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| Topic | How does a fish always know how much they weigh? |
| Zanzenburger 03/16/20 1:54:26 PM #37 | TropicMoon10 posted... I remember you :o last time I was here you were engaged I believe? I hope married life has treated you both well!Wow, that long huh? Yeah, we've been married for eight years! No kids yet though. But I'm a mod now! :D --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | How does a fish always know how much they weigh? |
| Zanzenburger 03/15/20 10:21:58 PM #24 | Damn dude, awesome seeing you again. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Bernie's gonna exploit this shit hard on Sunday during debate. |
| Zanzenburger 03/15/20 7:31:38 PM #10 | I wonder if the Tuesday primaries will have lower old person turnout due to virus scare and higher young person turnout due to cancelled colleges and closed businesses. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | 'Youre being racist if you are avoiding places frequented by chinese travellers' |
| Zanzenburger 03/15/20 6:43:54 AM #7 | I don't recall anyone saying that about travellers. People have said to avoid travellers from China from the beginning. They were calling racist the people avoiding Chinese restaurants and Asian people walking by they assumed were Chinese. First, there is no way to guarantee they are even Chinese to begin with. Second, even if they are, it is racist to assume they have been to China or even have ties to China. Second, Chinese restaurants are about as American as any other restaurant. They don't import food from China. Avoiding them is just paranoia. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Grocery stores are off the hook right now |
| Zanzenburger 03/14/20 3:12:05 PM #33 | Lost_All_Senses posted... Did this play while you were chasing carts?I laughed way too hard at this. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | most of us are already infected |
| Zanzenburger 03/13/20 7:15:28 AM #11 | Autocraticus posted... We are the walking dead.Came in expecting this. Was not disappointed. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | I work at a college, and pretty much all of the events for the rest of the... |
| Zanzenburger 03/11/20 3:43:14 PM #2 | By the end of the week, I have to make the call whether or not to A) keep offices open or closed for the next few weeks and B) transition all our classes online for the next few weeks. Not an easy decision to make. People will be upset either way no matter what I choose, so I will probably be going with the side of caution on this one. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | so are school graduations probably fucked about now? |
| Zanzenburger 03/11/20 3:39:27 PM #13 | Yeah it sucks. We are having meetings on whether or not to cancel the upcoming spring graduation for our campus. They're not even talking about postponing it. Either it's happening on the original date or it isn't. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Lego teasing a Mario collaboration? |
| Zanzenburger 03/10/20 11:22:09 AM #7 | I'm curious how a Lego Mario game would be all that different from Paper Mario. They are relatively similar humor-wise. I guess it's just whether you want an RPG or a beat-em-up/platformer. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Do you ever still use checks for anything? |
| Zanzenburger 03/10/20 11:19:13 AM #36 | I did for my small business I ran for a while. Most vendors were too small to have a website or credit card reader, so I paid them in checks. I also pay my property manager for a property I own in checks, and give her signed checks to make payments related to our property. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | For a pixar release, Onward is flopping. |
| Zanzenburger 03/09/20 2:21:23 PM #20 | Most trailers I saw for it made the movie look painfully generic. There was only one trailer I saw that made the movie more interesting, and it was when they revealed --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events. *SPOILERS* |
| Zanzenburger 03/07/20 10:01:53 PM #21 | saspa posted... I mean, the answers they give are kinda weaksalt but I can't hold it against the show because it does warn me every episode against watching this show.For real. The fact that the henchmen got happy endings while some of the nicest people got horrible endings (the librarian's being by far the worse, and with an audience to boot) really pissed me off. But again, I was warned repeatedly about it, and I didnt listen. <_< --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | So uh, this is a real scene in the Sonic movie? |
| Zanzenburger 03/07/20 1:34:48 PM #20 | I'm glad the jokes in this movie were received so well. It really was a hilarious movie and more people need to see it. Jim Carrey nailed that role. His unexpected dance number followed by the interruption had me in stitches. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Do you remember the first time you saw bare female breasts? |
| Zanzenburger 03/05/20 8:39:10 PM #26 | First I saw were in Titanic. First in person was in my theatre club in high school where we used coed dressing rooms for shows. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Why are people poor? |
