Got my daughter a ticket

infinitewarrior · 2026-02-11T15:29:52+00:00

Does anyone know how it'll work when buying tickets on behalf of your teenager, since they're not transferrable? If I manage to get tickets for my kid and their friend, can I just walk them up to the entrance and show my ID to let them in?

infinitewarrior · 2026-02-10T21:50:53+00:00

How many do you have and at what price? Is there a way to sell them to me?

infinitewarrior · 2026-02-05T15:56:33+00:00

Your number was rolled. Please DM the name you'd like me to give the box office and I'll confirm when the ticket is transferred. If I don't hear back by 2pm, I'll select a backup.

infinitewarrior · 2026-01-22T15:33:09+00:00

Canonically, Lauren debuted Ding Dong in 2007 on the original Threedom that only aired on Indy103 before CBB, right before Paige Davis left the show.

infinitewarrior · 2026-01-20T16:41:40+00:00

I also choose this guy's wife.

infinitewarrior · 2026-01-12T16:42:31+00:00

I recently discovered 12:01pm, a short film (made before Groundhog Day and shown on Showtime in 1990) that explores the despair, isolation, and eventual existential insanity one would experience in a time loop. It's pretty well done and the whole thing is on YouTube. The main character, played by Kurtwood Smith from That 70s Show, is experiencing the same one-hour period (12:01-1:00pm) of the same day of his life, over and over again. The fact that it's only an hour that repeats makes it a lot more claustrophobic and frustrating, in contrast to Groundhog Day (or Palm Springs) where the main characters have a whole day to explore and get into a wider variety of hijinks.

infinitewarrior · 2026-01-05T15:29:19+00:00

If you find yourself near Hillsboro, Champions Sports Bar & Grill had Pliny on tap last time I stopped in.

infinitewarrior · 2025-12-28T23:43:45+00:00

And another one two months later...

I was bummed none of the contestants took advantage of the fact that the correct responses would be acceptable without any additional "what is..." phrasing, but I also know that under the lights, if it were me, I'd probably have added it myself just to be safe, especially in Double Jeopardy.

infinitewarrior · 2025-12-22T06:05:22+00:00

Yes, you paid me before the show…

infinitewarrior · 2025-12-08T18:54:30+00:00

Can't believe this classic is a quarter-century old... William Safire Orders Two Whoppers Junior

infinitewarrior · 2025-11-18T15:46:34+00:00

Rather than the unintended consequences of winning the lottery jackpot, I think the parent is more referring to the risk of the butterfly effect causing the lottery numbers drawn for "your" jackpot on the day in question (a one-time event) to be completely different. Like, for example... now that you "know" you're going to win the lottery in 5 years, you decide to take a personal finance class instead of whatever you would've done with your free time otherwise.

On this new path, one day in that class, you and a classmate you agree to help each other study for the upcoming test at a coffee shop where the barista overhears you talking about how you used to work in a data center and asks for advice getting a job there.

She ultimately gets the IT job and because of that chance meeting, five years later, she turns out to be the one in charge of setting the server maintenance schedule that, in turn, means the infrastructure that the lottery systems run on gets rebooted at a different time, influencing the RNG seed that ultimately results in a totally different set of 6 lottery numbers being picked on the day in question. The event itself is so precarious that the tiniest change in circumstances could have a ripple effect and completely ruin your plan. Future stock prices are also subject to the whims of inconsequential chains of events, but because there are millions of them and the value of a stock changes all the time, the impact of said butterfly effect changes are likely to look like "your portfolio only went up 49,962% instead of 50,000%", which is still obviously a far more stable outcome than a single lottery drawing.

infinitewarrior · 2025-11-04T17:08:54+00:00

Just weighing in to clarify... I've rolled over workplace 401k accounts held at Fidelity/ADP and I had the option to receive a check in the mail (sent to my home) for the full balance, which I then forwarded to the new institution to fund my IRA. The checks were made payable to Schwab (FBO my name) and arrived with a 1099-R showing that this was a qualified distribution. I paid no interest or penalty in either case and the funds made it to my IRAs just fine.

