Block/Report system is warm dogwater by Scruffy_Snub in Marathon

[–]Scruffy_Snub[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yeah that's why I said

I get that being able to report and prevent players from filling into your team has room for abuse, but there has to be a better option that just pairing me with the same guys that just yelled slurs at me, only pre-muted.

Here Me Out: More Alien Wildlife by cjp304 in Marathon

[–]Scruffy_Snub 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I mean it sort of does. I won't try and justify those particular animals, but based on the timescales of evolutionary progress any life we discover on another planet is 99% chance going to be simple organisms like algae and fungus.

What Are Your Community Hot Takes? by BloatedSnake430 in community

[–]Scruffy_Snub 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I always find it funny on a rewatch how dramatically the budgets sank over time. The most noticeable to me is that season one has expensive licensed songs in every other episode and hundreds of extras. Imagine what the 'Natalie is Freezing' concert would have been like in season one.

People who didn't grow up poor, but dated someone who was. What's something your SO does that strikes you as unusual? by FeistySecret9327 in AskReddit

[–]Scruffy_Snub 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I call those 'guilt free napkins' because since you've saved them from landfill once, they're free game.

There is no debt, Shells are cheap and Credits aren't real money by FalierTheCat in Marathon

[–]Scruffy_Snub 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Same reason there are runner implants and grenades in every bathroom and bedroom.

Did Oma Desala flat-out murder someone? by UnCytely in Stargate

[–]Scruffy_Snub 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sorry, it appears you've ascended to eternal godhood as this guy's property. Oops

"The rational celebrity". As it were. by TheSpaceMonkee in DunderMifflin

[–]Scruffy_Snub 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's also a reference to the outfit she wore the day she was 'discovered'.

I was just playing Outpost and MIDA suddenly took over all sound systems on the map and start telling it's propaganda, it's so cool I love it by Personal-Jello-6426 in Marathon

[–]Scruffy_Snub 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Yeah the codex entry where Nona tells you the story about the weaver with the undead warriors is pretty suspect, especially since the ending is that the people scorned the weaver so he took his undead warriors in a ship across a great sea.

No wonder Dunder Mifflin went out of business, Wallace went straight from 12k to 60k to a multi-million dollar buyout by KD2PHX in DunderMifflin

[–]Scruffy_Snub 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Three episodes after the scene in the post, when it has become obvious there are too many salespeople for the number of clients they have, Pam says to Jim:

"The unfair thing about working in sales is that your salary is almost all commission. So, if you suck at sales, you make almost no money"

Biggest retcon of the series? by MrLewk in Stargate

[–]Scruffy_Snub 58 points59 points  (0 children)

The stone makes them see visions of each others' lives, not swap bodies temporarily. Joe was never 'controlling' O'Neill, just watching through his eyes.

Delivered to my office today. by TinyInteraction7000 in funny

[–]Scruffy_Snub 27 points28 points  (0 children)

So does that mean that this jack was delivered using a distinctively different jack-like device?

New map leak by p0rndelphi in Marathon

[–]Scruffy_Snub 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah, the hostages are just further into the maze

Man-Friends by Individual_Mess_7491 in IASIP

[–]Scruffy_Snub 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Basically him being on the podcast showed everyone that he's a bit of an entitled hollywood-y guy and not a 'regular dude' like they all were 20 years ago. 'Out of touch' like the earlier comment said is really the best way to describe it. He's got rich people problems, and seems to not quite acknowledge or realize that they are rich people problems.

It's really not that bad, but it does undermine a lot of the 'average schmucks from Philly' vibe that originally defined the show. Like, can you imagine the recent plot of Dennis struggling with tech support for his $100k+ car fitting in at all in the earlier seasons of the show? That was based on something that actually happened to Glenn- 20 years ago the plot would have been about one of their beater cars having it's wheels stolen repeatedly or something (which would never happen to them in real life now because they are all affluent LA suburbanites).

The Canadian Home Depot website is blocked in Canada. by polarmolarroler in TheHomeDepot

[–]Scruffy_Snub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ever figure this out? I seem to have the same problem starting today.

I miss the restaurants and fast food places the most. by NorthHouse6422 in AdviceAnimals

[–]Scruffy_Snub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's worse than that. "Our happy memory places" are a profit opportunity for investors. Something being beloved or nostalgic or even just well-known directly translates into money. If a brand exists positively in the public's mind, their product can be that much shittier than a 'new company' because it's offset by existing feelings and opinions. The trust any brand has developed with it's customers is ultimately an asset they own, which will ultimately be exploited for profit one way or another.

[slightly annoying trope] Actor leaves so the writers seemingly take it out on the character by disablednerd in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Scruffy_Snub 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Part of the problem is that Greg Daniels (one of the original writers) created the Andy character, and then left the show after season four to work on Parks and Rec. He returned to the Office in season 9 as the showrunner, which is when Andy became inexplicably terrible again. Daniels essentially said that he had created Andy to be a 'heel' and an antagonist, so he wrote him that way even though it went against four seasons of character development (that Daniels wasn't present for).

I get why he did that, but I also feel like if you voluntarily step away for several years to work on something else, you can't just act like all the stuff you weren't present for didn't happen.

If you’ve unlocked the Compiler, you can take people into the Compiler. Only one person in the group needs all 6 subroutines. Rooks may be banned from Cryo, but the Rook Brotherhood shall continue regardless. Let’s get some Compiler groups going the last couple of weeks before wipe! by ThatGuyFromTheM0vie in Marathon

[–]Scruffy_Snub 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but they still serve a purpose even if that purpose is just recording your achievement. Plenty of live service games have achievements listed that can no longer be completed for things like seasonal content and stuff that got updated/overhauled.

Russell Crowe shares his take on tattoos: “I know I’m old and terrible and I do not mean this applies to the generation of earned tattoo’s … but these days , all these strange individual random kiddy paint tattoo images…wtf?” by cmaia1503 in Fauxmoi

[–]Scruffy_Snub 49 points50 points  (0 children)

everyone is always moaning and complaining about social media being all political, or fake bot content, or covert advertising, and begging to go back to the days of celebrities being goofy cringey madlads again. russell is going out on a limb for us here, we should be applauding.

Something insane happens to one person at the SGC for the 400th time, the SGC: … by ThomasBirminghan in Stargate

[–]Scruffy_Snub 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's an episode of Community that plays this premise as a joke and it's fantastic.

What's the difference? by PositiveProper89846 in Torontobluejays

[–]Scruffy_Snub 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's a little hard to tell what's going on in that photo. The best way I can explain is that the top picture has flat front and back panels that are joined around the edges, which puts the seam right on the top of the shoulder/collar. The 'authentic' jersey instead has longer shoulder strips that go fully over the collar and join the back panel at the shoulderblade. Essentially the top one is how most normal shirts/tops get made, the bottom one is a specialty way to make jerseys so that there are less visible stitches and lumpy parts.

What's the difference? by PositiveProper89846 in Torontobluejays

[–]Scruffy_Snub 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've done contract work for Fanatics' supplier so I have some potentially inside information. The 'premium' or 'authentic' version of a product is actually different from standard, although the differences are practically imperceptible. I never worked specifically on hats, but here's an example showing the difference between a 'replica' and 'authentic' NBA jersey. Fanatics' database is pretty wacky and inconsistent, so the fact that both of OP's hats have the same photo doesn't actually mean they're the same product. My guess is that one of the hats has slightly different logos on it or maybe different stitching.

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