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Go Matteo! -- nm - Dano Sep 6, 15:03
UVic last night: -- (link) - mud Sep 6, 14:58
Stolen from Instagram—Affleck -- (pic) - flavorize Sep 6, 14:50 [Attachment]
PowerMillions and Megaballs are over 350 -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 6, 14:47 4
- I really wish their advance play was more than 10 draws. powerball now at 3x a week, means I have to drive to Ca. every 3 weeks, not 5. -- nm* - Peglegpete Sep 6, 14:50 3
  - I should look at when my 10x draw expires -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 6, 16:05
  - In IL we can actually buy tickets on line. I wonder if there's any reason you couldn't buy them on line from IL. -- nm - pmb Sep 6, 15:40 1
    - Link in case you want to try. -- (link) - pmb Sep 6, 15:41
As someone who has talked crap multiple times about the Caveman league. I should salute them for wrapping up their draft in a reasonable time span. -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 14:39 2
- what were the fines if it ran long? -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 6, 14:45 1
  - incessant mocking -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 15:00
This past week, I was Confident, Neutral, and Sad. See what Blood Feud does to me??? - The Allfather Imperator Sep 6, 14:29 3
- Somehow, I was Admiring, Neutral and Joyful. I guess my writing lived in a world different than my head this past week. (NM) - Marlowe Sep 6, 15:05
- I thank you again for your work on this. And to everyone who makes this so enjoyable (technically that includes ruiners) -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 14:42 1
  - That reminds me -- (pic) - JD Sep 6, 15:11 [Attachment]
Vamps: Sammy x 2, JD, bud, Foles -- nm* - budice Sep 6, 14:07 2
- As far as I know, JD's picking for himself. -- nm - The Allfather Imperator Sep 6, 14:12 1
  - Indeed. Done -- nm - JD Sep 6, 14:21
You'll be pleased (or displeased) to know that I have a negative COVID test that will allow me to fly home to the US. -- nm - ty97 Sep 6, 14:01 9
- You're outside of the US? -- nm - JaxSean Sep 6, 14:17 7
  - I am in Paris -- nm - ty97 Sep 6, 15:42
  - Yacht boy in the Aegean Sea -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 6, 14:36
  - Tour de France -- nm - Krusty Sep 6, 14:27 4
    - I thought it was the Venice Film Festival? -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 6, 14:36 3
      - Skiing in Gstaad? -- (edited) - Krusty Sep 6, 14:45 2
        
        What happens in Gstaad stays in Gstaad. - The Allfather Imperator Sep 6, 14:48 1
        
        The same cannot be said of Gdańsk -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 14:49
- 👍😺 -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 14:06
Weekend viewing for me: The Chair (Netflix) A-; Sasquatch (Hulu) C-; Sex Education (Netflix) A+ -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 13:38 10
- That A+ makes me happy. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 15:32
- Shang Chi: C+ -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 15:14
- Free Guy: A - spamlet Sep 6, 15:12
- Vacation Friends B -- nm - Pippy Sep 6, 15:11
- Shang Chi - A-. -- nm - pmb Sep 6, 14:19
- Viscious (A-); The Other Two (A+); and the first part of Season 5 of The Expanse (B). -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 6, 13:58
- 7500: C+, Evil episodes: A -- nm - Max Sep 6, 13:49
- Ready or Not A- ; The Dead Don't Die C- -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 13:49
- I never think this, but I almost wanted The Chair to be an episode or two longer -- nm - prayformojo Sep 6, 13:49 1
  - I can see that -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 14:04
I'm watching a Vice news report on YouTube and thinking: "I kinda miss dealing with the sovereign citizen types when I worked in the Senate." - ReluctantCynic Sep 6, 13:32 2
- that sort of seems odd -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 13:37 1
  - "The government is engaged in child trafficking by kidnapping children under the guise of child protective services -- for a profit." - ReluctantCynic Sep 6, 13:40
RIP Omar Little and Chalky White :( -- (link*) - Beaker Sep 6, 13:17 17
- Every celebrity that touches heroin dies. What are they thinking? -- nm - MDH Sep 6, 14:36 4
  - A lot of people do, period. But from what I’ve heard it’s a hell of a ride until you do. -- nm - spamlet Sep 6, 15:19
  - Eric Clapton survived, but his life has not been as happy as it could have been -- nm* - Peglegpete Sep 6, 14:47
  - It's the NY Post, so let's take it with a grain of salt. If it *is* accurate, you have to realize that addiction is a very tough illness -- nm - ty97 Sep 6, 14:44 1
    - Agreed. But it’s a different kind of sad for me. It’s sad/disappointment. -- nm - Volnelk Sep 6, 14:45
- Oh wow. I’m in the midst of a Boardwalk rewatch now. He’s so good. -- nm - Volnelk Sep 6, 14:22
- ( in Emmy contention for “Lovecraft Country.”) -- nm - mud Sep 6, 13:52 1
  - also great in The Night Of -- nm - mud Sep 6, 14:34
- :( -- nm* - budice Sep 6, 13:47
- He was soooo good on The Philanthropist. -- nm - The Allfather Imperator Sep 6, 13:39 2
  - him and James Purefoy must of been friends as they did Hap and leonard together later -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 14:11 1
    - Ah, shit. No chance of a follow up :( I'd been holding out hope. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 14:18
- RIP. Omar was an iconic character -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 13:36
- Such sad news. :-( -- nm* - ReluctantCynic Sep 6, 13:32
- Oh, that's sad.. (NM) - Marlowe Sep 6, 13:28
- Damn it. 😔 -- nm - Krusty Sep 6, 13:26
- whoa -- nm - mud Sep 6, 13:18
Vamps: Shaun, Foley, bud, JD, Sammyx2 -- nm - budice Sep 6, 13:14 1
- Foley youre up -- nm - budice Sep 6, 13:30
one thing surprised me in Shang-Chi (sp) - prayformojo Sep 6, 13:11 1
- Yep (spoilers) - Tenetennbaron Sep 6, 13:17
In one of the more improbable turnarounds in gaming history, No Man’s Sky is now reviewed as “Mostly Positive” on Steam. -- (link*) - Tim Sep 6, 12:53 2
- That's genuinely remarkable and an impressive credit to the people working on the game. -- nm - The Allfather Imperator Sep 6, 13:00 1
  - Gamers are incredibly unforgiving so yeah, this is impressive. I’ve not played it but I know there are fans here. - Tim Sep 6, 13:04
Hah -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 6, 12:45
Question of the day -- (pic) - prayformojo Sep 6, 12:33 [Attachment] 11
- E) Busy -- nm - Max Sep 6, 12:34
- Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Sep 6, 12:34 [Attachment] 9
  - Bonus question -- (pic) - prayformojo Sep 6, 12:34 [Attachment] 8
    - Answer (spoiler) -- (pic) - prayformojo Sep 6, 12:35 [Attachment] 7
      - 2/2 -- nm - znufrii Sep 6, 15:30
      - 2/2 -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 6, 13:21
      - 1/2 -- nm - Dano Sep 6, 13:06
      - 1/2 -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 6, 12:40
      - 0/2 -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 12:36 2
        
