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The Door Frame posted:This popped up in the anti food porn thread, and it's kind of mesmerizing. It's basically Primitive Technology, but with food Here, this is better. Watch his 18th century cooking videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=user?jastownsendandson
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Guy who was selling the Maverick is hemming and hawing about if he wants to keep it, so I'm stockpiling more fun money in the meantime.
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InitialDave posted:All I ask is for someone to invent an adhesive that works better on any actually useful substrate than it does on skin. Titebond is pretty great as a wood glue and washes right off hands.
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Apr 4, 2018 14:56
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Darchangel posted:Sorry about the triple post, but my company took Monday off (instead of Good Friday) so I went to the nearly-deserted theater and saw Ready Player One and Pacific Rim 2. The Delorean with the KITT scanner and Ghostbusters decals is based on the author's actual car. He is an enormous wank pheasant, and only Spielburg's insistence that the script be massively rewritten made the movie watchable.
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Apr 8, 2018 14:32
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:im of the mindset where if they say that once i begin looking for a new job because if they arent able to afford the costs involved in retaining their employees with incentives and rewards then they shouldnt be in business at all I'm really worried about this at work this year. A lot of my guys don't feel well done by, and I'm expecting a lot of 'not in the budget' come end of year promotions period, which if they're self-respecting at all should mean I've got a few 'this guy is going to bail and take 5+ years of experience in position with him'.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:The best review of RP1 described it along the lines of: if you're young enough to enjoy the plot, you won't get half the references. If you're old enough for the references, you have better things to do.  The book is in every way worse than the movie. Mike Nelson of MST3k did a podcast on RP1 that is worth a listen. It gets deservingly torn apart.
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Apr 8, 2018 15:04
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Enourmo posted:My Brother, My Brother and Me is fantastic. It's a comedy "advice show" podcast that's basically audio shitposting by the McElroy brothers. Don't worry about listening through the archives, just listen to the latest episodes. I'm a big fan of WTNV for just how surreal it is.
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Apr 9, 2018 21:23
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Ether Frenzy posted:It was mostly a joke, but CA's annual GDP is +$1 billion on TX's. You can also grow food beyond cattle and tumbleweeds in CA, and in the ideas race, Silicon Valley vs Deregulated Placement of Fertilizer Storage Facilities is a no-brainer. You can go food beyond cattle and tumbleweeds so long as you can keep drinking most of the Rocky Mountain watershed. LA gonna suck that farmland dry, and Las Vegas has a concrete collar around your throat at the Hoover Dam. The Door Frame posted:And we haven't spent +40 years bombing them, so the locals won't despise us You ever -been- to Texas? Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Apr 10, 2018 |
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Apr 10, 2018 05:27
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OZYMANDICKASS posted:Seattle could take em The only thing Seattle can take is probiotic coffee enemas and tax rebates.
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Apr 10, 2018 16:08
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The Door Frame posted:I wish that everything around the Warhammer 40k tabletop game didn't suck. It's so much fun to play and the universe has so much to work with, but it's like Games Workshop doesn't want people to play it Have you tried it lately? They fired their CEO, and in the last year it's gotten a hell of a lot more approachable. 8th Ed rules are a lot less terrible and punishing of trying to play, and they're reviving the small games like Necromunda and Kill Team so you don't have to invest six hours and the price of a used car to play.
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Apr 11, 2018 03:35
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The Door Frame posted:Whut?? I haven't played since ~2014, I was just watching an old LP of Dawn of War 2. I found myself wishing that I could play a game or two without C'mon over to TG. It's night and day better, got me back in after like 15 years away and I've had fun. Still expensive, but at least the models are fun to play with, and they're doing new stuff. Even promised plastic Sisters of Battle next year or so.  The actual rules part of the rules is about 10 pages long now, and most of the individual unit rules are available through something like battlescribe that builds lists and will print the rules with them. Biggest changes since 7e are no more templates, and no more formations. They're about halfway through re-releasing all the codexes for 8e now, doing about 1 a month. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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You Am I posted:Wait, what? They are? Does this mean my Goliaths gang can be pulled out of the shed? Get 'em out. Goliaths and Eschers were the starting gangs, Orlocks were just released, as well as the rules for Genestealer Cults and Chaos Cultists. The rest are coming out over the next year or so. All new plastics for all the gangs, at a ~$40 price point for a gang. The base box is one each of Eschers and Goliaths with rules, tiles, and tokens. Here's the studio paint on the new Goliaths:  Necromundachat is going strong in the Specialist Games thread. I'm wishing for a revamped Gorkamorka myself, because it's an excuse to build absurd orky model cars. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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Apr 11, 2018 10:51
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BigPaddy posted:The best GW game is not even under their control anymore so Blood Bowl is very much still GW. it was the first of the boxed games to get a refresh, actually, and they're still rolling out teams for it.
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Apr 11, 2018 12:03
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BigPaddy posted:Weird so that whole thing with the rights being signed over to some outside group was cancelled? Dunno, I've never even heard of that. Far as I knew it was pretty much defunct and running on houserules from 2005 or so until 2016 when the new version released.
