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I don't know who they've got writing andor, but they seem to be doing a very nice job. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 10:23 2
- Tony Gilroy -- nm - Flavorize Sep 28, 10:24 1
  - I don't know who t... *checks imdb* ... well god damn -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 10:27
Current -- (pic) - ty97 Sep 28, 10:02 [Attachment] 10
- Sanibel Island -- (link) - decline Sep 28, 10:19 1
  - And there are still people who didn't leave - can't now :( -- nm - Meg Sep 28, 10:22
- live here -- (link) - Andie Sep 28, 10:18 1
  - Yep, that's what I'm watching. NBC crew had their cars in the hotel parking lot - underwater now. -- nm - Meg Sep 28, 10:21
- A client lives five minutes from Magic Kingdom. He just livestreamed in his yard. The wind was whipping so hard I couldn't hear half of what he said. -- nm - David Sep 28, 10:14 2
  - Crazy, the center of the storm is way far away from him still too -- nm - ty97 Sep 28, 10:23 1
    - Yup, this thing is like a cartoon villain with how slow and methodical it is. -- nm - David Sep 28, 10:24
- Naples, FL just issued a curfew effective immediately until further notice -- nm - ty97 Sep 28, 10:08
- I'm watching the NBC feed on Peacock. Already cars with water up to their windows. First responders pulled on Sanibel and in Sarasota. -- nm* - Meg Sep 28, 10:05
- !! -- nm - mud Sep 28, 10:04
2 storm days = absolute fuckin chaos the day back - Reagen Sep 28, 10:01
Gas $5.49/gal -- nm - budice Sep 28, 09:53 1
- prices in tacoma bumped up 40 cents since weekend, was under $4 recently, now 4.50 -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 28, 11:10
Worldwide Box Office: Elvis hits $285M, Crawdads $125M, Minions $900M, Top Gun $1.4B, Bullet Train $225M; Nope nears $175M, - MDH Sep 28, 09:48 2
- Bullet Train $100M Domestic -- nm - budice Sep 28, 09:53 1
  - It's close. $99.6M as of yesterday. -- nm - MDH Sep 28, 09:55
Andor episode 4 spoilers - Beryllium Sep 28, 09:45
Yes. -- (link) - David Sep 28, 09:36
LYC: wife won a radio contest this morning; $50 PLUS we get to go to a draw in October where we could win 1 of a bunch of really cool prizes - Beaker Sep 28, 09:30 6
- Awesome! -- nm - Krusty Sep 28, 11:52
- Fantastic! -- nm - David Sep 28, 09:53
- Nice! -- nm - ty97 Sep 28, 09:50
- nice -- nm - peglegpete Sep 28, 09:46
- nice -- nm - decline Sep 28, 09:45
- woo! -- nm - Andie Sep 28, 09:44
this little interaction idea would be highly amusing to see -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 28, 09:28
NFL Reminder: London game Sunday, starts 3:30 earlier than usual games (Vikings/Saints) -- nm - Beaker Sep 28, 09:25
Rumor has it that Amy may return to ST. - Spawn Sep 28, 08:59 11
- Woo hoo!! -- nm - Krusty Sep 28, 11:52
- nee- chay! -- nm - mud Sep 28, 10:03
- Big, if true. -- nm - con_carne Sep 28, 09:51
- welcome back! -- nm - peglegpete Sep 28, 09:46
- YYYAAAAYYYY!!!! -- nm - ty97 Sep 28, 09:40
- Yay! It's been too long. -- nm - pmb Sep 28, 09:37
