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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yesterday I checked ticketmasterfor resale tickets for pens kraken on Thursday and the lowest for a single game ticket was 120 and today its down to 85

    Gonna have to go into Seattle on Thursday I guess

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  • SwainwalkerSwainwalker Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    isn't Panera the place with the lemonade that might kill you

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Dirtyboy wrote: »
    Youtuber tries to get kicked out of Fogo de Chao (all you can eat Brazilian bbq).

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jQ3OlKim7yI

    These places def have limited hours to prevent that from happening but good on the manager on recognizing a potential advertising opportunity.

    I go there once a year and it's really good but it's so much meat. They actually have an amazing salad bar but that option is only like 10 dollar cheaper so you feel like you have to get the all you can eat.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 14
    Always fascinated by what I can only call the cultural economics of the all-you-can-eat dining experience. "It is financially worthwhile to bait our customers into an extravagance of gluttony, to encourage them to abandon any sense of personal health (or assessment of the actual fiscal outlay) with the dangling promise of a 'better deal', so that they feel they are actively wasting money if they don't stuff themselves to the point of explosion." It's a minor apotheosis of capitalism; we have so disconnected consumption from production that eating only to the point of satiety is not only seen as unnecessary restraint, it's an actively poor lifestyle choice.

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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    It's interesting because the full blooded American all you can eat buffet is kind of a socialist dining experience

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    Marty: The future, it's where you're going?
    Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 14
    Paladin wrote: »
    It's interesting because the full blooded American all you can eat buffet is kind of a socialist dining experience

    In a socialist utopia you would be shunned for taking more food than meets your needs.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 17
    Another week of 4 keys to get the new card. Is this what sadness feels like?

    Still have 4 keys though, so I should be good for next month. Checked on my collection and I'm only missing Howard the Duck and Beta Ray Bill. Not bad.

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  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    edited April 17
    how the fuck do people get so many keys, I get 1 a week if I grind constantly

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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    When I go to an all you can eat meat place I eat really sparingly beforehand with mostly fiber rich foods.

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    Marty: The future, it's where you're going?
    Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
  • akTheraakThera akjak Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    Saving up the last two months worth of keys

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  • pezgenpezgen Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    I save keys when I can, but then I hit a week like last week when I had to use all 4 to get the cards I wanted.

    I think I’m skipping this week so I can save for future weeks.

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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    Spent the tokens to get Corvus and am close to having enough to grab proxima, which I probably will so I can save the keys for pixie/ham/mobius week. I think ham and mmm are really the only two cards I’m missing that I want still

    Edit: that said if they shut down the data mining of spotlights and turn around and change that one I’ll be pretty ticked!!

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 14
    I just remembered that I bought some really good frozen egg custard bao when I was in australia and only ate two from the packet and left the packet in my dad's freezer and they will probably be all freezer burned and inedible when next I see them. And then I got sad.

    also I should head to 99 Ranch and buy some bao at some point.

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Jayricho wrote: »
    Should probably just give up now and let Crosby go play with his best bud MacKinnon….

    3 points out of 4 points against the league leading Canucks with the baby pens win tonight

    But I guess they also got 3 out of 4 against us because nhlol

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  • CantideCantide Registered User regular
    edited April 18
    This one was a rare miss for me.
    There were two reasons, I think. First, I’m very sensitive about my own privacy, and the thought of a stranger digging through my phone to get my search history, purchase history, etc made me low key stressed the entire time. Second, one of my favorite aspects of Game Changer is how they’ll take an episode’s concept and keep evolving it, pushing the premise out in new and more ridiculous ways. In Second Place, for example, they start with straightforward “how well can you do X tasks”, and then lean into the bluffing / mind game aspect of the challenge, along with taking various traditional game show setups and adapting them to fit their new structure. And that just didn’t feel like it was happening in this one.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    If I heated some real freah oj in a pan, and slowly mixed in that teriyaki glaze to thicken it it.......I'm halfway to orange chicken.

    Just need good freah popeyes chicken to rock it

    So watching babbish's orange chicken episode, I peeled the zesty rinds of some oranges, soaked them in sugar after a good crushing and came back tonight to filter out delicious orange syrup. Now, my teriyaki sauce from two weeks ago had the consistency of lard, and I used the syrup to thin it, but it was still thick.

    After securing fried chicken tenders from popeyes (my mind still says it like Rachael Maddow's wife), I combined the ingredients and have the results.

    Its good.

    Chop the tenders if using a smaller amount.

    Leftover syrup works great as a tea.

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  • WordherderWordherder Registered User regular
    edited April 17
    So has Snap completely abandoned bundles you can buy with gold? I haven't seen one in quite a while.

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    Why the crap did I ever make my original name "cloudeagle?"
  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Wordle 984 3/6

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  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    edited April 16
    Reynolds wrote: »
    Satsumomo wrote: »
    Reynolds wrote: »
    How long do the modern games take to get to the actual game? As I'd played MH4U for 40 hours or so and still never unlocked what people considered the main game.