| Zanzenburger 03/05/20 7:19:47 AM #14 | Default1234 posted... Most people who are poor have been poor for many generations. It's much harder to get out of that situation when you have little to start with. The people who come from middle class families and end up poor are usually due to bad choices or bad luck. Some drug addicts who end up homeless actually were brought up in decent households.This. There is a combination of effort and luck involved. I grew up dirt poor and it took me 30 years to move up to middle class. I did all things "right" to move up the economic ladder but it also took some luck to get there. For example, one of the well-paying jobs I received I got because I shared the same first name as my supervisor. My qualifications and hard work got me the interview, but when it came down to me and one other person, my name is what gave me the edge (according to my supervisor). It's things like that you cannot control. That would have made the difference between making a crapton more money or being unemployed. The ability to overcome poorness depends on many luck factors, like getting into the school you want, getting the job you applied for, or simply just not getting sick or having your car break down at a crucial point in your job. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Democratic Primary (Post-)Super Tuesday (#6) |
| Zanzenburger 03/04/20 4:08:20 PM #289 | ThyCorndog posted... I don't think the DNC is to blame at all this time except for the centron shenanigans the day before yesterday, but that's just standard political maneuvering and not cheating in any way. personally i'm just mad at the country in general cause apparently I don't see eye to eye with the average voterThis is how I feel about the situation. Is it scummy? Sure. Illegal or cheating? It's not. People just seemed to respond to those last-minute tactics. It's disappointing, but that's just how our political landscape is. With that being said, it's still a pretty close race between the two overall. At least for now. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | As much as Supernatural sucks sometimes... |
| Zanzenburger 03/04/20 11:31:42 AM #2 | lol I'm watching it for the first time and I think I stopped at around Season 11 too. Maybe made it into a few episodes into 12. I feel it just drags at that point. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Flat Zone is like a 10/10 banger. |
| Zanzenburger 02/28/20 9:36:12 PM #14 | Timohtep posted... Flat Zone 2 sounds like two pixels having a shouting match in a supermarketLMAO --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Pokémon the first movie in 3d goes up on Netflix tomorrow |
| Zanzenburger 02/28/20 9:13:50 AM #42 | Makeveli_lives posted... Sad to report brother my brother...has been cut from the movieDid they replace it with anything or is it just devoid if music during that part? Also, does the 3D affect the tearjerker moments for anyone who has seen it? --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Kids Next Door is a show where you side more with the villains as you age. |
| Zanzenburger 02/28/20 7:13:35 AM #17 | It's interesting, because for every nefarious adult that had an actually "evil" plan like enslavement or brainwashing, many adults were just doing parent things like making their kids go to school or eat their vegetables. Then the KND would blow it out of proportion and turn it into a battle. Though the funniest episode to me was when the boys discovered a girl's bra and couldn't figure out what it was for, thinking it was "Battle-Ready Armor". Then, when confronted and asked what a bra was for, Numbah 5' older sister was stuttering and hesitating trying to explain its use to a bunch of 10yo boys. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | I think Iceman should get a solo movie. |
| Zanzenburger 02/27/20 11:11:29 PM #14 | Skye Reynolds posted... Oh, Ice, Ice, Baby has gotta be on the soundtrack.I can already imagine the trailer for the movie using that song. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Watched Addams Family 2019 tonight... *spoilers* |
| Zanzenburger 02/27/20 11:08:09 PM #4 | I appreciate that they expanded their focus to include the whole family, and not just Wednesday and Gomez like they usually do. Particularly, the main plot of the film centered around Pugsley, which hardly ever happens in the movies and TV shows. Usually he's just some normal kid. Here he actually had a quirky personality as a demolitions enthusiast. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder coming soon to Disney+ |
| Zanzenburger 02/27/20 5:52:35 PM #20 | Kami_no_Kami posted... This show always seemed really off putting to me, but its been so long I dont remember why...Everyone on the show was just so unlikeable. I mean Penny was generally okay as the voice of reason in the episode but even she got into the unbearable territory every now and then. I always found it weird how much they punished Oscar, when he was no more insufferable than anyone else on the show. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | I've been watching Yu Gi Oh lately... |
| Zanzenburger 02/27/20 5:39:56 PM #2 | "Aim for the horn!" --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder coming soon to Disney+ |
| Zanzenburger 02/27/20 5:37:35 PM #17 | Beveren_Rabbit posted... hope they treat Oscar better in this show. He did nothing wrong.Based on the cover art in that Twitter post, doesn't look like it. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Democratic Primary General Topic 4-0 |
| Zanzenburger 02/27/20 5:18:50 PM #57 | s0nicfan posted... I suppose it's theoretically possible to win by taking a close second in every state while everyone else takes turns winning, but her performance thus far doesn't even slightly indicate she's in a position to take a close second anywhere.I think Bernie is benefiting more from this strategy, where I can see him consistently ranking either 1st or 2nd place in every state. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Democratic Primary General Topic 3-0 |