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Rhyno posted:I believe that fell apart because the company that wanted to rights couldn't muster the money or something. Probably Tom Kirby, the CEO who was running the company into the ground to pad his bonuses being forced out of control made them decide to keep it in-house and produce more games and less "jewel-like objects of wonder". Kevin Roundree, the former COO, took over in 2015, and under the direction of 'hey, let's maybe make some games so people want to buy models to play them with' GW's profits have soared. They also fired most of their social media team and replaced them with the guys who had been running Black Library, and as a result we get great stuff like The Regimental Standard, which is ads and previews written as in-game world Imperial Guard notifications. Very tongue in cheek in a good way. On the 'making games' side, 40k now gets yearly printed rules updates and bi-yearly rules FAQs rather than terrible rules being the ones in play until the next edition codex overcompensates, so GW can address game balance issues vastly faster. The story is advancing, Primarchs are showing back up, and the fact that the Imperium are not the good guys is being made more obvious to ward off the fascist fanboys. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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ilkhan posted:It's doable if half of new car buyers buy hybrids and half of the rest go electric. So in Bizarro America where either of those things fit the use profile and available infrastructure for the two thirds of the country that isn't dense urban hellholles.
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ilkhan posted:My brain isn't parsing that. What? Much of the western 2/3 of the country, and a lot of the non-coastal Northeast and South, are really, really loving empty. Most of this area doesn't have the power infrastructure to support any major uptake in electric vehicles. Even in dense places like California, local grids haven't kept up with population booms, so they're already seeing brown-outs from air conditioning.  Until hybrid and electric ranges in the lower price bands get vastly better, they're not going to even get a second look in much of the country. Combine that with the consumer need to be able to do a week's shopping in a trip while hauling the family because it's not worth a half hour drive back and forth every time you need a roll of TP, and you see demand for more cargo space and hauling capacity than most of those vehicles offer at present as well. Where I think the car companies are really missing right now as far as possible efficiency gains is not bringing stronger 4-cylinder offerings in the light truck and small SUV markets at a less than premium price point.
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dee eight posted:Please yes I want it. My first car was an 84 Datsun truck, I feel you there. I really want a small truck again, since I don't need the cab space and haul kayaks and building materials pretty often, but I can't justify buying new at $half a house.
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The Door Frame posted:I feel like I've done a whole rant about the weird American Mah Truck Nah. The open top on the truck is a feature that fits my particular use profile. Good luck getting a couple 12' kayaks into a compact van.
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mentality before, but what you guys are describing are now just work vans. They're $20-28k brand new, small, easy to drive, have 1.5-2.5L 4 cylinder engines, and they're built to be only as big and powerful as they need to be. I see very few new work trucks anymore, but tons of new work vans
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spog posted:They almost certainly didn't understand it and enjoyed it at the most superficial level. This. It is a visceral movie.
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Does NZ have winters? I would miss winters.
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Geoj posted:Job chat: current employer pulled the "you can't quit because you're fired" routine when I went in to work today - a stunning display of professionalism that is no less than I would expect out of them. Joke's on them, apply for unemployment to get paid for the time between.
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Apr 19, 2018 12:47
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Just straight shoot me if I ever buy a modern Nissan econobox. They're really not that bad, in a reliable but incredibly loving boring and gutless way. Pretty decent legroom and cargo.
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Apr 20, 2018 08:15
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OZYMANDICKASS posted:Generally speaking, in my mouth At this point you should have had them embed a neodymium magnet while they did your mouth remodel.
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Apr 23, 2018 08:37
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Rhyno posted:Yup. I got one and as neat as it is I should have just bought the N6 refurb. I don't bother replacing phones for ~5 years for this reason. By the time it's a substantial upgrade, it's worth it.
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Apr 24, 2018 06:24
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Seminal Flu posted:Wait until gas spikes in price and they are left with nothing but low-fuel-economy vehicles. What could go wrong. Yeah, Fiat's killing the Dodge Dart and the Chrysler 200 as well. I always wonder if it ever enters the minds of these companies that first party sales are down because people can't afford what they're pushing.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Not sure it's the car makers fault entirely on that one - Wages are stagnant, cost of living is exploding, house prices are going insane everywhere, the cost of medical is breaking so many people, schooling is dumping people with enormous debt..... I think I may have come off wrong. I'm more bemoaning that what they're cutting is most of their affordable models. The truck and SUV lines all start in the $20k range, it seems. I know part of that cost is meeting current safety standards, but then I see the entertainment systems they are putting in and wonder who the target market is. Or I try to find a barebones manual transmission vehicle. 
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Apr 26, 2018 12:32
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spog posted:I've always thought that the big American cop cars must be really cool to own. They are super fun. I've got one as well, need to paint it this summer, it's still black and white and people keep trying to pull over.
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Apr 27, 2018 06:54
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InitialDave posted:Dredd. Dredd is probably the single best comic book movie I've seen. It's a great film in its own right, and it gets the character bang on. I will forever defend Tank Girl. It is lovely in so many ways, over the top and almost nothing like the comics, but it is such an -entertaining- mess.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I too am a devout worshipper at the church of Tank Girl. It's just a gloriously stupid mess and knows how stupid it is. Ain't gonna be no crumpets and tea.
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Malcom McDowell and Iggy Pop, too. Hell, Doug 'every monster you've ever seen' Jones was one of the Ripper extras.
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