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  1. iannis

    Your 5 best TV shows of 2018?

    Bigmouth and the good place were the two that stand out. I liked altered carbon too. I suspect big mouth is actually sex ed for a lot of kids. It provides a good counter to all the free porn. It gets big marks for being socially relevant without being too preachy about it. Which considering...
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    Travelers

    It's fairly heavy on generic drama. The back half of s1 I didn't much like either. if you don't like the pretty retarded doctor girl, you might not care for the series honestly. Her and David are kind of the backbone. If there is a backbone. They do afraid job spreading the story around.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I'm not saying you beat the food out of her mouth....
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    MMA Thread

    Yeah, you're right. He did say CM Punk was pulling a publicity thing and wasn't a real competitor.
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    MMA Thread

    Joe Rogan will say any fighter is good. HIGH LEVEL. WORLD CLASS. I mean he's not wrong. Being in the UFC makes them world class by definition. I've just never heard Joe say anything that approaches "Yeah, that guy sucks". Every person he talks about is in the top 5 of all time. That gets...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    When you fail to deliver quality, you can always just pander. they'll do it. Gonna be lots and lots of space gay.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    These are all very practical considerations!
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    Death of a Game - Everquest franchise

    That's dense. It's comprehensible at least. Kind of expected just a mass of splerg.
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    Death of a Game - Everquest franchise

    Some kind of a way to reuse old zones seems like it would be practical design. And good for the playerbase. You wouldn't want 100%, but there's a percentage. I can't even imagine the sprawl that is EQ these days. They've been pushing 2 xpacs a year for 18 years? At least 5 zones per xpac...
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    Star Trek: Discovery

    Yeah. I think they're trying to reinvigorate Star Trek. And that comes with "everything looks different". I don't hate the idea. Things have to evolve. TNG is on netflix if you wanna watch it. Different can still be good. The problem is that, after the reviews I've seen, the consensus...
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    MMA Thread

    Sounds diiiiiiirty.
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    MMA Thread

    I think what he's getting at is relative scale. The salt is bad, because it's not talking about the scale of a cell. The stretching out dna is a weird tabgent, and also not great. the point is, the amount is not trivial. It's just very very small. He hasn't tripped any other test has he...
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    Marvel's The Punisher

    Well........ we'll see. I liked s1 a lot. And I really don't like the Netflix superhero stuff. Jj looks good on paper, but in practice I kept looking away from it. I don't dislike it on principle, I give them a shot. Just usually wander away by the second or third episode because ehh...
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I've never seen a pony service animal. Now I wanna! I know a woman that trains service animals. Those are great dogs.
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    Parent Thread

    That's not as bad as it might be. One really common behavior to look out for is headbanging. If he's smacking his head against the floor or wall while he's screaming... that's like cutting for boys. And she needs to take him to a professional because he probably is autistic if he displays...
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    Black Mirror

    TEDIOUS PAPERWORK IT IS!
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    Parent Thread

    It's not normal. It also doesn't mean he's retarded. Or autistic. Or whatever the current concern might be. It does increase those odds, unfortunately. In my extended family there have been some cases in the 3 generations that I know of where the boys didn't start to speak until they were...
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    Health Problems

    Yeah, that kind of pain is most likely muscle cramps. That's why I asked if it was stomach (which is a lot higher in the body than what most people call their stomach) or a gut pain. A pain in your actual stomach would be more of a concern. You're shedding along your GI tract. Sounds gross...
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    MMA Thread

    Haha, joe went HARD on promotion. After he'd finished saying "I don't know, lets talk to the science mans" about ten different ways him and Diaz spent a good 5 straight minutes talking about how awesome the event is. I'd say the man knows who pays his bills. But I seriously doubt it's about...
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    Travelers

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    The Sad, sad, state of MMORPG in this brave new era...

