GeneticBlueprint

1 hour ago, thewhyteboar said:

Will they actually pay up?

I was going to say that I wouldn't count on them paying you.

4 hours ago, SaysWho? said:

I'm pretty curious about the motive. He killed only himself; I wonder if he meant for the bomb to go off at that time or if he was going to put it somewhere else and leave.

Seems his motive was to take out some AT&T infrastructure. The fact that it was on Christmas day when people are least likely to be around and that a recording was played telling people to get away makes me think he wasn't out to hurt people per se. Doesn't mean I'm saying he's not an insane asshole terrorist, though.

8 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Carls Jr. has the worst fries. Get animal style fries and you'll have no complaints (other than being one of those guys that complains they have to get them animal style to be good) or just ask for them to be well done.

 

Also, ask for grilled onions on the burger.

And turn my 25 minute trip--already long enough--into a 26 minute trip? No thanks.

In N Out. I can't say that their burgers are terrible, but they're certainly not worth the wait or price. I've never been to an In N Out where I was in and out in a reasonable time. Way too popular and crowded for mediocre food. Also hands down the worst fries of any place.

On 12/25/2020 at 6:49 AM, CitizenVectron said:

White asshole getting his comeuppance:

 

 

Too bad the can flip failed, but the smack made up for it.

 

What's the context here?

6 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

As an institution/set of institutions they're out of touch elite credential laundering facilities. Their degrees aren't valuable for what you learn but for the doors that are opened up by attending and graduating.

I tend to agree with @Joe that having gone to an ivy league in and of itself isn't bad. I mean I'd absolutely jump on the opportunity if it were granted to me. But I also agree with this sentiment. The last company I worked for had a team that required you to have graduated from Harvard or Stanford to apply. It specifically said those two schools on the job description. I liked a few people on that team and I worked with it all the time. But most seemed like overpaid morons who brought no actual value to the table.

One time on a trip a group of us were presenting our product to this company. They had already purchased, but now we needed buy-in from the end users to get adoption of the product. So we were speaking with a group of mid managers. We introduced ourselves the typical way. People from this group I'm talking about were always instructed to give their god damned credentials at the start of these kinds of things.

"Hi I'm Jodi and I've been with this company for X time. I graduated from Stanford with honors and got an MBA from somewhere."

"Hi I'm John and I went to University of Utah and then got an MBA from Stanford."

"Hi I'm Braden and I graduated from Harvard blah blah blah."

Of course, I just went to some lowly non-ivy league so when it was my turn I always made some joke that wasn't actually a joke like "Hi I'm Dan and I'm the technical person of this group so I'll be doing all the work while these assholes dick around on their laptops in some corner."

Anyways, this one trip after we introduced ourselves it was this management group's turn. First guy goes, "I... I think I'm in the wrong room. I just went to Washington State." In my head I'm giving the Jack Nicholson nod to this guy while my colleagues were turning a little red.

It seems like all I did sometimes was field questions from these ivy leaguers about how to configure shit so it would fit into the sales process of whoever we were working with. They were supposed to be business consultants but most of the time just ended up asking me what worked at previous companies. One guy was also a terrible writer. I'd edit his emails before he sent them so we wouldn't look like fucking idiots. He couldn't spell and always made fucking amateur grammar mistakes. Like... This dude is earning four times my salary and all he does is ask me what to do and write shitty emails? Fuck.

Anyways, the company went through some layoffs. Guess who got the axe? Mostly the overpaid people who weren't actually doing anything. The entire team was dissolved. Some moved to different roles and were good at what they did. But anybody could have done what these guys did when they were hired. I'm not saying they suck or are (all) dumb or won't be of value somewhere. But they did get in the door and made bank for a while strictly because of what schools were on their resumes.

1 hour ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Yeah because there certainly aren't any people of Jewish persuasion in California.

I'd respond to this but it's a holiday today and I have it off.

Games are flying from Wade like anti-communists fleeing Vietnam circa 1946.

3 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

You can scrobble spotify plays though.

Yeah I know. But I'd rather listen to a FLAC rip than Spotify's stream.