- I just sent a password reset, let me know if further assistance is required. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 09:26
- great. you can go now -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 28, 09:09 2
  - Brutal but fair. -- nm - Mop Sep 28, 09:14 1
    - Don't think that I did not realize their returns are roughly the same time. -- nm - Spawn Sep 28, 09:19
- woo! -- nm - Andie Sep 28, 09:06
Since filming of the X-men movie started in 1999, Hugh Jackman will have played Wolverine across 4 decades -- nm - Remlik Sep 28, 08:46 4
- So he was going without makeup for Logan and gets gussied up for Ryan Reynolds. -- nm - Max Sep 28, 09:38
- *counts on fingers* Oh! I forgot that the 2010s existed. Carry on. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 09:24
- *kicks at the dirt* -- nm - Dougray Scott Sep 28, 08:49
- Marvel's Gordie Howe -- nm - budice Sep 28, 08:48
50 years ago today Paul Henderson scores "the goal" -- (link*) - Beaker Sep 28, 08:43 [youtube] 2
- great interview with him here -- (link) - Beaker Sep 28, 08:46 [youtube] 1
  - here is the game 7 goal he mentions -- (link) - Beaker Sep 28, 08:56 [youtube]
Sep. 28th birthdays: Brigitte Bardot (88), Jeffrey Jones (76), Janeane Garofalo (58), Naomi Watts (54), Hilary Duff (35) - Max Sep 28, 08:39 [youtube]
There's Sandman news but not what you think -- (link) - LMS Sep 28, 08:34 2
- If Netflix doesn't order a second series of Sandman, I will have no choice but to ask them nicely again. -- nm - Barynn Sep 28, 08:42 1
  - vigorously so -- nm - Spawn Sep 28, 09:00
New björk on Friday. One of the songs to whet your appetite... -- (link) - Dano Sep 28, 08:27 [youtube]
Alan Tudyk confirmed filming on the third season of Resident Alien begins this January in Vancouver -- nm - Beaker Sep 28, 08:18 1
- neechay -- nm - Spawn Sep 28, 08:31
So we left about an hour ago. At mrsjax's parents house. - JaxSean Sep 28, 07:57 13
- glad you're safe -- nm - peglegpete Sep 28, 09:47
- We have a paralegal who lives in Naples that is already without power. -- nm - pmb Sep 28, 09:38
- be careful -- nm - Remlik Sep 28, 08:58
- Be safe. -- nm - Dark Callisto Sep 28, 08:44
- stay safe -- nm - budice Sep 28, 08:42
- Glad you're safe and I'm sure you did. -- nm - spamlet Sep 28, 08:42
- Least we can confirm that this is not video of Jax and his family. - Jovian Sep 28, 08:37 2
  - I will say when I lived in florida in Ft. Myers we had some big storms come in, there is a post at Sanibel Island that a lot of us went to - Remlik Sep 28, 08:59
  - but think of their social media presence! -- nm - Beaker Sep 28, 08:39
- So where are you now location-wise? Safely inland I hope? -- nm* - ty97 Sep 28, 08:00 2
  - Spring Hill area, East of Hernando Beach. -- nm* - JaxSean Sep 28, 08:19 1
    - nm -- nm* - budice Sep 28, 08:25
- stay safe! -- nm - Beaker Sep 28, 07:59
Miami Marlins' Richard Bleier only pitcher since 1900 with 3 balks in same at-bat, gets tossed vs. Mets -- (link) - Beaker Sep 28, 07:48 4
- Sounds like that time that Joe West wanted to be a dick and kept calling balks on Mark Buehrle in a game. -- nm - spamlet Sep 28, 08:41 1
