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The episodes so far:

2 > 1 > 4 > 3

Season has been alright. For sure the weakest season if it keeps going like it has.

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Ok, I do not like Tick Tock Clock and Tiny-Huge Island being right next to each other on the poll. When I first glanced at it, I thought it said Tiny Cock Island.

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Cid Highwind

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Yuffie

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Wow, a 1 point difference between #1 and #2. That is crazy considering there were 46 tracks to choose from.

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+10 Bowser (Super Mario Bros.)
+9 The King of All Cosmos (Katamari Damacy)
+8 Naked Snake/Big Boss (Metal Gear)
+7 Raiden (Metal Gear Solid)
+6 Ren "Joker" Amamiya (Persona 5)
+5 Edelgard (Fire Emblem)
+4 Ezio Auditore da Firenze (Assassin's Creed)
+3 Zagreus (Hades)
+2 Kyle Hyde (Hotel Dusk: Room 215)
+1 Ramza Beoulve (Final Fantasy Tactics)

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Raetsel_Lapin posted...

4: Meet Me Inside

This is the most bizarre ranking in the topic. I can't help but think you confused it with something else! Even if you like the characters involved, I can't grasp putting it ahead of Right Hand Man, Stay Alive, and Ten Duel Commandments.

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1. Satisfied
2. The Schuyler Sisters
3. Take a Break
4. You'll Be Back
5. Alexander Hamilton
6. Burn
7. Cabinet Battle #1
8. Right Hand Man
9. My Shot
10. Wait For It
11. Non-Stop
12. Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story
13. Say No To This
14. Ten Duel Commandments
15. Yorktown
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16. What'd I Miss
17. Stay Alive
18. The Election of 1800
19. I Know Him
20. What Comes Next
21. The World Was Wide Enough
22. Dear Theodosia
23. The Story of Tonight
24. Washington On Your Side
25. Aaron Burr, Sir
26. It's Quiet Uptown
27. The Room Where It Happens
28. One Last Time
29. The Story of Tonight (Reprise)
30. History Has Its Eyes On You
31. Stay Alive (Reprise)
32. We Know
33. The Reynolds Pamphlet
34. Your Obedient Servant
35. Helpless
36. Blow Us All Away
37. Farmer Refuted
38. Guns and Ships
39. The Adams Administration
40. Hurricane
41. Cabinet Battle #2
42. That Would Be Enough
43. Best of Wives and Best of Women
44. A Winter's Ball
45. Meet Me Inside
46. Schuyler Defeated

Hamilton is such an amazing play for so many reasons. It's an incredible ability to take a history lesson and make it fascinating without even doing so in a purely dramatic tone, while injecting amazing music and making the characters colorful while still mostly fitting their real life, and none of it seems out of place.

It's a very hard albumn to rank, as I've gone through phases where certain songs are stuck in my head, and I just have this itch where I need to listen to that one over and over...and that applies to almost every single song at one point. And not only is it difficult to rank purely from an audio perspective, but if you factor in the story elements of each song, it's even harder, because some events feel like they should weigh more in a ranking. Some introduce or develope a particular character which makes the song feel more enjoyable, especially in the full context of the album. It's just a very hard thing to do.

Someone here already said they liked the first half better, and while I'd agree (I love the second half too though!), I think there is one obvious reason why: the female characters, while maybe not impactful much in the plot, are a super important part musically. I personally prefer their vocals, but regardless of that, they also act as a palate cleanse of sort, to keep the soundtrack mixed up. The single weakest stretch of the albumn is Room Where It Happened all the way to Hurricane. This is a 9 song stretch where you don't have a single non-ensemble female singing in any song, except for a short 15 second part of Eliza during Schuyler Defeated.

I could spend a couple hours if I wanted to write about each song extensive, but that's just a lot of work. Angelica and Eliza are typically the stars of most songs, which my Top 3 makes obvious. King George is hilarious, and while I like the 2 reprises, the first one is still by far the best. Thomas Jefferson is such a troll, and his trolling is at its best during the first Cabinet Battle, which was one of the hypest moments of the play.

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What exactly are hot pants? In my mind, I was thinking some kind of really tight sweat pants, but I image searched it, and the results are a mixture of bikinis and jean shorts...neither of which are pants (and those are drastically different results anyway).

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The 2 best Gorillaz songs. Both probably in my all time Top 100 songs.

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Is your name a reference to the Saw films?

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This is what Disney does.

I'm glad they are stretching out to TV now though. Leave movies alone for a while. Let TV suffer the pain of everything becoming capeshit.

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No.

