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For example, I nearly got stuck in Italy at the start of COVID. I was staying in Rome with my little brother and his mom. COVID was just kind of starting to become a thing when I got to Italy, but most people didn't know how serious it was. By the time I left, the Milan airport and train station had shut down, and they shut down Rome probably 2 days after I left. How much would my life be different now if I scheduled my flight home 2 days later than I did? I would have been stuck in Italy. Luckily, since I have family there, I wouldn't have been homeless, but like, getting home from Italy in 2020 would have been a difficult and probably expensive process, which I didn't have money for. Do you have anything that makes you go "shit, if that had happened a few days before/after it did, my life would be completely different?" I have another one, which is I shipped out for basic training the same day Osama Bin Laden was killed. We're talking about months instead of days in this scenario, but the army massively scaled back recruitment following the death of Osama. Had he been killed a mere ~2 months or so after he was, I probably would have been reclassed rather than discharged. From my understanding, they pretty much put a blanket ban on reclassification in the years following Bin Laden's death. And then, who knows? I'd probably still be in the army today.

Of all the episodes I've seen, that was certainly one of them. Still love the show, but this week's episode definitely felt like it could have been squeezed into 4 minutes if they wanted to.

It's kind of wild to think that after the success of FF7, they were working on Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, FF8, FF9, Parasite Eve, Spirits Within, Vagrant Story, Threads of Fate, Legend of Mana, and the beginning stages of FFX all at the same time. There's an argument to be made that they might have bit off more than they could chew at the time which led to the gradual burn out and talent bleed of the company, but still... What a time.

Is that for real? I hate that we have card-carrying conspiracy theorists dumbassing their way into public office.

Eh, there's no reason you would have unless you hate watch the History Channel like I do. They're a minor curiosity that conspiracy nut jobs latch onto as being like Satanist, or illuminati, or aliens or lizard people or whatever, depending on which flavor of nut you ask.

I just got caught up to the beginning of season 3 and had to take a break (haven't read this thread cuz spoilers). This is not a very bingeable show. It kind of wears you out.

Early-morning explosion damages controversial Georgia monument WWW.CBSNEWS.COM Dubbed "America's Stonehenge," the Georgia Guidestones bears a 10-part message in eight different languages with guidance for living in an "age of reason." If you aren't familiar, the Georgia Guidestones are this moment that was put up via an anonymous benefactor that basically had like post-apocalypse instructions for rebuilding human society. They were pretty much just a curiosity that some rich person had built because they were bored and have a bunch of vague "commandments" for how society should be run. It's also pretty pro-eugenics. Religious nuts and Q-tards have had a fascination with them for a long time. Someone blew up part of it, and Georgia took down the remains for safety.

Is this not pretty normal? I was in Europe 2 years ago and 1 USD= ~.95 euros at the time. A small enough difference that it didn't matter.

I saw Spider-Man: No Way Home, but it was after I worked a double shift and I had been up for like 24 hours so I fell asleep damn near immediately. I don't think I've seen a movie in theaters in probably ~4 years. I prefer watching at home.

I always think of Marina Del Rey as an extension of Venice, but you're right it's not.

Armageddon - 2/10 Dear lord, do you know how much a movie has to suck for me to not even enjoy it while watching it on a plane? It's objectively terrible. Every character interaction is unearned. No one progresses. It's just a series of scenes that are loosely related. I only gave it a 2 because It's surprisingly well acted for what it is.

Don't worry, I don't mind.

Her grave could probably be a runway, it's true. Weird that you just take the liberty, though.

