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SimonBolivar

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  2. I would say to catch a Girondins game if you're there during the season, but they got sent down to the 4th division for financial troubles. It might still be interesting to catch a game as Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux is nice.
  3. Not for another 20+ years.
  4. I've been watching Shenryyr play it a lot lately and I need to make the jump from EUIV and HOI4.
  5. Reports of Dani to Coventry for $4M. I'd be glad to see him get the opportunity, but I'm not sure his play is up to top of Championship level right now.
  6. It seems there's a general excitement for the next BF, but some of the experienced podcasts that I listen to (Gerstmann, Nextlander, etc...) are wondering how exactly it can draw people in 2025. The gaming world is a different place than it was in the era BF2 & 3. I'll 100% play it though if it's anything like a new version of those games.
  7. Need about 3 more matches with LA Galaxy. Honestly though the schedule sets up pretty nicely to where there is no excuse for missing the playoffs.
  8. Sweet, now we can really stick it to those American corn farmers while buying more (tariffed) sugar from Brazil!
  9. Rubio should starts.
  10. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. The prices don't really look that bad on a per game basis, so I figured it was worth a shot. The FO sent a standard email and haven't responded to me questions yet so maybe everything is close to full up already.
  11. Mexico City is a great choice for culture and we've done it with success on a 3-day. Monterrey is another easy choice from DFW for a quick flight and Mexican culture. For beaches, you could easily do Costa Mujeres with a good deal on a 3-day that would be relaxing.
  12. The Laptop from Hell was a mediocre Goosebumps 2000s book. R.L Stine was just phoning it in by that point.
  13. Those with season tickets on the board, do you find that the resale value is pretty decent these days? I'm thinking about picking up a half-season package, but there will be some weekdays where I won't be able to make it.
  14. I watched Jeff Gerstmann play it and it looks solid. Seems like a Steam sale pickup in a couple of years to me.
  15. Both vacations (Mexico & Canada) are done for the year so it's back to saving season. Wife's teacher bonus is a nice $13K this year coming in a few weeks which will push her to over $80K after her stipends. She is looking for a career change, but that's not bad money for only her 5th year teaching in Texas and not in DFW, Houston, or Austin. She's going to max out the IRA for the year and stick the rest in our HYSA to keep us at around a year's worth there. One little thing that I've enjoyed doing outside of our retirement accounts is buying about $50/day of O just for income and slowly adding bills that are paid off of the monthly dividend. It would be better in the long run to stick it in an index fund, but I enjoy seeing the more immediate results while the retirement accounts cook.
  16. The only thing better would be to leave the arcade after a couple of hours to hit up the waterslide. Remember when towns would have that one big waterslide where you'd pay by the half hour, get a mat, and ride over and over again? Damn that was a blast. Looks like there's still one out in the middle of nowhere Missouri.
  17. PTSD is already on there and the websites claiming to get you your card make it seem like, without saying it, that pretty much anyone could qualify.
  18. "Longest serving televangelist" is a perfect view into his brain.
  19. Why does Jimmy Swaggart look like Will Farrell playing Jimmy Swaggart on SNL?
  20. I've been to their campus. I get it.
  21. I mean, I'd believe it.
  22. All of them that I've attended both public and private, including Baylor (hah), when looking at the history of religion in the United States. It's pretty undeniable that Mormonism was considered an outsider religion that was unacceptable to American society. Americans were not tolerant of other religions, like Catholicism, but not to the extent that Mormanism was to where its adherents were pushed further and further away from "polite society". It's also taught as a way to understand the Americanization of the figure of Jesus (like in Prothero's American Jesus) to where Americans remade Jesus to be more in their image and their ideals with it being an original American invention. Obviously with the expansion of religious pluralism in the United States it has become much more acceptable to non-Mormons to where nobody cares if you're Mormon in 2025. The cultural history and current makeup of Mormonism and its traditions are still based upon that outsider image and the struggles they faced for centuries here.
  23. If you study cults at the college level in the United States, then Mormonism is usually one of the main topics for the semester. Cult has a negative connotation, but it really just means a group of people that live outside of the norms of society especially religiously.
  24. Liberty can fix him!
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