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| Topic | Do you have political disagreements with your s/o? |
| MagnusX 11/12/23 4:52:53 PM #12 | Can't think of a single political argument in the 15 years we've been together. We're both very liberal. I'd never be able to or want to be in a relationship with a person who is socially conservative. |
| Topic | Are you gonna get Super Mario RPG remake? |
| MagnusX 11/06/23 8:07:47 PM #24 | No, don't have a Switch and no desire to get one. I do have the SNES cartridge (CIB) and a SNES if I want to play it. |
| Topic | Why is Blink 182 all mature now? |
| MagnusX 11/05/23 9:51:46 AM #4 | I streamed their set at Coachella weekend one in April and their stage banter was still mostly dick and fart jokes. They may be in their fifties but they're still mentally in their late teens/early twenties. |
| Topic | How did you first learn about Sir Joseph Rogan? |
| MagnusX 11/03/23 10:34:04 AM #17 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote] |
| Topic | I never finished chrono trigger. Barely remember it. |
| MagnusX 10/31/23 8:28:46 PM #8 | I think it still holds up as one of the goat jrpgs, but it was also the first one I ever played not long after its release, so it's hard to think around my bias. It was made by the dream team, after all. Seeing all 11? endings is fairly easy with NG+ and the music is unparalleled. Check out Sea of Stars if you want a modernized homage and lots of direct and indirect nods to CT. Music by the same guy too, and you can def hear leitmotifs and ideas from CT get referenced. |
| Topic | Are you the type of person who makes small talk with strangers? |
| MagnusX 10/31/23 8:15:09 PM #23 | IceCreamOnStero posted... No. I don't want to be bothered by strangers, so I don't bother them either. |
| Topic | Are solo musicians really solo? |
| MagnusX 10/30/23 11:45:19 AM #11 | Doe posted... I didn't know this. That's very coolStevie Wonder was virtually a one man band during his peak and recorded most of the instruments during his classic period in the 70s. Plus Prince as noted, Kevin Parker as Tame Impala, Beck, etc etc etc. To your point, session/studio musicians also don't get enough credit for literally making the music because whoever writes the lyrics is the principle songwriter. Still lots of relatively true solo artists as well though. |
| Topic | Do you like Bon Jovi? |
| MagnusX 10/29/23 10:22:51 PM #4 | Yes. I also dig Jon Bovi. |
| Topic | You are sent back in time and get $5 Billion |
| MagnusX 10/29/23 6:31:14 PM #35 | If my partner could come with me, likely 1963 and entirely to be able to see acts like Floyd, Santana, Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Joplin, Byrds, Hollies, CSNY, Donovan, Supremes, Grateful Dead, Kinks, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, B.B. King, Simon & Garfunkel, et al live at most points in their careers. My actual vinyl collection is already large enough, with that cash ($50b in 2023) I'd have a copy of every album ever released. Hell, I'd work my way into the music industry as a producer or engineer or drum tech or whatever and end up on all these records myself in various capacities. Go to Woodstock, drop acid at Haight-Ashbury, listen to Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X, help with civil rights movement, watch the moon landing, etc etc etc. 53 would be too culturally conservative and 73 would be too late for most of what I'd want to experience, though I would definitely miss all the modern tech advancements. I likely wouldn't be alive long after the internet became common for most people, so I'd make fucktons of money near the end of my life based of knowledge of the future, with a will for 99% of it to be used in a philanthropic nature, with tons of trusts and money put into public education, the arts, ethical food production and consumption, affordable housing, UBI, etc. Boarded by committees of people with education and experience in those fields, with donations decided by a vote of the people it would affect. Yeah. |
| Topic | favorite way to eat eggs? |
| MagnusX 10/28/23 8:05:00 PM #18 | Eggs benny if I'm not making it myself Omelette sandwich if I am (garlic, onion, tomatoes, spinach, bacon, turkey, thyme, basil, oregano, rosemary, marjoram, salt, pepper, and shredded marble cheese in the omelette, with Morning Rounds-like bread, mayo, and Havarti cheese) |
| Topic | Are the Mass Effect games worth playing years later? |
