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Heh! -- (link) - decline May 21, 08:27 3
- Depending on who did it, that’s either awful or awesome. - Will Hunting May 21, 08:39 1
  - Also, the actual purpose of Space Force is not dumb. -- nm - Dano May 21, 08:53
- *chef's kiss* -- nm - prayformojo May 21, 08:30
NOAA: between 13 to 19 named storms, 6 to 10 hurricanes, and 3 to 6 major hurricanes of Category 3 or greater -- nm - decline May 21, 08:22 3
- One down. 12-18 more to go! -- nm - Qale May 21, 08:58
- 2020 is the worst timeline. -- nm - Will Hunting May 21, 08:37
- Yeah, this is a challenge for Coast Guard. -- nm - loosilu May 21, 08:33
Civilization VI is free on Epic Games Store right now. -- (link) - Shaun May 21, 08:15 15
- I asume I have to install the games store to get it right? -- nm - spamlet May 21, 08:35 1
  - To add it? Nope. To play it, yes. -- nm - Shaun May 21, 08:40
- Any reason I should "get" this if I own it already on Steam? -- nm - oblique May 21, 08:27 4
  - I mean if you already have an Epic account, I don't see any harm in adding it. May as well right? -- nm - Shaun May 21, 08:31 2
    - I did and got a $10 off coupon for the game store so that's a good enough reason to do it -- nm - oblique May 21, 08:54 1
      - Nice! -- nm - Shaun May 21, 08:55
  - its free? - tRuMaN May 21, 08:29
- Also new DLC being released bimonthly starting today. -- (link*) - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 08:18 7
  - Their pricing in BRL is completely out of whack. (NM) - Marlowe May 21, 08:53
  - 40 dollars if you want to get the pass -- nm - eag May 21, 08:23
  - probably should get around to actually finishing a game instead of chronically restarting before dropping any money on additional content though -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 08:23 4
    - The Rise and Fall expansion is well worth the money and really energizes the game. I enjoy VI much more with that expansion. -- nm - oblique May 21, 08:30 1
      - yeah, I have both expansions and all of the dlc as of november (black friday steam sale, ftw!) -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 08:34
    - Yeah ive yet to actually finish a full game either -- nm - eag May 21, 08:24 1
      - I was up until 1am last night and got a good start on one that looks promising, though! -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 08:25
Also: the mental picture this evokes is comedy gold (Nmblink) - ralph wiggum May 21, 07:52 8
- If imaging this in Billy Connoly’s voice is wrong I don’t want to be right. -- nm - spamlet May 21, 08:11 5
  - I recently watched Brave and Gulliver's Travels and am always pleased to find him in things - con_carne May 21, 08:21 1
    - Your GF? -- nm - Spawn May 21, 08:35
  - I don't want to say all of Scotland was like this but it wasn't not like this. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 08:15 1
    - Agreed. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 08:16
  - YES. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 08:14
- Why just wear a mask? When you can be the Mask -- (link) - budice May 21, 08:09
- That's pretty good. -- nm - Shaun May 21, 07:54
So, I watched the last two episodes of SN season 1 last night. Thought I should start a little before season 2 and the description seem strong. - Spawn May 21, 07:49 4
- SN? -- nm - David May 21, 08:38 1
  - Sorry, Supernatural. This is a continuation/result of yesterday's discussion. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 08:42
- You should watch both seasons of SportsNight. It was really good. -- nm - spamlet May 21, 07:51 1
  - Watched those as they aired, noob! -- nm - Spawn May 21, 07:51
Oh, and it's apparently now poor (read: black) people's own fault if they die from Coronavirus because of their underlying health problems. -- (link*) - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 07:42 2
- Instead of signal-boosting Alex Azar, which is what you're doing in your OM, Guardian puts this in a tasty truth sandwich of racism and incompetence - con_carne May 21, 07:57
