ShadySands

Just got a 10 ducket discount for the season pass

They made some dumb comment some time ago and now everything is about that instead of anything of substance. At least on right leaning sites anyways

STO mostly I've been meaning to get back to TOW and my latest CK2 playthrough but now since the new LOTRO xpac dropped this week I now have to go do that.

I'm not sure I get the connection or need for Hollywood to care more about video games

Fell down the stairs but stuck the landing like Simone Biles

Was it H. Pylori? That's what I was dealing with when I had stomach issues. That and GERD anyway.

Maybe Rand is the whistleblower and the real treasure is the friends we made along the way.

Maybe Boyarsky is doing contract work for them

That's why they won't do that

Got whatever the latest Pixel is called. Would have kept using my old Pixel but I scratched the screen and Google wants to upgrade me instead of just giving me the same old phone.

Maybe his neighbor did do more damage than we thought

2020 an election year for him or something?

What did Rand Paul do now?

In my experience I find that the younger generations are more open with their feelings and struggles so I wonder how much of it is just people no longer thinking it's a weakness or shameful to express their doubts, fears, and whatnot. I see some parallels with Generation Jonesers but with the above mentioned more openness to expressing feelings but I wouldn't be surprised if other generations didn't hold some similar feelings around the same age even with better general circumstances. Regarding the laser hacking of home assistants, I'm with Gfted1 on this one. Close the blinds or curtains or shades or whatever you have or just don't horizontally mount your device near a window. I agree that it is a cool concept but not that it's something that you should actively be cautious of.

Got a new phone and I already kind of regret it. I get Android phones because I don't like Apple phones and this new phone copied too much stuff I don't like about my wife's iPhone.

We finally had a chance to watch a movie and it wasn't the Eddie Murphy one. My wife really wanted to see Bad Moms so that's what we watched. We thought it was pretty good but wondered if it it would have been as funny if we weren't parents.

Sorry for the double posy but a few days ago I also made a beef stew. My new thing has been a stout beer and prunes to whatever I think might benefit from one or both. Prunes have been on my list since Gromnir's pot roast recipe and I thought it worked just as great in the stew. I don't even take them out anymore and just served the soup with bits of prune still in it. My wife says it's the best I've ever made and the best she's ever had. But I've had the stews her family tends to eat and I can't exactly say that's a real high bar.

Decided to make sloppy joes for lunch. My wife and MiL had never heard of them so I tried to make the best first impression for them that I could and made them from scratch instead of out of a can. Big sloppy joe smiles all around I don't really have an exact recipe but I use lean ground beef (90/10 or better) with tomatoes I dice myself and also a diced red bell pepper and a diced sweet onion. Other ingredients include ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, tomato paste, a stout beer, salt and pepper, Lawry's seasoning salt, garlic powder, ground mustard seed, and brown sugar. I used brioche buns this time around because that's my wife's favorite For her seconds my MiL cooked some cabbage with a few other veggies and just mixed them with the beef in a bowl but she always does weird things. I tried to explain to her that my beef sauce is not anything close to what she normally puts in her beef and cabbage dish but she really loved it even though any spice is usually too much spice for her. I don't think I could live that that. I told my wife if I can't taste delicious flavors then just pull the plug on me and if that doesn't work I pointed at a pillow on the couch and told her that she knows what to do

Ha! I meant it as a measure of how long ago it's been since I've seen a movie. I did see the Avengers which was maybe the last one I've seen. I dunno, I should probably go back through this thread in case I'm forgetting something.

I'll check it out when I can but I've just been so short on time lately. I'm way behind on movies and shows. Still need to watch Spiderman 2 and Captain Marvel.

I would say the worst is the guy bribing someone high up in the government to screw me. Obviously though the government isn't blameless in that scenario but they wouldn't be working me over if the guy didn't pay them to. Because of that I'd put them just below Koch who engineered the whole thing. Basically they're all wrong but the guy pulling the strings is worse in my eyes Even more so in the cases in my links. They cozied up to governors and lied to their own supporters by claiming they're against taxes and for small government. Then they turn around and support taxes for new highways because they're in oil and asphalt. I'd say that makes them pretty awful.

I'm absolutely for getting money out of politics but I don't think that lets the people who abuse the system, as it currently is, off the hook. Especially when they screw millions of people over doing it.

PowerShell

I think the some of the "game ded" stuff, at least from people I know, comes more from the perceived lack of investment rather than the game itself being in the red. The content drip is easily the slowest of any MMO I've ever played and I really like the game but I've always thought it just need more of a certain I don't know what to really make it pop.