| MagnusX 10/27/23 6:49:04 PM #3 | Just played through the Legendary Edition, first time playing ME at all (paragon sentinel, Insanity run, got all achievements). Some things are still a little wonky like equipping in 1 but overall a great experience. |
| Topic | Is the problem the guns or something else? |
| MagnusX 10/27/23 6:46:13 PM #17 | It's 100% guns. You Americans are fucking insane with your gun worship. |
| Topic | Best Mike Flannigan short series? |
| MagnusX 10/27/23 6:06:35 PM #4 | Watched them all once. Hill House > Usher > Bly Manor > Midnight Mass > Midnight Club |
| Topic | Do you have a flag of any country flying outside of your residence? |
| MagnusX 10/26/23 8:37:59 PM #21 | No, flag worship is weird. |
| Topic | Why isn't your job unionized? |
| MagnusX 10/26/23 8:33:58 PM #6 | It is. It's great. |
| Topic | Does your living situation have a back door? |
| MagnusX 10/24/23 8:39:03 PM #5 | A side door into the garage and a patio door on the back, not a proper door. |
| Topic | Anyone else hyped for When We Were Young this weekend? |
| MagnusX 10/19/23 5:04:21 PM #38 | Dope lineup, even if the genre isn't my fave. One day fests blow ass though, I'll take a regular three day fest over a one day every time. |
| Topic | I'm playing "Will It Be Quality Or Crap?" with AliExpress. |
| MagnusX 10/17/23 9:42:40 AM #3 | Trelve posted... It'll be crap. |
| Topic | How many of these video game enemies can you identify? |
| MagnusX 10/15/23 10:41:40 PM #23 | PowerOats posted... Koopa Troopa (Mario) 8 |
| Topic | Fall of the House of Usher out now on Netflix |
| MagnusX 10/12/23 11:23:41 AM #8 | We listened to an audio reading of the title short story a couple days ago, but I think we might listen to a couple other based on the episode titles. Though I know I'm gonna enjoy it, I hope it's closer to Hill House. |
| Topic | Are you familiar with the term "out of pocket" and its slang meaning? |
| MagnusX 10/10/23 1:31:01 PM #9 | I know the phrase as paying in full up front, usually cash. Or maybe the musical sense, as I'm a drummer, but that usually has the definitive "the pocket". The example reads as out of your league/knowledge/capability, so likely not the same idiom. |
| Topic | Are you gonna get Super Mario Bros. Wonder? |
| MagnusX 10/08/23 12:52:53 PM #21 | I checked out of the Nintendo ecosystem during the Wii years and generally don't miss it. Some Switch games seem interesting but never enough for me to buy a handheld console. |
| Topic | Playing Cards Against Humanity with a 6 and 8 year old gets dark |
| MagnusX 10/08/23 8:40:37 AM #8 | Rotterdammerung posted... Not even sure what that is.The family version that predates CAH by a decade but is otherwise almost exactly the same thing. Silly cards, not adult/edgy/dark cards. |
| Topic | how does symphony of the night hold up? |
| MagnusX 10/07/23 1:40:05 AM #34 | WalkingLobsters posted... nah unfortunately. I played bloodstained a few years ago and enjoyed it a lotThe first Bloodstained is a modernized NES Castlevania, the second is a modernized SotN, with returning voice actors, similar map layout and hidden room cues, etc. It's amazing and holds up well, cheesy dialogue and hilarious delivery notwithstanding. I try to play it in October. Best time is ~6.5 hours for complete non-glitched map coverage. |
| Topic | Do you support same sex marriage? |
| MagnusX 10/05/23 10:48:24 PM #28 | Same sex marriage is just marriage, so of course yes. |
| Topic | Loki Season 2 Episode 1 Topic *SPOILERS* |
| MagnusX 10/05/23 10:32:48 PM #10 | bsp77 posted... He was great |
| Topic | With Trump being legally outed as a fraud can we annul his entire presidency? |
| MagnusX 10/02/23 6:31:24 AM #15 | NittanyLions23 posted... Zero times has Trump had a majority of the vote.He still got 70 million votes, more than any Republican nominee in history. A third to half the country are fucking insane. |
| Topic | Fuck! I can't believe I missed the opportunity to possibly meet President Trump |
| MagnusX 09/30/23 9:22:29 AM #17 | Vicious_Dios posted... People are perpetually angry 24/7. Mad at the world, and mad at themselves.Says the person who voted for Trump. |
| Topic | which likely best picture nominees are you most excited to see |
| MagnusX 09/28/23 4:53:56 PM #14 | Though I couldn't give less of a fuck about the Oscars, I've seen Barbie, Spider-Man, and Oppenheimer, and looking forward to seeing Flower Moon, Maestro, and Napoleon. Might enjoy others on that list but I've never heard of them so no idea right now. |
