr 16, 18:47
- ha - Jovian Apr 16, 18:45
*reads "Total Cured" as "Total Cursed"* -- nm - prayformojo Apr 16, 18:05
"My wife and I can't be together which means our house is now controlled by a 17 year old. You might hear them. It's Lord of the Flies here." -- nm - Chris Cuomo Apr 16, 18:03
So here is my own personal COVID-19 conspiracy theory (which I'm writing up as a novel for #StayHomeWriMo ...) -- (edited) - ReluctantCynic Apr 16, 18:02 7
- its like ICE9, it doesn't make sense to release something that will come back and kill you too. - zeitgeist Apr 16, 18:34
- Alternate theory - Beryllium Apr 16, 18:05 5
  - Well, see ... (spoilers) - ReluctantCynic Apr 16, 18:26 2
    - speaking of whom, he's disappeared, didn't show for the biggest holiday event of their year honoring his grandpa. that's...something... -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 16, 18:35
    - I'm liking it ... actually ties in loosely with my book idea. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 16, 18:35
  - Their intelligence hadn't identified that person as a germophobe :/ -- nm - Meg Apr 16, 18:16 1
    - Heh, that would be funny :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 16, 18:17
In the other universe, what were the movies scheduled to open tomorrow? -- nm - Max Apr 16, 18:00
Like Evans is so charming. If Hugh Jackman wasn’t around he’d get so much work. -- nm - MDH Apr 16, 17:58
Huge walk-off bomb! -- (link) - Shaun Apr 16, 17:55 [youtube] 4
- Nice! You're in the minors? -- nm - Krusty Apr 16, 18:10 3
  - Gotta start somewhere. -- nm - Shaun Apr 16, 18:22 2
    - Bush leaguer! -- nm - Krusty Apr 16, 18:27 1
      - 2nd overall draft pick!!!! -- nm - Shaun Apr 16, 19:21
Letterkenny -- (link) - Beaker Apr 16, 17:52 [youtube] 3
- Oh man! I thought I recognized that voice! It’s Jono! -- nm - Mop Apr 16, 18:32
- "Tough week then, eh?" -- nm - Beryllium Apr 16, 18:04 1
  - "And would you believe on that very same day, my daughter fell into the manure pile." -- nm - ReluctantCynic Apr 16, 18:23

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