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I've had MSNBC on so much in the background now that it's moved to the 3rd spot in my most watched channel list on YouTube TV. I'll be honest, I prefer the coverage here by leaps and bounds, but with all the uncertainty, I've just had the channel running in the background to keep myself informed of in case of breaking news popping up.

There's always geo stationary internet too, but it's obviously less ideal than Starlink given its 600+ ping alone isn't going to make for fast access

Glad to see an Anonymous threat actually come to fruition for once. This is one moment where hackers should unite.

It's amazing this day and age watching history unfold through the phones of people living directly in a warzone. My heart breaks for all those living in Ukraine living through this hell, but it's also touching seeing the sheer bravery of these people fighting back against Russia to save their country.

I'll be disappointed if it's not Dragons Dogma. Yes, I realize I'm going to be disappointed, but come on Capcom, you've sold enough copies for a sequel to be made.

I purchased it when GameStop had it on sale for $15 for the PS5, but haven't started it yet. Your description is making me think I should probably play it soon.

Exactly this, as vile of a human as Rogan is, he isn't going anywhere. The best you can really hope for is the bigger names guests will no longer agree to do his show anymore knowing what they know now.

Sending my Pocket to Analogue for repairs. While my original power issue was fully resolved with the latest firmware update, my right shoulder button has almost no travel on some spots on the button. Hopefully it'll be all good to go once I get it back. Waiting a month for a response from their support team wasn't too fun.

I swear, everything here turns to a discussion of pizza eventually 😂

Got around to watching it tonight and I came away pretty lukewarm on this one. The film, at times just felt like a chore to watch, and the story itself just felt like a regurgitation of the prior films. Nothing about it really felt impactful like the original, and I have to say, the production quality of this film really hurt this film for me. The CGI was laughably bad at times, and some of the scenes reeked of being clearly constructed on a Hollywood lot. I really feel like some film grain would have benefited this one to hide some of the shortfalls of its set designs. I wouldn't say I regret seeing it, as there was enough there to prevent me from wanting to turn it off, but I couldn't see myself going out of my way to watch it again.

That's my great, many times over uncle. AMD better be paying me for the use of my uncle's name or else they're gonna learn you don't mess with family.

Played Biomutant for a few hours today. Having a love/hate relationship with the game. It's fun, and I love roaming its world, but the missions are just so repetitive that I get burnt out if I play it every day. Now I'm playing Astral Chain. Not sure what to think of it yet, the combat has yet to really click for me. I'm not very far into it though.

I've seen good people go from, looking at the opposing side to get both angles of a story, to completely being indoctrinated into that side, becoming hate filled individuals in the process. Some of them are quite smart, but they had an ember burning inside of them from a situation in their life, and the extremism right-wing media pushes ignited it. It's difficult going from speaking to somebody on a regular basis, to having to be careful to what you say to them knowing the hostility that'll come out if you mention anything with the slightest amount of politics attached to it.

Solid month for PS Plus.

This generation would be pretty amazing if everybody knew how to optimize ray tracing as well as Insomniac can.

Got my Pocket last week and decided to wait until Christmas to open it. Mine is a dud unfortunately. My Pocket does not seem to want to power on constantly. It's pretty much a 50/50 gamble if the screen will turn on from a cold boot or from sleep mode. Last attempt I made, all I got was a glowing white light at the bottom of the handheld. Got the LED light to go dark, hit the power button again, LED lit up again and no display. Boxed it up after than and have sent an email off to request a replacement. I wish somebody could test Smashing Drive for the GBA on it. It's the only game I tested on it and the speakers on it were distorting like crazy. Would like to know if it's a firmware bug or just my handheld being broke in more than one way.

Is DeSantis going to use Putin as a job recruiter?

I just got tired of the whole dance you've gotta do with cable providers to lower your bill as it'll inevitably start to climb. I also got tired of all those little fees that really add up from the regional sports fee, to the cable box fees, to the local broadcast fee as well. The irony of it all is I prefer the cable television format to app based entertainment making me a prime candidate for a cable service, but they did everything they could to drive me away. I even went to the Comcast store to end my service, simply so I wouldn't have to deal with their call centers. It feels great having truly unlimited internet for $50 a month now and not having to think about my rates going up.

Jesus, you must be in one competitive area to negotiate your cable company down to a package deal like that. Since I live in a Comcast dominated area, I pretty much always got the middle finger when I bartered with them. I just left them recently though for T-Mobile home internet which has been surprisingly good. Service is costing me $50 a month and since they have a deal with Google, I get $10 a month off YouTube TV. I'm getting 6 months of HBO Max free right now along with a free year of Paramount Plus. Verizon gives me Hulu and Disney Plus. Not sure what I'll do for streaming apps once the free periods are all over.

Glad I got a year of Paramount Plus through T-Mobile for free to continue this. Enjoyed the first two of the saga when viewing them on Comedy Central.

Gotta love laws that punish people for lesser crimes than those who committed more serious ones. He absolutely deserves punishment for his error in judgement, not steering into a runaway ramp, but a mistake like that should not justify he be locked away for the rest of his natural life.

That's basically the reason I opened up an account last week to catch these deals.

This has been a point of frustration throughout the entire pandemic. On paper it sounds great for the public to be able to listen in on the scientific process, but in reality, most people take the first thing they've read as the bible and refuse to accept new information as the data evolves. Information to the public should not be released until it's solidified and agreed upon, as all this confusion does is allow more to disregard the importance of vaccines. We've basically been doomed since calling covid an old people disease in the beginning.

My grandmother had a bad habit of switching from English to Dutch in a conversation without realizing it. I always got a laugh when my grandfather would yell English at her.