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or get rid of terrible thursday night football altogether

Well, yeah, they weren't just gonna retroactively delete people's current copies...but you can't get any more. (e): ninja-ed

five guys burgers?

"It comes just weeks after a mischievous parrot used Alexa to order itself a set of ten gift boxes while the owner was away." not sure if that's better or worse than this story

I think most of us would like to see better working conditions for video game developers, too. Not likely to happen until mass unionization happens, and attempting unionization in the tech sector is a career death sentence at this time.

No, you cannot. If I recall correctly, Valve did it to help reduce scamming (of both users and Valve itself).

Is "Bulgarian" a slur here of some kind, or..? Just confused as to whether or not we need to give Basil the Second a call here...

i noticed

Blade Runner (1982). I thought it was mostly good. Actually, my biggest problem was with Harrison Ford, to be honest. I watched the "final cut" if that makes any difference, but man, it seemed like he just wasn't really into the role...on top of his character being a bit of a jerk, too. Don't really understand what was going on there. Besides that, it was pretty good.

Yeah, I liked Brazil. Well, thanks for the recommendation: I'll try watching it when I get a craving for something weird.

They got a lot of what they wanted. A job well done to them, I think.

I have not. Yeah, that was pretty weird.

Beware that it's only in Polish - no English dub (though there are English subtitles). And, uh, it's really, really strange.

The Breakfast Club (1985). Like Heathers, goofy but good. Guess I'm on a little bit of an 80s binge. Blade Runner is next. ​ ​Az Ember Tragediaja or the Tragedy of Man (2011). Really unusual animated Polish film that looks at creation, the advancing of civilization and the human condition through the eyes of Adam and Satan, starting at the Garden of Eden, to Rome and then the Renaissance, the present and then a proposed future. It had its peaks and valleys, but overall was a decent watch. Super weird, though, and definitely not for children. ​ ​

Yeah, I was pretty confused as to what happened between the first movie and the Avengers, and I guess there just wasn't really much of an explanation. Well, maybe there was later in the movie - as I said, I didn't finish it.

​I think I had trouble with Thor in particular because I just didn't like anybody for the majority of the movie. Honestly, I think Loki was probably the most likeable of the main characters...

Yeah, my cat was recently diagnosed with feline diabetes. Switched from regular cat food (aka carbohydrates) to animal byproduct meat pate thingies and he went from looking like he was going to expire in less than 24 hours (almost totally comatose and ultra-dehydrated) to looking and acting like himself in about 48 hours. Stupid diabetes - he's not even overweight, so I guess it's just because he's really old. Good luck with keeping yours healthy.

Poltergeist (1982). Uh, yeah, I can see how Stranger Things might have been inspired by this. It was...interesting. I wouldn't say it was a great movie, but definitely interesting and entertaining at times.

That's pretty much been my experience as well. DC has had such low lows, but there's actually been a couple that I moderately enjoyed...Marvel, on the other hand, I'd characterize as being consistently mediocre/bleh all the way down, but never really quite "turn the TV off" terrible like some of DC's movies have been. Watchable, but not really very enjoyable. So I guess I'd rather waste my time taking a chance on a DC movie than another predictably mediocre Marvel movie. I like the Marvel films overall more than you do, but this is roughly how I feel about them. They play each of these films very safe, they deliver a familiar experience and by and large do so in alright fashion nowadays. I do think they are better overall films than DC, but at least up until recently I also felt like DC had the greater ability to surprise. Now, however, I'm not even so sure that DC will do as much - they seem very intent in trying to replicate the MCU formula beat for beat. I actually think Fox are the ones with the greatest capacity for surprise, unpredictability and uniqueness at this point, if both Logan and Legion and their relative success are any indication. With regards to Thor, it was very enjoyable but didn't really break the MCU mold in any fashion. I like that the series is becoming a bit more creative visually, but it does feel like they take babysteps toward that goal, and there's still a long way to go. Dramatically it's still utterly inert. Yeah, for Thor, I've only seen the first, which I thought was pretty dull already. Well, actually, I've seen bits and pieces of the Avengers and the Dark World, but I really just couldn't sit through them. I guess the problem with Marvel and DC is that one, I'm really just not very into superhero-ish characters on a conceptual level, and two, I don't know, I just don't seem to really like any of the characters to begin with. So the fact that I'm not invested into literally any of the characters, and in fact have a tendency to grow to dislike them over the course of the movie, makes them a hard sell, especially when all of these movies feel like they're following a very similar formula, as you said. I guess the genre's just not really for me. If I had to pick a favorite Marvel movie, I think I'd have to go with Iron Man 1...which they, of course, immediately followed up with the crappiest sequel that killed any interest I had in the franchise.

That's pretty much been my experience as well. DC has had such low lows, but there's actually been a couple that I moderately enjoyed...Marvel, on the other hand, I'd characterize as being consistently mediocre/bleh all the way down, but never really quite "turn the TV off" terrible like some of DC's movies have been. Watchable, but not really very enjoyable. So I guess I'd rather waste my time taking a chance on a DC movie than another predictably mediocre Marvel movie. Heathers. I knew nothing about the movie except that Winona Ryder from Stranger Things was in it, and nearly turned it off 20 minutes in, but it was literally right as I was seconds away from turning it off that it suddenly became a lot more interesting, and I actually ended up liking it. Weird movie, but fun.

​ok, I previously thought the packers would realistically win 2-3 games the rest of the year. after seeing the aborted mooncalf fetus that is mccarthy's "taking the training wheels off" offense without aaron rodgers while also getting a fresh reminder of our diarrhea dump of a defense, I'm thinking I'm gonna have to revise that to 0-1 games, maybe 2 (buccaneers and browns?) if we're lucky. a man can only take so many passes 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage and toss plays before he goes completely mad

joke somebody just sent to me: ​ ​what has 4 letters, sometimes has 9 letters, but never has 5 letters ​ ​I felt like a dummy when it was explained to me

Yeah, 12v12s in casual TF2 pretty much always sucked - and the 32 man servers were laughably bad. For casual play, I always thought 8v8 was best for most maps - some of the bigger ones were fine with 10v10. Competitive was a different beast, of course.

I don't know what it is about people singing in a non-singing locale that makes me squirm, but there it is

​ hey guys I don't know if you've ever heard of this little known band, but ​@Shady: though I was a big Psych fan, I hate musicals that aren't cartoons. I was never able to sit through it, so that was actually my first time hearing it. it was...uh...silly.