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I went with the not quite top of the line (I don't need a secondary washing machine in the top of the washing machine...) Samsung washer and dryer. I have horrific allergies and so having the steam settings for both washer and dryer is very nice. I've also found that the 'refresh' setting on...

Saw it at an advanced screening hosted by Broke Horror Fan and really liked it. When first written IT played on the 80s 'gang of geeks' trope that was heavily used in the 80s (Goonies, Stand By Me, Monster Squad, etc.) and so is very much a product of that era. The rampaging success of...

I did find myself accidentally leveling just by virtue of being caught in extended firefights and public events in EDZ. Playing a Warlock the new Rift abilities are very nice for this sort of content as it benefits everyone in the region and gets people coordinating through minimally conscious...

The core gameplay was already solid as hell so glad they didn't mess with it. Running around an open area killing tons of critters is so very satisfying. The classes do feel like they have more 'power' to them now as I find myself using abilities more often instead of hoarding them like...

I figure it must be due to the expected (and seen) server loads, but it does kinda suck that one of the core social aspects of the new release won't exist during the period when people are first exploring the content.

Puerto Rico is gonna get wrecked. As if they didn't have enough problems with a failing and financially insolvent government.

It did not seem to import my character look from D1, I did the intro bits up until you get full access to the Director and now I think I want to change the way the dude looks... seems to be no easy way to do this.

Fair enough Tony Gilroy really was the director of Rogue One. I still find it interesting that both TFA and Rogue One are so extremely polarizing. I have good friends who love one and hate, I mean completely loathe, the other.

Gonna guess they either convince Rian Johnson to stay for another go-round, or get Garreth Edwards to take a swing at Episode IX after the success of Rogue One

I dont think they can get away with not showing what happens to Ezra/Kanan. The purge has to be complete in order for the main movies to make sense.

Having seen the reveal of the toys for tomorrow I am most dissapointed with the "Resistance Bomber" seen in the trailer. The B-Wing was always my favorite Rebel fighter and I had hoped for its return in this movie...instead we get something bigger and significantly clunkier looking in the...

I just moved out of Somerville (was living with a good buddy of mine the last few years). I really wanted to stay in the 'ville but there was just no freaking way I could justify paying that much for a place. I also have to think that Somerville has to be reaching a property value plateau...

This might be exactly why they dropped that scene in the edit. That effectively never happened now and the viewer can easily believe that Sansa / Arya were in on it from the start. Hell they may have seen the response to the earlier episodes and made that edit to turn the fan theory into reality.

I've spent more time thinking about this than I care to admit. Through it all a few similar conclusions as above have occurred to me, mostly involving that we are just a spec on the outskirts of nowhere but also that we as a culture just now rang the doorbell and so it is somewhat unreasonable...

So in my house we spent the entire episode mostly yelling at the screen. I had claimed a couple weeks ago that we had entered 'fan fic' territory where we go a step beyond fan service into total ineptitude, but I clearly hadn't seen this week's episode yet. I understand that they have a...

Saw a Twitch bit on the combat system. Seems very Horizon Zero Dawn / Monster Hunter with fewer weapon choices and no magic / psionics stuff. I'm underwhelmed.

I would like to know more about the overall combat system / weapons / classes (if applicable) but their website seems bereft of info

I think anything other than purely mechanical deadbolt / latch counts as a smart lock. Definitely want something that has a mechanical component as the last thing you want is getting locked out of the house after the EMPs start bursting overhead (or like an ice storm)

Just thought about locks (closing soon) and remembered the discussion from a dozen or two pages back. Does anyone have an experience with / opinions on Smart Locks? Was considering that as an option to simplify things when having house guests / etc.

Law-wrangler is required in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I grew up in the midwest and while I was aware of the distinctive difference between there and the gothamite land of NYC I did not fully appreciate the fundamental different nature of government in New England. This is, afterall...

Fair point. This is in Massachusetts which, as a non-state, already has many quirks all its own like registered versus unregistered land etc.

