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I do, too. But Seven and the Ragged Tiger was a BIG letdown from Rio.

I don't know about that. I literally just finished playing a simple browser game where you and the computer had stick figure archers shooting at each other, and had a blast for several minutes. Was it a game I would play for hours and hours? No. But it was fun for what it was.

4 and 6 Neither is what I would consider definitive Duran Duran.

Long live the new flesh!

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

I know it was popular, but IMO there are better Blondie songs. Call me, Rapture, Maria, etc.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)