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    Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

    Buffy's musical episode, IIRC, was because there was a demon who was "music centric" and it's curse caused a lot of singing... Also. Lucifer had a musical episode with an actual plot device hook as well. It was when God was slowly losing his control over his powers so he kept accidentally...
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    Household Major Appliances

    I had one way "back in the day" when I had an apartment. It was tolerable, but far from optimal.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Don't forget the limited edition chaser....
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    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)

    Is he black? I had always though half asian of half hispanic. Or maybe if I squint my eyes enough Blasian....?
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    Best Covers

    AI has opened dark doors through which the end of days are coming..... with AI Covers.
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    Post Your Pet

    Every animal in our house seems to either fear the roomba, hate the noise it makes (so they run outside), or in the case of the cat maintain their paramount casual disdain for it like all other things.
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    The Continental: From the World of John Wick

    I'm cautiously optimistic. I will say that.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I was a while back, but am not really any longer. They need to hit a point of real world use and usefulness. I thought they were heading that way as the inexpensive L2 solution on top of ETH to facilitate real world use of it. But that hasn't come to pass, and I realized a while back it...
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    Home Improvement

    I do fear that. Slab foundation, although no inordinate creep up in the water bill. A lot of houses in my neighborhood have had to have the drains and sewer lines completely redone. Hoping that's not next up for this house, as we just dropped out "house stuff planned funding" for the year on...
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    Home Improvement

    There are only two of us living here. I take one shower a day. @Mrs. Haus is a bath person instead. approximately a 2600 sq ft house. (actually around 3k sq ft now with the patio being a finished room)
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    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    So I just hit the first pro-abortion commentary in it... Watching @Mrs. Haus on her playthrough as I've been too busy to start so far. She's talking to Lae'zel. Lae'zel mentions how the Gith evolved to be egg bearers and asexual for reproduction. Then quickly mentions how she can't imagine...
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    Home Improvement

    That's what I'm investigating right now. No bad bathroom vents (only one of 2.5 bathrooms has a venting fan, it's an old house), dryer vent is clear and good. No moisture or leaks under any of the sinks. AC unit is pumping it's condensation out it's drain as it should be... I know it's not...
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    Home Improvement

    So in tangent to a conversation I saw around humidity and dehumidifiers in the house. I have a conundrum, so of course I come to my favorite strangers on the interwebs... I have a dual thermometer/hygrometer the base of which is in our kitchen, the remote "outside" sensor is on the...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    I saw the form of the apocolypse this last weekend involving self-checkout. The Wally world near my house has , as most have, gone to almost all self checkout with MAYBE 2 old school registers left. I dropped in because I needed two things. I grab them in a minute or two and start to head...
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    Post Your Pet

    You can get a roomba which returns to base AND empties it's bin into the base, then goes back to work. We have one here. It works pretty well. This wasn't the exact model, but one like this..
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    Investing General Discussion

    AMD just released a great earnings report, and they are obviously developing new chips. I would suspect you're right about the "dumping stock for the new hotness they plan on dropping"
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    Household Major Appliances

    It has separate igniters, I've already swapped the one on the over side (bottom). It gets hot enough to ignite, and does ignite, but then goes out. Which makes me think something in gas regulation is faulting and shutting off then opening back up. Digging that far into replacing parts in a...
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    Office and gaming chairs

    I have given up on finding a new chair as comfortable as the one I have had for almost a dozen years now. It was a Sealy "big and tall" office chair I bought at Sam's. Actual memory foam and spring coils in the cushion hoisting my luxurious ass. It got to the point that when the fine...
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    Household Major Appliances

    I have a Midea in my detached garage (400 sq ft) and it does in fact rule. Coming up on a quandary of my own. Our range (A Samsung which is around 10 years old, and I'm learning to agree with a lot of people who don't have high opinions of Samsung appliances) is having an issue with the oven...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Be me... Have a storm destroy a chunk of your house in February. File insurance claim. They pay out the first 1/3 of it, and say they won't pay the rest until the repairs are done. (fine...) Put your own money with the pay out and rebuild the room better than it was before (it's over in the...
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    Home Improvement