1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

For the non-comical version I think last.fm does it better. (Yup I'm still scrobbling!)

Me too. Much more accurate representation of what I listen to since I spend so much time at home now. Not really using Spotify a whole lot.

7 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

This

 

Maybe @GeneticBlueprint will do it and get a 0%

I did this a couple days ago. I was about to do it again and post mine but you can actually just read @SimpleG's. Swap out his death metal artists for my death metal artists and one comment was different. I got something about converse shoes instead of divas.

Jeff Bezos.

I don't think those franchises are worth $5 billion when looking at sales of other studios or franchises.

I see they chose the year where he didn't wear blackface. Convenient. 

11 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

The Empire having a dope ass weapon that ultimately ends up getting dunked on is 100% on brand, so no issues there. All the combat stuff with Mando in this episode was really fun to watch. The only nit I have to pick with this season writ large as it pertains to action... man I know Stormtroopers aren't great, but they get John Wick'd by EVERYONE this season. Shit they got the drop on Fennec and Cara in the finale and they didn't even shoot! Rarely has plot armor been so thick.

I feel like this is a thing where Filoni or Favreau made it happen in one episode as kind of a joke and wink to people and then it carried over into cannon. Which is a fucking travesty. Because the OT treats them like they should be treated. Deadly, but whenever they look dumb or incompetent it's because they're being ordered to let somebody escape or lead them to a trap. 

I did

2 hours ago, Air_Delivery said:

A package I ordered has been stuck in "accepted" on the USPS tracking website since Monday.

Same! Was supposed to have it here (Utah) by Tuesday. But last I saw it was somewhere in Wisconsin.

57 minutes ago, brucoe said:

Okay, question:

 

I keep reading that this is mainly playable on current systems, and especially on good PC systems. Well, my computer, which was top of the line last year, is running a combination of an Nvidia 2080 with a gtx 1080 together, so my question is "is this decent enough" to play the game decently, or am I going to end up having to upgrade to the 3080 line (think that's the current one). With this combination card system, I've been uncertain when I'll have to upgrade, or even to what when I do.

I have an i7-3770k and a 2080 and the game runs pretty well for me. But, disclaimer: I've only played for a total of maybe three hours.

I wish they'd do all that physical stuff for the PC version because I'd get it. I need to check out this game because I remember watching gameplay and thinking it looked awesome.

3 minutes ago, legend said:

 

 

I'm over 40 hours in and it hasn't crashed once for me. The worst bug I had was the voice in a conversation stopped playing and I had to reload. And I guess there's the crappy cop/NPC thing, but if I didn't see that on the internet I wouldn't have known because I don't play the game in a way that that gets the cops after me. 

 

But I do believe that it runs poorly on lots of people's hardware unless you have a pretty new GPU.

Makes sense. I have a 2080.

4 hours ago, Mercury33 said:

I like Creeds first three albums 🤷🏻‍♂️

Mark Tremonti is a phenomenal guitarist. Anybody should appreciate Creed for his contributions alone. But I also like Scott Stapp's voice even if it's a bit stereotypical for the style and era.

This might be... No, well yes. This is the last headline I ever expected to read.

7 minutes ago, Ominous said:

I Iike consoles become the games just work. @AndrewDean84

Deep cut. I'm here for it.

I've only played a few hours on PC. I know that many have even on PC, but I haven't noticed any bugs and I'm actually surprised how smooth it runs for me considering my CPU is on the base end. 

On 12/14/2020 at 10:45 AM, skillzdadirecta said:

Here's a simple explanation for the facial recognition thing that seems to have a bunch of folks hung up. It either A. is to prevent droids from accessing material or B. Because its the Empire, only HUMANS can access material and not aliens because the EMpire is somewhat racist as well as fascist. Take your pick... whichever one fits your head canon and enjoy the show.

 

Next thing you know we're gonna need a WHOLE MOVIE to explain why the Empire's scanners require facial recognition from pretty much ANY human face 

I just took it as a security precaution. Who accessed this info and when? Timestamp picture.

13 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

Plus, the content on those streaming services is better than any cable package. But yeah I wouldn't pay for all of them at once. People are insane.