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Captainant

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  1. Man your dad is missing out if he doesn't like Halal Guys. A gyro sandwich with jalapenos added is 10/10
  2. Moving this to a different thread - crazy timing but Jeff Gerstmann just happened to already have a podcast lined up with VGBees. He talks pretty in depth about what's going on, from his perspective.
  3. I wonder if she's going to end up being a sleeper agent, along the lines of Ysanne Isard's antics in the old Rogue Squadron book series. Thematically it would line up, right down to a loved one being forced to put them down
  4. Not sure if serious - Ryan Hall (yall) would be a semi-competent hire, so I doubt you
  5. Journalism was co-opted by the infinite growth movement. It doesn't lend itself well to a financialized model, there's better profit margins in just advertising without actually doing any original journalism. When Sinclair bought up all the terrestrial TV news channels a decade ago or so it was the harbinger of what was to come: consolidation and profit extraction in journalism in general. Just as happens in every other industry. Gotta pay back those investors that bought your company and then transfered that debt into the company they bought!
  6. Jeff Gertsmann is still a threat. And Jeff Grubb too. It sucks that for all his effort the corporate overseers still killed GB. Jan Ochoa is an absolute badass too, I hope he lands on his feet. Giant bomb really had something special with their live studio production quality and the level the write and discussed at. There's still Nextlander and reMap with a bunch of the OGs that left over the years, if you yearn for GenX and millennial editorial on games
  7. [Wulaw]You can never trust those goddamn liars at the jobs report desk! They're all market manipulators trying to hurt my quota!!! They're just gonna revise down in a couple weeks!!!!!![/horn]
  8. When the Astros won the 2017 World Series we knew about 60 seconds before we saw it, because the Little Woodrows down the block was going fucking ballistic
  9. negative, ghost rider. The replies had the original photo
  10. In the ongoing clown fiesta that is Luigi's trial, a prosecutor has recused himself after one of his paralegals listened in to a call between Mangione and his attorneys. https://www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangione-prosecutor-recused-2066624 They got their hand caught in the cookie jar
  11. If yall have not yet been watching the "Andor Declassified" behind the scenes videos they've been making, you're missing out. They also leave some nice little hints for what's to come, Gilroy calls Tarkin's incident a "mini-massacre" which certainly indicates a much larger event that is soon to come. They said that Palmo is somewhat designed after Italy, but that set is incredible. It's all real food and each of the shops and cafes and hotels are actual real sets all built into one giant toybox. It will burn brightly.
  12. Pretty cool docu-flick about the making of the John Wick movies - loads of behind the scenes and stunt footage
  13. Yikes - tariffs continue to send their regards, nearly a 20% price bump across the board. https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-raises-the-price-of-all-xbox-series-consoles-xbox-games-confirmed-to-hit-80-this-holiday
  14. Phone companies literally make a profit every time you get a scam call. They sell their phone number spoofing service as a business feature so that outbound calls from an office can all show the same number. But they don't give a single flying fuck about guardrails or governance on using that feature unless a court tells them to do so. So many of our social problems are induced by private interests making public things shittier for their private gain
  15. There's quite a lot of being able to dish it but not take it from the trumpers. I've been looking at "FUCK YOUR FEELINGS" flags goddamn EVERYWHERE for the better part of a decade now, they're really sowing the wind in terms of community
  16. I could see a "Casian goes to Geonosis" thread overlapping with Ghorman boiling over into outright civil unrest, eventually leading to the opening scene of Rogue 1 in the alleyway. I'd really get a kick out of a Phoenix squadron name drop considering how on-the-radar they are with ISB, and they even rescue Mon at one point around 1BBY
  17. I fully endorse Boeing doing a rush job on trumps personal transportation. Cut every corner to keep costs low, can't have any overruns! I'm sure a single AoA sensor is fiiiiiine, cut out all the redundancy that Boeing normally does for cost savings
  18. And what, pray tell, was the main trigger for the technical recession in 2022? Because I'm pretty sure it's not COVID affecting us now, and it'll be a while before measles comes back online. Not sure what 2022 has to do with arbitrary tariff policy that is the sole decision of a single man
  19. Also not to beat a dead horse but HOLY HELL Gilroy is just borrowing from history what with the "I'm sure the Emperor doesn't know what's being done in his name" https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/wenn_das_der_Führer_wüsste#German
  20. I don't think that Gorman is supposed to be space France, that's Ryloth. At least in The Clone Wars and Rebels. Hera even code-switches to a French accent. The Gormans give off Dutch vibes to me
  21. May get a season two thanks to russia's ongoing invasion TL:DR - russia's drone and missile strikes have seriously damaged and perforated the recently finished (in 2016) New Safe Confinement that encapuslated the old decaying sarcophagus and holds in literal TONS of radioactive dust.
  22. Don't you love it when there's easy to source receipts? Must be the narrative shift that @Incredulity is talking about I guess
  23. lulz its funny in the markets thread Incredulity is seriously arguing that tariffs aren't what's put us into this position
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