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a bit more predictive than polls at this stage, Dems have been over performing in special elections this year

UEMB is world renown for its hog roasting

i can't say that shower dusting is part of my cleaning routine

Two British Hog Roasters Two Determined Rivals Two... Star-Crossed Lovers

Holy shit my guy, I told you several times you weren't reported. You were never reported. No one reported you. There were no problems until you decided you wanted problems. BUT given you apparently want your laundry blasted in public - you had a PM convo about propaganda in history or whatever over the course of a few days and out of nowhere with no connection to the conversation you pivoted to trying to get him to join some skeevy website so you could make a referral bonus. All he did was asked me to make sure your account wasn't hacked because the pivot came out of absolutely nowhere. But no - you weren't hacked - you just thought he was an easy mark to make a 5% referral bonus. So all I did was say "hey, sorry but no solicitations" and that would've been the end of it. I was so inconsequential we'd have all forgotten about it weeks ago. EXCEPT you opted to double down, sarcastically apologize, play victim, make fun of comprehension/disability, and continue shilling all in the same reply. Then after the inevitable warning for being a complete tool, you immediately started talking shit about said person's comprehension/disability in public threads - again, after they literally did nothing wrong. It wasn't a one-off comment in a marine thread, it is a pattern. And a big gaping LOL at you suggesting in this thread that it's too dangerous to be online with a comprehension disability. Why is that, because someone might try to take advantage of them to score an MLM referral bonus?

I like to imagine this latest batch of spambots reflects the story of two serious business -and personal - competitors who constantly try to outdo and one-up each other to corner the market on... hog roasting in the UK.

happy birthday maxwell i hope you get the cleanest butt trim to look pretty and not get danglers

That was a current events joke. But anyways I saw it last night. Unfortunately had to step out and missed 15 minutes during the NY segment because of sudden onset poop explosion, and when I got back everyone was in Tangier so I felt a little off most of the rest of the time. Given the context, I don't know if my opinion is colored with brown-tinted glasses, but I didn't think it was terrible or super great either. It won't be hyper classic nor hyper ridiculed. The CGI during the WWII segment was good in some scenes, uncanny in others, but if you're not grading it on the effects it works fine. Present day old Indy isn't doing completely age-defying action stunts. I do like this macguffin and the macguffin's "magic" twist, but I'm debating whether or not it needed to be less explicit. I fall fully in the camp that Crystal Skull's macguffin was fine outside of the literal CGI alien eye-humping Cate Blanchett into dust, but at the same time the Nazis in Raiders died from literal cartoon ghosts so we gotta be honest that it's always been like that. But I did find myself thinking on the ride home what other ways they could've handled it in different ways. I don't see myself seeing it again in theaters (less a dig on the movie moreso that I never go to the movies to begin with) but I'll probably watch it again when it hits D+ and it will end up on my "oh hey it's on cable gotta put it on in the background" shortlist.

Y'all gotta read the NYPost take https://pagesix.com/2023/07/12/rfk-jr-press-dinner-explodes-in-war-of-words-and-farts/

poor bby tucker, lost all his mojo https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1679907062602399750?s=20

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1679559479954644993?s=20

I love that the AMPTP referred to the AI proposal as "groundbreaking"

Strike begins at midnight for workers under the TV/theatrical contract.

SAG-AFTRA press conference to start momentarily:

The negotiation deadline passed, but SAG-AFTRA still has to vote to formally begin a strike.

I'm going through a bare-minimum rut, I didn't even realize there was an event happening until a few days ago

yeah I totally wanted to come in and drop this headline but pooh beat me https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tommy-tuberville-triples-claim-white-nationalists-unfairly-labeled/story?id=101095697

If not the bladder, parenthood has me way more hypersensitive than I'd like. Not a whole lot of crying at night anymore, but one asshole cat surely loves taking advantage of it somewhere around 5:30am-6am most mornings when he wants to eat and can't just wait the extra two hours. "LEMME JUST JUMP ON THE NIGHTSTAND AND START PAWING AT THE LAMP OR ANY WIRES. DON'T MIND ME, BUT COINCIDENTALLY I AM HUNGRY."

Civ 6 with all the dlc is pretty great, but you know how civ is. @panic is always looking for people to play with.

It's true!

the other night I seriously considered busting out the air popper to make myself popcorn but my conscientious-to-everyone-else-sleeping side won out in the end

happy birthday yackie!

happy birthdya nameraaka!

The enemy placement thing is a good point. Even Purah was like "don't go to XXXX, there's a lot of monster activity there" (and I was like >.> 'now you tell me'). At this point I've done my first (Rito) regional quest, the kid wants to send me back to the depths (I think the last mission before Robbie goes to the lab), Impa wants me to visit the chasm, and the stable/newspaper quests are now all available. I definitely liked the dungeon experience and boss way more than the divine beefs, it just all felt way more Zelda-y with a classic-feeling Zelda MacGuffin etc. But what I really appreciate so far is that they took the same exact world and (a) removed calamity-related stuff, replacing it with upheaval stuff, and (b) changed the sequencing in which you interact with the regions. In BOTW, the hardest areas were Central Hyrule and like the mountains. In TOTK, you literally start the game in Central Hyrule outside the castle and explore on from there, and are encouraged to go to the mountains early. Practically, the upheaval debris makes climbing around the formerly endgame areas easier by giving you ledges etc., and psychologically it 100% changes my perspective on those locations and makes them actually feel like real locations irrespective of the game challenges that were/are present. The places I spent the least time in, be it because it was tedious as shit dealing with nannerpods or because I got to them after I started burning out on the BOTW exploration gameplay loop, are places I'm spending excessive time in now. And just finding locations of interest from a different orientation/perspective, like simply happening across a stable from the north instead of the south, does make it feel fresh in my mind's eye yet still recognize its the same place. Like in the same way everything feels a little bit older - people want to rebuild and grow because it's a real place. I have no idea if there's any payoff or not but seeing new foundations in the ruined castle town at the very beginning of the game got me giddy. I burnt out on BOTW and didn't finish it off for five years. I think in part because, though the world itself was clearly a massive labor or love, it felt a mile wide but only an inch deep. I burnt out on the gameplay loop because nearly every named location you could discover was copy/paste ruins and every item you could discover was disposable/replaceable or korok seeds. After a while of binging through ti, the world just didn't really feel "lived-in" to me anymore and the calamity narrative felt like a retroactive justification for having not populated it. The number of enemy types felt disproportionally limited for the scale of the game and the combat got harder by just turning up the damage sponging. So to contrast, one of my go-to examples was that all the wells in BOTW were just copy/paste assets and they didn't even delete the ground inside the well to make it seem authentic. And those same wells are probably a perfect example of how they improved on the "inch deep" part. I don't know where the story goes, but I feel like they could build at least another major game out of this same map without it getting stale. Sub out the upheaval stuff the way they subbed out the calamity stuff, and replace it with whatever the new thing is while continuing to make it all feel that much more organic and lived-in.

if he got serious and called you a liar in a not fun way, then yes