| Topic | Trump has been overvaluing his properties to banks to get bigger loans |
| MagnusX 09/27/23 12:42:14 PM #26 | Agonized_rufous posted... If he paid upHahahaha. Dude is infamous for not paying. |
| Topic | What decade was it the last time that you bought music on a physical format? |
| MagnusX 09/27/23 12:05:20 PM #10 | Last week, picked up a gorgeous purple/pink splatter wax of Chicano Batman's third album, Freedom is Free. Saw them at a festival last year and instantly loved their music. Now have three of their four albums on vinyl (all with digital). I don't think I've gone more than a couple months without buying physical media music over the last decade. |
| Topic | Olivia Rodrigo is playing Orlando next year so out of curiosity |
| MagnusX 09/27/23 11:31:52 AM #19 | SimulationSwarm posted... Big dog I read that article and they imply that the tickets were even more than that and that Ticketmaster liedNothing in that implies that the fan saw face value, just that she saw higher prices. I hate Ticketmaster and they need to be regulated, but I've been in those waitlists dozens of times. They hundreds of dollars they see are absolutely resale prices, not face value. Yes, entire shows sell out in 13 minutes. |
| Topic | Olivia Rodrigo is playing Orlando next year so out of curiosity |
| MagnusX 09/27/23 11:18:51 AM #16 | SimulationSwarm posted... They were not $50-200. That was a lie. Theres tik toks about it. Theres articles about it."The site said that GUTS World Tour tickets would range from $49.50 - $199.50 plus taxes and fees in the U.S." https://www.forbes.com/sites/monicamercuri/2023/09/25/some-olivia-rodrigo-fans-feel-blindsided-by-guts-tour-prices-i-was-just-shocked/ As a person who's spent many, many hours buying concert ticket across Canada and the US, I'd be more inclined to believe that bots/scalpers bought up all the pre-sale tickets and people think the ridiculously overpriced scalping prices are face when the regular sale starts and that's all they see. |
| Topic | Olivia Rodrigo is playing Orlando next year so out of curiosity |
| MagnusX 09/27/23 10:43:20 AM #14 | SimulationSwarm posted... Nah apparently they were overpriced to begin with$50-200 is not overpriced for one of the biggest current pop stars. The problem was already posted: [LFAQs-redacted-quote] ai123 posted... The ticketing industry is disgusting and needs regulation. But everyone's making too much money for that to happen. |
| Topic | Read, that at all of trump's celebrity roasts the only thing that was off limits |
| MagnusX 09/27/23 8:46:47 AM #13 | Anyone who believes Trump's statements on his wealth is dumb as fuck. It's fucking amazing to watch his empire of lies falling apart. I hope we get to see how little he's actual worth. |
| Topic | I'm gonna do a Mass Effect trilogy playthrough *series spoilers* |
| MagnusX 09/26/23 10:11:49 PM #63 | I just finished an Insanity trilogy run through the Legendary Edition for my first (and likely last) playthrough. Got all the achievements, relatively little headache outside of a couple of battles. DudeShep, 100% paragon sentinel. While I enjoy the setting and story, I often had my audio switched to my turntable, spinning a lot of vinyl during those dozens of hours, so I missed a lot. Even still, the culmination of it all at the end still has that weight to it, y'know? Kept an autosave before the very last Great games. Try to get explore as much as you can, it's a detail-rich world. Keep a bunch of saves, just in case. |
| Topic | Do you think most americans would vote for a prez with no college degree? |
| MagnusX 09/24/23 4:57:13 PM #19 | GranTurismo posted... you believe that most americans are smarter than trump? How about him possibly being smarter than most of the people who voted for him, though?Trump has never had to file taxes, or change a tire, or budget for groceries, or actually pass a posr secondary course himself, or any actual thing people do. He's smart insofar as he "has" money to "pay" people to do things for him and knows how to rile up angry, bitter people with ignorant and bigoted vitriol. Average people can be suckered into a cult by a charlatan that's dumber than they are. |
| Topic | Usher's House by Mike Flanagan got a 10 from IGN |