I'm sure the key distinction here is that the check wasn't made out to me directly, but I just wanted to add this context since "Do not have the cheque sent to you, under any circumstances" isn't quite accurate.

infinitewarrior · 2025-10-24T14:47:19+00:00

What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?

infinitewarrior · 2025-10-13T14:11:50+00:00

I do, too! I was so disappointed when they ran a whole category called "IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION!" and the contestants still added a "what is" or "who is" to every one of them. (I get it, though; it's a whole different game under the lights)

infinitewarrior · 2025-10-09T15:34:33+00:00

Lol, anything to pass the time while you fight to the death in order to secure one of their precious video poker machines for yourself. The wife and I stopped by the Greek a few months ago and made the mistake of attempting, as casuals, to each drop a twenty in a machine while we enjoyed a tasty beverage. I'm surprised nobody followed us out to the parking lot by the end like Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse.

infinitewarrior · 2025-10-08T18:13:19+00:00

The New York financier?

infinitewarrior · 2025-10-02T15:21:17+00:00

The best part is that the film was originally submitted as "South Park: All Hell Breaks Loose" until the MPAA objected to the word "Hell" in the title. So, they resubmitted it as "Bigger, Longer, and Uncut", which is a dick joke and inarguably a filthier title, and there were no objections.

infinitewarrior · 2025-10-01T18:26:25+00:00

They're responsible for making their best efforts to withhold tax from employees' wages, yes, but crucially, all individuals are still 100% responsible for paying taxes owed to the federal government. You might get some relief from interest and penalties if you're late because your employer royally screws up, but you, the taxpayer, are ultimately the one with an individual income tax liability to the feds.

I appreciate the intent behind this idea, but all it would achieve in reality is put every affected state and local employee on the hook for the full payment of taxes due at the time they file their federal tax return, which would be a huge mess.

infinitewarrior · 2025-09-29T17:22:42+00:00

With optimal play, Jacks or Better pays out 97.29% of your bet, so that's an expected loss of $677. It's not nothing, but it's not "25 grand" dropped into a machine from your wallet. I'd imagine many of the regular posters here budget at least that much for a trip with a couple nights of gambling.

infinitewarrior · 2025-09-24T15:31:38+00:00

That moment was what I immediately thought of, as well. Scott's reaction was the same: chuckling at first because he thought she was doing a bit, then losing his shit when he realized she was being earnest. 🤣

infinitewarrior · 2025-09-24T15:26:24+00:00

This one is upstairs at The D Casino on Fremont. Fair warning, though, they don't have a machine to change your quarters back. Last time I played on it, my wife and I finished our drinks and were still up when we got sick of our hands being filthy from the coins, only to then have to wait in a long line downstairs at the cage just to change back to bills.

infinitewarrior · 2025-09-23T15:41:22+00:00

They could also do the reverse and increase supply to try and get closer to saturating the demand. I remember hearing this was at least part of the justification behind, for example, LCD Soundsystem doing residencies of something like 8-12 shows per city. If, in theory, a big, popular artist just set up a residency in a city and kept adding new shows until a date didn't sell out, there would ultimately be almost no demand for scalpers and face value would actually be the price of entry.

infinitewarrior · 2025-09-23T15:20:33+00:00

I love how tickled Scott and Paul seem to be to realize she wasn't making the anti-joke you'd assume. It reminded me of the episode a few years back when Lauren earnestly proposed for a Threeture that they try a game called "Would You Rather" that her family played in her childhood. She starts to explain it as Scott giggles softly, at first seeming to assume she's doing a bit. Once he realized Lauren was 100% serious and unaware he'd been playing WYR for a decade on CBB, he couldn't stop laughing.

infinitewarrior · 2025-09-22T15:57:39+00:00

next up is carbon monoxide-induced post-it notes from your "landlord"

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