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  1. Jukeboxes are made, but are expensive ($11,000 or more) so I think you're looking for a record player with a stacking spindle. Unless I'm corrected, I think the last stackable model released in the US was Crossley's Stack-O-Matic range, discontinued in 2010. Dunno, international record players. I've heard some of the 2000s era players with a stacking spindle would have a drop in speed while the new record was dropped and started playing; I think vintage versions didn't have that problem ( at least I don't remember the early 60s record player my mom had having any performance issues when dropping a record and starting playing it but this may also depend on make/model). A stacking spindle would usually allow you to put in 5-7 discs, typically to start, and you could add records as they dropped and finished so could get through a few records before needing to change the whole stack. Obviously, could only play one side at a time. Apparently people felt like they could damage the record (despite the fact that records since the 50s were manufactured with a raised label area and edges that would prevent the record resting on the groove part of the record below) so they fell out of favor. So unless there's an international record player still using a stacking spindle, you'd have to be looking for an older model.
  2. After my whack&walk, I had plenty of money for minman locations, plus some compendium fusions. Seems like I've leveled up enough to change some of the monsters I find as well, as I'm finding Mitama on the map (yellow and red) and ran into a Genbu that I don't recall being there before.
  3. I think UK's recognition is a step towards requiring ethical slaughter for food animals before cooking or preparing for consumption. So it'd eliminate tossing a lobster in the pot while still aware.
  4. Bryan has been charged, and is on trial with the McMichaels. He tried to get a plea deal but it was rejected. Most people I know have little sympathy for the 'citizen's arrest' defense since they apparently never declared they were making a citizen's arrest when they tried to stop Aubrey nor did they actually witness a crime to which declaring a citizen's request would make sense. That the elder McMichael was an ex-police officer who'd worked for the district attorney, there's a general feeling that (a) he should have known better than to chase after him in a half-assed vigilante manner and the (b) the old boy system tried to protect him and his son by squashing the initial investigation. But not being on the jury and hearing the evidence an arguments, its hard to say what actually will happen.
  5. Had an early Thanksgiving dinner with my oldest brother and his wife. A great amount of food was had (roasted chicken, gravy, mashed potatoes, rolls, dressing, baked slices of potato, sweet potato, butternut squash, acorn squash, cauliflower, broccolli, carrots, corn-on-the-cob, and finally dressing). Dessert was pavlova, which I'd never had before and was quite good.
  6. I sometimes have demon compendium OCD. Didn't get to play much yesterday, due to social obligations, so still haven't finished my wander.
  7. Tell us what you really think about the Falcons, lol. Oh and they got whacked by the Patriots this week too. So much for that "are they actually better than we think?" moment a three weeks ago.
  8. Supēsu Kobura aka Space Cobra aka Space Adventure Cobra, episode 3: "Shukuteki! Kurisutaru Bōi" aka "Archenemy! Crystal Bowie" This episode starts what seems to be a mini-arc We get an interestingly weird villain and an adventurous direction for Cobra and Lady Armaroid to follow.
  9. William Bryan is alleged to have participated in the events leading up to the shooting (specifically, he joined chase/rundown that the McMichaels initiated although he didn't know why they were chasing Aubrey and allegedly hit Aubrey with his truck as a part of that chase); during the actual shooting he was recording the incident on his phone.
  10. I did a few compendium fusions right before I got to that area not anticipating i'd immediately need the money. We'll see what I have after I get done my leisurely whack a monster walk from the starting save point (checking all the places Amanozako points out and recruiting demons for fusion).
  11. I got wiped trying to see who was in the Diet. Didn't have enough money for the one Demon to mark Minmans. I think I'm going to spend some time grinding.
  12. TNG "Liasons" Trek does Misery. And what the hell happened to Starfleet's diplomats? It doesn't make sense how much diplomatic work the Enterprise crew does. Lower Decks "Terminal Provocations" amusing episode. I'm sure that we'll see Badgy again.
  13. Got Leanan Sidhe through merged and High Pixie. Finished some side quests and picked up a few more. Whacked an abscess, I think I have two more in this area.
  14. I think the only way the GOP collapses is if a third party takes hold and is able to stake out an approach that results in their membership pulling heavily from the party. Because as long as people keep pouring money into the GOP party, there's nothing that's going to stop it (it may be rendered inept by party infighting, but only lack of money to operate would really do anything, as I see it). I may be misremembering, but I seem to recall that historically every collapse of a major US party has coincided with the rise of a new party that ends up replacing the former party (or an upstart party that gains major traction quickly then loses it a few election cycles later).
  15. If they had some Green Crabs, it'd be really in the spirit of Christmas, on that island.
  16. Not that clever, I'm afraid. The full name is Hiroshi Jinkawa, a name pulled directly from the human characters in GODZILLA VS MEGALON. The character, played by Yutaka Hayashi, was the friend of Goro Ibuki, inventor of Jet Jaguar.
  17. Lucifer has buffed up. This guy didn't fare so well, though.
  18. My understanding that was a pitch concept trailer. Cartoon Network has also filed for a trademark on Learning with Pibby: Apocalypse with the subsequent speculation being that Cartoon Network has decided to develop the series.
  19. I hate timers as well. They always make me panicky and then I rush through things being afraid that I'll fail, but then when I finish I always wonder what I missed by rushing through.
  20. Paramount took the rights back as they plan to launch Paramount+ globally in 2022. https://deadline.com/2021/11/star-trek-discovery-netflix-deal-paramount-viacomcbs-1234875466/
  21. Its a bit misleading comparing Amtrak (which owns only about 1,000 KM of the tracks it uses) with Switzerland (which has over 3,000 km of track) and then the amount of tracks in the US total (over 250,000 km). Scale for national train travel is a big problem, hence why Amtrak is mostly reliant on renting time on shipping company's tracks. The makes the biggest problem with Amtrak not that people wouldn't use it, but its not even a comparable option excepting in the NE US where commuting may be a 'short' time investment. I once looked at visiting someone in the southwest US (about a 4 hour plane trip) and to get there on Amtrak would be a 3 day trip with an overnight stop in Washington DC and then another in Chicago. That said, its not unfair to say that US people got led down the garden path in 1939 with respect to cars. Our city recently spent a lot of money to install a short trip street car after 60 years earlier tearing up their original street car lines in favor of cars-cars-cars.
  22. I saw Leanan Sidhe, but haven't talked to her yet. Mostly ran around and recruited some demons and merge them.
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