  - Here's the Jomboy breakdown. It was so bad that MLB fined West for it. -- (link) - spamlet Sep 28, 09:08 [youtube]
- The 1st, I get…he never sets in a stop. The 2nd/3rd…no. Just no. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 28, 08:17
- Bleier had never previously been called for a balk before in 296 innings over seven big-league seasons. -- (link) - JD Sep 28, 08:09
From yesterday. First images from LICIACube (companion cubesat to the DART mission) show impact results from DART -- (link) - oblique Sep 28, 07:47 2
- Ah hah, so I was right. -- nm - Beryllium Sep 28, 08:27 1
  - video of gtfo -- nm - rollo Sep 28, 09:14
Bros 95% (41/2), Smile 83% (19/5), The Greatest Beer Run Ever 41% (13/19), The Munsters 33% (7/14), Spirit Halloween: The Movie 43% (3/4) -- nm - Beaker Sep 28, 07:36 2
- Spirit Halloween... the movie? -- nm - Mop Sep 28, 09:27 1
  - The great betrayal of Nick Lutsko. -- nm - Reagen Sep 28, 09:44
Lionsgate Will Keep Starz, Spin Off Movie Studio Instead; Will Rebrand STARZ as 'Lionsgate+' -- (link) - budice Sep 28, 07:02 13
- In other words, they had their choice of streaming or theatrical, and they chose streaming. -- nm - David Sep 28, 09:49
- Epix to become MGM+ -- (link) - budice Sep 28, 08:23
- Does that mean those movies will be Lionsgated behind STARZ? -- nm - Max Sep 28, 08:22
- Replace a known brand with a dumb new name? -- nm - ty97 Sep 28, 07:36 3
  - Kind of a wash IMO: Starz unveils rebrand for international streaming service Starzplay, now Lionsgate+ - JD Sep 28, 08:27
  - "Beats the 'Cock(Peacock) I guess" -- nm* - budice Sep 28, 08:00
  - and a Plus! -- nm - decline Sep 28, 07:39
- or MacDaddy+ -- nm - Dano Sep 28, 07:24
- I've held that piece of shit stock forever hoping for something significant to happen. - St. Epiphany Sep 28, 07:22
- Not Lionsgate++++? -- nm - Dano Sep 28, 07:19 2
  - or LionsGateExtreme! -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 28, 07:19 1
    - Lions+GatePlus++ -- nm - Volnelk Sep 28, 08:10
- I think that sound you heard is Mop's head exploding -- nm - oblique Sep 28, 07:04
Tik Toker takes random old man to Disneyland - Flavorize Sep 28, 06:43 21
- The whole time I'd be wondering... "What's the catch? When do they kill and eat me?" -- nm - Mop Sep 28, 07:31 4
  - what do kidneys really do for me anyway? -- nm - Beaker Sep 28, 07:33 3
    - Who needs old man kidneys when we have yours? -- nm - Dano Sep 28, 07:39 2
      - Eating your one kidneys doesn't sound prudent. -- nm - Todd Manning Sep 28, 08:00
      - you make a good point -- nm - St. Epiphany Sep 28, 07:57
- There's a whole genre(?) of internet people doing this sort of stuff (i.e. giving them cash) to unknown people. It's massively exploitative -- nm - MDH Sep 28, 07:22 6
  - It is… and it isn’t. - Qale Sep 28, 07:29 5
    - Performative generosity is still performative. -- (edited) - znufrii Sep 28, 07:36 4
      - Performative generosity is also generosity. - Will Hunting Sep 28, 08:38 3
        