    Yeah, the chain link fence (which I need to repair some of) divides the back yard from the driveway which goes to the detached garage as to contain and control the pack of wild hounds in the back yard.
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    Home Improvement

    It's tall enough, and the framer put in the two fan mounts (look at the middle of the celling with the can lights on either side). It will be one of those touches I haven't done yet. But it's not super tall, so it will need to be a low profile fan. And yeah @lurkingdirk , effectively added...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Home Improvement

    So just about done with my rebuilt greenhouse to finished proper patio room project...... Before (Patio destroyed by storms in Feb...): After: Still some finishing touches like a TV, wrap/paint the old fridge and freezer, but it's got me feeling honestly happy about the amount I've had to...
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    Barbie (2023)

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    Dark Winds

    You have summoned the incorrect member of the council. But I will stand by @Hoss , you're all essentially interchangeable with the variance being in the particular angles of bad your teeth are.
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    Barbie (2023)

    I think at this point you have to give due credit to Greta Gertzwig or whatever her name is. Instead of trying to make a movie so devoid of "the message" as to try to appeal to all audiences, she has realized that the audiences are polarized to the point now that being neutral will not really...
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    Investing General Discussion

    That's far from the worst chart I've seen this week. ;) Imagine dropping back to around your June 1st price....
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    Investing General Discussion

    So my worry of the day.... My company moved our earnings announcement forward, but is also extending it to 2 hours of analyst call time. This right after a competitor announced earnings and tanked so badly they had to downward revise guidance for the entire next year, so the market is...
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    Investing General Discussion

    I had 401ks at three different places at the beginning of this year due to changes in employers I've done over the last decade. Finally got them all put into my current employer's 401k plan. For me each time I just had the current employer's 401k support people I called (Fidelity) walk me...
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    Pets

    Mom died in birthing. These were the only two pups that survived. We were going to just take one, the family who was lined up for Sugar (the one in the pic) backed out and my wife had the "but they only have each other!" bit.. so we ended up with both. They're almost 6 years old now and have...
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    Pets

    So I was putting the floor in our newly finished patio room.. Being helped by the worlds least helpful assistant... She one of a pair of boxer/pit mixes we own. She looks exactly like her sire (boxer) and her sister looks exactly like the bitch (pit).
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Investing General Discussion

    I'm at a point soon of realizing a certain degree of a windfall, but not like yours. I'm planning on mine getting me land away from town to build my "retiring here and dying" home/bunker/compound on. Then Chez Haus here becomes a rental to feed income into that.
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    Snow White (2024)

    Test screening feedback... "Can you cut down Snow White's screen time as it's killing the chub I'm getting from the evil queen."
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    Sound of Freedom (2023)

    Well.. if it's got the legs people seem to think it has this movie should move to number 11 for the year this weekend (assuming a 40% WoW drop), could crack into the top 10 for the year this weekend if it slightly outperforms, but should definitely crack into the top 10 before theaters stop...
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    Investing General Discussion

    As for doing something good with it. If you don't already own a home, I'd consider that depending on what the cash will get you around where you live. The price/value growth of my home has turned it into the most consistent investment I have honestly. heh And you will need somewhere to live...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Ah the old "hookers and blow" retirement plan.... On another topic... How much should someone read into when a company chooses to announce earnings? Is before the bell better than after the bell? Is Monday better than Friday? Would Monday before the bell be most optimistic and Friday after...
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    DC Universe (Batman vs Superman thread).

    Only interested honestly in Booster if there's a legit Ted Kord Beetle to pair with him.... And with Fillion being cast as Guy Gardner (which I am 110% behind) that means my dream casting for Kord would have to change, but it's workable. She's not even in the league, hell not even in the same...