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Xbox's news brings up something I've been thinking about recently: in a state of quarantine shopping, is "holiday" no longer a thing? - Max Aug 11, 12:33 1
- Hence Black Friday being dead. -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 12:36
Question of the day -- (pic) - prayformojo Aug 11, 12:28 [Attachment] 11
- I remember that song. -- nm - landbeck Aug 11, 12:40 1
  - Is it burning inside of you? -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Aug 11, 12:43
- *giggle* - JD Aug 11, 12:31
- Trick question! - decline Aug 11, 12:30
- Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Aug 11, 12:28 [Attachment] 6
  - Alexa would not recognize my answer to that one for anything . -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Aug 11, 12:38 2
    - right??!? I tried three times and finally just said the letter -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 12:39 1
      - Yep, had to do the same. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Aug 11, 12:40
  - Bonus question (not screenshotted) - prayformojo Aug 11, 12:29 2
    - Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Aug 11, 12:30 [Attachment] 1
      - 2/2 (guessed 1/2) -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 12:31
This is fascinating: The sound a car door makes when it closes is manufactured to make you feel more comfortable with the quality of the vehicle -- (link) - decline Aug 11, 12:24 12
- I'm also certain that the highest air setting has turbulence designed in so it sounds like so much more air coming out -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 11, 12:38
- Nothing beats the mechanical sound of 1980s German car doors latching. -- nm - Max Aug 11, 12:36
- Don't I know it. Unfortunately, I drive an '85 Gilbert Gottfried -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 12:30 1
  - Haaaaa. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 12:38
- Semi-related. The car horn to me always speaks volumes about a car's character. My wife's previous Kia Sorento had a joke of a horn. The new one we - oblique Aug 11, 12:27 6
  - Econo cars sound like a bratty kid saying "meh" I want a 70s Cadillac horn, 5 not quite harmonious, definitely Boss man coming through -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 11, 12:30
  - heh. In high school my Pontiac T-1000 had a transplant horn from a Caddy. -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 12:29 4
    - cool. -- nm - mud Aug 11, 12:30 3
      - It was the car I had after killing the Monte Carlo. Was annoyed by the lame horn and then the horn died. - Spawnsy Aug 11, 12:39 2
        