| Zanzenburger 02/27/20 11:34:24 AM #498 | Really funny how the general view has switched from Bloomberg vs. Sanders to Biden vs. Sanders again. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Anyone want to do a year long get fit topic? |
| Zanzenburger 02/27/20 12:25:23 AM #49 | I used to run long distances, but now I get winded after one mile. These last few months have not been kind to me. Starting at a smaller pace, running 1.5 miles a day. I will work up to running a 5k every other day and then go from there. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Democratic Primary General Topic 3-0 |
| Zanzenburger 02/26/20 5:03:37 PM #474 | Antifar posted... Just for my own sake, I did a little Super Tuesday mathOklahoma voted for Bernie in 2016 for what it's worth. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Anyone want to do a year long get fit topic? |
| Zanzenburger 02/26/20 7:57:03 AM #43 | An_Actual_Chad posted... I'm parked outside the gym right now. I'm thinking I'm gonna skip and go home, though. My legs are painfully tired from work. I was gonna go down in weight today anyway, because I really struggled with deadlifting 285x5 on Monday. I feel like if I did 295 today like I planned, that could be dangerous. Wanted to do 255 today and climb my way back up in future workouts, but nah man. My body needs a rest. Back has been feeling kind of shitty, too, so I'll let it heal for a couple days.It's important to take a break and not overdo it. As long as this does not become a recurring habit, it is fine to rest when you need it. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Anyone want to do a year long get fit topic? |
| Zanzenburger 02/25/20 9:20:30 PM #39 | Ran for 20 minutes today and did some back and shoulder workouts. Just trying to get into the groove of things. Will check weight tomorrow. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Anyone want to do a year long get fit topic? |
| Zanzenburger 02/25/20 9:51:54 AM #30 | Sure, I'll join. My wife just got a new job and had to move 4 hours away. We're pretty much living apart until I get a job in the area (however long that takes). It sucks overall, but on the bright side I'll have more free time to workout. I just got off a long medical procedure so I need to work off the pounds I've gained during it. Last week I was at 224. Started running and have lost 2 pounds so far to 222, though I imagine it's water weight. Gonna be running 6 days a week with strength workouts thrown in between. Will occasionally post updates if I remember to. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Democratic Primary General Topic 3-0 |
| Zanzenburger 02/24/20 11:55:50 AM #38 | ThyCorndog posted... how do mail in ballots work? I live in NY and there's a very good chance i'll be working in another state on election day. if I request an absentee ballot, how soon does it get to me? like would I want to send it to my NY address or the other one?I'm doing this this year. It varies by state, but in Florida, you go online and find your voter information and request the mail-in ballot. You can have them send it to your registered address or choose a different address to send it to. It usually arrives pretty quickly, within 3-5 days. You follow the instructions on the ballot and then mail it back. The postage was also pre-paid. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Democratic Primary General Topic 3-0 |
| Zanzenburger 02/23/20 9:05:54 PM #3 | Altacct posted... tag --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Which Metroid Prime handled beams the best? |
| Zanzenburger 02/21/20 10:50:05 PM #18 | An_Actual_Chad posted... I never played the 3rd. But the stacking system sounds the most like traditional Metroid, and I don't see how not having to switch all the time would be a bad thing. Anyone care to explain why they think it is?I don't think stacking is a bad thing. I just think switching adds another level of strategy to the game as you decide which beam is most appropriate in a given situation. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Which Metroid Prime handled beams the best? |
| Zanzenburger 02/21/20 10:48:56 PM #17 | I'm part of the minority that liked 2's system best. Prime 1 was okay, but I never found myself using the power beam later in the game unless it was for beating a power beam pirate or to use the super missile. The other beams outclassed it and made it useless. Prime 2 made the power beam useful the whole game as it was the only beam with unlimited ammo. The other three beams, while needing ammo, were also much more powerful in comparison. The nova beam dealt ridiculous damage, making the double ammo use worth it. Between the two games, I found myself naturally balancing my use of the four beams in Prime 2 more often than Prime 1. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Peanuts accidentally makes a racist tweet |
| Zanzenburger 02/21/20 10:24:20 PM #50 | Turbam posted... What bothers me the most is that the kid is just a black Charlie BrownWow how did I never notice that before now. Can't unsee. o_o --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Ah, yes! At last! Nick News with Linda Ellerbee is on! |
| Zanzenburger 02/21/20 9:51:40 PM #13 | Just came in to say that I misread the title as Naked News and cringed. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Democratic primary general topic 2 |
| Zanzenburger 02/21/20 9:08:27 PM #306 | Damn, Bernie is dominating every state and national poll these last two weeks. Like, while second through fourth place keeps changing, first place is the one staying the most consistently constant. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Do people still play DDR (Dance Dance Revolution)? |