        “If it’s not exploitative…” Except it *is* exploitative. -- nm* - znufrii Sep 28, 08:53
        
        agreed. it's like Warren Buffet or Bill Gates giving away hundreds of Billions of dollars "oh they're just doing it for positive media coverage" - Beaker Sep 28, 08:40 1
        
        These are completely different things and not even comparable. -- nm - MDH Sep 28, 09:15
- "ruff day" really? -- nm - oblique Sep 28, 06:59 3
  - maybe he has lots of dogs. I don’t know his life. -- nm - mafic Sep 28, 07:33
  - Speech to text captions strike again! -- nm - Qale Sep 28, 07:20
  - I reject your orthography and substitute my own. -- nm - Barynn Sep 28, 07:03
- Awwww -- nm - St. Epiphany Sep 28, 06:56
- to die in the hurricane? -- nm - Beaker Sep 28, 06:52 2
  - Land, not World -- nm - Dark Callisto Sep 28, 06:53 1
    - to die in an earthquake? -- nm - Beaker Sep 28, 06:54
- Saw that yesterday. Solid. -- nm - Volnelk Sep 28, 06:46
More from Reynolds (And Hugh) on how Wolverine ties into the DP universe and about the “Logan” issue -- (edited) - Flavorize Sep 28, 06:40 8
- Without looking at the video, I don't quite get the Logan issue. (spoilers?) - Marlowe Sep 28, 06:48 7
  - First thing they mentioned spoiler - Spawn Sep 28, 08:13
  - My Logan issue was that it was stupid. -- nm - Volnelk Sep 28, 07:04 5
    - Oh, I don't disagree, it was horrible. (NM) - Marlowe Sep 28, 07:05 4
      - Oh, honey. - Spawn Sep 28, 08:14
      - WTF .. it was brilliant. -- nm - mud Sep 28, 07:28 2
        
        At being bad, yes. (NM) - Marlowe Sep 28, 07:41 1
        
        Here are my thoughts from when it came out -- (link) - Volnelk Sep 28, 09:04 [Backboard]
/film: Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand. - Barynn Sep 28, 06:35 5
- I have closed captioning on for virtually everything except sports. -- nm - Volnelk Sep 28, 09:25
- Two words: - Mop Sep 28, 07:33 2
  - Two words - ty97 Sep 28, 07:55 1
    - two words - Beaker Sep 28, 07:59
- Nice! -- nm - Flavorize Sep 28, 06:41
Smile B+. Very solid. -- nm - budice Sep 28, 06:35
The Bank of England will buy UK government bonds on "whatever scale is necessary" to calm markets. -- (link) - spamlet Sep 28, 06:33 1
- Let's see what the markets think of that. Ohhhh. -- nm - LMS Sep 28, 08:28
Red Barn 24 Hour Challenge is this weekend. Apparently we are going to be asked to pick a song for the playlist. Wonder what I'll pick. -- nm - Dano Sep 28, 06:08
STIS: the last few nights, I have had a lot of trouble with our telescope. I need to get one for our science kid that can auto-find objects. which? - Will Hunting Sep 28, 06:01 1
- The astrophotography subreddit has this on their recommended list -- (link) - oblique Sep 28, 06:16
Framed: 5/6. Moviedle: 6/6. Actorle: X/8. - Marlowe Sep 28, 05:58
Bayshore Blvd in Tampa. The bay being sucked out -- (link) - decline Sep 28, 05:56 14
- Woah -- (link) - decline Sep 28, 06:47 1
  - that's incredible -- nm - prayformojo Sep 28, 07:39
- Peak storm surge from Ian is now forecast to reach a whopping 12-16" feet from Englewood to Bonita Beach including Charlotte Harbor. -- nm - decline Sep 28, 06:07 8
  - I've seem lots of storm surge maps that list the possible (worst-case) storm surge rather than 'predicted' storm surge - ty97 Sep 28, 06:11 7
    - My boss is 15 miles from Bonita Beach. :( -- nm - Dark Callisto Sep 28, 06:52 6
      - As the crow flies, my parents are 9.5 miles from Bonita Beach. -- nm* - ty97 Sep 28, 07:05 5
        
        Yeah, just realized my team lead is that same distance away. - Dark Callisto Sep 28, 07:16 3
        
        :-[ -- nm - mud Sep 28, 07:49
        
        that's awful. -- nm - Andie Sep 28, 07:47
        
        oh no that's awful. I hope all of your people are okay -- nm - ty97 Sep 28, 07:37
        
        :( -- nm - Andie Sep 28, 07:07
- That's never a good sign -- nm - prayformojo Sep 28, 06:02
- *sigh* this happened when Cat 5 Irma went to my parents too. -- nm - ty97 Sep 28, 06:01
- Narrator: it came back -- nm - Beaker Sep 28, 05:59
zoom zoom -- nm - oblique Sep 28, 05:55

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