Statute of limitations is why they're getting off.

I am the liquor, Randy.

Eat em!

Agreed. But not impossible. Insignia got original Halo 2 Xbox Live servers back online. Most nights you can find a game easily with 20-40 people online during peak hours. It requires a soft mod and maybe 1-2 hours of set up to get online. If anyone could just turn on their old Xbox and play, I'm confident those numbers would be in the hundreds at least.

Allowing people to run private servers is an easy way to allow those that want to play to keep playing in an era where most games have some level of online functionality.

stopkillinggames.com

One of their ideas is allow private match/self hosted online services for any game that shuts down it's servers.

Well woosh on me.

It's a joke. It's a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where the answer to the ultimate question is 42. It's designed to not make sense.

It's fun for what it is. It has a very positive community. Lower level players are always gifted high level armor and weapons from vets when they see them. If you do decide to play, you can do most of the game and quests solo. That's how I did it and it felt more or less like a regular fallout game. You should do the events even though you're not prepared for them. High level players will make it so you pretty much don't have to do anything and that's where you'll get your highest level rewards.

The card perk system is different and overwhelming at first. Basically good some good builds and pick one or two that fit your play style. Then you'll know what to focus on.

My buddy for me into it a few years ago. It was fun for what it was, but it's not GOTY or anything.

Watched about the first half this morning before going to the store. Got to the point where the student of the year's shirtless dad was lurking in the background and started getting interviewed. First, what a fucking weirdo. Gives off weird incest vibes.

My personal experience with DARE was fun when we were introduced in 5th grade. Got us away from normal class. I did win some essay contest on why drugs are bad mkay and got a frisbee which was cool. However I had to read the essay in front of the whole grade which I hated.

We got a tshirt for completing the program. I made it a cutoff at someone and made a point to rock it anytime I was trying a new drug in college.

Wow. I hate that kid. Did he have 'that' personality that comes off in this video?

We got very lucky in SE Indiana. Drive which is normally an hour (we went to in laws house) was 1.5.

Clear skies the entire time and a beautiful day in the mid 70s.

My parents flew in south TX thinking they would outsmart the weather and ended up being covered in clouds.

All hail lil onion.

That looks super cool. What is an oxbow lake?

My friend. Revanced is the solution to your troubles.

That sucks but it's not a dick move on your part. Was literally talking to a coworker who did that to a friend decades ago (he's in his early 60s) and said he would basically shack up in everyone's basement until they kicked him out. Sometimes weeks, sometimes months, living off others good will until none was left.

I never thought about this but this happens to me occasionally. I often put my arm under my head and pillow for support and comfort. Maybe once every couple weeks I'll wake up and it's numb or fully asleep.

I don't have an answer but I'm 34, this has been happening my whole life, and I haven't noticed any issues.

This is your mom and you are not my baby.

When cigarette advertising was legal they wanted you to feel cool if you smoked. When alcohol advertising was legal they wanted you to feel like you wanted a beer to enjoy a party. There's nothing different with sports betting. They want you to feel like it's part of the game, and you're missing out if you're not dropping a few bucks on every game. A lot of people are susceptible to this. Most people were fine without betting on sports prior to its legalization. Only difference now it's the influence of the ads.

None. But I don't gamble. I downloaded fan duel because my buddy wanted the promo bets for the referral. I used those bets in an afternoon which was fun. After that I deleted the app.

I stopped watching sportscenter and other sports news shows close to 15 years ago. A small part of that was because they were starting to show odds and talk about betting which didn't interest me.

I enjoy the game for the game. I primarily watch CFB, NFL, and MLS with some MLB here and there. I'll get my dopamine hit elsewhere.

Can't wait. It's been 11 years since Infinite. Game certainly has the vibe of a BioShock title and I'm sure we're in for a wild ride.

This one is pretty hilarious. I would 100% assume you're buying booze for people you are way too young to be hanging out with.

I buy a 6 pack of smirnoff ice once per year. My buddy loves golfing on his birthday and I hide ices throughout his bag, cart, and course because even in our mid 30s it's funny to see someone chug an ice while on one knee.

Nice try 9 out of 10 dentists. /s

Eh not really. I have the yellow Pikachu Gameboy color. But I'm a big Halo fan (hence the username) so I've focused on collecting all the Halo special edition Xboxs. Only missing 5 and Infinite. 5 is relatively cheap I just haven't got it yet and the Infinite Series X is jacked up in price since there were so few made and it was released during the pandemic when sclapers were doing their thing.

Other than than mostly Xbox and Nintendo systems going back to SNES.

A real video game set up. I have 17 consoles in the house and over 450 games.

I even have the old CRT TV with an AV switcher hooked up so I can switch between consoles quickly without having to mess with any wires.

It depends on the company for sure. I've noticed a much better delivery time for most things I order nowadays through other companies. 5-7 years ago it would take at least a week for pretty anything to show up. Now most items are 2-3 days.

Fully agree though, it certainly depends on where you live.

Like others have said, they don't guarantee two days shipping however. Their thing now is if you spend $x per order or pay more, even if you have prime, they'll overnight it (location dependent).

I live a 20 minute drive from several large amazon warehouses and one of their largest air hubs. When two day shipping was guaranteed, we'd often get most items the next day since it goes out almost immediately and we're very close. We noticed the last few years most deliveries take two days at least with many being delayed to 3 or 4.