        I was always impressed by anachronistic-like horns -- nm - mud Aug 11, 12:41 1
        
        Or Luis's sweet sweet van. -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 12:46
- If you compare a Ford compact to a Mercedes, this is plain to the ear. - Beryllium Aug 11, 12:27
"Big Ten pushes football season to spring" -- nm - David Aug 11, 12:14 2
- but, "facts!" -- nm - Harbaugh Aug 11, 12:20
- optimists! -- nm - ty97 Aug 11, 12:15
Excellent point -- (link) - TWuG Aug 11, 12:06 2
- I wonder if everyone realizes how cool it would be this time if Biden made the announcement himself *shrug* -- nm* - con_carne Aug 11, 12:09 1
  - What are the betting lines? -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 11, 12:31
I am so psyched to play Halo Infinite this year! -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 12:05
Halo: Infinite delayed til 2021. -- (link) - Shaun Aug 11, 12:04 8
- Infinitely delayed -- nm - the ice Aug 11, 12:25
- Holy crap. Previously, Forza was seen as the visual showcase for new tech. Without Forza or Halo, players are going to ask why bother buy XSX in Nov -- nm - Max Aug 11, 12:21 2
  - I can't see Cyberpunk or AC:Valhalla being enough of a reason, based on what we've seen of those (imo). -- nm - Shaun Aug 11, 12:29
  - hopefully it's got pretty lights on the front for people to look at while they wait for games to come out - decline Aug 11, 12:25
- Perhaps lost in the delay news, November has been confirmed for the XSX. -- nm - Shaun Aug 11, 12:16 3
  - And Mop will pick up an XSX in 2021 when it's worth it. -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 12:20 2
    - Early adopt like a normal person!!! -- nm - Shaun Aug 11, 12:21 1
      - Pretty sure Mop does not even live on the same continent. - Spawnsy Aug 11, 12:23
BREAKING: Halo Infinite has been delayed until 2021 -- nm - decline Aug 11, 12:03
Poll: How optimistic are you about the human species and our current civilization? On a scale of 1 (civilizational collapse and human extinctio) to 10 - mara Aug 11, 11:54 24
- The fact that we have a manageable epidemic which has caused us to rethink economics and logistics actually makes me more optimistic than last year - Max Aug 11, 12:44
- I'm going to be optimistic and say 4. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 11, 12:33
- 5-ish -- nm - decline Aug 11, 12:25
- Some one asked if I had any plans for the fall, it took a moment to get they meant "autumn " and not "of civilization as we know it" -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 11, 12:21 1
  - "Do ya think it'll fall?" "What?" "The Roman empire." "LOL FUCK IT!" -- nm - con_carne Aug 11, 12:28
- 3.125 is the joke but it's funny because it's true -- nm - oblique Aug 11, 12:14
- We get through Trump I actually expect us to do a LOT of good. 8. -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 12:06
- 6 -- nm - David Aug 11, 12:05
- 6.5 -- nm - Dano Aug 11, 12:05
- What a thing to open the page to. :/ -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 12:04
- wow, this poll is *dark* -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 12:02 2
  - Like we're gonna live to see it through ;-) -- nm - JD Aug 11, 12:11 1
    - heh -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 12:18
- Right now about a 7. -- nm - TWuG Aug 11, 11:59
- 8. I don't think utopia is possible, but I think we're getting closer to it than the other direction. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 11, 11:59
- For the second one, I always remember Hyde's "It will be a long and glorious slide downwards, like Britain." For the first, 0, but that is why we have - con_carne Aug 11, 11:59
- 1 is an inevitability, given a long enough timeframe. -- nm - znufrii, drinking heavily Aug 11, 11:58 2
  - Hmm, I should have put a timeframe into the question. -- nm - mara Aug 11, 12:01 1
    - even with that, I can't answer until Nov. 4 -- nm - mud Aug 11, 12:02
- 3.5 -- nm - Epiphany - Letterkenny Groupie Aug 11, 11:58
- I'm 2 or 3 these days, although I try not to be. -- nm - mara Aug 11, 11:57
- 3 -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 11:55
- 4. Same as it ever was. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 11:55
- For the nearish future 4, if we live through that and after a stupidly long time 8 -- nm - JD Aug 11, 11:55
This is actually funny. Console Wars. -- (link) - Shaun Aug 11, 11:52 [youtube]
Oh, no! NOT CHICKEN CURRY! -- (link) - TWuG Aug 11, 11:48 1
- 🙄 -- nm - JD Aug 11, 11:53
We watched most of Black Is King last night, and while the music isn't really my jam, I thought it was visually stunning. -- nm - mara Aug 11, 11:47 1
- I curse being immune to her "I Don't Sound Like A Cat Being Strangled" spell -- nm - con_carne Aug 11, 11:50
"As soon as today" -- (link*) - Beryllium Aug 11, 11:45 18
- Not soon enough. How does two weeks ago work for you? -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Aug 11, 11:59 9
  - ?? It's too soon. All cannons go to full strength the moment the name comes out. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 12:12 8
    - I'm sorry. I thought we were having fun with the phrasing. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Aug 11, 12:18 6
      - Oh, sorry. I'm half asleep. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 12:19 5
        
        There, there. Just pull your neck gaiter up over your eyes and have a little nap. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Aug 11, 12:21 4
        
        But the neck gaiter is over by my bed... I would fall asleep before I got to it. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 12:22 3
        
        Above your bed!?! I guess it works better there than wearing it. -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 12:40 2
        
        No, on the shelf beside my bed. But on the other side from where my desk is. An impossible chasm. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 12:42 1
        
        *impassable -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 12:43
    - Obama didn't select Biden until the end of August -- nm - decline Aug 11, 12:15
- Swinging for the fences here: Kylie Jenner -- nm - decline Aug 11, 11:47 7
  - the daily show was pitching Cardi B -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 11, 12:23 1
    - WAVP -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 12:25
  - AOC - ty97 Aug 11, 12:18
  - Tulsi -- nm - znufrii, drinking heavily Aug 11, 12:16
  - Joe Lieberman -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 11:48 2
    - Gina Torres -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 11:53 1
      - Tila Tequila -- nm - Mopsy Aug 11, 11:58
Make Him a Poll He Can't Refuse: Are you a godparent? -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 11:41 16
- Ray, when someone asks you if you're a godparent, you say, "Yes!" -- nm - Max Aug 11, 12:39
- yep. supposed to be legal too (guardianship if parents are gone), but have not signed anything just yet. she's a year old. -- nm - colin Aug 11, 12:14 1
  - I've never heard of that being done. My godparents were DEFINITELY not my guardians. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 12:16
- Yes. Two nephews. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 12:08 1
  - Did I just .... win? I never win ST polls. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 12:13
- SORT of. I am my nephews Godmother BUT because i was never christened in a protestant church the Lutheran church he was christened in wouldn't write - Andie Aug 11, 12:02
- *cue Hugh Grant speech from About a Boy* -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 12:01 1
  - Heh. I was soooo gonna make this reference - JD Aug 11, 12:15
- Yes but I haven't talked to my godchild in years -- nm - Epiphany - Letterkenny Groupie Aug 11, 11:59
- No. Heaven help the person who tries to make me one -- nm - JD Aug 11, 11:51
- No, because my sister baptized my niece and nephew at church, and I'm not confirmed (and didn't want to do it) -- nm - Guigue Aug 11, 11:48 1
  - I'm still their favorite uncle anyway -- nm - Guigue Aug 11, 11:48
- I’m nowhere near godly enough for that. -- (edited) - znufrii, drinking heavily Aug 11, 11:43 1
  - Aw. -- nm - loosilu Aug 11, 12:10
- No, but con_queso is -- nm - con_carne Aug 11, 11:42
- No. Nor am I aware of having one. To me, it's a weird thing that only happens in movies. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 11:42
Wearing a neck gaiter may be worse than no mask at all, researchers find -- (link) - mara Aug 11, 11:39 15
- Still better than a neck goiter. -- nm - con_carne Aug 11, 12:29
- I use a gaiter as the means to hold my mask in place, normally I fold paper towels then roll the top down in a V, er,^, =n95 - zeitgeist Aug 11, 12:28
- If y'all wouuld just stop breathing, we could take care of this right quick. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Aug 11, 11:49
- Yeah, mine and JaxSean's dreams were SMASHED last night. -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 11:40
- STOP IT -- nm - JaxSean Aug 11, 11:39 10
  - SITWAP? I tronned! -- nm - mara Aug 11, 11:41 8
    - You wouldn't have found it regardless. -- (link) - Mopsy Aug 11, 11:47 [Backboard] 5
      - I'm going to assume you used one of your mostly useless subject lines. -- nm - mara Aug 11, 11:55 4
        
