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Whenever the power goes out here and its dark, I get sleepy.

I don't disagree with you. But I can turn my phone off for days and not be stressed about it. For younger groups, as I understand it from this talk, they rate parents and siblings as their biggest influences on their life, then friends and people on the internet. For most younger people the cell phone is how they connect to these people, and a broken cell phone means they're disconnected from everything that (at least at this point in their lives) matters most to them.

Can do both... Its interesting, I was at a lecture on stress, and while on the face of it, it may sound silly to us, one of the things the study they were talking about (not this one) was that the generation after millennials is even more stressed over technology because they don't feel like they can disconnect from it, which in turn means they're stressed when they're on it and stressed when they're off it.

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The thing is they're not being charged for cheating on the admissions to the colleges. Normally if an applicant or student is caught lying on their application, the admissions decision is rescinded or the application denied. Cheat on a test, the test is invalidated (and the test company may bar you from testing). The parents are being charged because Singer was allegedly laundering the money they were paying him to get into these schools through "donations" to Singer's non-profit which was in turn avoiding taxes on the money he was getting as a "non-profit". This led to a number of conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to commit racketeering, and conspiracy to defraud the US charges for Singer. The parents are being charged with "mail fraud" for - as I understand it - allegedly having wired or transferred money into the money laundering scheme disguised as donations to the non-profit, when instead it was payment to Singer and his cohorts for their work and the bribes being paid out to testing officials and coaches to guarantee the students got admitted. Edit: I think the people who took bribes are charged with conspiracy to commit racketeering as well.

It was preempted; Fox aired the iHeartRadio Music Awards last night. Last episode of the season for The Orville is 3/21.

She smirks as she says it, I took it she was being funny. I don't recall the line being in the movie. Doesn't mean it wasn't, I just don't recall. That horrible "I'm going to end it" line definitely isn't. Its when they're driving and Fury says something like "So, Skrulls are the bad guys. And you're Kree. A race of noble warriors?" And Carol follows up with "Heroes. Noble warrior heroes" and smirks or smiles when saying it, like she's not really being serious about it, recognizing the pomposity of the Kree's self-image even though she at that point still sees herself as Kree.

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She smirks as she says it, I took it she was being funny. That scene doesn't spoil the movie and they can't leave it out of Endgame. It would be very strange. And imho even the (really funny) post-credits scene is all right to watch, although it does reveal something that happened in the movie. I didn't say it'd spoil it and I did say I thought it'd be in Endgame, so not sure what you're replying to...?

Typically the 'quid pro quo' / legacy admissions is uncommon outside of the Ivy League anymore, I believe (and some debate whether it could be found unconstitutional if challenged in court) and even there its capped at I think 10% of a class admissions. Outside of being a huge breach of professional efforts, I'm not sure if its enough to jeopardize accreditation, but could be. It certainly can jeopardize a things like the ability to keep their sports teams or the ability to continue to offer tests from the affected vendors if not bigger issues like ability to receive federal funding, being opened to lawsuits from students denied admissions, etc.

In the case of the athletics thing, coaches were paid to label certain kids as "prospects" allowing them to bypass the normal admissions process despite the fact they'd never played the sport. Neither did they join the team when admitted, nor did they have a scholarship to get in for the sport (so weren't getting a free ride). Article on the indictments from INSIDE HIGHER ED - https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/03/12/dozens-indicted-alleged-massive-case-admissions-fraud

The MMO came out in 2015; Japan only. Apparently Hideaki Itsuno was given the opportunity to make DD2 or DMC5 and opted to go with DMC5. So a lot of fans are hoping with DMC5 out that Itsuno will turn back the the DD franchise.

Who would poo-poo Pluto Nash?

Did no one learn the lesson from Mortal Kombat? You don't use Annihilation as a subtitle for a video game adaption!!!

I enjoyed SUICIDE SQUAD. No caveat to that. I also acknowledge that it's a narrative mess, and possibly over edited.

I think the invention isn't the tram (as pointed out, already invented) but that they're using the autodriving technology to create a system where the train can travel on a virtual track.

Quality product for who? Suicide Squad had focus groups too. Suicide Squad also got a B+ Cinemascore (Green Lantern a B). And while it has only 27% favorable reviews aggregated on RT from professional critics, 60% of the general audiences gave it a 3.5 or higher (Green Lantern? 26% and 45% respectively). Regarding reviews, I think the best way to treat reviewers is to find one you like to read/listen to. Eventually you'll get a feel for how you're interests coincide. I didn't agree with Roger Ebert on every film, but I had read his opinion enough to know where we differed. So while he may give a positive review to a film I wouldn't, I could read that positive review and from experience know I wouldn't like it (or vice versa with him hating a film).

But I still don't get it. There's a difference between saying "I don't like this" or "I don't like what I feel is the politics behind this, and therefore I will not support it" and "Because I don't like the politics behind this, this shouldn't exist because the only things that should exist are things that I approve of, therefore this movie should have not been made, it shouldn't have any fans and I'm going to troll the internet attacking anyone who disagrees with me until everyone is enlightened and realizes I am right". You don't like John Wayne because of what he said in the infamous Playboy interview - don't see his films. Don't like the politics behind his THE GREEN BERETS, don't see the film. Both of those things happened in the past. But Wayne survived the disaster of THE GREEN BERETS and continued making films until his death for the fans who liked his work and could either overlook his past-era outlook/paternal patronizing on society revealed in the interview (or, alternatively agreed with it). But I can only imagine the nutup the internet would be having over these things had it existed in 1968 and 1971*. *Technically, I don't have to imagine as the 1971 interview was recently revived online for a round of "OMG, Wayne was a troglodyte!" style 'revelations' amid people who mainly know of Wayne as someone who was a big star in the past.

I really don't get the "not only do I dislike this film/actor/director/producer, I want to see it/them actively fail and shall expend untold amounts of energy on the internet arguing to make it happen" mentality.

There's really only one direct tie, a mid credit sequence which will probably be in Endgame. My guess is that you don't need to see it for endgame. That said I liked it pretty well, personally.

If you're into necroposting: https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/42126-animal-pictures/ Alternatively, you could create your own thread.

You really dig The Boring Company don't you?

Regarding Subutai (and Genghis, but probably applicable to a others) this was posted to the website where the data was revealed https://towardsdatascience.com/napoleon-was-the-best-general-ever-and-the-math-proves-it-86efed303eeb: The visualization can be found on that page as well, but I think it is a bit difficult to work through. Ithink it's pretty clear it has a lot of data on specific wars/battles, but misses a good bit as well. I didn't see any of the Sikh leaders, like Guru Hargobind, from the Muhgal wars, nor do I see Sima Yi from the late Three Kingdoms period. But as I said the visualization makes it a bit of a challenge to see who is there, so I could have overlooked them.

Can you repost your information (or alternatively, mail to support@obsidian.net)? It doesn't appear to have attached.

NetHack is damn near bug free. It's complex. It's also one of the greatest computer games ever made. It also costs nothing. In general, you obviously have a good point, no question. But I do think that the phenomenon of "our consumers are going to help us enormously by finding bugs and reporting them to us" leads to sloppier programming than is necessary. NetHack? Didn't the April 2018 patch provide a little more than 130 logged bugs (with 5 still open a year later)? Although to be fair, NetHack was originally released in 1987, so maybe PoEII will be "near bug free" in 30+ years?