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Similar logic was employed for the PlayStation 4 around here as well. I feel like more than half the board was convinced it was just pent-up demand for a new console and the sales would lag considerably soon, and It ended up outpacing the PlayStation 2 or at least running neck and neck with it.

To piss you off, friend. 🤨

Since there are stock shortages, this is sold, not shipped, since no console has had a chance to not sell yet.

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He ended up getting everything at launch so he's good. He's not into Bethesda's RPGs, though, so this was immaterial.

It's part of what makes the excitement for it so weird to basically have games that were already coming everywhere come to fewer places. I think people misunderstand the attacks on MS for its really poor first party slate the past two generations (or just willfully don't understand because fanboys or weirdos); they had few development studios left, but the ones they were buying were usually struggling ones who were getting a second life (Double Fine, Obsidian). This was pretty much the only one that I had an issue with, having taken away a publisher from the gaming sphere with one less place to go for devs to pitch new games and taking games you were already getting and closing them off to other platforms. It's bad enough that Disney owns everything in the movie space. Hopefully we see the same excitement when Amazon buys Sega and Facebook buys Capcom. I guess I'm in "luck" that I haven't really wanted a Bethesda RPG since Skyrim, but Starfield and a new Elder Scrolls were pretty exciting so I may have to just get the Xbox if they deliver and aren't like Fallout 4.

Season 1 has one good episode in the last one, I think, with Cartman's mom. I watched a bunch of them and there's not much quality there. Season 9 is one I always heard people shit on compared to 5 - 8, considering it a step down overall with a couple exceptions. I dunno, I liked it. I'll never not find it funny that Cartman's first thought to the boys ignoring him is that he must have died.

Nothing beats this. Well, this could...

All adults will be eligible to get a vaccine no later than May 1 in all states and tribes. Some states will be ready sooner is my guess.

You've never seen the scene from Memento when all the pens are hidden, have you?

Monarchy stuff is more news than entertainment, but point taken.

I agree; consistency is basically the only thing that changed as the highs in South Park are still quite high,. 5 - 10 I think were the golden period, but 11 - 15 had good episodes. I think 16 was actually a pretty strong season overall; I watched the "Randy Marsh buys Blockbuster video" episode either last Halloween or the one before and just about died laughing.

Why is this in the Performing Arts? I was wondering why I read nothing about this on the actual current events board. We just had that big spat with Giuliani, though, during the 2020 election period. Which is funny because I remember when Giuliani was considered a fake Republican but who knows how this weird ideology operates.

Oh sweet, THAT was him on the show! I appreciate that. I'm reading HOAX right now, the book detailing how Trump built his relationship with Fox News prior to his run for president, but that needs to be my next read (unless there's a behind-the-scenes of Trump's campaign that's as good as Shattered on Hillary's campaign).

I have to listen to the whole thing front to back, but there was a really good debate on NPR's On Point on the filibuster, and they had someone who worked in the Senate from the 70s into 09 who supported it, and one who worked in the Senate from 2010 - 2017 who wants the filibuster gone. What was interesting to me was the, as this board seems to know, nostalgic recollections of how a filibuster would spark compromise and negotiations with the minority. He made an argument that the threat of a filibuster last year actually improved the first COVID bill, though I never heard that. The person who worked in the Senate last decade made a point that the first guy's experience sounds great but wasn't at all what he experienced. The main drive was that if the opposition party doesn't want to compromise at all, then the filibuster just makes the Senate a failed institution where things don't get done and that eliminating it would better encourage bipartisanship. He brought up the people who voted to convict the president didn't meet the "arbitrary" 60-vote requirement, and it's rare that you'll get a full 10 people on the opposite side to sign onto something. There was a second person who opposed the filibuster who talked about the huge bipartisan support for the bill among regular Americans, yet not one Republican voted for it, and that's the party that people are supposed to reach across the aisle for, and the host, while remaining unbiased, did bring up Obama's book where he negotiated with Grassley for ages and said, "Hey, is there ANYTHING I can change in this bill to get your support?" and Grassley said no even though he supported much of the concepts of the bill. And a different point but one I never really considered was that the post WWII world and Cold War world brought the parties together at that point to work on legislation as there was a common enemy out there, whereas it's a different time historically right now where we have enemies within, including the Jan 6 insurrectionists who somehow feel minority rule should be standard. It was a robust discussion, but one thing I got from it was I felt bad for the older gentleman who worked in the Senate decades ago. He has this lovely view of what the Senate should be and what it was and I could tell listening to him that he has a good heart, but he talks so much about people working together and Senate relationships and all I could think was how little that means for the average American who wants shit done and doesn't care who likes whom. Worth a listen. Just go to the 49 minute one from March 10, "Inside The Fight To Reform The Senate Filibuster," and download it: On Point WWW.NPR.ORG Let's make sense of the world – together. From the economy and health care to politics and the environment – and so much more – On Point host Meghna Chakrabarti speaks with newsmakers and real people about the issues that matter most. On Point is produced by WBUR for NPR.

For weeks Collins has questioned Schumer’s handling of coronavirus relief negotiations, and on Tuesday night Schumer fired back to blame Collins’ fiscal conservatism for exacerbating the last financial crisis. The New York Democrat said in a nationally televised interview that his party’s courtship of three GOP votes for its Obama-era stimulus bill shrunk the legislation too much: “We made a big mistake in 2009 and ’10. Susan Collins was part of that mistake.” Exactly. I’d rather he pass better legislation than be friends with her.

Susan “I helped water down the 2009 stimulus so it would get through a filibuster” Collins Glad she wasn’t consulted.

Biden building back better BOOM

Hope the boss music is killer like tmnt arcade

Fucking Fuckface the Fuckorth (D-AR)

But you do for all the kids you already have! This just means if you have a kid anywhere from a day after the bill is signed through Dec 31, you're a multi-billionaire.

Merrick Garland to be confirmed at 2:15pm ET today, Marcia Fudge will be HUD secretary Senate set to confirm Merrick Garland as attorney general WWW.CBSNEWS.COM The Senate is expected to confirm Merrick Garland as attorney general and Marcia Fudge as HUD secretary on Wednesday.

Whatever you think of Build Back Better, it's better than Stronger Together and I'm With Her so it's all good.

Cayce Cancels Crummy Catchphrase