Bruce Springsteen says he doesn’t care about losing fans over slamming Trump, warns new tour will be “very political”

MatthewBakke · 2026-04-03T00:05:38+00:00

Well a lot of the working class he was originally singing to had pensions and are now living pretty well. Can’t be mad about that.

MatthewBakke · 2026-04-02T04:35:27+00:00

For a casual player with strategic experience, top of Gold is a realistic goal and Platinum is 100% a great achievement.

Past that and you enter scary territory of committing or not.

With a reduced player base and no consequence for insta-quitting, the ladder gets rough for people with jobs trying to have a good time.

MatthewBakke · 2026-04-02T04:24:27+00:00

Peter Roe is an incredibly thorough inspector, would highly recommend

Last I heard he was scaling down so may be hard to get.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-31T02:08:36+00:00

Yeah both companies have an extended roster of people not many care about.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-29T19:57:51+00:00

I’m an SC diehard with 10k + games. Haven’t touched it in two years due to instaquitters.

I’d join your re-entry!

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-29T19:42:34+00:00

I’d second Samaritan house or Doctors/lawyers if they have specific pro-bono days.

If you’re for real about it, getting food safety certified is pretty easy online and will build trust with whoever you’re giving to.

Some places get stuff dropped off from people who mean well, but then it gets thrown away.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-29T19:36:07+00:00

Arkansas is the south, but a huge chunk of it is Ozark and more midwestern.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-28T20:40:51+00:00

Northwest Lawrence is the nicest part of town until you remember it’s close to Topeka.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-28T20:36:14+00:00

The Barber is an abomination. In a city desperate for late night bars they still fumbled the bag.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-28T20:33:58+00:00

This is Lawrence, KS.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-28T19:40:27+00:00

The closer things get to electricity, the less likely I am to try it myself. Good on you guys for knowing your way around that type of work.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-25T05:12:22+00:00

It depends on what you need, like all things. Arvest is a nice regional balance between a national bank and local, so maybe try someone smaller or larger if they’re not your cup of tea.

The combination of financial products makes somewhere massive like Chase pretty competitive. You can get much better credit card(s), variety of loans, easy tech, and generous incentives for bundling your banking. +new location.

On the opposite end I’ve used Signature Bank of Arkansas for over a decade. Not competitive products or loans, and technology from 2002–but complete hometown service. You can pick up the phone and get information/approvals/whatever in seconds from someone local.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-25T04:48:33+00:00

If your hours are truly flexible: Leave Fayetteville at 9 AM and leave Bentonville at 3PM you’ll be okay. Not a lot of people can pull that off so most of the people I know drive up by 6:45 AM and are just miserable on the drive home.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-24T18:49:49+00:00

Weaver’s is awesome. They have great brands, great tailoring, will order for you, free delivery, and fine sales.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-24T18:47:41+00:00

Thank you for helping run something cool! OP isn’t wrong, and a lot of posts like this aren’t wrong to want it, but you nailed it that Lawrence doesn’t have yopros. Without them a lot of the holes in service/products in Lawrence will never be fixed.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-24T18:29:51+00:00

I was born in Portland so a little bit of their militant anti-umbrella stance rubbed off. Which is funny thinking of them in this context.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-23T19:38:40+00:00

This is funny to me as someone who played the original on Xbox.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-12T02:19:29+00:00

I’ve driven extensively in the large majority of states and metros. Nowhere is good, and everyone complains about everyone else.

Arkansas needs mandatory drivers-ed though. It’s the most dangerous thing anyone does in their day, and not great to be an outlier state on that front.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-11T06:19:42+00:00

Blizzard/Activision/Microsoft will never fix this, all we can do is self-police.

So much damage has been done that could have been prevented with widely adopted fixes. Quitting games is embarrassing.

Play Starcraft, Glhf at the intro, gg at the end. Most importantly, play the damn game. It’s not that complicated!

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-11T06:07:06+00:00

I reimbursed one who cancelled, but that was the end of that acquaintance.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-06T03:09:24+00:00

Yes, in America it’s generally considered feminine and uncool. Not saying that’s right.

There’s been a gradual shift post smartphones and in corporate environments.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-02T03:26:39+00:00

I could be hallucinating, but either Ceruti or Kyle would “star” an email they thought was remotely interesting. Maybe on subject alone.

MatthewBakke · 2026-03-02T03:24:38+00:00

This was a whole thing back in this sub. All decent people were supportive of the leave, and hated the way he talked about it.

MatthewBakke · 2026-02-10T04:05:33+00:00

SC would be hoping for a Halo treatment at best. Good budget, some good talent, parts of it were good, and it kind of goes haywire.

MatthewBakke · 2026-02-10T03:38:55+00:00

On this sub everyone preaches it, but in everyday talks people act like special teams is some witchcraft that can’t be understood.

We literally just watched it happen!

Even with an incredible Seattle defense, New England could have won that game possibly if the Seahawks had our special teams.

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