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  • minor incidentminor incident publicly subsidized! privately profitable!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited February 2023
    Well at least you followed proper QA dog protocols

    minor incident on
    Hell, New Jersey, it said on the letter. Delivered without comment. So be it!
  • R-demR-dem Registered User regular
    I found a copy of Metroid Prime Remastered in a hole in the wall local game store so naturally I also tracked down an OLED Switch to play it on.

    It's delicious lemme tell ya

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  • SwainwalkerSwainwalker Registered User regular
    that dog has no head!

  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    KalTorak wrote: »
    that dog has no head!

    The shape of a greyhound's body is simply perfectly aligned with the vanishing point

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  • friends, he's still got it

  • Apologies for the triple post but:

    That man is 73 and most of his band is around that age, and watching them play you'd think they could do this for another decade. That was a three hour show with barely a moment of rest between songs, with maybe...two acoustic numbers the entire night. You can definitely feel the weight of his age in some ways; there are more than a few songs either about outliving old friends or songs that are recontextualized by the fact that a 73 year-old man is singing them (opening with No Surrender and going straight into a song called Ghosts with a chorus of "I'm alive!" is definitely a statement), but then halfway through he goes on a run that kicks off with Thunder Road and doesn't let up until the end and...shit, I'm really glad I went.

    If I feel like I've missed out on anything seeing him for the first time in 2023, it's less that he's older, because he and his band are such pros that they know exactly what they can and can't do and have decades of experience putting on great shows. It's more that...this is an older crowd, and tickets weren't cheap, which is...well, I wasn't the youngest person there, but I was in the conversation, and I thought I was about to witness a fight because someone in front of me stood up and danced too early in the show and the people behind her were furious that they couldn't see (or that they couldn't get clear video of the stage?)

    Anyways, they left and the girl who was dancing was like, attempting to twerk to Bruce Springsteen's big 9/11 song

    Very glad I went. Shout out to the Climate Pledge Arena for giving me free public transit for buying a ticket to the show, saved me a whole, like, five dollars on top of the three hundred dollar ticket

  • BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    edited February 2023
    DJ Eebs wrote: »
    friends, he's still got it

    Did he get the veins in his neck popping like he's trying to avoid having a stroke while shitting out a bowling ball?

    I saw him in 2008 and it was seemingly all I could focus on during the show.

    Saw kinda the same thing couple years later seeing Kansas and Steve Walsh started looking like he was going to pop like in scanners during parts of Point of No Return.

    BlackDragon480 on
    No matter where you go...there you are.
    ~ Buckaroo Banzai
  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    did they play Glory Days?

  • minor incidentminor incident publicly subsidized! privately profitable!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    As someone who grew up in a culture of "tickets should be 5 bucks or else you're a sellout", it's hard for me to admit that Bruce is worth $300 for a ticket. But honestly if anyone on the planet can make a good case for being worth that kind of admission price, it's him. Dude is still easily 80% of the guy he was in his prime, and what he's lost in pure youthful energy, he's basically made up for with decades of carefully honed skill and a band that's at the top of their game.

    Hell, New Jersey, it said on the letter. Delivered without comment. So be it!
  • MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    I saw Rise Against and it was in a smaller local venue so the tickets were like $40 and that's kind of my ideal concert setup, which sucks because big names can't do that they draw too many people, but I like being in a more intimate setting and just being right there by the stage if you're willing to shove through people getting up to the front row just being there. The music just feels more visceral when you're that close compared to when I saw Alanis Morissette at an open air outside venue that was cool, but not the same.

    Seeing Local H at a local bar for $10 was probably more my ideal venue, but that's not something most bands can do.

  • SkeithSkeith Registered User regular
    I know this is a happy place, but



    I really don't know where else to put this so we can dunk on it

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  • did they play Glory Days?

    Yeah. The big songs he didn't play were The River, Jungleland, Hungry Heart and Born in the USA

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular

    The two guys taking on real estate later claimed in the comments that the post is “trolling,” but did you know that the question of whether you should tip your landlord periodically pops up on Reddit and Quora? People (at least 20 people) seem to wonder. One such post: “I just moved into an apartment for the first time by myself and my landlord got mad at me after my first payment because I didn’t tip. I never knew you were supposed to so I tipped 10% next time and he’s still mad at me.” On the forum Wall Street Oasis, someone asked “what other PE/finance guys are tipping their landlord this year,” saying they were thinking of 20 percent on their $5,600 one-bedroom.

    In each case, everyone points out that tipping your landlord is simply not a thing. (Even the finance guys know better, with one advising, “Bro my landlord better tip my ass.”) And yet the question lives on. Personally, I’ve never met anyone who tips their landlord, and also personally, I never hope to.

    https://www.curbed.com/2023/02/landlord-tipping-etiquette-tiktok.html

  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    Do not engage with the engagement bait, y'all.

  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    Do you really think somebody would do that? Just go on TikTok and troll?

