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    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    Grown ass men dance to "Party in the USA" when it plays at ball games.
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    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    You could also compare her to Miley and Demi Lovato. The Disney molester trauma ruined those two but I'm sure there were similar pressures on Taylor that she managed to apparently survive. Miley's one of those who's Daddy's name for sure got her in the door but she had the chops to sustain...
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    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    I think some of that is her country background. If you listen to basically any female country artist from any era they are writing about bad breakups. Even the successfully married ones still write/sing about it. I don't think it's worth trying to apply any past precedent for concert movies to...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Somewhere along the way a teacher or somebody once explained it as; blue collar showers after work, white collar showers before work.
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    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    As the father of two daughters I've had Taylor playing in the background of my life since 2006. Her early country stuff is as good of country pop as there's been. I still remember first seeing her sing "Tim McGraw" to Tim McGraw on some awards show when she was still unknown. I would put "Our...
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    Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

    There's probably plenty of room still beyond 4 seasons but it was already suffering from the same problem the books did. Every book/season ends with Jack getting some kind of promotion where eventually it's unrealistic for him to be in the field anymore. It's one of the reasons Chavez even...
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    Oppenheimer (2023)

    I've got a pretty good FSO on my program. A rare one with a sense of humor. He sends out monthly bulletins about various security issues and this month's headline was "Don't be an Oppenheimer: why sleeping with hot communists is a bad thing"
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    Oppenheimer (2023)

    Yes. Anti-nuclear war. Oppenheimer's opposition to the hydrogen bomb (the "super" they call it) and the inevitable arms race it would cause is a major theme.
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    Oppenheimer (2023)

    Just got back from this. It was good but not mind blowing. Pretty straight forward film for Nolan. A very little bit of non-linear storytelling but only because the security review and senate hearings 10 years later serve as narrative. Acting was excellent with lots of recognizable faces in...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I understand the meme just fine. I just think it's stupid because 50f is shorts weather anywhere. In any case:
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    Games You Regret Spending Time On?

    There's a lot of games I probably spent too much time on relative to the enjoyment derived but my only regrets are MMORPGs that go under. When you consider one of the main goals in RPGs is progression over time, having a game shut down makes all the grinding feel completely wasted. Even if I...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    The Americas have been populated plenty long enough to have ruins comparable to Europe but the natives here were less dense so it's more spread out and not as advanced from less competing tribe pressures.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Fuck your high class coffee
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    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) (2022)

    I'm not complaining, but that had to be one of the longest cold opens ever too. I completely forgot that we hadn't had the opening credits by the time they popped up.
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    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) (2022)

    I know there's almost no use trying to apply logic to continuity to multi-dimensional time travel stuff but I'm curious. In any case, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was not distracted by any BLM posters or anything. You had black villains portrayed as typical black thugs. When the guidance...
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    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Yea, it was free a few months back when they accidentally made the Director's Cut free for a day. Lots of QoL improvements in the DC if you are interested and it's only $5 after you claim the free base version.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Zegler, who got the part, is South American brown. She's also in the upcoming Hunger Games prequel so within a couple months she'll single handedly account for the muddying of Snow White and President Snow.
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    Rabbit Hole

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    Rabbit Hole

    The show runner is definitely red pilled but this is one of those shows that both sides will claim represents them. Lefties are gonna claim Crowley represents Elon or Putin with Trump being the Manchurian candidate while the right will view this as a Biden documentary where the only thing...
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    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    I get making Feyd look more "Harkonnen" for the movie but he's supposed to be peak male genetics. He was supposed to father the Kwisatz Haderach with an Atreides daughter. Pale and hairless I can believe from a life on Giedi Prime but he better not have any mutations or other disfigurements. I...
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    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    It doesn't help either that most of the quick start guides take you to Caelid and Dragonbarrow very early since there's no keys needed and, as mentioned, there's good loot/xp and some easy cheese bosses. That's fine if you're on a second playthrough but if you're following one of those guides...
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    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I got the game quite a bit later than most so there were plenty of guides out there that I tried to avoid while still looking for tips on which builds were not obviously gimped or OP. It's pretty hard to tell from an ashes name or +0 stats what's going to be good at +10 or +25. One thing I did...
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    No Man's Sky

