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Also, it’s not an “appeal to authority” if the authority is an expert! Appeal to authority doesn’t mean “don’t listen to anyone at all.”
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Even though it’s since been pushed out of my top 5, maybe The Last of Us for that giraffe scene alone. But on the whole, Bloodborne’s world and lore is too good to give up.
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Clearly the superior follow up would’ve been “sorry I meant bro.” Dude can’t even transphobe right.
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Nobody is going to say “I like him because he’s famous.” And not everybody will like him for that reason either. But his fame has certainly earned him credibility. That’s the foundation. Solid conservatives will always vote for those talking points. It’s the others that require the salesman from TV.
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He tall and bald and went missing for a long time before coming back (movie Fester, anyway).
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At least the 4th best! Only gripe was, like all SW movies after the original trilogy, it’s a bit longer than it needs to be (although at least it’s not *much* longer than it needs to be, like most of the other ones).
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“Every aspect of this room has been perfectly tuned for the best possible audio experience. Also if I listen to anything other than Dream Theater in here I get a stomach ache.” - audiophiles
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Jason’s face blindness strikes again.
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It should really be “Society would instantly and dramatically improve if everybody all just calmed the fuck down for a second about everything.” Even all the things worth being amped over we wouldn’t need to be amped over.
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Like, let’s do anything except be good to people.
The things my parents were the warmest to me over, are the things I handle well, and the things that they were the most stern about are the things I handle poorly. Who’da thunk, it’s really all about emotional health and stability.
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I remember the game being really like “we’re not sure but it’s our best shot,” but the show outright saying “we know this will work.” Is that right? Or am I telling myself stories?
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Yeah but only incidentally. I’ll walk in while the kids or my wife is watching something to ask them a question and then I’ll end up standing there, watching the tv for…a while. When I get bored I leave. If something happens that hooks me, I sit, eyes never leaving the screen.
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“If you have legs, and you are flammable, you are never blocking a fire exit” is one of my all time favorites. The “if you have legs” qualifier is a masterstroke.
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They can still play politics. Such a huge portion of this is making deals and pulling votes to your side. GOP doesn’t have some crushing majority in either chamber. It’s not inconceivable to pull for demonstrably unpopular legislation. But they’ve taken your view. No majority, whattayagonnado?
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Lmao at the idea that Eliza is a) the prerequisite for Dems doing their job, and b) supposed to even know what those specific rules would be. Like “ oh if you, random internet person, don’t already have a strategy, you can’t demand one…from career politicians whose whole job revolves around this.”
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Behind a paywall. Relied on some screenshots from others as well as the fact that there’s approximately a billion articles a month written about this very thing all saying generally the same thing.
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Liberal Joe Rogan would be Adam Conover so I’d rather we didn’t with this.
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Haven’t had a chance to watch yet, but that’s going to be for the commute to work. Very interested to see how it is in terms of Snowrunner and Expeditions (as someone who loved the former but disliked the latter (due to quest structure and limitations on readjusting the plan on the fly).
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Salary dispute and think “their IMDb page is pretty bare, maybe they shouldn’t be so choosy” but then find out they’re a Tony winner.
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Mazel tov
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Oh, and even though I’m the perfect target for this show, I did almost bail halfway through, so your viewer commitment suggestion seems right.
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Having seen the first season, the only thing surprising about this is that it’s number 2. Cast and concept was excellent. The show itself was kind of whatever.
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I didn’t even finish it. In season 1, we had an interesting premise but the strength was it served as a vehicle to watch these characters move through a deeply existential experience. S2 shifted tone and focus in a baffling way. Everything I liked about the show was gone
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And in the game of telephone, people post on Reddit saying “Jason Schreier says GTA6 might get delayed again” to “Rockstar devs aren’t confident it’ll even make it for a May release.” Real things I’ve read online.
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Grummz sounds like grew up on the movie Half-Baked, reached for Jim Breuer but landed on Harland Williams.
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My favorite, similar to oomph, is oof. (My wife and I jokingly refer to the novel East of Eden as Oof of Eden, because…well if you’ve read it, you know. Lots of Oof moments in that one.)
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We’d have a statue of that motherfucker right on the Inner Harbor. We’d call Cal Ripken Man of Steel instead of Iron Man. We’d rename Hurlock. It’d be terrible.
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When this comes out, I need my children to start fending for themselves. “Yeah yeah yeah, you’re still working out how to crawl, better work out how to crawl to that bus stop and catch a ride to your job.”
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Thought about this the other day as I, on a whim, bought a sushi roll that was freshly prepared at the grocery store by my office. I went in to buy something else, and impulse bought something that not that long ago would be a delicacy, that you would have to actively go out of your way to get.
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“It’s All Cronyism Going Forward, But Is That The Price We Pay For Wokeness?”
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For real. It’s streaming now, looking forward to finding out what happened to Hitler on my own.
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Oh man. That last line fucking hurt 😂
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Oh and fwiw, he’s still a good friend to this day, one of the best dudes you’ll meet, but this was 15 years ago and we’ve just come to realize in the years since that he’s probably a bit on the spectrum. Like not enough to notice day to day, but…well there are signs.
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He looked mortified. We were happy to leave but then his mom saw us and she’s a MOM mom so she insisted we stay and eat. I kept apologizing to him and he would barely look me in the eye. When we finally left we laughed about it for about a week.
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I actively had plans with two friends, but we couldn’t get a hold of the third guy, so we just stopped by his house on the way out. Turns out it was his brother’s birthday & he forgot. We showed up as they were about eat, and he was straight up like “why are you guys, here you shouldn’t be here.”1/