| Zanzenburger 02/21/20 12:37:21 PM #37 | I played DDR for exercise up until last year. But then I moved and I just have not bothered setting up the old systems they are in. I have the PS2 and Wii versions. They are just too old and I have too many systems set up as it is so it is inconvenient. I'd wish they would do a release on any of the newer systems but that's not gonna happen. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Statistical discontinuities |
| Zanzenburger 02/21/20 6:28:03 AM #4 | Neat. I am teaching a statistics class so this will be cool to show them. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Would Shallow Hal be called a toxic film now? |
| Zanzenburger 02/20/20 7:48:20 AM #22 | That scene at the burn ward gets me every time. :( --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Bloomberg: Young people support Bernie because they're dumb. |
| Zanzenburger 02/19/20 11:47:25 PM #10 | BakonBitz posted... I mean, they don't understand taxes have to go up in order for a lot of Bernie's plans to work, so he's right in a sense.People understand that just fine. They are willing to pay more taxes to get better access to things like healthcare and college. One would have to crunch numbers to determine whether the increase in taxes would still save money from the decrease in college costs/insurance premiums/etc, but the idea (hope?) is that they would. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Democratic primary general topic 1 |
| Zanzenburger 02/19/20 6:09:05 PM #238 | IfGodCouldDie posted... Wait, how is money being directly funneled into a campaign mean anything? If most of the people working on your campaign volunteers what, other than tv ads and venues would most candidates be needing money for?Many staffers are paid, particularly those that organize the volunteers. Marketing is also expensive. Consider yard signs, t shirts, travel to rallies, security detail, and that's not even getting to expensive TV ads and internet ads. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Remember that movie Sucker Punch |
| Zanzenburger 02/18/20 2:47:45 PM #34 | Tyranthraxus posted... The "real world" is just the beginning at the mansion and the mental hospital. The brothel and anything that followed was all in her head.The brothel was in her head? So everything that happens after the beginning is in her head? I may have to rewatch the movie as it's been a while and my memory seems to be hazy. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Remember that movie Sucker Punch |
| Zanzenburger 02/18/20 2:36:01 PM #32 | I enjoyed the movie stylistically, but plotwise it just took me out of the immersion when the fight scenes happened since they had no consequence. Since we knew from the beginning the action scenes were all in her head, and nothing in the fantasy world had any effect in the real world, it just kept me from being invested. I would have enjoyed the movie more if there was some link between the fantasy world and the real world and one affected the other in a significant way (i.e. the fantasy world was a real place). As it stands, I enjoyed the real-world parts more because there was more tension since there were actual stakes there. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | What video games have characters reference game mechanics? |
| Zanzenburger 02/18/20 2:33:50 PM #33 | I believe the Pokemon games do this a few times. There's of course the blatant ones like the Game Freak developers talking about the game, so it doesn't count per TC's specifications. A good example typically involves a character mentioning how you get a specific item or other reward for having played/beat a previous game in the series. A good example is in Pokemon Sword/Shield where a character gives you either an Eevee or Pikachu if you have a save file for Let's Go Eevee or Pikachu, but says it in a way where she doesn't quite understand what she's saying. I don't remember the exact words, but she says something like "you can only have this pokemon if you have a special bond with it from a previous adventure" or something like that. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | 'The Flash' actor COMES OUT A GAY. Is he hot? |
| Zanzenburger 02/17/20 11:59:50 AM #24 | On an unrelated note, Barry's friendship with Supergirl is one of the best plutonic male/female relationships I've seen on TV. I loved the musical episode they had together. They are just the perfect couple that would be ruined if they became an actual couple. Their chemistry works so well. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | New Bernie Sanders "Phone Sex" Hotline |
| Zanzenburger 02/15/20 8:26:22 PM #3 | Also TIL there is a group called Hot Girls for Bernie. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
| Topic | Ya know, I usually put my resume out there to test the waters, see what I can |
| Zanzenburger 02/15/20 6:30:51 PM #4 | My wife just got a new job so we have to relocate. She is going ahead while I stay at my job until I get something at our new city. It's rough out there. One job has over 200 applications from recruiters I've talked to. And at my level, jobs are in fewer supply so that makes it worse. I've applied to 15 jobs in the last month (only applying to something that pays the same or more as my current job), have been invited for one interview and received one rejection from another. Still have not heard back from the rest. --- Congratulations! Your post was deemed response-worthy. |
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