- Oh yeah, Trumpists jumped on that so they could claim the numbers are overcounted. -- nm - loosilu May 21, 07:47
blah. Strava took its segment tracking into subscription. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 07:28
I’ve been doing online yoga classes during quarantine. I happen to look at the bio of one of the instructors and apparently he has been on Survivor - ralph wiggum May 21, 07:25 6
- Aw yeah - one of the Baskauskas brothers. He wasn't as much a dick as he was creepy AF. -- nm - John B May 21, 07:31 3
  - He’s only very vaguely creepy in the yoga videos I’ve followed, but I’m willing to believe the rep. Nm - ralph wiggum May 21, 07:33 2
    - "Please... send pictures of your stretches ... so I know you are doing them right." -- nm - Reagen May 21, 07:35 1
      - Heh. It’s more that all these classes have a teacher and 1-2 students to demonstrate the poses. He is just a tiny bit too attentive to his students.Nm - ralph wiggum May 21, 07:42
- Yeah. He’s a great yoga instructor, though. -- nm - Dark Callisto May 21, 07:29
- Yeah, kind of a dick. Aras' brother. -- nm - Strongbad May 21, 07:28
The other shoe has dropped in HK. Communist party taking away promised freedoms such as freedom of assembly and press. -- (link) - spamlet May 21, 07:21
Krusty alert! 10" Biggie Funko Pop at 2PM Eastern -- (link) - JaxSean May 21, 07:18 5
- and you should enter to win this -- (link) - tRuMaN May 21, 07:28 2
  - My friend will love having one of those -- nm - Krusty May 21, 07:57 1
    - I mean, thanks.... - tRuMaN May 21, 08:04
- ton of new stuff. a lot of Halloween related, Zombieland, Edward Sissorhands, Beetlejuice, tons -- nm - Beaker May 21, 07:25
- Sweet! Thanks! -- nm - Krusty May 21, 07:23
Anyone have a wsj subscription that can C&P this or pull out any vendor links from this article? -- (link) - oblique May 21, 07:16 2
- Here - spamlet May 21, 07:17 1
  - gracias -- nm - oblique May 21, 07:32
PSVR people: Iron Man VR demo live on PS Store. -- (link) - Shaun May 21, 07:04
Whoa.... 😳 -- (link) - Flavorize May 21, 06:59 9
- If it’s not a bit, it’s deeply, deeply sad. Nm - ralph wiggum May 21, 07:13 4
  - And that’s how FC Seoul fans are made -- nm - JD May 21, 07:30 1
    - hahahahaha. this is pretty funny -- nm - prayformojo May 21, 07:41
  - There's a story further down the thread. It sounds like not a bit and he's deeply disturbed after a stint in the military. -- nm - spamlet May 21, 07:16 1
    - Yeah, I saw that FB post that was supposed to have been from his ex step daughter. :(. Nm - ralph wiggum May 21, 07:19
- Bery: Banhammer please? -- nm - JackDawson May 21, 07:09 3
  - Too late...I was already banned from ST for my Lorde/one-hit wonder comment -- (edited) - Flavorize May 21, 07:42 1
    - Lorde Lorde Lorde... I am Lorde. -- nm - Qale May 21, 09:06
  - I laughed seeing the Atlanta Braves hat on the wall. -- nm - MDH May 21, 07:09
It's finally happening! "TV Fan-Favorite Smash Heading To Broadway as a New Musical" -- (link) - MDH May 21, 06:56 6
- I loved smash an embarrassing amount. -- nm - amanda May 21, 07:26
- There was a show called Smash? -- nm - decline May 21, 07:21 2
  - Apparently it was even a "fan-favorite." Fan is singular. -- nm - Open Baron May 21, 07:36 1
    - I think dano loved it too. -- nm - amanda May 21, 07:52
- It sounds like they may completely drop the Marilyn Monroe premise which is interesting. -- nm - MDH May 21, 07:09
- My wife watched the Smash thing last night and loved it. -- nm - Shaun May 21, 07:01
The Old Guard - Trailer -- (link) - Shaun May 21, 06:56 [youtube] 3
- "We don't have all the answers. But we do have purpose." - Spawn May 21, 07:47
- can't wait -- nm - decline May 21, 07:16
- can't wait (and thankfully they don't spoil the whole freakin' movie in the trailer) -- nm* - Beaker May 21, 07:05
New Brunswick is moving into Phase Yellow tomorrow. -- (link) - Shaun May 21, 06:53 2
- "Warm Liquid Goo Phase: Complete" -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 07:17
