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Having been the exact age that these kids are supposed to be in 1983 AND having lived in a smallish city in Illinois I can attest that the portrayal of the 'time period' and general culture for Hawkins Indiana is pretty darn accurate.

The Kes story-arc was primed to be a full life cycle of a person within the duration of a 7 year series... and they totally fucked it up, turned the character into Nurse Chapel and then booted her off da boat only to return as a guest star villain of the week.

I do wonder if the McDs are really gonna be ready for a nationwide roll-out of online ordering in the near term as they have said they are. Even the corporate owned McDs around here don't have the capability yet and I can't imagine the franchises being excited at the infrastructure / workflow...

Are people aware of / using the McDonalds app? I installed the thing on my phone ages ago and since its tied into the notifications I end up tapping on it idly now and then but I've only ever used it once. I've noticed a steady increase in the value of the offers that the thing serves up...

Well they didn't sell the TV rights to CBS... CBS owns Paramount. The history of the two is complicated by Viacom having owned Paramount yet was itself spun off from CBS back in the early 70s and then purchased CBS in the 90s etc. Regardless CBS has the rights and is not likely to let go of...

What kind of HR software has sexual orientation as a field?

I dont much care for these new Klingons. Why do they have to keep monkeying around with how they look anyway? This CBS All-Access thing is about the dumbest thing ever. It would be one thing if it was only available via that method, but if its available on Netflix from all other parts of...

They got nods for Title Sequence and Visual Effects. They submitted a ton for consideration and only got those two : ‘American Gods’: Starz to submit 16 performers on Emmy ballot including Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Gillian Anderson

I just now realized, while watching clips on the You Tubes, that American Gods got not one single Emmy nomination for acting. How the fuck is that possible?

Eh... the set bonuses are really the saving grace for the gear that is otherwise just +gooder. That was the genius aspect of Diablo 3, and to a much lesser degree Destiny, that through sometimes subtle interaction of special properties you could radically reinvent a whole playstyle. The...

Painting oak cabinets. I'm trying to consider if I dislike the generic light stain oak cabinets in the kitchen to bother with the process of taking all the doors off and deglossing / priming / painting them. Has anyone done this? I found a few blogs / videos of people who took on this task...

110 N.F.L Brains New York Times article on the research of Dr. Ann McKee. Obvious selection bias since the families involved offered the posthumous opportunity to examine their loved ones based on a suspicion they suffered from a degenerative brain disorder. Even still it is fairly...

So Nessus is Venus 2.0

Could be a racist too...

I would agree that renting should be a viable option... except that in many cases renting is just as bad as buying without any gain of equity and no control over your own home. Look at who is buying 'rental' properties -- increasingly these are foreign investors who then hire bargain-basement...

Well we know that Olenna Tyrell is going to have at least one more major scene / sequence of scenes in this series. One does not get Dame Diana Rigg, the original kickass woman action hero, to come in for a single day of shooting.

I'll forgive Euron having Romulan Cloaking tech since that sequence effectively dealt with both Dorne and the Iron Islands, the two families I genuinely had little interest in when they got added into the story in the books.

I saw it, theater was virtually empty on opening weekend... not a good sign. The movie was incredibly 'French'. Hell the first 10 or so minutes is just a long cold opening bit that went on waaaay longer than I expected. At one point I leaned over and asked "is this Avatar 2?" owing to the...

Flight Whistle is, indeed, one of the best things they did this expansion. Even with flying I find myself using the whistle, especially when I want to go AFK right after finishing a world quest or whatever.

Spoilering for large image comparing Season 6 and Season 7 opening credits that I saw on Huffpost [/spoiler]

If we can't get Portal 3 at least someone is giving GLaDOS some work

That is indeed Traci 13, and she is Asian...just hard to tell with the Young Justice art style. Good to see them using both Static and Traci 13 although I would have thought they'd keep Rocket from Milestone as well. They seem to be trying to minimize the "Titans" crossover with Young Justice...

Sooo using the same music as the launch trailer for Mass Effect : Andromeda...

I do miss the Stargate franchise, this does not seem to be the right direction to take however.

I saw this same basic thing back in 2004 with the mockmentary CSA Seems so few people care about this IP that someone posted it to YouTube --

I was reading over the Bioware posting welcoming back Casey Hudson and only then remembered that Shadow Realms was announced and then immediately aborted a couple years ago. So under the previous Bioware leadership they have really been floundering. I have to wonder what life is like right...

I can't even begin to imagine who thought this was a good idea... More likely than not they KNOW its a terrible idea, but it was the least terrible idea they could come up with to implement such a fundamental core element that somehow got overlooked in the broader development cycle.

It is very pretty (not even on 4k here) but it is most definitely an 'expansion' and not a new title. What changes exist are functionally similar to the sorts of changes we see with new WoW expansions -- some details of the 'spec' is altered but the overall game engine and mechanics are exactly...

So, ever the financially responsible good-guy, I've carried a renter's insurance policy ever since getting my first apartment in college. Turns out this has paid off a bit as my homeowners insurance is being written as transformation of that original policy. With the long history and such my...

Someone at work linked to this in Slack: I mean it sounds really cool and all, especially since it runs by using a turbine fan to leech off your condenser vented air... but using vaporization to significantly lower air temperature is only going to really work in a very arid environment. It...

I have to wonder to what degree they are wanting to Marvel-ize Star Wars post Ep 9. If you treat the mainline Star Wars Saga films like you do the team flicks like Avengers then you have room to do things like a Poe/BB8 buddy cop adventure movie or a Rey lone warrior film or even a Kylo Ren...

They have a large number of reports, many from Chipotles in other locales, although obviously people are getting the link from the stories about Chipotle so there is likely a selection bias. I too had no idea such a thing existed.

Chipotle shares plummet following report of norovirus at Virginia restaurant What the fuck is with Chiptole and workers either not staying home when sick or not washing their goddamn hands? You would have thought after the disaster a year ago they would hammer that message home, but nope...

The 13th Doctor needs a plucky dudebro assistant

I would say Stranger Things because it really moved the needle and captured the imagination of everyone out of left field.

Small update. I guess their OMG 3 week delay on the closing was an overreaction to their predicament as they ended up formally requesting a two day extension. I did a ton of research on appliances and there are horror stories with every brand. Consumer Reports includes some basic stats on...

Grrrrr. Sellers have requested we move the closing date back to Sept 7th as it took them a long time to find a new place and they can't get into that before Labor Day. They also asked if we wanted to buy the washer/dryer from them since they wouldn't be able to take those with them now...

It has a definite John Carpenter vibe, but with a nice sprig of Lovecraft thrown in. It was a pleasant relief from the borderline grindhouse or Ed & Lorraine Warren based fare that dominates lately.