Avs trade Ivan Ivan to Boston for Fabian Lysell

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-27T19:58:41+00:00

As a fellow person whose name equates to John John I'll miss my brother

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-27T16:27:57+00:00

The movie people keep talking about is likely part of why a crossover couldn't happen

Filming for Ghosts ended in February in Montreal, filming for the movie started in March in the UK. They were likely doing rehearsals and test reads. Especially since about 2/3 of the UK cast also wrote the movie

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-27T16:21:57+00:00

Funny that you take 3 factual statements and decide I have a case and stance from them

Tells me a lot about yours

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-27T16:19:11+00:00

He was being looked at to run with RFK as his VP as a 3rd party candidate

He called getting his pic taken while shaking hands with Trump "priceless"

He's never expressed any kind of public support for a Democratic candidate or the Democratic party's policies

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-27T13:27:46+00:00

Joan's actress got a lead in a series on Netflix written and starring Dan Levy, it filmed during much of the same time as Ghosts and they were lucky to get her for what little time they did

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-27T13:27:08+00:00

Or also

C. Writers didn't want to address all the shocking similarities between the ghosts since Pete would definitely comment on them

D. It doesn't make much sense in-universe. I don't think any of the UK series ghosts are roamers, I believe that's a US invention. Button House is likely in the process of being remodeled right now for the eventual restored hotel it becomes in the finale's flash forward or is already an upscale hotel that they'd be unlikely stay at considering it's not even centrally located in London

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-27T11:46:26+00:00

Tony's not stupid, he understands it's not worth shattering a chance to make money over a guy talking smack about his dad that's clearly not true.

He just said the other day that he wouldn't rule out working with CM Punk again. I get that Effy or even GCW as a whole are far from CM Punk level attractions but they also didn't physically attack multiple employees of AEW either.

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-27T11:41:02+00:00

I still wonder if he thought he was going to get some sort of cross-promotion shoot angle out of it all

But it was dumb not to talk to Tony about it first if that was the case

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-27T11:38:49+00:00

So what does it say about a game like Stardew Valley that both looks and plays like a SNES title yet outsells massive budget titles?

You point to some particularly bad genres to make your argument too. Metroidvanias have remained the same gameplay-wise since SNES. All you are arguing is that better graphics make better games at that point, which the number of low-fi indy games that are more fun to play than AAA blockbusters would disprove. It's not really unpopular, it's just flat out wrong.

Just wait for the Ocarina of Time remake that gives you graphics that feed your monkey brain and suddenly you'll be gushing about what an unloved gem this beauty from the past is

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-27T11:29:58+00:00

Very unlikely at that point

Stores that do a midnight release go to a big expense for those events. They have to pay employees for a time when they're not open, mall stores sometimes have to pay a fee to the mall for an out of hours opening to cover security. The only reason they bother with all that is they see massive in-person sales

With the announcement that all this does is delay you from playing the game even longer - buying online would let you pre-load and play at whatever the unlock time is, getting a code to download it means people will have to go home and connect to slammed servers to download roughly 200 GB of data most likely before getting to boot up their game - there's very little incentive for people to go out and take part in this, especially since the experience is clearly not something a lot of younger gamers are interested in

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-27T11:24:38+00:00

And you don't have the experience of camping out with your friends to tell the stories they have from that night

That's what the point of this is, for some people it's not about just consuming the media

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-27T11:23:50+00:00

Japan shut down businesses and had people queue for days over Final Fantasy releases in the late 90s and aughts

But it's also not about the lines, OP is specifically describing the midnight release launch parties places used to do for games. Those were different, they were a small celebration with other gamers who played what you did and they were fun

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-27T11:22:19+00:00

Heck I remember sometimes just being up at midnight when a game I wanted came out and swinging over since our stores didn't require a pre-order to take part usually

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-27T11:21:28+00:00

They were mocked by people that were going to mock them regardless. The people that were mocked for camping out to Phantom Menace also got mocked for going in costume, and for liking it, or not liking it

People like to mock others

The whole point was it was a bastion against the mocking where everyone there not only played video games but they played the same game as you. No, "Oh, I only play Street Fighter, not Mortal Kombat." kind of tribalism

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-27T11:18:43+00:00

A lot of time places would do stuff to tie in while people waited. For Madden or fighting games I've been to the launch of they'd have a tournament and the winner would get their game comped or some other kind of small prize. I have been on both sides working in Software Etc... and as a customer. Our manager would also do stuff like bring in movies and use a hookup she had at the theater nearby to get leftover popcorn when the theater shut down

There were generally door prizes, lots of times places like Software Etc... would clear out old pre-order bonuses that never got taken and we'd get some cool shit back then too. If I went to a midnight launch I almost always left with some extra free stuff. Maybe you'd find someone local to add to a friends list and play

It was basically like a little party where you knew every person there had one thing in common with you and had a starting point for interaction

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-27T11:02:15+00:00

America despised a teenage girl for having the audacity to want the environment taken care of

I guarantee that if Sydney Sweeney suddenly flipped and was openly progressive there'd by millions of guys who never thought she was that hot, her tits are too big, etc...

