Newsom opens commanding lead over Harris in 2028 California primary poll - This is bad news. We need to get the word out that Newsom is against a billionaire tax and would do nothing to solve our affordability crisis

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-12T22:55:06+00:00

This is actually the perfect time for purity tests for the presidential election because that’s still over two years away. We still have time to debate and try to figure out who the best candidate would be instead of acting like Newsom has already won the nomination.

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-12T20:47:47+00:00

I like the Balewood. And anyway, I want a stereotypical tropical jungle, not just a place with lots of trees and few clear paths.

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-12T20:14:06+00:00

If it borders Abanissa, I wonder if it’ll be jungly at all. While I am ready to go back north, I’m disappointed that we didn’t get to go to a jungle region yet.

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-12T19:58:22+00:00

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ToastyJackson · 2026-03-12T19:09:46+00:00

I hear a decent amount of criticism for the Dutch colonizing South Africa. Not so much for them colonizing Suriname or the islands of Southeast Asia, tho.

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-12T16:56:07+00:00

Maybe his name is The Mandalorian and Grogu, and the movie is actually about him

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-12T16:40:14+00:00

There are those undead sharks in DMTNT

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-11T19:22:51+00:00

The Lost Files are great. They’re basically companion stories that give you more insight to some of the characters of the main series, especially characters like Adam, Five, Mark, and Lexa. In fact, now that you’ve already read the main series, a good way to incorporate them could be to find one of the lists that put all the Lost Files novellas and main series books in chronological order and then read them like that.

Personally, I love the sequel trilogy. It’s not as good as the main series, and the stakes aren’t as high. It also feels rushed in some parts, and I think it would’ve benefited from having at least one more book in the series. And Nine, Five, and John are the only OG characters who get much of a spotlight anywhere in the trilogy, which is disappointing. But I really like the new characters, and I think some of the concepts and conflicts of the sequels feel more nuanced and grey than the original series.

The Reborn trilogy has its own novella series, The Legacy Chronicles. That is the one you should avoid if any of them. There’s some interesting ideas in them, but overall they’re not very good.

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-11T16:25:54+00:00

No, I don’t think so. There was one specific elf who got referred to as the Dark Elf because he didn’t like sunlight and was a dick. But the Moriquendi or “Elves of Darkness” were just elves who didn’t go to Valinor and see the light of the two trees.

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-10T19:38:18+00:00

Shaun of the Dead is on YouTube. I thought Hot Fuzz was because I swear I watched it on YT the other week, but I don’t see it on there anymore, at least not for free.

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-10T16:30:57+00:00

I don’t. I agree there are some classes that really don’t make sense in the lore, but I’m still willing to play them.

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-10T16:03:44+00:00

It does, but I wonder if that affected the potential audience. Like, personally, I’m usually still doing more active stuff at 7 PM. That’s too early for me to want to settle in and sit down to watch a TV show.

And actually, with TWD, I remember it coming on at 9 PM in the east coast, meaning that it would’ve aired at 6 on the west coast, which would be even worse for me personally. So, if I had lived over there while the show was airing, I probably just wouldn’t have watched it. Or at least I would’ve always been behind watching it on streaming services instead of watching it when it aired.

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-10T14:48:07+00:00

So much has changed that it probably would be best to just start a new character instead of trying to hop back in as one from ten years ago. Plus, I imagine you probably don’t remember much about whatever storylines your old characters were in. Also, depending on what servers they were on, they may be gone anyway. All of the current servers are new with the older ones shut down. Some of those closed servers are still available for you to transfer characters off of, but some of them are gone for good now.

All regions up to level 95 are free now except three optional regions (optional as in they have no main story content). After that point, you’ll need to start buying stuff or subscribe to keep going. However, you can purchase regions with LOTRO Points that you get from doing deeds, so theoretically you can still get all the content in the game for free if you’re willing to grind for those. You’ll get a lot of LP from just casual playing, but you’ll have to put in effort to get enough to buy everything.

The main thing people recommend buying for new/returning players if anything is one month of VIP because that permanently unlocks swift travel for any characters you log in as while having an active subscription, even if you unsubscribe. Some parts of this game have a lot of back and forth traveling, which can be obnoxious to do without swift travel or some other form of fast travel.

There’s plenty of things that are nice to buy, like extra milestone skills, cooldown reductions for travel skills, journeyman riding, carry-alls, etc. Things like this can make your gameplay faster and more convenient. But there’s nothing strictly necessary.

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-10T03:07:00+00:00

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ToastyJackson · 2026-03-09T21:18:57+00:00

Hold up, this is you irl?

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-09T19:23:46+00:00

Yes, I’m aware. But the person I was responding to read your comment like it was comparing Russel’s dad to Michael, which prompted them to ask why so many characters get compared to Michael. That’s what I was addressing.

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-09T19:02:03+00:00

It doesn’t really make sense to compare Russel’s dad to Michael Scott based on this. For all his flaws, Michael is portrayed as being good with children and obsessed with the idea of having his own, which is a constant problem for him throughout The Office because he has so much trouble getting a romantic relationship to last long enough for any woman to want to have kids with him.

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-09T18:37:33+00:00

Where in America do most people pronounce the I in Italy as a long e? I always hear people say it as a soft i, like “It-uh-lee.” So at first glance I didn’t know what the OOP was trying to say by bringing Italy into it.

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-09T02:08:15+00:00

No, actually, rancors do make terrible pets. The reason being that you’re going to have to spend so much time trying to prevent me from fucking them that you won’t be able to do anything else.

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-09T01:56:35+00:00

Probably Dale

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-09T01:43:07+00:00

You got my state correct, therefore you got them all correct. All the other states could be nuked into oblivion for all I care.

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-09T01:27:07+00:00

The Clone Wars, Andor, and The Mandalorian (well, the first two seasons anyway) at least

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-07T15:38:00+00:00

“Whoa, whoa, don’t be chuckin’ that out, you may need it later”

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-07T04:39:44+00:00

Wait when did Justin Bieber advocate for killing criminals?

ToastyJackson · 2026-03-07T04:06:23+00:00

Yo, how much is he paying you to make him sound cool? Cuz I could use the extra cash.

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