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I'm actually kind of surprised that AEW and similar orgs have to get licenses with the state athletic commission at all.  Like...what?  It's theater. 

I play lots of games that are a few years old (VII rebirth is the only new window game I'm playing atm).  Mostly it's because there's so many games and a lot of them are really good.  With exceptions for my favorite properties, I no longer feel the rush to run out and buy games at launch when I have a backlog of top notch titles I haven't played yet.  It's not a matter of replay either; I almost never play expansions or DLC.  There's just so much I haven't gotten to.  I don't reject new games, they just have to get in the queue.

And as a bonus by the time I do get around to the new games released today, they'll likely be cheaper or on sale rotation (unless it's a first party Nintendo game).

So do we get like a co-author credit on the study or....?

Nier: Automata did it best.

I was sitting in my house and I heard a rumble and my house started shaking slightly and I was like, "Neat". That was all. 

17 hours ago, Fizzzzle said:

Last night I realized I had 5 days off from work (not ideal, I prefer working), so I looked at what I could do for 5 days. I noticed a trip to Puerto Vallarta that was $500 round trip, which is about the cheapest it ever gets. So I booked it. Now I'm on the way.

Dude, PV is a good time.  Great hiking, amazing storms, good party scene.

Also if you get the chance, hit Los Parejas in town for tacos.  Super good.

12 minutes ago, best3444 said:

 

Well what's the best way to play it? If some how I could get it on steam and maybe mod it that would be ideal. I don't think I can stomach those old school visuals etc. 

The pixel remaster is on steam for $18.

FINAL FANTASY VI on Steam

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If you think pixel art is "old school visuals" that you can't stomach then you might be out of luck.  There's no like, FFVII remake level version.

57 minutes ago, Biggie said:

Damn I forgot about this hahahaha

He was able to do this because he's got, you know, just the best eyes.  The best.  Optometrist told him they're the best eyes he's ever seen.  And he's seen a lot of eyes, you know.

6 hours ago, Hand76 said:

If I change the .exe for a Steam game to run with admin privileges, do I have to actually click on the .exe to run it as such or launching from Steam will have the same effect?

Steam does some extra bits when you run a game from it, but ultimately just launches the executable.  So if you've changed the properties on the game .EXE itself to runs as admin by default, that's what it should do whether you run it from Steam or directly yourself.

12 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

But what if the bridges work, the phone works but no one answers the call because aliens abducted the babysitter and kids while you were out? What happens in that scenario? 🤔

6 hours ago, crispy4000 said:

 

Has her portable battery charger also run out in this scenario?

 

Heck you can pick up a hand crank powered charger with a flashlight too on Amazon for $40.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Wouldn't matter because then it would be "well what if no bars or a cell tower outage?!".  It's her weird logic.

As another example, rarely we would get a babysitter when my kids were very young so we could treat ourselves to a break/night out.   We live right outside of Philadelphia, on the Jersey side of the river.  She refused to ever go anywhere in the city with me because "what if the bridges all go out and we're both stuck on the other side and can't get back to the kids in case of an emergency?"  She'd let me take her over an hour+ away from home, still In NJ, but wouldn't go the whopping 2 miles into Philly with me because what if bridges.

She just gets these potential scenarios in her head and has to hedge against them.  I've learned not to argue.

5 minutes ago, Biggie said:

But why a landline when you have a smart phone?

The Woman actually insists we keep a landline in case the power is out/our phone batteries are dead and there's an emergency and we need to call 911.  Yes, we have a landline in the incredibly unlikely scenario that a multi-day power outage has resulted in dead batteries for every cell phone for every person living in my house followed by a 911-required emergency after the last battery has hit 0%.

2 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

 

Have you only watched the Stewart eps or the rest of the week as well? I don't recall many/any on the JS eps, but there's been a few the rest of the week (let me see if I can find them for you):

 

I've watched the Jon Stewart episodes and a few of the others, but not all of them.  I watched a few with Kosta and the blonde woman (who's name is escaping me right now) co-hosting, a solo Kosta one and a Klepper one from earlier this week and all of them had only green screen segments.  I'm probably just unlucky in the episodes I've seen. I'll check out the ones you linked.

2 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

Yes, Michael Kosta had one on today's episode. They certainly became less frequent under Noah with them mostly being Klepper's "Fingers the Pulse" segments (which are gold) and a few others scattered about.

OK, good to know.  I'll keep an eye out; those field reports were always great.  So far all the episodes I've seen in the current season have only had "green screen" correspondent segments.

I'm very tempted.  I like books and magazines.  Sure I can digital everything, but there's something about the tactile feeling of turning a page or closing a book when you finish it that you don't get from reading on a screen.  I love my Kindle, but finishing a physical book is somehow far more satisfying than reaching the last page on a device.  I can't explain it.

Plus magazines give you something to read on the shitter when your phone battery is low.

I too have sold a home for more than its value.

In any case, I've been enjoying his episodes.  The format is kind of weird, being a returning TDS fan.  Do the correspondents not do field reports anymore?  Overall though I'm digging the show again.

OMG the Condor game can eat a bag of dicks. My fun has come to a screeching halt. 

Sounds like it made more sense back in 1973 when it was written.  At least, if the article is to be believed, the intent was good.  Modern application, not so much.

3 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

I've been humbled enough in the past to know that my opinions on which QB to draft are pretty bad.

That said, I hope your team ends up with a decent franchise QB.

I've heard that opinion on Williams from a number of football people I follow.

I mean, nobody really knows how these dudes will perform in the NFL.  Not even the analysts who are paid to "know" these things.  It's a coin toss or worse on every one of them.  Most of the QBs drafted in the first round never have even a single 4000 yard/24+TD season once in their careers. Almost half of them never make it to a second contract.  30% don't last 5 seasons with the team that drafted them.  Fans get hyped up on college stats and Combine numbers, but at the end of the day it's a dice roll.

12 hours ago, thewhyteboar said:

Eh. 

Howell isn't bad.  He got kind of a rough deal here.  We couldn't protect him because of our shit-tier line and Rivera apparently didn't think it necessary to game plan around that.  He's got a good arm and can make plays.  I expect him to be more successful in a new environment.

10 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

Either that, or they'll use the 2nd overall pick on a QB.

They will.  I'm hoping Maye, or maybe Daniels.  A lot of our idiot fanbase are stumping for Williams which is goofy and dumb; he already has one foot on the train to Bustville.

I hope someone picks up RWBY.  I enjoyed that one.

5 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

Jason Kelce sobs as he announces retirement plan after 13 seasons in...

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Kelce, 36, was the Philadelphia Eagles' sixth-round pick in the 2011 draft, and he spent his entire career with the team.

 

I'm not a fan of the man and certainly not a fan of the Eagles, but I gotta give it to him; he was good. And he also made the greatest speech in the history of sports:

https://youtu.be/DhIFNxEz1qc?si=_zvMvCzUmrmX1el5

All the official download links are toast and if you do have the installer it will fail to find/download it's necessary config files.

Started FFVII: Rebirth, but slept like ass last night so I fell asleep during the intro and gotta start over.