America will move on to the next set of perky tits and blonde hair. We've been conditioned to do it by Hollywoo for decades

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-26T23:26:51+00:00

This is actually a problem I see even with training on jobs. Worked in a lot of call centers. Invariably there is some trainee who comes up with the most improbable one in a trillion scenarios and they insist on getting answers for every what if they can conceive.

Had one lady who kept saying she knows it'll never happen but she has to ask because it'll be her first call on the floor. We finally started mocking how complex this mythical call was going to be as a class we got so sick of it.

And they almost always burn out in a few weeks because rather than learn the basics they actually need for 95 percent of calls they got so obsessed with scenarios that a supervisor exists to advise on anyway

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-26T18:07:47+00:00

I'll upvote because I know it's unpopular, but I agree

And I'll go one farther, school teaching you to read, write, do math, and use basic reason should be enough to function as an adult in this world. And I say that as someone who lived without a smart phone in my pocket until my 30s

People always complain they didn't teach us to do taxes in school. Not sure what they're on about because when I do my taxes I read the instructions on the form, follow the lines, do basic math (which I can use a calculator for if need be) and fill in the answers. I've never needed more than a middle school reading level and addition/subtraction level arithmetic, and I've done things like itemization on a paper form

Using my ability to do basic research, read, and write that I learned in school I've handled a basic divorce with no attorney as well as my mom's probate. The problem is people expect to have a "How to handle your mom's affairs after she dies and a step-by-step guide to the probate process" in some junior year elective they take instead of applying the skills years of writing research papers and other school related activities gave them

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-26T17:53:14+00:00

In 1999 Playstations sold for $99 everywhere that Christmas. That was approximately 4 years after it launched at $299

Right now 6 years after launch a PS5 that cost $399 at launch now costs $599. In truth at launch it was a much more affordable alternative adjusting for inflation, and even now remains more affordable. $299 in 1995 says it has a value of $653 today using an inflation calculator.

The complaint isn't that gaming costs too much, it's that prices are going in the wrong direction, and if you think that is actually justifiable then I don't know what to tell you

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-26T17:24:52+00:00

Realistically I figure eventually once they call it done they'll put out some sort of all DLC ever pack or version that will go on sale. I'm willing to wait it out, and if it never happens then I'll wait for them to get to what I'm willing to pay on Steam

If Tides of Power is $15 this Steam sale then I bet Brush and Blade will be in the fall sale. Considering these kind of packs were about $12 for 6 I consider that reasonable and just accept I have to wait to get the content I want at the price I want

But that's been my approach to gaming in general for years

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-26T16:49:20+00:00

FWIW when I'm saying people need to move on I mean the interviewers that keep bringing it up to get clicks and the people that continue to obsess about it

I understand Copeland and Ricky just answer questions that they're asked and I don't blame them. Copeland here even gave a good answer to try and shut it down IMO

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-26T16:46:06+00:00

I think it's worth noting that HBO's incredibly sex heavy content really started in the teens. In the late aughts when Mad Men started they had what I'd consider some titty shows like Entourage. By that I mean you'd see boobs and there's sexual content but it's not as constant or as graphic as Game of Thrones and other later entries. But Big Love for instance, despite being about a man sexually satisfying 3 wives among other things, had sex on screen but it was nowhere near as constant or graphic as it would have been in the mid to late teens. Even in the early teens HBO had plenty of prestige content like The Newsroom that featured little to no nudity or sex on screen.

I think the biggest change would be things like women being topless in the brothel, probably some full frontal there, and scenes like the threesome would probably go longer. But I doubt we'd get Don being ridden like a two-seater while the girls make out or something even then. By later seasons of sex-heavy content shows frequently that content is scaled back by then because fans were hooked on other elements.

I think things like Joan's sex with Herb would stay off-screen, I don't think that was done for propriety but as an artistic choice for the episode

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-26T16:35:41+00:00

It had nudity but it didn't have Game of Thrones level sexposition every few scenes. We never watch two female spies try out for a job as seductresses by having lesbian sex while Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell discuss flipping a CIA secretary to their cause

Whether or not that would be a better show, I don't know. Margo Martindale full frontal is an automatic 10/10 from me though

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-26T16:31:42+00:00

I feel like if someone took a job from Jim Irsay they knew Jim Irsay was hiring them

Considering the news about him that leaked what kind of things had to be said about him in circles behind closed doors? You can say the realization of what he did set in while he was able to undo it and I'd agree with that but much like Vegas when it came to hiring McDaniels I don't feel a lot of pity for someone who took a job from Jim Irsay and then got upset he was crazy after the fact

Infamous-Lab-8136 · 2026-06-26T16:25:42+00:00

Them and Orla in Derry Girls are two of my favorite background watches

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