General chat thread

But economists are always in their own little personal bubble divorced from reality. With how many blunders they constantly make it's obvious that the only reason they are still in power is because the rules have been deliberately skewed in their favor. There's a reason so many rich people are old money

 

See, e.g., the entire GameStop short sale debacle.

 

Make a thread in General and just start posting there if you are doing reviews. Just be sure not to pee on the third rail violate rule 8 (or any other rule, but frankly, rule 8 seems the most likely to bite you).

I have one Wasprider's Random Reviews. Just keep in mind, it will get likely few views and not much response.

 

I decided that, instead of fixing my laptop, I'm just gonna buy a TV and turn it into a shitty desktop.

Edit: current setup:

Spoiler

 

"We're competing with dead guys!"
Yes you are, and you're losing.

 

Which is fucking embarrassing, given, you know, they can't actually respond to changes in competition.

Which must make me fucking depressing, given I can't even maintain a voterbase.

 

Should I finish’s the original Ben 10 before watching Alien Force?

 

Alien force is the sequel right? Then probably a good idea. Can't remember if there's anything that you wouldn't get though.

 

If you really have the free time, yes.
There will be things that AF won't bother to explain (since it already happened in the original), but it's nothing too bad. The "sequel" is trying something new after all.
The new stuff will be explained in AF and the story is new and not too complex, it's gonna be easy enough to grasp.

 

I have an aunt on my mothers side. I won’t name names, so lets call her aunt k.

For context, I cut ties with my mother’s side of the family several years ago because they are emotionally manipulative, and I simply didn’t want to be involved anymore.

I was thinking of her this afternoon, and I remember that aunt k held some weird beliefs. She put herself, her husband, and her children on a diet (I think it was called the paleo diet) because it was “healthier”. Then, several years later, she and her family moved from the suburbs to live in a rural area, where they had chickens and ate “organic” eggs. In fairness to aunt k, her children were allergic to gluten and had other health problems, so I can understand why she decided to do such things. But in hindsight, she almost seemed like a conspiracy theorist.

My memories of her are rather vague, as I didn’t see her often, and I cut off contact when I was 14-15. So I talked to my dad about her, and learned that she apparently went to a psychiatric hospital MULTIPLE TIMES when she was younger.

So yeah, that was a fun trip down memory lane.

 

My condolences for the loss of your brain cells. Hope you've recovered.

 

Guys, does anyone know what’s going on with Bank of America? Because they seem to be getting a lot of complaints.

Edit: Oh shit. Not sure if this is real or not, but if it is, BoA might be going bankrupt.

 

I have less than $100,000 in my BoA account, so I’m just going to go make popcorn.

 

Posting so i can pm

 

Does anyone know what this video references besides Mario of course? I know I've seen it before, or at least heard the first part from somewhere, but I don't remember from what and not knowing is annoying me.

 

...If you could fight any author from history, who would you fight?

For me, it would be the one and only Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt.

 

I heard that Stephen Hawking wrote a book once…

 

Of course, my answer would be Lewis Carrol. That chap inspired the Isekai genre.

 

Wildbow. Just to listen to him whine.

 

Imagine giving up the chance to punch Hitler.

 

Hitler is for lewds. With him taking the role of the one bred.

 

Eat the whole hog and struggle-snuggle Hitler's mom or grandma if you're going that way, geez.

 

Gotta beat him into submission first.

Look, the premise is fighting an author, not just generic time travel shenanigans. You’re gotta engage with what you’ve got.

 

Ah, missed that part. My bad.

 

My sister works at Walmart stocking shelves. She told me that management is working to have Christmas candy on the shelves starting tommorow. It isn’t even Halloween yet.

Will it be Christmas in July next year?

 

Here in Germany we had Christmas candy already on the shelves the whole month.
Starting a month early doesn't sound that crazy by comparison.

 

Been a while since last time it happened, but I just lost The Game. I think it was last year maybe? Or it could have been even later than that. I don't remember.

 

Oh godddammit I just lost The Game

 

What game?

 

I took a bullet for you. The second you learn what The Game is you’ve already lost. Accept here and now that you’re still in the running, while I’ve dropped out. Godspeed.