Nokra

76 year old comedy god gets it!

I ended up doing a (comparatively) major home theater upgrade for myself this Black Friday. I already had a pretty cheap Samsung 4K TV (IIRC it was around $250 or 300 from Costco) and I bought the above 4K Blu-ray player (Sony UBP-X800M2) and also bought the Vizio M51ax-J6 5.1 sound bar. Just rewatching Rings of Power on Prime with it was awesome... My first time ever having Dolby Atmos at home. Tomorrow I'll get the Blu-ray player hooked up and make Lord of the Rings UHD my first 4K movie with Dolby Atmos at home.

Yeah they're synonyms AFAIK; I would guess the terminology is just different among regions and/or families.

I smell a lawsuit.

I also didn't have any payment info stored, but I appreciate the heads up on this. Thanks @Commissar SFLUFAN!

Yeah this one was a bugger. Here's the film's IMDB link (so obviously don't click it if you don't want it spoiled before you play ): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Looks like you're having a fun time.

"He expressed no anti-Semitism" is a nice way to dance around his previously-expressed anti-semitism.

There is indeed! https://discord.gg/n2cNmZG5

I ate the rest of my frozen pizza from yesterday for lunch.

You got as emotional as a woman! But seriously, what a shitty thing to tell someone, I'm sorry. Did you even try to reason/argue with him about it, or did you just leave it be, since he isn't so bright, as you said?

Yeaaaaaah sports!

Maybe try a different location? I'm pretty sure I saw a Dominos delivery guy out and about today and I actually thought of you.

Between having 3 TB of NVME storage in my desktop (2 M.2s) and not playing more than two or three different games at a time within any two week period (and sometimes less than that since I'm still hopelessly addicted to TF2), I haven't had to worry about this, honestly. You can get external enclosures for M.2s though so that down the road you could throw them into your new system if you wanted to go that way. Honestly though for cheaper storage you can also look into 2.5" SATA SSDs. For loading content like games, I don't think it will make that much difference.

I'd add: Every country has people with mental health issues.

Yeah I also do hope that they will listen to the worthwhile criticism and ignore the racism-based criticism. I'm personally less concerned with the tropes used to build Galadriel's arc (if I'm understanding your post correctly) though. I don't think they were employed in too ham-fisted of a way, and as @CitizenVectron and @Greatoneshere pointed out, I think they were coherent reasons (both logically and related to the story) for Galadriel to act the way she did. Regarding this post, for example: You may ultimately be right about how they tell the story (i.e. how long they drag it out before she sounds the alarm), but I think for now you are 1) likely making an assumption about this being her actual motivation for keeping quiet and 2) making some assumptions about which way the story will be told before it's actually told. It was Sauron who made the argument that she can't tell the others because they'll think she's in league with him. Sauron is a manipulator, and it makes total sense that he would play off of this possible fear, but we don't know yet how much Galadriel will let the manipulation affect her. Early signs point to "not very much", IMO, since her reaction in that moment was to see through the manipulation and respond with bold defiance: Galadriel: "I should have left you on the sea." Sauron: "The sea that you were on because the elves cast you out. They cast you out for deigning to beg them for a few petty soldiers. What will they do when you tell them you were my ally? When you tell them that Sauron lives, because of you?!" Galadriel: "And you will die because of me!" And she immediately begins preparations to fight him. It's true she didn't tell Celebrimbor and Elrond within those two minutes that she was with them after being with Sauron , but as @CitizenVectron and @Greatoneshere also pointed out, she had some legit tactical reasons not to have done so. Besides the ones they mentioned, she wasn't even sure that Elrond was actually Elrond, for example! On that note, I did also notice that she didn't ask Celebrimbor to also verify his identity like she did with Elrond. Anyway, I think we'll just have to wait and see which way they go with it. I would totally agree that if they turn it into some drawn out drama of nobody believing her and suspecting her motivation across multiple episodes that will be lame as hell, but for now I think it's too early to know for sure.

They're not around to tell their story.

I have a Google Nest Hub in the kitchen and a couple Nest Minis throughout my apartment and in no particular order of importance, I find them great for: Controlling the smart plugs (lamps) Playing synchronized music throughout the apartment Setting timers, looking up recipes, etc. while cooking Watching Netflix while doing the dishes Scheduling a time to turn off my TV at night when I'm watching in bed (my TV doesn't have a sleep timer, somehow) Using the Hub as a digital photo frame. I'm not sure how they make money off of it either, other than selling my (hopefully anonymized) data.

You're robbing them of the gift of resiliency to bullying! </Jordan Peterson, probably>

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I think I might go for this model also. I was looking at the Panasonic DP-UB820-K since it also had some great reviews and was 20% off on Amazon ($397), but its Blu-rays are region locked to Region A, and a significant portion of my Blu-rays were purchased in Germany (Region B). I knew DVDs could be region locked, but I could have sworn I had read that Blu-rays were region free by default.

5 people killed and 18 injured at a gay club in Colorado Springs, CO.

Sounds like definitive proof that Elon is a moron, if he actually believes he can get Trump to pay for anything.