arch_8ngel

Making voting easier and more convenient means Republican candidates are guaranteed losses, so they roadblock it at every opportunity.

Did that movie ever actually come out? I remember the previews being interesting and then it just disappeared.

Anyone see the current Kickstarter for Wolfenstein? I am tempted, because the miniatures look great (mecha-Hitler) AND it tickles the fantasy of every dungeon-crawl-lover...there is a tier that includes reconfigurable plastic 3D dungeon components that replace all printed card components in the game. I'm almost willing to pay the price of admission just to see a professional version of that concept in person to help me decide how much hobby effort I'm willing to commit to doing something similar on other games like Heroquest.

I think it's less about what it will take to pay Buffet, and more that there are MULTIPLE potentially activist investors already bought in heavily to OXY, presumably reducing the likelihood of them collapsing outright. (at least to the perception of regular people)

I mean, who wants "cute" when you have a sorceress that looks like she belongs on the cover of Heavy Metal?

They are already massively crushed by prices being as low as they are. (from the perspective of OXY, oil prices "collapsed" weeks ago) Buffet has a substantial stake in them as well. But comparatively -- OXY did worse today than traditional producers like XOM.

Not unless you have a place to store a full contract's worth, physically. (basically "negative" price says that they're willing to pay you to take delivery and store it, legally, because that is cheaper in the very short term than them completely shutting down production)

Sounds like someone never saw the cover for Dark Queen of Krynn...

Computer RPG. i.e. RPGs that weren't originally designed for kids... (in terms of level of complexity)

The nice thing about crpgs is that there has been a steady flow if good content pretty much since the beginning. And major Indies like Spiderweb have more or less maintained their classic styles through the years.

Wouldn't "golden age" of crpgs be contemporary to the SSI gold box games? (Also the time of Might and Magic, Wizardry, Ultima)

It's not THAT big of a time suck to grind the beans each morning. But between the prep and the cleanup, it is enough of a distraction that it was easier to just be less of a coffee snob and drop all the way down to instant coffee

I used to do the french press thing, and ground the beans each morning. But once my daughter started kindergarten, the start time was just so...damn...early... that we switched to whatever instant coffee they carry at Lidl. I should probably see if I still have an unused bag of whole beans, because I should really work through it while I'm not in a rush to get out of the house anymore...

Well, the sequels spoiled the Matrix first. But yes, fuck, those guys all the same.

You'll have to explain how The Thing, or BIg Trouble could be perceived as "disappointing"

Man, that would be a hell of a UBI proposal. I don't think I've ever seen serious discussions around more than $1000 per person (not household) and I think $500 per minor child. But I definitely think that "this is the big one" for UBI proposals starting to sound more plausible to the public as they potentially "solve" a lot of layers of benefits-complexity (consolidates SSI/SSDI/UBI/WIC/EIC and probably a handful of other programs), while positioning lower paid people to actually be able to "stay home" when they are sick in the future and not sweat a missed paycheck in the same way they do now. The thing with the current stimulus that I'm surprised is getting relatively little coverage are the 18-24 year olds who may technically be their parents' tax dependent but don't get the current stimulus round (and their parents don't get the $500 bump that they would for minor dependents). Seems like a totally needless carve-out, when they so poorly implemented the original payout that dead people with tax returns from 2018 were paid a stimulus check...

Other -- continued volatility with a roughly-neutrally-stable oscillation.

One of my favorite movie theater memories was my dad taking me and my best friend to see Escape from LA when we were 13. My dad was ridiculously pumped for it, because he loved Escape from New York (which we then rented and watched that same weekend).

Yeah, I guess a bunch of his "relatively" later stuff I don't even think of as John Carpenter, and would almost certainly end up being my least liked. The Thing stands out as being one of those imaginatively graphic horror movies of the 80's that actually had TV-play so that kids saw it and had stuff like the chest-opening-arm-biting scene burned into their minds forever. Most of the "harder" horror movie classics of that era didn't have TV-edits that I know of. But Big Trouble is just awesome on so many levels, from the sound track to the visual style to the various tropes it exploited and enhanced that later became staples of 90's video games like Mortal Kombat.

Favorite would be a coin toss between The Thing and Big Trouble in Little China. I will have to look over his full filmography to think up a least favorite, as it isn't something I keep in mind for his movies.

John Carpenter movies are all awesome, though I don't think this one is his best, so I only gave it a 7

I may have bailed early on pharmaceuticals, but I had big enough gains on them last week that I didn't want to hold them long-term once news starts coming out of which trials DON'T work as expected (or other pipeline/manufacturing issues). The sentiment on all of this stuff is so irrational, that I'm trying not to own something right now that I don't want to keep long-term, and I know that most of those companies will make a lot less from this event than most people seem to think (and on top of that are losing existing revenue streams due to the virus, to boot)

Agreed. @Californication-- when Makar said he was "up 50%" he wasn't referring to being up 50% on a specific single position that was some specific great gamble. That is presumably an accumulation of a bunch of much smaller up-days (i.e. 5 - 10% here and there, cumulative).

There is a difference between "oil coming back" and "oil EXPLORATION cominb back" in the short/medium term. There is a big glut of all kinds of existing sources that is going to have the potential to really punish exploration. (same kind of thing for "dirty" sources like oil sands) So producers/refiners -- those are bets I'm willing to make right now (XOM / RDS.B), but exploration is a much bigger gamble at the moment.

I knew they didn't let people pump their own gas (i.e. a jobs program masquerading as a safety issue) -- but didn't know they restricted left-hand turns -- is that for real? EDIT: though in VA, you're making two stops to get beer (grocery store or convenience store) and liquor (state-run ABC store) What honestly irks me is traveling to states where they can't sell beer and wine at the grocery store and I have to find the local liquor store to buy beer. WAY easier to just pick it up with some groceries.