    And visuals don't really matter to me, I can only play relatively new games at medium or lower settings on my current laptop. I guess I'll keep those two in mind in case they ever actually go on sale for a reasonable price, or I wind up with a Switch/Xbox somehow.

    Just FYI, Gamepass is also for PC. You do not need an Xbox.

    ...this makes no sense but is apparently correct. There doesn't seem to be a free trial though. But I think I can earn a month by filling out a bunch of surveys or something...?

    Yeah MS has been betting on PC for a while now, that's why there are so many rumors of them possibly no longer releasing a new console. It's a pretty great service, they often have prominent launch titles available, I use it like a month-long rental service to try out several games, and cancel when there's nothing on there I plan on playing.

    As for a trial, I believe you can get a free 14-day trial now. It used to be that you could buy 3 months for $10 or something like that, but I can't find that anymore except for sites that sell keys.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 14
    The oceans are dying.

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Asthariel wrote: »
    Arknights is being very generous to me, and I do not know how to deal with that fact, considering that it is still a gacha game.

    Honestly I feel like it's been a weirdly generous game for awhile now. Maybe it's because I only pull on banners with new Operators but I feel like I always have a ton of resources saved up between free pulls and oriwhatevers. Generally speaking the only money I spend on this game anymore is the monthly $5 thingy or if they have any special packs that are particularly good value or unique (like anniversary packs tend to have good value). Every once in a blue moon I might spend some money to get stuff to buy the more expensive costumes but I've largely stopped trying to collect all of them so I only go for the ones I really like these days.

    But yeah, once again didn't have too much trouble pulling the new operators on this newest banner. Maybe like 40 pulls? Also I'm think this is a new thing but I noticed it let me do a free 10-pull using 10 single free summon tickets. It didn't used to do that, right? You had to do the 10 pulls individually? Maybe I just never noticed in the past (it's not *super* often that I have that many single tickets saved up but it's not super uncommon either) but I feel like that's a recent QoL update.

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  • KnightKnight Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    took me somewhere in the 40-50 range for typhon as well. i’ve been pretty lucky for a bit tbh, even for arknights which is fairly generous

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The Professional Women's Hockey League has a great playoff format and draft order innovation:

    Playoffs: top four teams get in and at the end of the regular season, the #1 seed has 24 hours to pick their opponents for the first round/semifinals.
    Draft: the #1 pick goes to the team that earns the most points after it has been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs.

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    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Edit: okay, actually attributed to Adam Gold's Sloan paper in 2012

    https://hockeyviz.com/txt/gold

    Gold Draft Now - ineffectivemath - July 3rd, 2020

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  • Crippl3Crippl3 oh noRegistered User regular
    edited April 17
    cloudeagle wrote: »
    So has Snap completely abandoned bundles you can buy with gold? I haven't seen one in quite a while.

    No, they still do them. There's Token Tuesday every week, Booster Packs, and the Ticket bundles, along with 2 Gold bundles last month (Inkpulp IW and Mojo for 4200, and Panteon Ka-Zar for 7000) and 2 this month (Baby Moon Girl for 2500 and Rian Gonzalez/Chibi Sera for 4500)

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  • LorekLorek Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The using 10 single tickets to do a multi isn't new but it's not really old either... probably back half of 2023 somewhere?

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Crippl3 wrote: »
    https://apnews.com/article/wendys-burger-pricing-ef75fa9214beddbd0d9d459f37722638
    The burger chain clarified its stance on how it will approach pricing after media picked up on comments by CEO Kirk Tanner that the company would test features like dynamic pricing at restaurants.

    Companies like Uber have used dynamic pricing, or surge pricing, to moderate use by customers during the busiest days of the year, or when drivers or cars are in short supply during the day. Prices rise and fall with demand using that business model.

    This month during a conference call with investors and industry analysts, Tanner said, “Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and daypart offerings, along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling.”

    The company said Wednesday, after the story began to circulate this week, that any features it decides to test in the future “would be designed to benefit our customers and restaurant crew members.”

    “Wendy’s will not implement surge pricing, which is the practice of raising prices when demand is highest. We didn’t use that phrase, nor do we plan to implement that practice,” the company said in an email to The Associated Press on Wednesday.

    "FUCK THEY HEARD US, DAMAGE CONTROL NOW!"

    Yeeeup that's 100% a "oh shit the backlash is bigger than we thought backpedal faster!" move.

    it's the same fucking thing too, it's just a matter of how you frame the idea

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  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 14
    Mugsley wrote: »
    I had a few dollars and little common sense. So I bet $3 for the Rangers to win the Cup.

    Based on today's trade I bet $2 on the Stars to win the West.