George Bush Airport in Houston is 100% the best airport I've ever been to @sblfilms. It's like future airport land. Portland gets points for still having the best wifi of any airport I've ever been to, even if the airport itself still looks like it was vomited out of 1983. Atlanta fucking sucks and I hate it every time. No redeeming qualities. I have flown into/out of LAX probably 20 times and I honestly couldn't tell you one thing about it other than I find the baggage claim kind of confusing and getting there sucks. Like how are you in the middle of fucking Venice Beach and it takes 20 minutes to drive there from goddamn Manhattan Beach? What in the actual fuck? I have to take a goddamn $20 uber for a distance that I could literally walk in 15 minutes? Oh, right, it's LA, it's car-only access everywhere. Absolute horseshit. Those asides aside... rank time. 1) Houston 2) Denver 3) Narita 4) Frankfurt 5) Portland (I know, hometown pick, but the wifi has been free and full signal everywhere in the airport since like 2004. That counts for something) Worst 5) LAX 4) SFO 3) Atlanta (I fucking hate that airport so much.... so much) 2) Bangkok (suvarnabhumi, the regional airport isn't that bad) 1) The worst airport I've ever been to, ever.... Beijing. 100% terrible, would not recommend, ever. It's like sleek and shiny, but secretly it's like you hired your cousin Jeb to build you an airport in exchange for a case of Budweiser and babysitting his kids for a weekend. Fucking awful. Notable mentions: - A lot of people give Heathrow shit, and kind of rightfully so, but I actually respect what Heathrow does a lot. It somehow makes basically the largest airport on earth (some might say TOO large) somehow navigable. I'm not mad at it. Though it probably is too large. They really should do more to separate regional and international traffic, it turns into a clusterfuck real fast if you have the wrong connection. - I love people-watching in Dallas. It's such a microcosm of humanity. One time I was sitting at a bar in DFW and I could have sworn there was going to be a spontaneous electric slide, and FUCK I was ready to join.... it didn't happen, unfortunately. Still, lots of guys wearing sunglasses over their hats. - Burlington VT gets points for being an airport that you can literally just walk to. That is so rare. There are so few airports where you can literally just take a sidewalk to the ticketing areas. - In Puerto Vallarta, they give you free margaritas when you land. Just know that they're only doing it to try and sell you on a timeshare, but there is no rule that says you can't take a margarita and then tell them to fuck right off.

I fucking love this show so far. Not sure if I like it more than Hawkeye (that show was pretty much peak Marvel imo), but I love how grounded and wholesome this story feels. It's a story about being yourself, but also about acceptance, which means don't be an unapologetic asshole . There is no "if you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best" happening here. Every character in the story (minus the villain, I forget her name, she's just a plot device so far) is constantly compromising, but in a healthy way. They are compromising in a way that makes the people they love feel... well, loved. And yet there IS conflict. It IS interesting. It just goes to show that you don't necessarily need toxicity to make human relationships interesting.

Not sure, I didn't watch the show until after it was all out.

Yeah I think most of the shows end up with something like 7 minutes of closing credits alone. You're probably not far off. WandaVision was even worse, I think some of those episodes were like 18 minutes of actual runtime.

Sure, why not

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I do remember when they announced they were making a new Star Ocean game after Till the End of TIme, I was just like ".... huh? You DO know you guys completely nuked the canon with that ending, right?" After almost 20 years and not a single good Star Ocean game since that one came out, though... I don't really care anymore.

I'm fully on board with classifying Star Ocean: Till the End of Time as a really good game, despite the ending. It was a fun ride along the way. Actually, fuck MP deaths. Your characters would die if they ran out of MP. Whoever thought that was a good idea needs a good kick in the wiener. It wasn't too hard to navigate around once you figured it out, but like... "why?"

I'm not going to get tricked by another tri-Ace title, but I'll cautiously see how it does. Their track record hasn't been great over the last, I don't know... decade and a half. I liked the Last Hope well enough when it came out, but I tried playing it again when they released it on Steam and fuuuuuuck it's not good. I've bought Resonance of Fate twice and I couldn't get into it either time. I never played Integrity and Faithlessness, but everyone says it's a train wreck. I know I played Infinite Undiscovery when it came out, but I feel like I don't really remember anything about it (other than there are some boss battles where your entire cast participates, which is something I wish more JRPGs would do) But like, they haven't made a good game since the mid-2000's when they had a run of Till the End of Time/Radiata Stories/Valkyrie Profile 2.

It's just like the machine voiceover at the end for me. I'm like... I can already tell the first probably 30 minutes of the movie is just going to be a false set up based on the trailer, then it's going to turn into a Cabin in the Woods kind of situation.

Too many spoilers in the trailer. Looks like it might make for a fun night on the couch, though.

FUCK