The DVD rental kiosk company was supposed to pay $16.7 million in three installments. After missing the first payment, there’s a court order to pay the whole balance.
I remember working at Blockbuster when they pulled that. It was called “No More Late Fees”. No late fees ever, return your video whenever you’d like^1^!
^1^ If not returned after two weeks, we assume you wanted to buy it for the current full retail price and charge your credit card on file accordingly.
I remember when the N64 came out. I was an assistant manager, so when we got a couple of N64 rental units, I commandeered one of them that first day and played the fuck out of Mario and Wave Race.
‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ handed keys to new Texas home 85 years after racist mob burned it down
This implies that 85 years ago a racist mob burned down the new Texas home that she was just handed the keys to, which makes no sense.
A better way to word it would be “‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ handed keys to new Texas home 85 years after racist mob burned her childhood house down”. I get that it’s at the same site, but the home she’s moving into isn’t the same one that was burned down.
Whether it’s obvious or not has no bearing on the fact that it’s an awkwardly-worded title.
This…this right here is the reason I quit playing this game, the reason I couldn’t quite put my finger on. It was just too fucking disjointed, you are so right.
Like Dave and Buster’s play cards and games that cost 7.8 credits (at least right now, higher weekend evenings because of dynamic pricing) and needing to get out a fucking calculator to do the conversion from dollars to points to figure out you are spending $3.72 or whatever to play a single shitty game.
The most fun I had in Starfield was probably a zero-G fight at one point, can’t remember if it was the main storyline or not. But I got as far as the final main quest line fight, after which New Game+ would become available. I realized before going into it that…I just didn’t care. And I am not one to experience the sunken cost fallacy. So I just logged out, canceled Xbox PC Game Pass, and did something else.
(Cuz I know I’ll get downvoted to hell if I don’t clarify, Kiss Me Kate is a Cole Potter Porter musical. You’re not sheltered if you didn’t know that; I’m just super fucking old. Srsly, I found two gray hairs the other day in my ear, and one on it.)
The correct answer (if you were me): Tell the entire family to suck my rainbow-spangled cock, flip 'em every single bird, and get a place together with grandma in SoCal, but not before going on the most epic road trip imaginable. There is a movie script here, I can feel it.
alt-text“a Pontiac Vibe with a huge check engine light in the back window and a cluster of bumper stickers that read: remember if you honk all you honk at me i will honk if you get any closer you have to i honk honk if you will if myself want honk if you have ever been personally victimized by honk”
Remember, honk if you honk all you. If anything at me, I will honk honk. If you get any closer, I have to honk. If, if you will…if I honk myself, want honk if you have. Ever been personally victimized by honk? CHECK ENGINE. 🖕
To preface: I hate the fuck put of both stores for the bigotry they fund, and I never spend money at either place.
That being said, I wonder if you’ve considered who will be responsible for unclogging those toilets. It won’t be the executives who are responsible for it. It will be a young person who may not agree with the bigotry the company funds but works there because they have bills to pay like the rest of us.
“I’ve experiments to run, there is research to be done, for the people who are still alive.” GlaDOS
Aww, it’s nice that their company isn’t all rainbow capitalism, that they are putting their money where their mouth is by funding research into reducing the suicide rate among the queer community…
…Seven of Nine and Rafi got their own command. Stamets and Culber remained a loving couple throughout (apart from Culver’s unfortunate temporary death) and adopted a young enby who had their own growth throughout the series while everyone respected their pronouns. Nurse Chapel is a bi woman who withdrew her application to a fellowship at the Vulcan Science Council, essentially telling them “your fellowship ain’t ready for me”.
I wouldn’t consider their queer identities to be conveniences or their character arcs to be simple plot points by any stretch of the imagination. retconning Sulu as gay? Maybe. Agender computer genius aliens stealing the ship or a third-gender alien’s romantic encounter with Riker? Okay, sure.
But the latest Trek serieses put queer people in space and haven’t been using them as lip service or exclusively as minor supporting characters. They’ve been full-fledged characters whose queer identities the audience was been made aware of and shown that, in the future, the bigots lose because their queerness doesn’t define them…it is just a part of who they are. They are masters of their own destinies.
(That being said, as much as I hate the lip service stuff, I do wish they’d have thrown us a bone with Detmer and Owosekun because c’mon…enough queerbaiting already.)
Both of my teenage children and I happen to be non-binary. The scene in Discovery where Adira is semi-asleep at a console and Culber comes in using the wrong pronouns to refer to Adira, and Stamets corrects him and tells him Adira uses they/them pronouns, and Culber shifts seamlessly into it and the two of them have an entire conversation about them…that scene legit had me squeeing. I’d never seen such an exchange happen in any show, and it was perfection. It was meant to show well-meaning allies who struggle with gender-neutral pronouns how simple they are to use and how meaningful and important it is to honor them because the people who use them are important.