        It should be worker/harem/queen - Max Sep 6, 12:37 1
        
        Oh good, I wasn't the only one -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 12:44
Baron is up then Redmond's card -- nm - The Allfather Imperator Sep 6, 12:27 2
- Allez. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 6, 12:50 1
  - Shaun's up. -- nm - The Allfather Imperator Sep 6, 13:06
What does the Shang-chi opening spell for the BW lawsuit? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 12:22 1
- Not much, really. It still opened lower than Black Widow. -- nm - The Allfather Imperator Sep 6, 12:27
Ready or Not is on D+ !!! -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 12:04 3
- In the Star section? Seems unlikely it would be available in the U.S. on Disney+ -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 13:16 1
  - yeah must be, showed up so me happy :) -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 13:49
- this movie is great - spoilers - Beaker Sep 6, 12:38
Don’t pretend to care how long someone working on Labor Day has left. -- nm - Qale Sep 6, 12:02 1
- *I* care. -- nm - Spawn Sep 6, 15:46
Prolific was never meant to be defined as something so evil. World’s worst child predator caught. -- (link*) - Qale Sep 6, 11:55
ST DTL: Game this afternoon with huge conference implications. Winner controls their own fate for regular season title. -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 6, 11:30 8
- I’m guessing we stormed the court for this one. - spamlet Sep 6, 15:05 2
  - Oh! And Austin lost. Our rematch could decide regular season conference title. - spamlet Sep 6, 15:10 1
    - I just got fined for complaining about the refs in the postgame press conference. - Tenetennbaron Sep 6, 15:21
- I’ve got my team’s white whale and he’s on a down year. - spamlet Sep 6, 11:37 4
  - I've gone on a pseudo-run to get to 4th in my conference...I don't want to be 4th. 5th or 1st baby! - Will Hunting Sep 6, 11:48 3
    - I won a game! -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 6, 13:21 2
      - What team are you? - Will Hunting Sep 6, 13:55 1
        