- I'm on it. *raises leg* -- nm - Labrador May 21, 07:08
"Undercount the dead. Overcount the testing. It's a strategy. A bad one, but seems to be the plan." -- (link) - mud May 21, 06:49 1
- Lies, damn lies, and statistics. -- nm - VMan May 21, 06:52
I, Pastafari review – inside the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster -- (link) - mud May 21, 06:43
"The big Trump fear: the discovery process. Because that’s when the public discovers stuff." -- (link) - mud May 21, 06:29
Lori Loughlin agrees to plead guilty -- (link) - mud May 21, 06:15 5
- and she and hubby will get released early due to covid prison issues -- nm - Remlik May 21, 08:09
- Guess they finally added enough charges to get her to see the light. - Will Hunting May 21, 06:32 2
  - Last week another mother pleaded guilty and got time served and a $250K fine (for a $400K bribe) -- nm - decline May 21, 07:18
  - "We're postponing sentencing until 2022" "Noooooooo" -- nm - Reagen May 21, 06:38
- Definitely a 10 in prison. -- nm - zunkskunk May 21, 06:29
+2.4 million new unemployment claims filed last week. About a quarter of the labor force has now lost their job since this started. -- nm* - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 06:08 11
- Is this a net number? Like does it subtract those who have gone back to work or no? -- nm - ty97 May 21, 06:19 9
  - That's just counting new claims as of last week. Continuing claims for the week ending May 9th were at 25 million. -- (link*) - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 06:22 1
    - and that's not counting claims for Pandemic Unemployment assistance by workers not eligible for unemployment, which is as many as another 9 million - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 06:49
  - Theres a Continuing Claims number of 25.1M -- (link*) - budice May 21, 06:22 6
    - n/m, got my programs confused -- nm* - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 06:31 5
      - I’m surprised they didn’t add “but doubts persist” or “but fear abounds” -- nm - JackDawson May 21, 06:49
      - Misleading NYTimes headlines for the win -- nm - JackDawson May 21, 06:48 3
        
        which one? -- nm - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 07:11 2
        
        Reporting totals as opposed to current -- nm - JackDawson May 21, 07:19 1
        
        Gotcha -- (edited) - znufrii, silly old man May 21, 07:25
- The 6M week number has made 2M seem normal for some. But that's still 10x normal on a weekly basis -- nm* - budice May 21, 06:09
J, re MLB19: I've turned off my baserunning appearances. It's boring and makes games last twice as long. I hit and field. -- nm - Shaun May 21, 05:42 7
- Are you still being hit at the bottom of the order or pinch hit for despite having the greatest season in MLB history? - Krusty May 21, 06:11 3
  - No, I'm cemented in the cleanup spot now. Unknown. I don't keep track of any types of dealings. I just play the games, man. -- nm - Shaun May 21, 06:11 2
    - Although I did hit 9th in the All-Star Game, but that's likely because my player rating was the lowest. -- nm* - Shaun May 21, 06:12 1
      - Got it. Took them long enough to put the GOAT in a good spot -- nm - Krusty May 21, 06:25
- And the look on his face his because he knows he still has to play for Baltimore. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 05:45 1
  - Just got into August 2021 last night. We currently have the 2nd wildcard spot. -- nm* - Shaun May 21, 06:01
- Oh an Flav, the character model must've been doing some type of facial movement when I took the screencap. -- nm* - Shaun May 21, 05:43
PETA planning protests against aquariums in Animal Crossing -- (link) - Beaker May 21, 05:39 7
- This is reminiscent of certain religious groups protesting D&D b/c the characters didn't believe in God. - Open Baron May 21, 06:28 3
  - Didn't believe in THEIR god. -- nm - VMan May 21, 06:32 2