| MagnusX 09/24/23 11:00:53 AM #7 | I'm cautiously optimistic for this one. I've enjoyed all his shows, but none have been as good as Hill House. I'm hoping this lands closer to that. |
| Topic | Usher has been chosen as the Super Bowl performer :O |
| MagnusX 09/24/23 10:59:41 AM #5 | Good choice! Not that I'll be watching the game or the halftime show myself, but he is a great artist. |
| Topic | Do you think most americans would vote for a prez with no college degree? |
| MagnusX 09/24/23 9:54:34 AM #8 | Trump had to buy his degree and in no tangible way actually earned it. 70 million hateful people already voted for a person without secondary education. |
| Topic | Whelp, Canada's possible next PM is in favour of the 'Parents' Rights' movement |
| MagnusX 09/23/23 10:44:13 AM #9 | luigi33 posted... More like Trudeau is the biggest fuck up liberal Canada's ever seen.I don't think my eyes can roll enough at the complete stupidity of this. Jesus fucking Christ. |
| Topic | What was this style of browser game called? |
| MagnusX 09/22/23 3:46:37 PM #3 | Utopia possibly? I preferred Earth 2025. |
| Topic | What is your opinion on a 32 hr work week? |
| MagnusX 09/20/23 3:51:01 PM #27 | My union job is 70 hours over two weeks, or 35/week. It's great. Vicious_Dios posted... Should be at least 50 hours a week.Jesus Christ do you have even a single sane opinion? |
| Topic | Do you feel like you "belong" to part of a tight knit community? |
| MagnusX 09/19/23 3:35:53 PM #33 | Nope, mostly because I'm not very interested in being part of a tight knit community. I don't play online/multiplayer games, I've muted the work group chat so I don't have to see it, I have a bunch of friends that I try to see every couple months, but thankfully nothing more than that. My partner and pets fill my need for closeness, and my friends and coworkers fill my social needs. |
| Topic | C/D: You order delivery from Doordash, Uber Eats, or Grubhub |
| MagnusX 09/19/23 12:48:08 AM #12 | CoyoteTheGreat posted... It takes someone less than 1 minute to use a website like doordash dude. This is just nonsensical. Its fine if you want to save money, but you aren't saving any time. If you are going to spend 20 minutes, you might as well cook yourself something healthy rather than eat that shitty fast food.Food isn't going to get to me in 1 minute, I still have to wait, and will likely take more than 20 minutes to be delivered. My view of saving time is from ordering food to eating food. If it takes me less time to do it myself, I've saved time, even if I drove. It's not like I'd be doing anything in between besides mindlessly waiting for food. It usually takes us 40 mins or so to make a meal, so fast food is about half the time. |
| Topic | C/D: You order delivery from Doordash, Uber Eats, or Grubhub |
| MagnusX 09/19/23 12:29:48 AM #10 | CoyoteTheGreat posted... The entire reason people do it is to save time...It takes me less than 20 minutes to get McD's/Subway/KFC/Quesada/etc and be back home on my couch. Not gonna save much time on that, and sure ain't worth the fees. |
| Topic | C/D: You order delivery from Doordash, Uber Eats, or Grubhub |
| MagnusX 09/19/23 12:26:10 AM #7 | D. Never have, never will. Complete waste of money and time. |
| Topic | Should Alex Jones be exiled to Russia? |
| MagnusX 09/18/23 6:51:55 AM #18 | Agonized_rufous posted... He knows too many government secrets to just give to the enemyYeah, he does know the government are making frogs gay. Can't let trade secrets like that spill out. |
| Topic | How to not rage at movies/shows being filmed in the dark pretty much? |
| MagnusX 09/17/23 1:37:39 PM #8 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote] Okay, wtf are y'all doing with your settings. Mando looked great on my decade old plasma. |
| Topic | How to not rage at movies/shows being filmed in the dark pretty much? |
| MagnusX 09/17/23 1:26:50 PM #3 | It could depend on what you're watching and the ambient light in the room, but I've never had a problem with darkness on my decade old Panasonic plasma. Blu-ray, Netflix, Disney+, Crave, YouTube, etc, streaming from an Xbox One S. I never paid for proper calibration, but did mess around with all the settings to optimize for a cinematic experience. Basement home theatre room, one window with blackout curtains. Never been an issue for me. I imagine a newer tv with HDR, especially OLED, would result in less lighting issues. But a sunlit room will still make it worse. |
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