        Yup. "Turns out gaiters are less than useless." -- (link) - Mopsy Aug 11, 11:57 [Backboard] 2
        
        My apologies, I forgot to use the wildcard asterisk in my search, -- nm - mara Aug 11, 11:59 1
        
        It's bery's fault and he knows it! "gaiter" and "gaiters" don't turn up in the same search results? I PROTEST! -- nm* - Mopsy Aug 11, 12:19
        
        😆 -- nm - JD Aug 11, 11:57
    - all good - JaxSean Aug 11, 11:44 1
      - :-( -- nm - mara Aug 11, 11:45
  - heh -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 11:40
NSFW, obviously... -- (link) - colin Aug 11, 11:36 [youtube] 1
- we really are in Purgatory -- nm - decline Aug 11, 11:39
Fall Guys is truly glorious to watch. -- nm - David Aug 11, 11:36 5
- This is my sports now. -- nm - Judge Bane Aug 11, 11:59
- So it's basically Wipe Out Royale? -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 11:41 1
  - Yup. -- nm - David Aug 11, 11:48
- Heather Thomas was a DREAM. -- nm - Spawnsy Aug 11, 11:39
- Looks like so much fun to play but I have enjoyed watching people play it. -- nm* - Krusty Aug 11, 11:37
Belarus’s opposition candidate, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has fled the country under tense circumstances -- (link) - mud Aug 11, 11:34
IL: 1549 cases on 41,362 tests (3.74%) with 20 deaths. Rolling 7 day positivity remains at 4.1%. My county is at six days of increases and is at 5.6% -- (link) - oblique Aug 11, 11:33
You know those Jan Feb March photo memes? This one with clips from Clue is perfect (sound ON) -- (link) - Andie Aug 11, 11:33 8
- That Mrs. White clip is among my favorite movie moments -- (link) - JD Aug 11, 11:43 4
  - she's so, so great -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 11:44 3
    - I'm so tired - JD Aug 11, 11:49 2
      - I'm not a wabbit. I need some west. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Aug 11, 11:53 1
        
        ./~ I need some weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (breath) eeeeeeeeeeest ./~ -- nm - mara Aug 11, 12:05
- perfection -- nm - Epiphany - Letterkenny Groupie Aug 11, 11:41
- Perfect -- nm - JaxSean Aug 11, 11:41
- that's great -- nm - prayformojo Aug 11, 11:36
The other thing that's super annoying about VEEPstakes is that it's driven entirely by reporters hunting for a scoop that literally no one will care - Reagen Aug 11, 11:32
TCL launches latest versions of Series 5 and 6 TV with mini-LED backlighting, local dimming (5 series) and THX game mode (6 series) -- (link) - oblique Aug 11, 11:31 1
- I saw that and dammit, so much for future proofing my purchase last year -- (edited) - JD Aug 11, 11:35
The water scene in Interstellar is truly brilliant. - David Aug 11, 11:30 1
- and cause I'm apparently all about the shiny, my first memory is of the robot 'running' across the water -- nm - JD Aug 11, 11:36
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Aug 11, 11:30 1
- Mute... You're muted..waves..hey, hit the mute button, the one that looks like a microphone -- nm - zeitgeist Aug 11, 12:34

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