hayden_horn

no you fucking weren't, dude. you were interested in being a fucking condescending prick because you got all this shit figured out, right? if you weren't, well, here i am telling you you are. you are a condescending prick. maybe you don't mean to be. but you are.

i'm not sure of that. i mean, poe possibly, i guess, because he has made the completely ridiculous statement that he doesn't know any gay people in real life because none live near him because he lives in some fantasy land.

i told yall for years that you were gonna get a la carte and you were going to pay the same if you were lucky but probably more. why? math. my argument at the time was simply "because tom brady needs to get paid." (while i'm patting myself on the back, i also once made the bold statement that people would stop stealing music once songs were available for $0.99 with guaranteed quality. that wasn't the only reason people stopped stealing music, but it was a big fucking contributor) there is no way to completely upend an industry from the distribution side but radically redesign the cost structure from top to bottom. at the end of the day the is a number on the other side of the = sign you need to reach. content creators need $x. ask @henrygandorf. he's not taking a paycut (well, he probably is, but he probably doesn't want to) because you watch content on a premium paramount plus subscription as opposed to the paramount network on a hulu subscription or through a triple play bundle on spectrum cable. it still costs him the same amount of work to produce that content. he doesn't care. he's got the same bills to pay as yesterday. tom brady doesn't care. lorne michaels doesn't care. so the math simply doesn't work without subsidy of some kind. you have to reach that $x. someone's paying. we're paying. that's how it's going to work. because we fucking need and love our content. also, if you want a tubi or freevee experience, they are out there, and they suck. you can also probably still download sketchy mp3s if you really wanted to do so. but you get what you pay for. there's a reason hbo was able to pull off that amazing episode of last of us this week. because i (and millions of others) pay for it. you want to pay $5/mo for content, that content is going to be hot garbage.

@DalTxHornFan, you might want to go ahead and back up this claim. you can't just say " I do think that there have been many examples of schools, courts, and child protective services-type agencies intervening in these decisions." and not tell us what the hell you are talking about. first of all, you think? great, i think my wife should have a threesome with me and mila kunis tonight. as a matter of fact, i do think that there have been many examples of my wife, me, and mila kunis having a threesome.

also, i try not to neg, but congrats you fucking ape. i wonder sometimes what it is that makes you tick. is it a false feeling of superiority? like you got all this shit figured out?

1) that did not happen 2) if it did, it's not the anecdote that i think you wanted it to be 3) ok, whatever, we can pretend and play your little games; let's do a little thought exercise around why a child would do such a thing. how old is the child? sometimes kids say stupid shit. it's a miracle my kids still live under my roof as many times as they threatened to run away at 8 or 9. has the child been depressed? have there been any other warning signs of mental health anguish? is the child struggling in any other area of their lives? do you even care? no, you do not care. for you it's more important that people conform to your ideas of how the world should be. see, your major problem is that you are scared of demonstrating empathy. you probably don't know why that is, and it's pretty sad. you don't try to take a look from another person's perspective except as a lens to magnify how you would act in their stead. it's all about you. how something makes you feel. what choice you would make in a given situation. of course you would choose not to be gay, queer, transsexual, whatever. why, you might wonder? because you aren't that. neither am i, so it makes it difficult to empathize. but i try to listen. that's the best i can do as a middle age white straight dude. i try to listen and i try to understand. might not always, there are some letters in the alphabet soup of "queer" (if i can even say that word) that i don't understand. that's okay, i think. i'm working on it. because this conversation is not about me. why do you think it is about you?

ma always told me that'd make me sick. never once made me sick. mom was a fucking liar. next you'll tell me there's no tooth fairy

maybe yall are overthinking it? i dunno

i sure feel like 99 degrees on the thermometer is "warm" for my sons. when i take my temp with the digital forehead thing, i'm never above 98. usually something like 97.2. so i assume anything 2 degrees higher than me is a fever, even though i probably run cold.

plus one again. there is nothing missed in this show. not a wasted moment so far.

fucking mooseoutfront told us. i miss little things like this all the time, and i like to think i'm paying close attention.

deepeasttexas nailed it. nothing in the game or the show really is a wasted interaction. it's hard to explain without getting too spoilery, but the timeline skips ahead here and there as they travel. the pieces of the timeline we see are important to the story. i'm sure they kill tons of runners and clickers in the in-between time, but that's not the point of the game's story. we saw bill get shot and his care for frank with his hurried instructions. he's not just some guy who chuckles when his booby traps work. now it matters. now it's more than the game it was, because of frank, and because of frank, bill has changed. that's what makes a good story. bill consented for frank to fix the place up a bit. he later says in the episode that he wasn't scared until frank came along. he changed over the course of the episode, in a loving and caring and amazing way. so when he gets shot, we see the depth of their care for each other. bill has made contingincies for frank, because of course he did. but it also underlined how close bill and joel become. there is so much implied off screen work (including the blowjob) going on in this episode and they dont insult the viewer by pounding it home that joel and bill are close in the fashion they can be given who they each are. we get bill and frank's relationship. joel and tess at dinner. then joel and ellie finding the letter. goddamn, it's so good.

it's a fucking sickness. whoever posted that tweet above where he compared himself to al fucking capone had me in laughing in hysterics. i hate this man. what is wrong with me?

wait, heb is closed. fuck

jesus mary christ, i forgot about that

+1 to aisd for canceling proactively. this is much better to me than shitting around waiting until 7am tomorrow to call it.

you are right in that it had an excacerbating effect, but i've been taking shit from my london colleagues over aisd closing at the drop of a hat for more than a decade now. it seems that no matter what the school district does, it hems and haws and drags its feet and ends up making the wrong decision anyways. fuck it. err on the side of caution if you are uncertain. cancel. just fucking make the decision so people can plan. also, understand that you aren't dallas or houston. we are austin. don't stay open just to stay open. this city can't handle it. talk to the surrounding districts, maybe. coordinate. plan. HAVE A PLAN. fuck. even if you don't, just make one. call it. that all makes sense. but everything seems to be doing that heading south thing when you can sense things are wrong, you don't know why, but you just know. when the messages are all mixed, its time to just cancel everything.

this i get, and this should be the message. but this is ominously reminiscent of that snow day aisd wouldn't cancel, then people couldn't get their kids because it started snowing at noon or whatever. how is there not a fucking clearly eloquted (is that a word?) policy for this shit by now? we fucking know this is going to happen a couple of times a year. put a fucking time and temp and precip or not on it and let's all move forward with our lives. it's the fucking wishy-washy guessing i can't stand.

i don't fucking get it either. i keep text my wife "what am i missing," checking my phone, getting more alerts of places closing, looking outside, i see nothing. a cold day in january. i mean, are we going to cancel over a cold rainy day? jesus. i don't even see it getting below 32. sure, that'll freeze some overpasses, maybe. delay school or cancel it, i don't really care. but i'm not at all ready for mass power outages or my gas heat going off. what the hell am i missing?

and i've repped everyone in this thread since that episode because.

so i don't know what to say. that was an amazing episode. i'm still reeling. for those of you asking if that was in the game, i'll answer in spoiler tags, but i'm not spoiling anything, i don't think. and they did it in a way that i don't think i'll ever see done again. that was incredible. just fucking incredible.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11692549/Memphis-DA-rule-charges-against-officers-scene-Tyre-Nichols-beating.html huh. weird.

because there are way way way more racists out there than we realize. modding this relatively sane board exposes me to plenty of racism and has since the shag days. you can definitely see it in the rep histories for sure. i always find it funny that people think that's anonymous. warning: if you go looking you will be disappointed at some point or another. they are everywhere.

wait, who is norwegian?