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Today is my daughter's 13th birthday. We live next to a parking lot, and it has been completely empty during the pandemic, so I ordered a 120 inch fabric screen for about $30. Then I put a raised frame up on the back fence, and people drove up to watch a movie that we played with a projector and a speaker system. It turned out pretty well! Drive-In Movies are coming abck in style.

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Jason Statham confirmed for a movie "loosely based on" the Saints Row franchise, pre-production slated for 2022.

Today I remedied the fact that I never sent anyone any **** pics, solicited or unsolicited.

First outdoor 10k run when it has been over 15 Celsius. #Glorious!

Check what is going on now. Last week he fired his health minister for contradicting him and for trying to push for measures to handle covid-19. Friday he fired the chief of police, which resulted in the minister of justice resigning and making public information about Bolsonaro's corruption. Now Bolsonaro's coalition partners are calling for impeachment, and apparently the military is moving to depose him.

It's looking more and more like Kim Jong Un has done the whole world a solid and died.

Not the exact same structure, but made in a similar way. This is the actual one:

^Still looks better than Mass Effect 3 or Andromeda.

Yeah, they are not all lies and alt right bias, sometimes they do get the weather forecast and sports results correct 👍

Word was the Packers had a plan in place to trade up with the Seahawks to 27 (same as the last two years, which gave the Packers Darnell Savage and Jaire Alexander while the Seahawks took Rashad Penny and L.J. Collier - no offense, but I much preferred our picks, ), but found out that someone else was going to trade up to Miami's 26 and decided they *absolutely needed* to make sure they got Jordan Love, and so at the last second traded with the Dolphins instead, leaving the Seahawks with no time to work out something else somewhere. And so that's how Seattle's 8 year streak of trading their first round pick comes to an end - the Packers seemingly unnecessarily reaching for a QB leading to the Seahawks seemingly unnecessarily reaching for a LB. I preferred it when we got good players from trading with you guys instead, .

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/why-mitch-mcconnell-wants-states-go-bankrupt/610714/

I'd rather pet the moose and risk certain death than kill one. I totally lost respect for my boss when she went took a vacation to go MOOSE HUNTING 🥵

From all that he's said, Rodgers appears to have the wisdom to know where he realistically is at in his career and know that the best possible thing he can do for himself is continue to be the leader (...and player) the team needs...especially after seeing his predecessor do the exact opposite and the results thereof. I was consequently not surprised to see that Jordan Love said Rodgers immediately called him to congratulate and welcome him to the team. (e):

You can beat that same old drum all you want, but it's never rang more false than right now with the malevolent, two-bit lunatic we have. Biden is unlikely to be a good (...or comprehensible) president or leader, but I will gladly take "not good" over the malicious madness we've been experiencing. And I say that as someone who strongly believed in and supported a much more moral and intelligent man, and as someone who convinced a number of friends and family members (including some lifelong conservatives) to vote for him in a stupid, useless primary.

Well, Wilbur was Some Pig!

Now, we all know that Aloth might be a bit bitchy during deadfire voyages, might be Ishiza's dropping between his grimoire pages but let's be honest, this is getting a bit out of hand. To dislike someone for something you said, that was a praise. SMH

Shady is a wolf!

It also seems like on the not-strictly-plot-essential episodes, it's often better when there *is* less spoken dialogue, too. The Three Blind Archers in particular was very good in S1.

One of my favorite animated series. Aku!!! A novel aspect of the show is how little dialogue it uses. It has won eight Emmy awards. The storyboard artist, Bryan Andrews, also worked on Star Wars: Clone Wars.

As far as I'm concerned the boss is a spicy Latina.

Funny you would say that. I modeled my boss after Statham:

Well technically you can use the whole party to sneak up onto the victim, but you'll never know which party member will attempt to pickpocket then (presumably the dude with the highest pickpocket skill) - maybe it's that one party member who already screwed the stealth. Also the pathfinding is difficult with all party members. You want to take the shortest route to the victim and that's often impossible if the party is trampling on each other's feet. Way easier to mange if you are only steering one party member during the attempt. You can pickpocket as long as the circle isn't completely red. Generally speaking: if the circle is fully red you are screwed. If there's even a fraction of the circle not red you are good to go. If it's yellow: easy peasy. Hostile victims will already start looking for you and move towards the noise you make as soon as the cicle turns from yellow to red - so I guess pickpocketing them would be a real challenge (never tried I have to say). Neutral victims don't care if the circle becomes red - as long as it's not fully red. I think if bystanders detect you you are also "detected" and can't pickpocket. You can use spells on the ground to lure hostile npcs and guarding npcs (shield + eye symbol over their heads) towards a place and sneak up behind them. This doesn't work for most neutral npcs like merchants. You need Sparkcrackers for those. They will run towards the source of noice you can sneak up behind them. Running victims have a much smaller hearing circle than victims that stand still. So it's easier to pickpocket moving targets - if you can predict theor movement. Also read here:

A mix of life experience, news from different countries and my two main sources these days on the internet are BBC and Al Jazeera. I know both are biased, each in their own way, but taking that into consideration, I do think the BBC for example covers Australian politics in a better way than Aussie media does, as they have less vested interest in being biased (if that makes any senses?). I know, locally, the Murdoch press owned media is as dirty as their flagship Fox News and the ABC here are their opposite corner of the ring counterpart. AJ often gives some interesting perspectives on how the world is viewed from angles that most bogans have no clue even existed.

It makes him sound like a better villain, cooler at least. Not my nickname though https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cocaine-mitch/

I built a storage module and some defense modules (connector pieces that have a bunch of turrets that fire on attackers) on my HQ station in X4 plus I put several laser towers near it. They're just mk1 laser towers, so they're not very powerful, but they'll do for now. I then invested in an energy cell production module blueprint, which set me back 2 million credits (a very significant amount for me still at this stage), then built a couple defense modules and an energy cell production module on my sunrise flower farm station, which set me back another 750k or so in material costs and hiring a construction vessel. The investments will be well worth it in the long run. Energy cells are used in the production of almost everything, so I'll be putting that blueprint to use a ton of times going forward. Adding energy cell production to my farm makes it almost self-sufficient, I only need to bring in water. The module will pay for itself in time in increased profits. In other news, I captured my first ship today. I wasn't trying to capture it, but it happened that way. I'm doing a mission where I need to get shot at by at least 3 different types of weapons, to get data for Boso Ta, so that he can research shield mods for my ships. I purposely loaded up the cargo hold of my Buzzard heavy fighter with some fairly high value cargo, then cruised around shady sectors. Sure enough, a pirate scans me then tells me to drop my cargo. I scan him and I'm like "Brah, you're in a scout and I'm in a fully decked out heavy fighter, come and try to take my cargo." He was feeling lucky, so he attacked me. Very quickly, with some persuasion from my neutron gattling lasers, he changed his mind and bailed, leaving a battered ship behind. It's a cheap Kestrel, but what the heck, I claimed it and brought it back to my HQ to fix it up. Later on I found an abandoned ship, an Osprey frigate! The X games always have some abandoned ships scattered about. They are usually in places that are either far out of the way or very dangerous (sometimes both). In this case, it was dangerous. The ship was stranded in an area with a bunch of Xenon (Terminators). I was in my Buzzard, so I got their attention then led them on a wild goose chase to draw them away from the ship. Once I got them far enough away, I ditched them and beelined back to the abandoned Osprey. Surprisingly enough, it wasn't even that beat up, hull damage was minimal, and it even had halfway decent engines and thrusters, plus 1 turret. No shields, though, so I had to sweat it out until I could get to an equipment dock or wharf (I went to a wharf), I did make it without incident. I didn't have enough money to fully equip the Osprey, since I spent most of my dough on the blueprint and station expansions, but I at least had enough to buy top of the line shields. I'm pretty excited to get a second frigate. My fleet currently stands at 2 frigates, a heavy fighter, 2 scouts, and a freighter.

Congratulations...in three years you will wish you could quarantine your daughter. Good Luck!

I am sure that Hearth Orlan was already posted but I can't seem to find it. Rest is here : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gl0NestvdY_PrcHeylcssNKGm1LtRHB5

I do not like the Democratic Party, and I especially dislike Biden as its apparent leader. There are absolutely ways in which the Democratic Party is very similar to the Republican Party, both in methods and ideology, which make it understandably all-too-discouraging to support. However, since Trump was elected, there has been a surge of younger, more ideological representatives who I think, though perhaps flawed in other ways, are the future in bringing this party forward and away from current reality that is the heinous corporatecrat wing of the party, which currently makes up the majority and which relies way too heavily upon stupid and simplistic views of complicated wedge issues like gun control to get votes. Encouraging growth of this new wing of the party is about the only way I can oppose the corporatecrats and not surrender power (...and sanity) hand over fist to what, to my eyes, appears to be a now neo-fascist Republican Party. Defeating this new manifestation of the Republican Party is also probably the only way to bring it back to the realm of reality - winning has certainly only seemed to embolden and grow it from what I can tell. The Democratic Party is many things, but I do not believe it to widely be its own brand of fascist...yet. From the weekly to daily scandals and literally uncountable counts of corruption and/or incompetence in this administration combined with that core 40-45% still supporting it no matter what it says or does, and their increasingly voluminous voices joining together in hatred of others (which also unfortunately only embitters the exact same feelings in those who oppose them), I just cannot look at the two parties as being equivalent - I can't. The fact that Bernie Sanders, a self-avowed democratic socialist who is also contrarily soft on gun control and has pretty consistently opposed a number of other breaches of our rights when no-one else would, has been able to capture roughly a little under half of the party's voters over the past two election cycles (with way more than that that at least liked and would support him if he was the candidate - around 70% of voters from last I checked, which was close to the same mark as Biden), tells me that there's at least some kind of sane future with this party...even if it's with a lot of unfortunately necessary compromise. I do not currently see any kind of sane future with the Republican Party. I also fear that our economic system is likely to completely crash and disintegrate, if it hasn't started to already, sometime within my lifetime, and if that's the case, I much rather prefer people that care at least a little to be in charge (or at least those who pretend to) when it happens rather than the proud looters and naked debasers currently running this clown show.

