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Alan Thicke passed away of a heart attack. He died playing hockey with his son, which is pretty much the way I'd want to go as well.

Keanu - Hilarious and ridiculous. If you enjoy Key and Peele, this is them at their best. Self/Less - This was panned pretty badly by critics and viewers, but I was looking for something not too serious to watch and I like Ryan Reynolds, so I gave it a shot. First off, the shooting locations alone were worth a watch for me. They start in Trump's personal apartment in NY. It was a fun glimpse into that whole baroque palace. Then it moves to an awesome place in New Orleans. Really it was like an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. The story was a bit silly, but it wasn't really badly acted, and the action was decent. It was better than expected.

Your ending certainly was personalized, as people who died in 1, 2, and 3 did not suddenly come back to life at the end. I would say it would be an unreasonable expectation to have personalized slides for every decision made over the course of three games.

It's just weird how quick people are to try and diminish their experiences. It's interesting because the ending of KotOR 2 is actually what brought me to this forum. It was a head scratcher and I was looking for more analysis, and I found some great discussions here about it. I would never say that ruined the game for me though, on the contrary, the game was so good I wanted to know more at the end.

I don't get the whole hubbub over the ending of Mass Effect. It was a solid series throughout, people make way too much about the last 20 minutes. The cannon ending is pretty simple, the Reapers were dealt with and the universe isn't all that much different than it was before they arrived.

That's good to hear, ME was amazingly good at making me feel like my decisions were carrying over to each title. Best character development over a series since Quest for Glory.

You need to get a fiitbit or something, you get fancy badges and stuff for all those steps.

We do not talk about the purge.

A factually incorrect tweet? Sacré bleu!

I'm going to just take this thread over. Episode 6 is up. New microphone for my wife, it's way better.

The Mark Wahlberg one? I don't think it is related. Although I haven't watched any of them either, but Woody Harrelson piques my interest. In the same vein, Micheal Keaton makes me interested in Spider-Man.

With RA Salvatore and Drizzt, it might just be me. I started reading them in High School, read them through college, but by the time I got to The Last Drow, I was totally burned out on the series (and a bit on Forgotten Realms.)

You might find that Robin Hobb books get better the more you read, while RA Salvatore do the exact opposite.

Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening. Galileo Galileo figaro. Magnificooooo! - Queen

I think we should have the White House rigged like the Big Brother house with cameras everywhere. Transparency, people.

We are in our 4th decade of waging war against drugs from the supply side. Do you feel it has been effective? Going draconian against employers is still attacking the supply instead of the demand.

The main argument against the wall is that it is a stupid waste of money. Will it stop drug traffickers? Criminals? People who overstay visas? It'll certainly stop deported criminals from coming back. It will prevent drugs being driven through by truckloads, although obviously you'll never stop all drug smuggling. You don't stop enforcing the law because there'll still be crime anyway; the price of drugs will go up drastically. Supposedly 60% of illegals come through the border, so you take care of that part of it. The other 40% you have to actually track which visas have not exited, which amazingly they don't even do right now. Then you go look for those people immediately. If a particular country has a problem of too many overstays, you reduce or eliminate their visas until it becomes a manageable problem. Edit: ICE has admitted they don't look for visa overstays at all right now, so why would anyone be deterred from doing that? That all sounds incredibly expensive, and does nothing to address the actual demand for drugs and illegal immigrant labor. Keep throwing money at the supply while ignoring the demand.

The main argument against the wall is that it is a stupid waste of money. Will it stop drug traffickers? Criminals? People who overstay visas?

I don't know a ton about it either, but I believe giving up a kidney is a very serious deal. It's not nearly as simple as giving up sperm. Eggs are also a somewhat risky thing to give up, although not on the life threatening scale of a kidney. That being said, I don't have much of a problem with someone getting paid. But how is this going to be handled insurance-wise? Are taxpayers going to be on the hook when some desperate for cash guy sells his kidney, blows it on terrible stuff, and ends up in the hospital with major health problems? I also just don't trust the medical industry with turning it into a more of a for profit business. It's already a mess.

I'm more curious how much of a mark up kidneys will have with Amazon 3rd party sellers. Considering how much Hatchimals are going for, the hottest gift this Xmas, I imagine it will be crazy high.

That's a great picture to go out on. My brother-in-law got hired by Ducati when the Matrix movies were coming out and they were featured a lot. They flew him to Italy, gave him a set of leathers, and then 9 months later when the movie buzz wore down, he was laid off. I'd say that was still a pretty good deal.

I'm not sure that a tweet from 4 years prior is much of a lead for a new job.

Well we can look at Puerto Rico as an example as to what would have happened if Castro had not been successful. As understandable as it was to break away from colonial rule, it does not seem to have been a great deal for the Cuban people in the long run. Maybe if the USSR hadn't collapsed, you could make a better argument for Cuban independence being successful, but unfortunately things have been rough since the late 80's.