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And she lived to tell about it! Hollywood chews up starlets. She seems to be doing fine these days, too. That was her first film, she was Miss Teenage Memphis in 1966 though. edit: back to topic. What do you think? If theaters are truly becoming obsolete as a profitable business, should the...

In many areas, not just MLB and not just sports. So many institutions are making poorly thought out, haphazard, probably eventually costly mistakes. Taking a scythe to your minor league system is like saying to Brittney Spears "You have to stop being nothing more than a female Michael Jackson...

I guess we will see if I crack under pressure. If things get going, and I post a "woot!" after a Brown's victory (or loss, it is all the same to us, we are damaged people), then I'll be the first to admit I was wrong.

I am basically living off of one fact: someday, the game will be back. Meanwhile, how about a short and sweet one?

This whole fucking ordeal is gnawing on my last nerve. No baseball season, even barely half of Spring Training. I have zero confidence in the NFL or NBA giving me what I want, because what I want is not going to happen: I wants stands of fans, biting their nails at a seconds-left field goal...

I remember reading an article about how many first stages from the Saturn V era were on the ocean floor off the coast of Florida. Jeff Bezos helped fund a team that found the Apollo 11 first stage. An historic graveyard. https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/19/tech/innovation/amazon-apollo-engines/index.html

Time to make the donuts. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/spacex-returns-to-the-pad-tonight-just-four-days-after-crew-launch/

That is heavy stuff, but you and your friends sound solid to me. Suicide sucks almost more than anything else. I'm also thinking of the lives people lived in and at these places. Couples filling up seats for a rom-com, raging laughter, the whole social aspect. First dates! My god how many first...

Anyone see the movie "The Last Picture Show"? Featuring a young Cybill Shepherd? The under-story of the film is about the birth of TV, and how it ruined the movie theater as the place everyone gathered and watched stuff together. It is set in some lazy western town, and the real action is the...

Hey, remember when Simon did that song on SNL after 9/11? That was fuckin so boss. The song is killer to start with. A great moment: https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/911-tribute-with-mayor-giuliani/n11612

I think this fits under retro gaming: I used to own pinball machines early 90's. The trick to not tilting, is to *always* kind of have the machine lifted just a *tiny* bit on the front legs, then always gently move the machine. A quarter (or was it 50 cents back then?) lasted me as long as I...

Here is where Russian nationalism made a mistake. The partnership of the old glory of NASA with the new audacity of a billionaire lunatic in SpaceX, it really does feel like a new paradigm. Russia, as far as their trusty and venerable Soyuz program, are now stuck holding the old paradigm. I...

I live near my parents now. They are old. I invited them over to watch since I have the nice TV. My 82 yo dad choked up. He was *this* close to actually letting a tear roll out. As Mr. Cube would say, it was a good day.

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wave one ready...

I am not confident the NFL or NBA can pull off a satisfying season. But I think a NHL season starting in Jan might be a sweet spot timing-wise. 2020 will be over.

If someone ever asks me, "What is so great about billionaire lunatics?" this vid is such an easy answer.

I petitioned several times. No reply. I thought there was supposed to be customer service.

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I was thinking about a little eq time, but can this shit actually be how bad it is? I have yet to even get in once. I just want to roll one char, something not an enchanter.

Hey man! I don't judge! Ain't my thing, but damn, if the Earth is so nasty she wants that panspermia falling all over her curves and valleys all... night... long... well, I say, you do your thing! Just because I am straight does not mean I'm narrow! Mother Earth basically getting it 24/7, what...

No, it's ongoing From air and space March 2020 issue: "each day, more than 700 million viruses, mainly of marine origin, are deposited from Earth’s atmosphere onto every square meter of our planet’s surface." The viruses are, daily, "deposited from the Earth's atmosphere." And how does the...

Don't judge me.

Fairly sure space is where all viruses come from.

Well said Blazin. Dammit no covid! Rockets! Just tell me about rockets and astronauts and space stations damn you!

This song makes anyone smile. So sweeeeeeet. (sorry for volume being so low, turn it up) The great les paul and mary ford:

Fuck it. Big screen has NASA on. All day. I am NOT GOING TO HEAR anything about coronavirus all day!!!!! Fingers crossed. I am more excited than I thought I would be.

Sometimes a pandemic needs an elf simulator. And I see they brought back the Burrower logo for the occasion:

And I'm procrastinating putting my window unit in. And pondering if I really want to try to roll a char tomorrow.

Or how about repurpose them as mass tombs for all the "wrong ethnicity" children YOUR PRESIDENT has killed due to his party's lust for global power, and the "I don't give a fuck, just give me money" attitude of his legion of ass-kissing sycophants. edit: you're in Beijing, right Pharmakos? I...

I'd be tempted to join a euro guild and really mess up my circadian rhythm. If Dyna-Star or whatever owns this elf sim racket now means "24/7" by this GM thing, that would be pretty sweet to be on that schedule. <wakes up> <snaps out of it>

just basic connectivity issues were part of the game for many players. Some people had to relog every hour. Plus euro and asian players were mixed in. link death was part of life. It would be intriguing to actually emulate all of *that*. Because those issues limited tons and tons of players (and...

Classic as fuck

Those last two points change the game it might as well be called ... EQ2. We've all done our time, I am guessing, in the classic grind and camp zone days (and night and days and nights...), call lists, etc. That is called everquest. The good stuff, the rares, the nameds, are **contested**...

Excellent way of putting it. No parent would say, "Hey! Be like Howard Hughes!" to their kid. But I would want my kid to definitely learn about him. Kinda like Mike Tyson. * no, I am not gonna say "Kinda like Michael Jackson."

Elon reminds me of Yellow Boy from Sin City. Smart guy, clearly, and driven, but something is just off about the guy, imo.

Me too, I guess. I am likely being overly negative. Now I've got to go watch's Spock's Brain 3 times in a row for penance.

hah! I didn't even think about the sidelines. That really would make football look even weirder -- no fans, cheerleaders??, and empty stands. And hoops. And wait, you can't social distance in a dugout.... Dear god help us. .

Billionaires sending rockets into space during a global economic collapse seems kind of gauche. The "wow" factor turns into the "um, really? Now?" factor.

I still cannot make myself feel confident about the 2020 season. And pro football is kind of set up to be the best case scenaria as far as pro sports go in some ways (only 16 games, lots of half empty stadiums anyway, decent amount of outdoor games) but in other ways, no (teams are petri dishes...