On one of the first days of the mask mandates being removed (this was in May), I went out with some friends (all of us vaccinated). Place we went to had a sign that masks were not required for vaccinated people. Probably about 30% of the people were wearing masks. Our group, since vaccinated, were not wearing masks. Someone in our group said, after being inside for about a minute, "wow, it feels nice to not wear a mask anymore", and I, in a very sarcastic and obviously joking voice said, "yeah, but careful, if you don't wear one, people will think you voted for Trump", and she said "Good point" and put her mask on. I thought she did it just to punctuate my joke...but she left it on for the full 1.5 hour we were there...

Honestly, this explains a lot of the Yes votes. But kind of funny.

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Imagine writing a single sentence, and then people lose their mind saying things like "I can't believe this is his identity!" while writing paragraph after paragraph and checking replies for hours. Damn, feels fun to live rent free in everyone's head with only 5 seconds of effort.

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Yuffie

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NBIceman posted...

Still unsolved/open cases

I feel like this is avoiding the question though, because it still involves a type of crime that had to have occurred. It would be like asking someone what their favorite type of food is, and offering fruits, vegetables, pastas, etc, as choices, and they answer by saying "warm food".

Big Bob posted...

Agreed. The Night Stalker Netflix doc was a letdown because they try to avoid "glorifying" Ramirez, but the truth is the guy had such a bizarre upbringing, and was such a strange person in general that it could have been a great way to learn about people like him. Instead they focused on the detective angle, which was less interesting.

Have you seen Don't Fuck with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer? It's one of my favorites, because it focuses heavy on the killer. It actually got mixed reviews because the negative ones didn't like how much it talked about the killer. It's such a fascinating story.


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Serial Killers/Murders

People lately talk that you shouldn't glorify killers by even acknowledging them at all, but I like seeing what makes a person take that dark path. I think it's an interesting psychological study into what can make man go over the edge and turn their life into an irreversible mess. And there is so much variety in a lot of cases that I don't think it's worth ignoring them.

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No, but it's pretty close to neutral.

There are a lot of issues with episodes 8 and 9, though I don't really blame his character for my opinion of those films. He's just a bit too mopey and dull for me to say I like him. He's not bad or anything, and I do like Adam Driver a lot. Kylo Ren is just kind of whatever.

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Inviso posted...

Genesis, more like Exodus

Nice

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Yuffie

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Wet Dry Land was an odd stage. Its gimmick is something that could be cool, or very annoying. I think the stage ended up better than it probably should have been, but it's very understandable how many wouldn't like it. It's also an incredibly ugly looking stage, and always reminded me of some kind of bad early PC graphics demo, even back then, just because of how out of place alot of its elements looked. Still a cool stage, but everything left is cool too.

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This isn't necessarily about tinnitus, or maybe it is. But when you are in a totally quiet environment--no electronics that are humming, no air units that are blowing, no nature sounds, no city noises, etc--does the absolute silence have a sound to you? Or perhaps does your mind play a trick on itself where it imagines something to fill the void even if it's not an actual condition?

Does an almost deafening sound fill in the total silence, something that almost sounds overwhelmingly loud, and yet if you barely tap a table, the new noise sounds clear as day and completely removes the loud sound of "silence"?

I guess just asking if you actually hear nothing at all, or if any kind of noise fills in your perception.

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Walt was a great winner, and among my favorites in the contest. He had a very easy path to victory though, as I voted for him all 6 matches. Meanwhile, Tony Stark, who I also like a lot, I somehow only ended up voting him 1 out of his 6 matches, just due to how loaded his path to the finals was.

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Cool.

The changes aren't big enough to alienate old Switch buyers, but they are decent enough for new buyers.

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Wow, the 4 worst ones are gone already. This is an impressively nice order (Snowmans Land is slightly out of place...but it's middle of the road at best). I'd be ok with any of the remaining ones winning. Mario 64 is that good.

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mnkboy907 posted...

Human characters instead of animals is an odd choice. Who wants to play as a boring person (who is not your own character) rather than Isabelle or KK Slider?

On the contrary though, I think the Villager tokens look really nice! Surprisingly detailed with a ton of personality in the poses and expressions. It's actually cool to see figures of them, since there are a ton of products for all the main NPC characters as is.

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Walter White

One of the best TV shows vs. the best MCU film!

Great, but expected, finals!

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Walter
WALL-E

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The Hamilton film released July 4th weekend 2020. Nice throwback!

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1. You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
2. Paradise by the Dashboard Light
3. All Revved Up with No Place to Go
4. Bat Out of Hell
5. For Crying Out Loud
6. Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
7. Heaven Can Wait

Meat Loaf is someone I wasn't very familiar with, but always had been meaning to familiarize myself with, so this was a good time for that!