    - It's like how Harry Potter was banned in a part of Australia due to witchcraft, but LOTR was fine because there were references to a "lord." -- nm - Shaun May 21, 06:49
    - Precisely. I should have specified. :) -- nm - Open Baron May 21, 06:38
- Everyday I see these "[blahblahblah]I'veneverheardofbefore is over party" things trending on Twitter and I want the people doing them to get lives. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 05:47
- PETA: Finding new and inventive ways to be assholes in 2020. -- nm - Shaun May 21, 05:42 1
  - At least they are obeying the Stay At Home orders. -- nm - Spawn May 21, 08:17
Cowboys' Aldon Smith reinstated by NFL -- nm - Beaker May 21, 05:38
Caption this -- (link) - prayformojo May 21, 05:34 3
- How I Maimed Your Mother. -- nm - VMan May 21, 06:53
- Bad Ideas, Vol. 12 -- nm - Mop May 21, 06:51
- "The 2021 Olympics went through further modifications" -- nm - Reagen May 21, 05:49
TV PSA: Burden of Truth, Celebrity Escape Room, Celebrity Watch Party, Flip or Flop, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, This Old House, Man With a Plan, -- nm - Beaker May 21, 04:05 3
- Escape Room is Jack Black, Lisa Kudrow, Courtney Cox, Ben Stiller and Adam Scott -- nm - Beaker May 21, 04:14
- Flipping 101, Holey Moley, In the Dark, Labor of Love, Restaurant Impossible, Total Bellas, Real HW, We're Here, Red Nose Day Special, Broke, Siren, -- nm - Beaker May 21, 04:08 1
  - Misery index, Top Chef, To Tell the Truth, Prop Culture (D+), A Streetcar Named Desire (National Theatre Live via YouTube), other stuff -- nm - Beaker May 21, 04:13
a Lowe's in Virgina replaced a black delivery driver with a white guy at the customer's request ... -- (link) - zeitgeist May 21, 02:34 2
- (five years ago) -- nm - Reagen May 21, 05:54 1
  - Tr... Obama! -- nm - Spawn May 21, 07:42
Another two entries for the Needle Drop poll a few boards ago, both from Luther: Emiliana Torrini - Gun. Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 01:41
woke up at 2am and cant back to sleep. -- nm - tRuMaN May 21, 00:45 4
- I hear The FilmJerk Podcast is a great cure for insomnia -- nm - Mr. Havens May 21, 08:07
- My schedule is wake 8-9am, fall asleep around 8-9pm, sleep for 3-4 hours and wake up, up until 5am and fall back asleep. Repeat. - JaxSean May 21, 01:25 2
  - and repeat -- nm - JaxSean May 21, 06:07 1
    - i havent been sleeping well, so I bought a mattress off amazon yesterday. - tRuMaN May 21, 07:59
Trying out amazon music as a spotify alternative ... sound quality seems to be a tiny bit better. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 00:22 3
- If you get their highest tier it is meaningfully better. They have most tracks on lossless transfer. - pmb May 21, 07:17
- I've been using Amazon music for a few years. I like it a lot. - sycor May 21, 06:28
- Hmm. I compared "Hurt" between the two platforms. Amazon wins. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 00:39
I just read CBS moved the Amazing Race 32 to the fall so they had programming. it's been in the can since 2018!!! -- nm - Peglegpete May 20, 23:24 2
- can you imagine being one of the contestants and not being able to tell anyone anything about it until its broadcast with the nondisclosure -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 00:00
- In the can, eh? "Shitter's full." -- nm - Beryllium May 20, 23:27
This is the airport where I used to work. They mention in the report it's one of the shortest runways around. He wouldn't have been the first - Meg May 20, 23:14 3
- I wonder if he had a plan for his stolen plane, or if it was a joyride? -- nm - mafic May 21, 01:14 2
  - Someone tried stealing a float plane in Vancouver a couple months ago. At least that halfway makes sense - you can land anywhere on the water ... - Beryllium May 21, 01:42 1
    - my pond is water, Bery, could you land in that? could you? COULD YOU! -- nm - mafic May 21, 01:54
And now for something completely different. -- nm - Spawn May 20, 22:52 1
- No it’s not. -- nm - JenBro May 21, 02:51

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