Finding prime less and less of a value I cancelled at the beginning of this month as I was set to auto renew. We've ordered two things since. Both items we have received in the past in 1-2 days. Now they take 5-7 days for free shopping, which is fine mind you, but it shows me that rather than shipping the item they are intentionally holding back the order from being picked from the warehouse to create the delay.

Rather than prime adding value, it's simply providing the regular service, while they intentionally give non-prime members a manufactured worse service to entice them to pay.

Nothing else on prime is worthwhile. Thursday night football sucks and when I do want to watch it if my team is playing I'll just pirate it. Same goes for anything on prime like The Boys will just get added to the Plex server.

I think I have both your problems solved. If money isn't an issue the bureaucracy is a nuisance but not inhibiting as you can pay someone to file all the appropriate paperwork. The language barrier is even easier. I have been to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland and did not meet a single person that didn't fluently speak English. Not saying they don't exist, but operating in most any western European country is very easy as an English speaker. Also you'll pick up the language over time. Immersion is the best way to learn a language, or so I hear.

Voice my opinion and participate in local government? Preposterous! /s

They had some public forums on it a couple years ago. I did not go but they did release a survey online shortly after that I completed. Took less than 5 min and I did submit my preference to keep it undeveloped as a park.

I'm gonna catch hate for this but I enjoy golf. I don't play often, 5-10 times per year at most however nothing beats a day out with the boys, plenty of beer and joints, and smacking lil balls around with crooked sticks.

Having said that my local muni 5 min down the road has 3 18 hole courses. They shut one down a little over 4 years ago and didn't know what to do with it, so in the meantime, being county owned land, they turned it into a park. They didnt change anything. The first year was odd, it felt like you were walking on a golf course with a broken lawn mower. Now, 4 years later, it's completely wild and I love it. Some trees have begun to crack and grow through the pathways and there is so much wildlife everywhere from deer to coyotes to birds and so many small mice and chipmunks.

It really is quite peaceful and beautiful out there. The county decided to permanently leave as a park and it feels like a small escape from everyday life. There are about 5 miles of trails as well as a connection to an adjacent park with a couple more miles of wooded trails and a small lake for catch and release fishing. The maintenance there is next to zero and it rarely ever has more than 4 or 5 cars in the lot, making it rare to see anyone out there. I take my dog out there at least 2-3 times per week.

I fully support returning unused land back to nature. It's quite exciting to see it slowly transform over time.

Those teddies would fit perfectly in the next Silent Hill game.

Competition is good. BYD cars are significantly less expensive than Tesla. It seems most major car manufacturers are pricing their new EVs at least $50-60k+ with a few exceptions. I'm sure US lawmakers will impose tariffs and laws targeting BYD coming into the US allowing US automakers to keep their car prices artificially high for the sake of corporate profit, stifling competition instead of forcing automakers to adapt and reduce pricing.

Just cancelled my prime subscription today. It was set to renew on Friday. I've been with prime for close to 10 years.

I don't see any value. The price has nearly doubled since originally signing up. The free two day shipping was nice but more and more 2 days is 3-4 and I can get free shipping anyway on any order over $35 without prime so I'll just build up my cart and be patient or order from another place.

The video content was nice but they're fucking joking if they think I'm going to watch ads or pay $3 more per month to not have ads. I can easily pirate most content including live sports and they're making it far less convenient to be part of their ecosystem.

I get my books from the library and store my photos locally.

The literal only downside i see is my buddy won't get his twitch prime subscription from me every month so I guess I'm costing him like $2/month but he's got several hundred so he'll do without.

Excited for 120 Hz. Better late than never. I'm skeptical of the levelling of legend abilities. I'll have to experience it before I judge.

Pennywise eating ass is a pretty funny image.

Haha I have never heard of this place. What am I missing?

Is it just me or does that ski lift look tilted like it's going to slip down the mountain?

Lol. All the puppies are healthy! Fixed the typo.

You're not wrong. I appreciate the info. That's exactly what she's looking for. Thank you for looking. We're always on the lookout.

Trying to help my mother in law. Low income, no savings, some debt we've tried to help to pay off. Starter homes are over $200k now. 6-7 years ago these are the same houses that were $110-140k. She can't afford the down payment, hell the bank won't pre-approve her to even put a bid in. Crazy. And yeah, as others have said, the price won't go down because any discount will be immediately snatched up, more often by a large investment firm, thus locking the price and not allowing the market to cool.

To provide some context, she wants a very basic home. A small yard primarily to start a garden, maybe 800-1000 sq ft on the high end, and not much more. The only places she and we can find that are in her range are in rough neighborhoods we wouldn't want her living. And also her work, which is 100% remote, constantly threatens return to office requirements which forces her in a 40 mile vicinity.

As melinneals, we got lucky. Purchased at literally the very beginning of covid (3.20) and have seen our home value skyrocket (+50% from purchase price). Rental homes in the neighborhood regularly charge 90% over our mortgage + property tax + home insurance rate. A house down the street (we got to know them as we both had young puppies) was abandoned because they raised the price +20% in the time the family lived there. It was a mother, both adult children and their spouses, and grandchild, 7 in total, in a 4 bedroom. They left one day and last I saw was an $8k bill taped to the door for 3 months of unpaid rent, they had moved out 4 months prior.

In other news, Nigerian cinemas go bankrupt.