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In terms of player experience a physical edition of a game is no different than a digital one. Not so for other media.

Personally I’m saving mine until I hit 45. Happy birthday my man @marioandsonic

6 minutes ago, TwinIon said:

So is she just going to stay in the race just in case Trump gets convicted or somehow gets disqualified?

That's what I would do. Not a bad strategy tbh.

PokemonGo to the polls

I'm scheduled to fly on a MAX 9 in March 

Can't remember where I saw it but when he uploaded it Twitter removed a lot of the 'promoted' and 'advertised' tags to make it look like a normal post.

She's running away with it!

4 hours ago, marioandsonic said:

Can't they claim sanctuary?

I really enjoyed the last season of The Bad Batch. Maybe this is fucking lame of me but that scene where Omega and Tech are talking and he has to explain that just because he is not outwardly expressive doesn't mean that he doesn't feel things. It was very relatable for me as I've been accused of not caring about things that I actually care deeply about. There are just some emotions and feelings that are very hard for me to express. Anyways, really good writing!

Good lord we have to depend on justice handmaiden for some sense? Well and truly fucked.

I watched this episode of the Simpsons again yesterday with my son. The episode as a whole--and this scene in particular--so perfectly encapsulates the boomer/millennial dynamic.

Oblivious boomer that stumbled into success | struggling millennial making much less, living with much less, and living in lower standards.

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That 10% on 100k rule is going to vary wildly by location too.

9 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

I don't think Star Trek is afraid of its fans. It's possible that they're still operating on a 90s-era perception of what was popular with the fans, which would explain why they're so stuck on the TOS era and Picard--DS9 in particular but also Enterprise saw a huge boost in popularity once people could binge it on Netflix. But those viewing numbers lie with Netflix, who knows how much of that CBS/Viacom/Paramount got to see when the streaming licenses came up for renegotiation.

 

But I think it's more that the people in charge of Trek have themselves completely convinced that there wouldn't be enough wide-based appeal in giving the fans what they want, so they think they have to ignore the diehard fans if they want the franchise to be profitable. I know one thing really warping their perspective on what is and isn't profitable with Trek is that the TNG remasters massively underperformed for them. If we can't even make money on TNG...

 

On the TNG remasters I'm convinced it was just getting the pricing wrong. They released the season sets for $80 a pop while simultaneously releasing them to all the streaming services. Then they released the seven season box set for weirdly cheap compared to how much they charged for the individual seasons. If they'd released the season sets for like $30 a pop they wold have gotten lots of people buying them just to have a hard copy even though they were also available on streaming. Then they could have double-dipped on a lot of those people with a $400 box set if they'd made it a nice collector's item.

 

But then CBS/Viacom/Paramount has always had a really weird inability to figure out how to profit off Trekkies despite Trekkies definitely being people they easily sell tons of merch to.

Agreed on the TNG price for the most part. So much work went into them and they’re so well done that they sort of necessitate a higher price. But list price for the whole season? You’re spending $600. Ridiculous. I own seasons 1-4 on blu ray and have only bought when they hit below $40. I’m doing yet another rewatch and am finishing season 4 and none of the streaming platforms I sub to have it anymore so I’m going to need to buy season 5 here soon. But on Amazon it’s sitting at over $60 right now. A bit high IMO. 

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43 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

 

Not a fan of Biden.  Sorry.  I'll vote for him (again) if he faces Trump, but he's not my type of candidate.  I guess Haley isn't either.

 

 

Well Biden fandom wasn’t the point. It was that your preferred candidate worked for the Cheeto, praised the Cheeto, won’t denounce the Cheeto, and supposedly can’t be bothered to pay attention to things about the Cheeto that will greatly influence the effectiveness of her campaign. Probably the main thing. These should all be deal breakers for her as they would be for Trump. 
 

7 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

This is what you'd vote for over Biden, @mclumber1? c'mon maaaannn

Most Americans can afford bikes which are vehicles checkmate libz

38 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

I used to have an electric plug-in one and it was terrible, so I bought a 2-stroke gas one about 7 years ago.

I believe, in the interim, most of the leaf blowers have moved to battery powered ones.

Yeah all the ones I see are battery powered. Mine included obvs.

5 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

The lack of interlining agreements and thin schedules is why I avoid Frontier and Spirit. This is an issue Southwest too but their schedules are at least more robust,.

They offered me a similar flight... three days later. So I'm either supposed to go spend money on a hotel or sleep in the airport for three days. But I did need to be back home so those weren't options anyways.

Just now, Firewithin said:

how did you spend 1800 for spirit?  cant you fly with them and pay them in bags of peanuts? 

I didn't spend it with Spirit. I had to spend it with another airline to get me home on time when they fucked me out of a flight and refused to reimburse me even though they were at fault and won't own up to it.

I had a horrible experience with Spirit over the summer and am out $1800 because of their incompetence. I won't be flying with them ever again.

29 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

I think they annoying ones are those that are used by the professional landscapers.

 

Using a landscaper was much more common when I was in Michigan than here -- everyone in my neighbourhood used them there, no one does here.  (Probably because of the bigger properties, and the fact it was so cheap there, and so expensive here.)

I guess that makes sense. If it's those loud gas ones and they're constantly going I could see that getting annoying. But everybody in my neighborhood uses the electric ones that I can tell.

2 hours ago, mclumber1 said:

 

Trump v Biden:  I vote for Biden 

Haley v Biden: I vote for Haley (or a compelling 3rd party candidate)

Even if you're conservative you shouldn't vote for anybody who ever worked for Trump or had anything positive to say about him.