    Rangers finally got a win against the toughest team in the league tonight after three tries so it's in the bag i'm sure

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    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited April 18
    Fantasy High Junior Year Episode 8:
    What the eff is even happening??

    The Vulture Dimension? Brennan just had that locked and loaded, ready to go?

    Everything about the dildo robots was just absolutely absurd. And completely predictable as soon as the Thistlesprings were involved.

    But man, those dice rolls were just brutal. Absolutely brutal.

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  • TalkaTalka Registered User regular
    edited April 18
    I’m sad that Mike Trapp isn’t doing Um, Actually anymore. First episode with Ify and BDG definitely felt like they were still getting their legs under them.

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  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    edited April 18
    Ify without glasses threw me for a second. I enjoyed the episode though.

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  • Hahnsoo1Hahnsoo1 Make Ready. We Hunt.Registered User, Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited April 18
    A magnificent meme that is a spoiler for both Fantasy High Junior Year Episode 8 and Game Changer Episode 2 this season:
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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited April 18
    Everybody lick baby!

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  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    edited April 18
    Thawmus wrote: »
    Talka wrote: »
    I’m sad that Mike Trapp isn’t doing Um, Actually anymore. First episode with Ify and BDG definitely felt like they were still getting their legs under them.

    I had to look to see what had happened to him, and basically he's just been doing Um, Actually as a freelance gig while working on other projects, and now he has a kid and those projects are moving and he doesn't have time for it anymore.

    He's now a full-time writer for Rock, Paper, Scissors (Nickelodeon cartoon), so while I'll miss him (The CollegeHumor sketches he was responsible for are often my favorite, like The April Fool), I'm glad things are working out for him. I'm constantly given the impression that CH/Dropout takes care of their people but also can also only do so much.

    I bet we see Mike pop up here and there. Dropout loves to bring back alumni.

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  • GnizmoGnizmo Registered User regular
    edited April 18
    webguy20 wrote: »
    Thawmus wrote: »
    Talka wrote: »
    I’m sad that Mike Trapp isn’t doing Um, Actually anymore. First episode with Ify and BDG definitely felt like they were still getting their legs under them.

    I had to look to see what had happened to him, and basically he's just been doing Um, Actually as a freelance gig while working on other projects, and now he has a kid and those projects are moving and he doesn't have time for it anymore.

    He's now a full-time writer for Rock, Paper, Scissors (Nickelodeon cartoon), so while I'll miss him (The CollegeHumor sketches he was responsible for are often my favorite, like The April Fool), I'm glad things are working out for him. I'm constantly given the impression that CH/Dropout takes care of their people but also can also only do so much.

    I bet we see Mike pop up here and there. Dropout loves to bring back alumni.

    He will be on the show this season I believe.

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  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Wordle 985 4/6

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  • SwainwalkerSwainwalker Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    they might have been able to sell the dynamic pricing model if it was just algorithmically applied discounts. Like hey, we have a bunch of Big Macs we made for the lunch rush that haven't been bought yet and we'll have to throw out in 15 minutes, they're $2 off until they're gone. Lower price and less food waste is actual value-add for everyone.

    God forbid c-suites think about how new technology could help them maximize efficiency of lower prices tho.

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  • MvrckMvrck Dwarven MountainhomeRegistered User regular
    edited April 18
    Yeah, from everything I can tell, outside maybe some crew, producers and Sam, Dropout doesn't seem to be a full time gig for anyone except maybe Brennan, since D20 always seems to have a season in production.

    They definitely seem like they take care of their people, so it's probably a solid base of work, but with the way its been joked about people kinda begging to be on Game Changer and Make Some Noise, I imagine that there's a ton of folks who would happily work a lot more if there were episodes/slots available.

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  • TalkaTalka Registered User regular
    edited April 18
    Thawmus wrote: »
    Talka wrote: »
    I’m sad that Mike Trapp isn’t doing Um, Actually anymore. First episode with Ify and BDG definitely felt like they were still getting their legs under them.

    I had to look to see what had happened to him, and basically he's just been doing Um, Actually as a freelance gig while working on other projects, and now he has a kid and those projects are moving and he doesn't have time for it anymore.

    He's now a full-time writer for Rock, Paper, Scissors (Nickelodeon cartoon), so while I'll miss him (The CollegeHumor sketches he was responsible for are often my favorite, like The April Fool), I'm glad things are working out for him. I'm constantly given the impression that CH/Dropout takes care of their people but also can also only do so much.

    Yeah, my understanding is that with Dropout being almost entirely unscripted game-y shows, there’s no reason to pay for full-time staff writers, so all the gigs (except maybe Brennan) are freelance contractor gigs.

    Either way, I’m a huge fan of Trapp’s CH work and I loved him on Um, Actually. Hope he has success with his new writer gig and gets some time with his kid. But selfishly I hope he ends up in front of the camera regularly somewhere!

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