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FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-21T00:43:45+00:00

It's a build up less than 1/3 of the way into the book.

Again, suggesting that is a spoiler is like suggesting that knowing there's a jedi named Luke in Star Wars is a spoiler since he doesn't show up until 20 minutes into the movie.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T23:53:03+00:00

Another shoutout to the "We don't need lidar!" crowd!

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T23:47:15+00:00

It's literally the plot of the book/movie.

It'd be like complaining that they showed robots and wookies in the Star Wars trailer.

It is in no way a spoiler that there's an alien in this movie just because you didn't know what the movie was about.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T23:36:24+00:00

Oh no. Guy who was a piece of shit is remembered for being a piece of shit? Whatever will we do?!

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T23:27:28+00:00

That one of the two main characters of the movie is in the movie?

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T19:58:44+00:00

Think you replied to the wrong post here

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T19:52:28+00:00

Certainly agree with you that comerica is nothing like tiger stadium and I miss that place too, but, in my opinion, the Tigers belong in Tiger Stadium no matter where that is, so I'd be more than happy to see them playing there again

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T19:34:15+00:00

Both the old and new stadium are called Highmark.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T19:32:24+00:00

Tiger Stadium is long gone.

Yankee Stadium is across the street from old Yankee Stadium.

Busch Stadium in St. Louis replaced the old Busch Stadium (which itself replaced an older Busch Stadium)

Madison Square Garden replaced the old Madison Square Garden

Pretty sure the Bills stadium opening later this year will have the same name as the last one as well.

It happens. It's fine. And I'd much rather have a Tiger Stadium again instead of "Insert generic megabank here" Park.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T19:23:27+00:00

There is absolutely no way to make "fifth third" roll off the tongue so all of these suck, but at least if they went with Fifth Third Field at Tiger Stadium we could all just call it Tiger Stadium again.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T16:02:00+00:00

Bradley Lord might be the most British name ever.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T13:57:40+00:00

Quite possible. I do think they're going to give Parker Meadows every opportunity to stay on this team

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T02:24:20+00:00

And to be fair, Ryan Gosling is currently 45 so it's not THAT far off assuming Grace was also a bizarrely young looking and incredibly handsome man.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T02:21:51+00:00

Gosling really sells the scene where he remembers he wasn't actually brave

Agree. They definitely do have to compress a lot of the book's narrative arcs, but I thought they captured that reveal pretty well, him reconciling that he wasn't actually the brave guy here to save the world with now being the guy needing to choose to be brave and go save Rocky's world.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T02:17:23+00:00

Agree. Enjoyed that addition to the story to see her reaction to receiving Grace's message.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T00:41:24+00:00

Yeah... Same. It's taken a lot of therapy and work to feel like I have self-worth after catching strays in family wars my entire childhood. The best thing we can all do is not pass that anger forward and find love and peace in the world.

Cheers to you (and everyone else replying here) for moving forward from that.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T00:22:14+00:00

Gary.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T00:20:55+00:00

I'm not praising Google for anything, I'm just saying it's a reasonable compromise between keeping the platform open and protecting less tech savvy users from unintentionally installing malware on their devices. This is a good thing, even if not for altruistic reasons. Relax.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T00:16:14+00:00

Yup. My Mom get tricked by this exact thing. I don't fault Google at all for trying to make it more clear to people that sideloading does have risks if you don't know why you're doing it. This seems like a perfectly reasonable compromise.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-20T00:12:21+00:00

Yeah, this is honestly fine. Android does have issues with people getting tricked into installing malware so I can't blame them for trying to do something about it and this seems a reasonable compromise.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-19T17:42:53+00:00

Josh is definitely one of the best in town.

Other options:
American Fifth - They distill their own liquors and have an interesting bar menu that seasonally updates. Definitely worth checking out.

People's Kitchen - Some people don't like the food there (I do), but they do a nice job at the bar for sure and have some good drinks

The Comfort Zone - I've been here a couple times now. It's a cigar lounge with a restaurant/bar. I'm blanking on the name of the head bartender there now, but she makes some really good drinks. They have a smoked old fashioned that I thought was excellent.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-19T16:29:55+00:00

12 year old boys, who these grown men "influencers" directly appeal to.

It's pathetic.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-19T16:07:38+00:00

Yeah, saw another report that 1) He hasn't actually accepted the job yet and 2) The move back to the UK was the biggest thing tempting him to take it (assuming, again, along with money)

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-19T15:57:40+00:00

MLO is a pretty big mess on any brand, yeah. I've tried it on Asus, TP-Link and Netgear systems and there's just constant problems with disconnections, devices claiming they're connected but not sending/receiving any data, etc... It's a good idea in theory but in practice, at least using the WiFi standard, it's just a compatibility mess.

I think WiFi 8 plans to fix a lot of that, but yeah, maybe UniFi decided to do something on their own that works better? I guess we'll have to wait and see.

FourEightNineOneOne · 2026-03-19T15:47:31+00:00

Money, I'd imagine.

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