        Corpus Christi Husker Nowledge t185, Conf 24 -- nm - ReluctantCynic Sep 6, 14:42
R.I.P. Jean-Paul Belmondo, 88 -- (link) - mud Sep 6, 11:17
Vamps: Krusty, shay, Baron, Redmond, Shaun -- nm - budice Sep 6, 10:56 1
- David is punishing us. -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 11:54
Dave Grohl appears with Guns N Roses at the BottleRock festival in Napa Valley… they went past curfew, got their plug pulled. -- (link) - Mop Sep 6, 10:53 1
- They did the same to the Foos a few years ago during Everlong. They keep the sound to the stage going so the bands aren't aware and don't get upset . -- nm - jnine Sep 6, 13:24
Venom 2 moved up to October 1st -- nm - Beaker Sep 6, 10:51 2
- I am going to miss it because I will still be drafting in Vampirates. -- nm - Bacon Sep 6, 10:56
- "Oh sh*t! That is a red one!" -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 6, 10:56
CardiB with child #2 -- (link) - budice Sep 6, 10:31
That Shang Chi 4-day estimate is still probably 4 or 5 million low. - Inigo Sep 6, 10:25 4
- Youre right. Likely 93Mish. Perhaps consewrvative estimates manage expectations. So when there's a better result, there's a positive boost. Verus overestimated and seen as a dropoff -- nm* - budice Sep 6, 10:27 3
  - But nobody advertises/reports the actuals. News stations and websites just report the estimate for Sunday news. So, I don't see the advantage there. - Inigo Sep 6, 10:31 2
    - Maybe the talent get paid from estimates 😂 -- nm - spamlet Sep 6, 11:51
    - Risk Management with emphasis on minimizing the negative result. Optics (Overestimating, then not meeting it) -- nm* - budice Sep 6, 10:48
To give you an idea of how annoying it is to bootstrap a new project from scratch, here's an error that took me half an hour to fix last night. - Beryllium Sep 6, 10:24 1
- I'll spoil what the problem/solution was inside. -- (edited) - Beryllium Sep 6, 10:25
I opened a case of Coke Zero and literally gasped. - Mop Sep 6, 10:23
Drive In review: Jungle Cruise C+, Shang Chi - incomplete - Inigo Sep 6, 10:21 5
- Sorry you ran into that - that must have been frustrating -- nm - prayformojo Sep 6, 12:08
- Yeah, we rented a radio for $2 for that very reason. - David Sep 6, 10:28 2
  - By the time we discovered the problem, they were all sold out. We could also just buy a nice radio next time and bring it with us. -- nm - Inigo Sep 6, 10:30
  - Maybe they'll add Venmo -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 10:28
- My EV apparently doesn’t like going into neutral, which makes car washes difficult. New car tech sucks! -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 10:24
Heh. -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 6, 09:55
That clockwork solar system is way cool -- nm - crash davis Sep 6, 09:55 5
- the which? -- nm - prayformojo Sep 6, 12:09 4
  - Someone posted a LEGO clockwork solar system earlier. -- nm - Mop Sep 6, 12:10 3
    - here -- (link) - crash davis Sep 6, 12:17 [Backboard] 2
      - thanks! -- nm - prayformojo Sep 6, 12:30 1
        
        that's exceedingly cool -- nm - prayformojo Sep 6, 12:31
Also there's no good argument for including Pluto that doesn't add Eris and Quaoar and Sedna and and and -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 09:35 20
- Next, you'll try to tell me that sun doesn't revolve around the earth. And I'll have to excommunicate you for that. -- nm - David Sep 6, 10:29
- boo, hiss, :-P -- nm - mud, pluto proponent Sep 6, 09:40
- Ceres. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 09:36 17
  - Haumea, Makemake... -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 09:36 16
    - Halley's Comet! -- nm - VMan Sep 6, 09:39
    - "and and and" -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 09:38 14
      - Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 - Beryllium Sep 6, 09:43 12
        
        'Oumuamua! -- nm - Tenetennbaron Sep 6, 10:03 1
        
        Ah, the dwarf planet named by The Rivingtons -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 6, 10:05 [youtube]
        
        The whole thing has been educational for me though. (Re)Learned that Pluto actually will never hit Neptune due to the tilt in its orbit. - VMan Sep 6, 09:45 9
        
        At least until Apophis 2 modifies Pluto's orbit, sends it hurtling into Neptune, and then the whole shebang falls sunward. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 10:27 8
        
        Pluto is 1/10000th the mass of Neptune. It wouldn't even notice. -- nm - Reagen Sep 6, 10:35 3
        
        *tears up the first draft of his planetary apocalypse script* -- nm - znufrii Sep 6, 10:40
        
        That won't be the case once Delroy Lindo signs on. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 10:37
        
        Did you just call Neptune fat? -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 6, 10:36
        
        Nathan has probably simulated this on Universe Sandbox. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 6, 10:34 3
        
        I wonder if Neptune could ever be in a stable earth orbit without causing the planet to disintegrate or tsunami tides ... -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 10:43 1
        
        ("that's now how this works! That's not how any of this works!") -- nm - Beryllium Sep 6, 12:35
        
        The Core 2: Neptune's Deep - Beryllium Sep 6, 10:37
      - You're going to need a bigger room. -- nm - VMan Sep 6, 09:39
Phoebe Waller-Bridge out of the Mr. & Mrs. Smith project -- (link) - Reagen Sep 6, 09:32
marlowe your review of 'shadow (ying) is perfect -- nm - mud Sep 6, 09:31 1
- Thanks! (NM) - Marlowe Sep 6, 10:21
Shanah tovah to all of the chosen STers! Have a great new year! -- nm - Krusty Sep 6, 09:28 3
- as to you my friend :) -- nm - Peglegpete Sep 6, 11:47
- Thanks! -- nm - pmb Sep 6, 10:06
- what a mensch -- nm - mud Sep 6, 09:29

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