    Happiness is within reach!
  • MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    3cl1ps3 wrote: »
    Do not engage with the engagement bait, y'all.

    I know, and yet sometimes I can't help it and must engage.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Tips for landlords are a thing in Japan, though I think they call them "key fees" or something like that. Basically considered a "gift" rather than a tip and yes it is on top of the rent + security deposit.

  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    Tips for landlords are a thing in Japan, though I think they call them "key fees" or something like that. Basically considered a "gift" rather than a tip and yes it is on top of the rent + security deposit.

    oh boy don't get me started on the supremely fucked up rental/landlord culture in Japan

    it almost makes what we deal with in the US look quaint

  • RanlinRanlin Oh gosh Registered User regular
    I saw a vid the other week about how in many parts of Japan they're just giving away homes for free, because post WW2 laws and culture combined to keep creating new homes even when demand went down, and it's far more profitable to build a new place than maintain and older one.

    Is that even vaguely accurate?

  • neverreallyneverreally Registered User regular
    Ranlin wrote: »
    I saw a vid the other week about how in many parts of Japan they're just giving away homes for free, because post WW2 laws and culture combined to keep creating new homes even when demand went down, and it's far more profitable to build a new place than maintain and older one.

    Is that even vaguely accurate?

    House value does go down the longer you own it in japan rather than up, for.... reasons?

    I've also heard of programs like that where they were trying to get people to move into these rural villages so they wouldn't turn into ghost towns.

    Also, check this out to see some cheap houses for sale in japan - https://www.instagram.com/cheaphousesjapan/

  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    Ranlin wrote: »
    I saw a vid the other week about how in many parts of Japan they're just giving away homes for free, because post WW2 laws and culture combined to keep creating new homes even when demand went down, and it's far more profitable to build a new place than maintain and older one.

    Is that even vaguely accurate?

    Yeah it's not super common/popular but the programs are out there (not sure about "free" versus "basically free" but yeah)

    The problem (other than the houses themselves usually being in need of massive revamping/maintenance) is, they're also in places where the population is dwindling, there are no jobs and social services/infrastructure are inevitably only going to get worse the longer you live there

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  • FANTOMASFANTOMAS Flan ArgentavisRegistered User regular
    Ranlin wrote: »
    I saw a vid the other week about how in many parts of Japan they're just giving away homes for free, because post WW2 laws and culture combined to keep creating new homes even when demand went down, and it's far more profitable to build a new place than maintain and older one.

    Is that even vaguely accurate?

    Yes, but with a laundry list of caveats, first of all being age and nationality. They dont want single foreigners moving in, they want young japanese families. Also, you have to fix the thing before you move in, wich is really expensive for WWII era run-down shacks in the middle of nowhere in a ghost town. Like, there is a reason why they are not occupied.

    Yes, with a quick verbal "boom." You take a man's peko, you deny him his dab, all that is left is to rise up and tear down the walls of Jericho with a ".....not!" -TexiKen
  • Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan Registered User regular
    DJ Eebs wrote: »
    did they play Glory Days?

    Yeah. The big songs he didn't play were The River, Jungleland, Hungry Heart and Born in the USA

    The River was the song that made me go back and listen to him now after he wasn't my thing as a kid. We played it in my (I know) ukulele group and I immediately feel in love with it. I really should give some of his newer albums a listen.

  • minor incidentminor incident publicly subsidized! privately profitable!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    My other favorite Bruce Springsteen thing:

    One day I went to play my recently acquired (from a local used record store) copy of Nebraska, and after taking the record out of the jacket, I pulled out what I thought were the liner notes, but were actually about 10 pages carefully ripped out from porn magazines. Neatly folded in half and stuffed inside the jacket as if it were the prior owner’s secret stash.

    Hell, New Jersey, it said on the letter. Delivered without comment. So be it!
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  • R-demR-dem Registered User regular
    My local record shop had the 2023 press of Sleep's Dopesmoker in stock today, which I was VERY tempted to get but talked myself out of.

    Probably would have come with a bonus spliff tho.

  • StronginthearmStronginthearm Hi, I'm Liam! with broken glassesRegistered User regular
    I have participated in the capitalism. I bought tickets to see a comedian called Sarah Millican in march 2024, and I bought a kindle (not the paperwhite verion). I was having issues with my kindle paperwhite 10th gen (which I had bought secondhand) and I really wanted the basic kindle in blue. It was on sale!

    my backloggery 3DS: 0533-5338-5186 steam: porcelain_cow goodreads
  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    I adore Sarah Millican.

    Admittedly I only know her from British panel shows, but I love her any time she's on one.

  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Nova_C wrote: »
    I adore Sarah Millican.

    Admittedly I only know her from British panel shows, but I love her any time she's on one.

    She was great on Taskmaster.

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  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    Nova_C wrote: »
    I adore Sarah Millican.

    Admittedly I only know her from British panel shows, but I love her any time she's on one.

    I've only seen one of her stand-up sets but she was basically exactly the same as her panel show appearances - very good, in other words

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