    I think they're basically doing that, minus the persistent part. But from what I understand about a game like fortnite there is a kind of persistence in that you slowly build up your macros.
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    Health Problems

    That qualifies as not going overboard! abdominal muscle tear and no hernia, and it's been a year? I'm kinda impressed. that's almost a superpower. I wish I had something productive to say about that.
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    Health Problems

    No those actually work.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    just getting to know a person makes them more attractive. honestly. and familiarity also helps. I mean there's powerful ugly that no matter how well you get to know them will remain powerful ugly. But attractiveness is so much more than the contour of bones and flesh.
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    Health Problems

    Yeah, water and salt. Give it a day before you really try to eat anything soft. Recovery shouldn't take more than 3 days and yesterday counts. If it persists beyond that... well, it shouldn't. Is it a stomach cramp or is it a gut cramp? Don't go overboard with the nanners is all I'd say...
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    Black Mirror

    That's really interesting. I dunno of Black Mirror can pull it off, but they probably have the best hope of it. It would be laughed at as a very stupid gimmick if most anyone else tried. It's still obviously a gimmick... but it fits really well with the overall theme of that show.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    reasonably attractive (a solid 5 or 6) and emotionally fragile? Like a woman just a bit past 30 who's still thinking that if she can just get that one big break... deploy the dennis system! It's an ugly spot. But step #1 is to change that internal perception. External follows internal for...
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    Death of a Game - Everquest franchise

    The big thing is that I read there wasn't that expected "resub" bump after their last expansion. Dunno if that's true, but if it is that would be the first time. It would indicate that the playerbase has moved and that peak that everyone has falsely predicted for the past 8 years has finally...
  29. iannis

    How to charge a customer for my product...

    sounds like there's an awful lot of momentum to be shifted. Also sounds like you're selling efficiency and having a hard time because most people don't actually care that much about efficiency. It's on the list, but not real high on the list. You'd have to find a couple of outfits that do...
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Footings for some kind of wooden structures built on the rocks? That one seems like it would be easy enough to disprove. It would leave marks inside the square holes. Marks would also weather. They made Kelethin in Sri Lanka. You would expect to find some metalwork if they were using it to...
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    Us (2019)

    visually impressive. Family could be white... doesn't have to be. It's the same movie either way. Some of the specific jokes and situations will be different. Seems all good to me. I don't know that there are any "black" movies in the genre at all, really. A few blacksploitation ones. By...
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    interedasting. they look sort of obviously like steps though. If the jungle was a jungle when they made them seems like they might just be hunting stands or communal gathering places or both. It's hard to believe they would have had enough crystal to face them, and easy as hell to believe...
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    Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

    He was a great man. Even the edgiest edgelords don't try to shit on Mr. Rogers. Guys like him do exist. I don't know if you'll ever see the circumstances again that allowed one to get as well known or popular as he managed to, though. A lot of it was generational and emergent technology...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    I think I probably will. I've used various gums and lozenges before. They do work. I actually got to like the gum on its own merit. It's the old joke about I quit three times last month so i'm getting really good at it! You know how it is, it's the mental addiction. I can quit for a...
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    Glass (2019)

    If he had to remake it you could probably convince him to change water back to disease. Update it to something specific if you want to obscure the reference. "Vitamin E fucks with their metabolic process". Vitamin E is basically everywhere in terrestial life. There -can- be trace airborne...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Yeah, I'm starting to get mild sinus infections more often. That leads to eyestrain and that leads to headaches. That's all directly traceable to smoking. And that's not even considering blood pressure, which smoking will elevate and which also causes headaches. I know i'm gonna have to quit...
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    Autonomous Systems

    Yeah, i'm lookin at it. I'm not as right as I think I am. Which is a bummer, cause it's fun to call californians stupid.
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    Autonomous Systems

    Well, if my assumption is wrong maybe it makes more sense. I'm willing to be proven wrong. I find it hard to believe that freight traffic isn't more influential on congestion than residential. But maybe it's not. This looks like raw counts though. A dumptruck and a prius are not created...
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    Death of a Game - Everquest franchise

    Yeah, and I agree that Daybreak probably doesn't have a chance to turn their corporate ship around. They might, 170 staff is still a lot of staff. But it would take years rather than months, and long term thinking tends to be on the months scale. One thing I would mention though is what the...