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To me, he's the greatest criminal mastermind of our time, Lex Luthor, first, and second, Coach Jimmy McGinty, who believed in Shane Falco even though he chokes with the game on the line. I'll be rewatching those performances soon, as well as finally fixing my grave mistake of never having seen...

This will be the first game I've attended since this game on 12/18/2019 where a bunch of cool guys gathered thanks to this forum. Cool guys pictured below.

I have seen this parroted around a lot, but it seems to come from one study that reported that "adolescents and young adults who received puberty blockers or gender-affirming hormones had 60% lower odds of depression and 73% lower odds of self-harm or suicidal thoughts." Emphasis mine. And even...

I liked The Northman more than most people I know, but they all thought it was good. It was right up my alley, Vikings, dark, brutal. It's a very simple story based on the Viking tale that Hamlet was also based on, but the execution was pretty much flawless in my eyes. With Banshees, I was...

My favorite movies from 2022 in no particular order: Banshees of Inisherin Aftersun RRR Decision to Leave The Northman Second tier: Everything Everywhere All at Once Triangle of Sadness The Batman Pearl Top Gun: Maverick

I asked our Airbnb host about the sargassum, he said there's not much this time of year and the beach our Airbnb has access to is cleaned every day. So we'll see. I'll check those videos out, thanks!

Thanks. I don't think Portland is a shithole or anything, I just think there may be a better place for me and my wife personally to settle down, for financial and familial reasons. But we're not going to rush into anything, so anything is possible.

So, unfortunately we are staying in Bavaro, in an Airbnb, where the Sargassum seems to be rampant. On the plus side, we'll have a car because my mother-in-law is working/living in Santo Domingo currently, which is why we're going to DR in the first place. With the car, we'll be able to "easily"...

Anybody got any tips for Bogota, Colombia or Punta Cana, Dominican Republic? I'm going next week. Bogota for just 2 days, Punta Cana for 4.

No thanks. Hopefully I'll be moving away from Portland in the next couple years, but I wouldn't choose any of those places.

My rent is going up 25.3% in May. Good thing I'm getting a 3% raise at work! That'll cover the increased rent and rising costs of literally everything else..

I listen to three podcasts regularly: Decoding the Gurus - Their own summary of the podcast: "An exiled Northern Irish anthropologist and a hitchhiking Australian psychologist take a close look at the contemporary crop of 'secular gurus', iconoclasts, and other exiles from the mainstream...

I really don't understand the focus on AR-15s. Banning AR-15s would do next to nothing to solve the gun problem. Mass shootings account for ~5% of gun deaths, and the majority of that 5% with handguns. AR-15s, or any long gun, also aren't the most effective choice to use to enter a building or...

The Northman was about as perfect as it could be. Simple Viking story with gorgeous cinematography and the right amount of weirdness.