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1 minute ago, Tabonga said:

Deborah Harry will forever be Nikki Brand to me!

 

Long live the new flesh!

22 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said:

Don't listen to these plebs.  If you don't like the (superior) SMS version, you won't like the studio version either 

Why don't we let Gloves decide for himself what is art and what is a mere shadow of art. 

8 minutes ago, Tabonga said:

It did wildly well in the day - charted at number 1 on US Billboard 100 (pretty amazing actually since Blondie had never charted before).

The album Parallel Lines also charted very well all over the world. 

I know it was popular, but IMO there are better Blondie songs. 

Call me, Rapture, Maria, etc.

44 minutes ago, Gloves said:

Talking Heads obviously have some fuckin' bangers, but that doesn't make them infallible, and this song isn't my jam, man.

That's cool, though if you just listened to the live video Reed inexplicably posted for reference, you haven't actually heard the song, IMO. 

27 minutes ago, Sumez said:

The girls can do it too, yall! 

James brown? James brown! 

With a hippie-the-hip and a hippie-the-hop
Who needs to think when your feet just go

I admit the live versions don't do it justice. But the album song is chef's kiss. 

Yeah, the Tom Tom Club labeled one is the definitive version of that song. 

2 hours ago, WalterWhiteJr. said:

This information came from a deposition of Deniz Kahn himself... 

Funny how he doesn't address that point, huh. 

Genius of Love is from members of the Talking Heads. Bite your tongue. 

(Not really, I can see it's not everyone's cup of tea. I like it a lot, though.)

Heart of Glass is a middle of the road Blondie song. 

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It's all right. It at least tries to have more variety in the screens than your average 2600 game. 

The sequel is arguably better. 

Both are miles better than Super Pitfall.  

10 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said:

I've seen like 8 Children of the Corns

I've seen like 5 of 400,000+ Amityville movies.

5 minutes ago, Gloves said:

Don't spoil it for me!

Bruce Willis is Keyser Soze. 

It looks like roughly the same shelves as the Blockbuster and Hollywood Videos that I frequented. Granted, I didn't do an intensive study (the stuff on the shelves held my interest more), but I don't think there was a standard "Family Video" shelf. They all probably sourced their shelves from the same manufacturers available in their respective regions. 

On 1/22/2024 at 9:26 PM, Estil said:

Oh I distinctively remember one day going into a best buy and seeing both a Blu-Ray and HD-DVD player side by side for $1000(!!) each!!  Is that how much DVD players started being back in the late 90s?  

Sorry, missed this. 

Yes, DVD players were also around a grand or more when they first hit the scene. So were the very first VCRs and CD players. They were new tech and no one knew if they'd take off. 

That's one of the reasons the PS2 and PS3 were popular. They could play movies and games, and were cheaper than standalone players. Consoles had the advantage that they knew people would buy them for the games, whereas movie only players were a bit more of a risk. 

4 minutes ago, Splain said:

The fun part is when someone calls me (and leaves a voicemail) to tell me to stop spam-calling them. So my number is also being spoofed and used for spammin'.

I got a call onetime from a lady who asked why I kept calling her about her taxes. It took a hot minute to explain number spoofing. 

11 hours ago, Dr. Morbis said:

Yeah, it goes in waves for me too.  Sometimes I've won a cruise, sometimes my credit card has been compromised, sometimes it's "confirming" my $2000 amazon order, and a bunch of other stuff too... I better call them all back right away to set them straight...

Yeah, I've gotten the order confirmations a bunch lately. They always have weird websites like nflx.xzy or some such. Netflix? No idea. I guess they're counting on people to go, "oh, that's a company I've heard of before. Must be legit."

Mark Rober did a series on scammers, and they actually had a clever ploy to bilk people. They'll send out emails or robocall about an "Amazon refund." Most won't bite, but a few (usually older, non-tech savvy people) will contact them and get a nice bloke from abroad who chats them up and be like "Oh, yeah, we'll process that; by the way, you remind me of my granny." 

So then they get them to install remote desktop software (usually under some bullshit that it isn't actually installing anything), and get them to pull up their bank account website. The scammer then copies this, and has the mark go through a refund process. The mark will type in the refund of like $200, the scammer alters it to say $20,000, and goes into a panic about how that's permanent, they'll lose their job, etc. They show the bank account website to them, altered to show $20,000 extra. They plead with the mark to help them out, and ask them to send cash or gift card numbers to them to make up the shortfall. The cash or gift cards bypasses the bank's fraud protection, and is nigh on untraceable once it goes into the mail or read out over the phone. 

If it sounds like there should be tons of red flags flying, there are, but by sheer numbers they snag enough people to fall for it. 

1 hour ago, Tabonga said:

 Not exactly sure what a Temu is but the emails seem to indicate it is a rare privilege.

Their motto is "shop like a billionaire." I guess you're getting yachts and private jets and social media companies. 

Not my favorite Madonna song, but a pretty good one.

Just Dance might be the most boring of the major Lady Gaga songs, though.

They come and go in waves for me. I'll go weeks and weeks without a single one, and then calls for days on end for like two weeks. I imagine they have some weird schedule or something to time with fiscal events (taxes, quarterly stuff, etc.)

On 2/11/2024 at 10:50 PM, Link said:

I haven't seen aftermarket sleeves but I would think you can tell the difference. 

From my experience they look the same at first glance, but are really thin compared to originals. The edges also tend to be rougher, probably from cheap die cuts.

Judge Engoron fines Trump more than $350M, bars him from running businesses in N.Y. for 3 years (nbcnews.com)

The judge who presided over a civil business fraud trial against Donald Trump on Friday ordered the former president, his sons, business associates and company to pay over $350 million in damages and temporarily limited their ability to do business in New York.

Judge Arthur Engoron ordered the former president and the Trump Organization to pay over $354 million in damages, and bars Trump "from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York for a period of three years," including his namesake company.

3 hours ago, Link said:

haha, no

Wasn't Mario named after the landlord of NoA's warehouse in Seattle?