He's a great singer, and I really like the more energetic songs with his vocal style. Not to say his slower songs are bad, in fact they are good too, but they were pretty consistently my least favorite ones. My biggest complaint about the albumn are the extended talkie segments...which ironically landed in my two favorite songs, which was unfortunate, because I'd like them even more without it! You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth felt like the perfect consistency of all the tracks, by not being pure energy nor a slow song; it was just very pleasant the whole time. Paradise by the Dashboard Light meanwhile was the good 'variety' song, where the song is long and changes a lot throughout. So these two stood out the most for different reasons.

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foolm0r0n posted...

Ages are marginal so if 18 is ok then 16 and 17 are ok too. If you want the cutoff to the 18 it only makes sense to have a limit of 20.

This is good actually.

Plus you don't have to hear someone say "hot teens" and wonder in your mind if you need to cut off contact with them.

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masterplum posted...

Aside from a couple mythics, I also have been extremely underwhelmed by the set for constructed play

It's good to have breather sets. Modern Horizons 2 was one of the most loaded sets in years, so it's nice to have a set that is pretty worthless follow it.

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Eli
Wall-E

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Tiana

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Good thing the crash didn't make her jaws close.

Also that is a rough looking 30 year old.

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HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

I love Volo's design, that seems like a super fun ********* to build around

Woah woah, don't use the c-word on board 8. That's what other Magic communities are for! This is a draft/standard only zone.

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Outside of places making honest mistakes, which will happen anywhere, I've had a couple truly incompetent online sellers, far beyond the realm of honest mistakes. But I can't say I'd really call them a business.

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9.5/10

There's a few dumb plot points where it becomes too anime...if that makes sense (I'm looking at you Pacificist route final boss fight). And there's a few duller characters, particularly Undyne and someone else who's name I can't remember. But despite all those complaints, it excels so hard at everything else. All of the other characters, even down to small enemies, add so much charm and humor to the story. And seeing how alot of the story changes between the routes make it satisfying or heartbreaking.

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Uglyface2 posted...

Really? I mean, I voted Tiana but I didn't expect her to be in the lead.

Same. I voted her and was surprised, because I always just assume the biggest boobs will win. But she looks both feminine and fit.

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Joker
Walter

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ShatteredElysium posted...

As an ebay seller I loathe the best offer option. When I first started selling I used it and it essentially guarantees 2 things. Firstly that you are going to get ridiculous low-ball offers that are a waste of time to read and secondly that you won't get the buy it now price on 95%+ of your auctions as people expect a discount with that option on.

What I like though is that Ebay allows you to set a range for your offers, so that you won't even get notifications at all or ever see them, unless it's in the range that you set. I do that, and sometimes I'll just make my listings higher so that I can accept Best Offers that are a few dollars lower because people love sending Best Offers because they feel like they are getting a deal. And another good benefit is that almost everyone will try a best offer before buying, so you can filter out shitty looking buyers easier by just never accepting their offer. It's also nice too if you have your listings as Free Shipping, and while you probably have your product prices marked up to reflect this, you can choose sellers in closer shipping zones and save money, all while still getting more views since a large chunk of buyers filter by Free Shipping only, despite it not really mattering.

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I've been meaning to pick up that NES set. Nice to hear it's your favorite! That'll make buying it even easier!

The Grand Piano one is very cool, I do actually have that one too.

The Colosseum is neat, but I don't think it's one I'll ever buy. I like the Architecture series (though I don't think that one is technically part of it?), but I think that one is a bit too extravagant for me. I'd probably get a smaller version of it if they had one.

I don't have the Assembly Square, but I have a couple of the older modular sets. I can't remember which ones. I know for sure the Grand Emporium and Fire Brigade, and at least 1 or 2 others.

The Typewriter looks pretty cool too, but probably not one I'll get.

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Ogurisama posted...

To much for spending. Easily over 3000

Impressive!

What have been your 3 most expensive sets?

What has been your favorite, strictly in terms how enjoyable the build process was?

What has been your favorite, aesthetically, as a display, after you built it?

Is there a LEGO theme/series that you collect the most of?

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

gimme a dollar amount

I just wanna know how jealous I should be

He read your "spent on" as "stepped on".

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Excluding rhythm games, I'd have to vote for the Hori Split Pad Pro. It's been the savior of the Switch handheld mode. Most other 3rd party controllers I had over the years were junk that I only bought to give to friends that didn't have their own controllers to bring for multiplayer get-togethers.



I'm actually surprised no one else has mentioned the Split Pad yet, because I know people have talked about it here before. It's pretty much my favorite third party controller.

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Jesse
WALL-E

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No

No strong feelings, just whatever.

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Order out: A few times a year
Cook myself: A few times a year
Frozen: never

Averages out to once every couple months. It's good, but I just get such a big variety of food, that it's hard to really fit it in more than that.

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The tough as nails platformers. Super Meat Boy and Celeste are 2 of my all time favorite games.

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Tony
Eli

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