They’ve had out, badass prominent characters whose identities don’t define them in the last three live action Star Trek series, spitting in the face of the aNTi-wOkE haters who claim to love Star Trek but have only ever watched it through their own particular bigoted myopic lenses. What do you want them to do? Invent an actual time machine to do rewrites of TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT?
The best way to apologize is to learn from your mistakes and do better in the future. The Star Trek show runners have taken this to heart, so I don’t know what more you want from them. (And I say this as a long-time, trans, leftist Star Trek fan.)
I’m commenting here to follow in case someone replies with images similar to OP’s featuring Kilometer changes to Rod Serling, 2 Chainz, and Eddie Furlong.
I remember Forsaken on N64. I worked at Blockbuster, and that was the one and only game I’d recommend to people at the time. It changed what I knew a video game to be (not long after Super Mario 64 did the same). +
I wish I could get those all-dressed chips where I live (Texas) whenever I wanted. Best I can do is get Clancy’s (store brand) from Aldi when they are in season.
After I’ve downed an entire bag and a half in one sitting, my mouth is full of ulcers and the farts my ass is emitting are most definitely well-seasoned.
Are you saying you want three boyfriends but for them to not be allowed to date anyone besides you? Because that’s called a harem and I don’t know anyone…male, female, or otherwise…who would be interested in something so inequitable.
If you’d not have a problem with your three boyfriends having other partners, then that is literally being polyamorous.
Agreed, but what I wrote wasn’t intended to imply that at all. I posited two scenarios, both of which would require full knowledge and consent of all parties: OP has three boyfriends who know about one another but are not permitted to have other partners of their own (harem), and one in which they know about each other and are free to date other people (polyamory).
Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday....
As civilian casualties continue to mount in the wartorn Gaza Strip, reports of Israel's use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its targeting of Hamas militants are facing increasing scrutiny. A report by the Israeli outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call earlier this month said that Israeli forces had relied heavily on two AI...
And that is fine for you, and for anyone who refers to it as their chosen name, whether they are trans or cis.
But when someone else mentions that Name is a trans person’s “chosen name”, what a bigot’s brain says is “well, I choose to call [them] Deadname which their mom gave [them].”
I shared a house with a partner during the pandemic. She was a gusher. So to save having to wash and replace her sheets all the time, she’d lay a dog blanket down any time she was having sex. And we are polyamorous, so she was having a fair amount between me and her two other partners.
Not to mom shame... (lemmy.world)
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Redbox missed a multimillion-dollar payment it couldn’t afford to miss (www.theverge.com)
The DVD rental kiosk company was supposed to pay $16.7 million in three installments. After missing the first payment, there’s a court order to pay the whole balance.
‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ handed keys to new Texas home 85 years after racist mob burned it down (www.independent.co.uk)
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Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset (www.gamespot.com)
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Mama Janeway puts in her two cents:...
Ireland rule
Why do we have Pride? (lemmy.world)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f9387b2e-35d6-4c55-b7f3-b8d98747f826.jpeg...
Honk rule (sh.itjust.works)
alt-text“a Pontiac Vibe with a huge check engine light in the back window and a cluster of bumper stickers that read: remember if you honk all you honk at me i will honk if you get any closer you have to i honk honk if you will if myself want honk if you have ever been personally victimized by honk”
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Don't give me none of that jazz! (lemmy.world)
Which is which? (sh.itjust.works)
3dfx Voodoo - the graphics card that revolutionized PC gaming (www.pcgamesn.com)
The Trouble with Transporters [CGP Grey video] (youtu.be)
Reminder rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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The future is here (sh.itjust.works)
New Voyager Opening Credits (more in body) (lemmy.world)
These are not mine, but I love them....
"Thought-Terminating Cliches" (lemmy.world)
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Polyamorule (files.catbox.moe)
Gonna need to be a full on poly commune at this rate if prices keep going up.
2 men are charged with cutting down famous 150-year-old tree near Hadrian's Wall in England (apnews.com)
Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday....
Israel's 'Where's Daddy?' AI system helps target suspected Hamas militants when they're at home with their families, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
As civilian casualties continue to mount in the wartorn Gaza Strip, reports of Israel's use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its targeting of Hamas militants are facing increasing scrutiny. A report by the Israeli outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call earlier this month said that Israeli forces had relied heavily on two AI...
Vatican calls gender fluidity and surrogacy threats to human dignity (www.theguardian.com)
I am so tired of the whole “cool pope” thing with Francis. It’s 100% PR.
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No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul (www.rockpapershotgun.com)