    I realize saying "millions" is usually adequate when describing something massive, but No Man's Sky is orders of magnitude bigger than that even. 256 galaxies, although almost everyone is in galaxy 1 "Euclid." Within each galaxy there are 4.2 billion regions (unique glyph addresses on the...
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    Top Gun: Maverick (2020)

    Because the F-22 was designed for Air-to-Air. It barely snuck in before the pentagon made all procurements one size fits all. It dominates F-35s in dogfights and only loses when they design fights to maximize F-35s situational awareness and stealth.
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    Top Gun: Maverick (2020)

    If you want the "in movie" reason for the 18s, it's because they claimed 35s are too reliant on GPS and satcom and stuff like that which was jammed and/or spoofed over the target area.
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Are you dying at 123 or getting overwhelmed? If the former, once you hit 122 you can usually go hide in the corner and you'll get to 125 waves without dying. And yes, save the pylons for high 90s-100s. Especially speed if you have a hard time dodging green meteors.
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Added bonus that the Gloves of Worship also works on the Father potion power. I run follower with double gem hat, nemesis bracers, gloves of worship, Flavor of time (works with normal GR pylons but not the father potion), and two pieces of Cain's with RoRG. I'm never short of death breaths so...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Do you mean a second staff, because it's worth it to make at least the one for the altar. The staff isn't consumed opening the whimsy gate though so if you haven't already you can make the staff for the altar but before you turn it in you can farm for what you want. The rainbow sword should drop...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    I obviously know how to convert gem color. It's pretty much mandatory when the extra gems from broken crown are diamonds. The problem lies in that I've been doing almost all my nightmares in groups so while I've probably looted 12-15 nightmares myself I have close to 50 whispers. But like I...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Would be nice if every GR above 80 or so gave some additional percent to Ancient and/or primal drops. IIRC all loot except blood shards maxes out at GR90.
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    My bottleneck is the opposite. Got plenty of Whispers of Attonement from group nightmares but my colored gem production is barely keeping up even with broken crown follower. In reality though it's not a big deal since my Tal Rasha push set and my GoD speed farm set are fully augmented so it's...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    I'm guessing it's all the quality of life upgrades on the altar but so far this season has done the best to keep me playing after finishing the journey. Normally I'd be done within 5 minutes of hitting Guardian. This season I'm on my 4th class now fucking around with different builds. The only...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Not really any benefit going past 125 except that xp continues to grow exponentially so there's no harm in continuing unless you're HC. A bandit shrine also spawns somewhere after wave 125 for a bit extra loot but if you're going for that you probably need to save conduit or you won't kill it in...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    That's why I order tortas
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    In reality your xp should be much higher than +41% this season anyway because much more of your kills will have x4 massacre multiplier on top of the xp pool bonus. You should also, at least while solo, have the Enlightment Shrine effect if you're potting on cooldown with gloves of worship for...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    I got my first (and only so far) non-automatic ancient right around p800. Long after I finished everything else on the altar and the journey. Sucks to be finished with everything and need 4 ancients still. Granted, with the unlimited xp fountains and massacre bonuses P800 isn't what it used to...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Depends on the class but for most everyone the shrine effect on potion is easily on par with a primal weapon. I could see putting off the other two potion upgrades maybe for a primal weap but it depends on your motivation I guess. For me it's finish the altar and get the cosmetics so having a...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Everyone has their own roadblock each season. Mine this time is primals. Would be nice to try out the primal upgrade but at p800ish my one and only primal was the free gr75 one. Finished both the season journey and the normal altar nodes a long time ago so farming just for primals is killing my...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    One piece of advice if, like me, you never bothered to make a Staff of Herding before. Before you turn in the staff to the altar farm the rainbow level until you get the rainbow portrait and rainbow sword. The staff isn't consumed making the rainbow portal and you can make them as many times as...
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    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    How does auto salvage screw rare upgrading? I guess I always just crafted the rares I upgraded rather then rely on getting drops of whatever item I was looking for. The auto salvage should, in the long run, be much more crafting materials than what you'd save only upgrading drops.