Closing -- Lawyer's office or Registry of Deeds? I'm leaning towards the Registry of Deeds simply because there's been a couple of typographical oopses on the title paperwork already in the process and I'm having shit delivered the day after closing.** ** this was originally 4 days after...

The fin fixing reminds me of my aunt who went to the trouble of smashing all the fins on the condenser so that they made a smooth flat surface. She was worried that the sharp edges were a safety hazard you see. I tried to convince her otherwise, but who is going to believe a 9 year old talking...

If, by this, you mean the devices that place a fine mist of water around your compressor then please do not do this. The best case scenario is using this in a very arid environment where you can gain a benefit of evaporative cooling that bleeds excess heat off the condenser. In most cases...

The warhammer was pretty badass and he's bound to be crazy strong after all those years at the forge.

Ahh I had indeed forgotten... no one else seems to be mentioning it though whereas in the books it keeps coming up.

It always struck me that there's no mention of the Red Comet in the show. Its the appearance of the comet that heralds the return of serious magic to the world and seems to portend the coming apocalypse.

It does bum me out that the last few Children died protecting a kid whose powers are, basically, being the most creeptastic peeping Tom ever. "Yeah I can toss fireballs at will and performed ritual magic that created this problem in the first place... but its more important that you be able to...

I've said for awhile that Tywin was actually pissed off that Tyrion was a Targ bastard and so killed his wife rather than admit the shame of being cuckolded like that. He's probably the illegitimate son of King Aemon, which brings balance to the whole original discussion between him and Jon...

To the extent that the Night King and his ilk truly are the 'Ice' in the Song of Ice and Fire we really have very little information or reference points for him/them. We have his origin as a WMD created by the Children to deal with the human problem and a few segments each season showing them...

I know they have very few episodes left in which to cover a ton of stuff... but last night felt like fan fic in places. Not only are people teleporting around the continent now, but the various plot threads are coagulating as we slam whole plot lines together. I will say seeing the Tarlys get...

He has to ditch the armor to get out of the water and in the process, with heavy-handed baptism allegory, becomes reborn after being reunited with Tyrion. He's now armed with 'proof' that Tyrion was indeed railroaded and is only truly guilty of killing Tywin who, really, deserved it. Given...

Well if you are going to create / identify a massive stockpile of the weapons designed to be used in a future apocalypse it makes sense to leave behind an instruction manual

From a storytelling standpoint Dany had to swing back to winning at this point. Having the Dothraki AND Drogon involved to eliminate the Lannister force was a pretty serious blow. Significant in that this was an army on the march and thus a purely military target. If I'm a smaller house on...

Buddy of mine who has cracked the shell of 'social media influencer' got a press kit with preview episodes to review. The series definitely has been updated to express more 2017 sensibilities but these are modest changes and done very well. Having Donald around is really quite jarring at first...

The JJ Abrams reboot likely started out as an attempt to do just that.... but then quickly ran down the time travel + future Spock + Enterprise legacy rabbit hole. Part of it was to justify the new futuristic aesthetic, but that really didn't need to be justified.

The more I see of this the less I want to see if it... TNG was inspired in that it made a big leap forward in time and this allowed the stories to reflect the very different society that existed in the late 80s as compared to the 60s. A argument could be made that it need only be a 20 year...

The level of magic and acceptance of such in the series is highly variable. They seem to be very aware that things like Warlocks and Alchemists exist and obviously various people, not westerosi, are aware that the faceless men can make use of magical shapeshifting, but ever since the Children...

This is what I'm starting with (the Fridge and Stove will be replaced). The walls are much more yellow than they appear in this photo, in fact the whole house is that same color of yellow which I am not globally a fan of. Thoughts? I feel I should do something with the space over the one row...

Yeah. A buddy of mine said to me 'oh, why not rent for awhile and save up...?' Rent prices in Boston are insanely high for even a 1 bedroom place anywhere near a T stop. The only way you are getting under $1600 a month is if you move out to the burbs and take the commuter rail in... well if...