We drafted *literally* only backups, with the possibility of one ILB drafted in the 5th round who might start because we're so bad and have been so bad for years at ILB. This is a team that, although obviously flawed, went 13-3 with a brand new head coach and made it the NFCCG last year. I must admit I do not understand the strategy here - or maybe I do, because it awfully looks like we're pre-emptively slamming the door on the Aaron Rodgers era for no good reason and simply planning for 3 years down the line. Aaron Rodgers was not fantastic last year, but he was pretty good, especially once you realize how many TDs our RBs leached from him after he drove to the red zone because our receiving corps was trash and couldn't separate or catch in the red zone.

So I'm playing XCOM (recent one, not UFO Defence) and I'm enjoying the game itself well enough. I'm not keen on some gameplay things like aliens getting a 'free' move when spotted at all- only reason I can think of for it since aliens are pretty good at using cover otherwise is console memory limits- otoh it's recognisably xcom and I've always loved the strategy/ tactical layer mix in them and Jagged Alliance. But that UI- sometimes you use the mouse to select/ confirm, sometimes you have to use the keyboard to do the same thing; sometimes both in the same UI element. Click through of interface elements in the tactical screen means you do stuff you don't intend to, typically opening doors. And it has a very annoying unresolved issue with ultrawide where you can choose having the UI elements misaligned or having the movement of your squad members not correspond to where the mouse cursor is placed. OK, the last probably isn't solely console related but the rest must be, surely. How could the people who made the seemingly infinitely scalable and perennially working CivIV come up with that abject mess?

How 'bout we split the difference and go with Gangster of Love?

Some pictures of Kresusiso Headquarters. First up, my luxurious dock for small and medium size ships (I don't have a pier for large and XL ships yet, but I also don't have any L and XL ships yet): I wonder what my Boron scientist friend thinks of the fish tanks, given that Boron are aquatic. The office of my manager: Meeting the scientist face to face for the first time (that's me in the doorway): His (?) name is Boso Ta. He is the only Boron I have encountered in the game. I wonder if the Boron will be reintroduced into the game fully in a future expansion, much like the Split were with the Split Vendetta expansion that came out recently.

Packers will conclude their laughably terrible draft that makes no sense whatsoever today. Our first three picks have all been drafted to become backups, so I'm excited to see these later round picks be so bad that they're expected to all miss making the team at all the first year.

People on Steam complaining that they can't save scum on Ironman...

"Lake Balaton, world's largest Trump tribute"

Wow saved me a lot of time. Thanks for that tip.

To suit the time..

"One can't decide whether to join the Bard's College or the Thieves Guild. One will just have to weigh the prose and the cons."

Samurai Jack. I'm halfway through season 1. Though slightly inconsistent, it's been pretty good. Enjoying it so far, don't know if I'll be able to watch 5 seasons of it, though.

It's Herbie's 80th B-Day! That merits a few tracks. Here's Dolphin Dance. IMO, the best of the tunes he wrote that became part of the standard jazz repertoire. And Rain Dance! My favorite early-electronic Herbie. Head Hunters, which came out right after Sextant, was of course the huge hit of this era, but my tastes run more towards the weird early jazz-electronica than to the funky popular stuff. Lastly, Herbie himself dancing. Sort of. This was an incredibly influential live performance-- it's from the broadcast of the '84 Grammys and was an introduction of both breakdancing and record-scratching to the nationwide TV audience. "Rockit" was already a hit, but millions of people who heard it had no idea how they got the record-scratch sound until they saw this broadcast. The Grammys are a famously conservative organization, and it might be the fact that the ostensible "front man" here was 43 and already an acknowledged master helped them sneak some then-underground stuff into living rooms throughout America.

^ If you ask me, Moon Safari is the superior Air album 😛

To bad, EUIV is not planned for GOG as well, would be instabuy for me