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[smjjames]

You can't remove the batteries in smartphones these days though, not iPhones at least.

[Rolan7]

Which sucks.  My favorite part of Ingress was probably "reloading" the failing batteries on my Droid 2.  I got really fast at it (and hard-resetting that phone was often necessary to get a signal, anyway).  I didn't have that "portable battery" crap   Though I would sometimes wire up to my laptop and carry it in a backpack.  Which was a good idea except that time I missed a curb (I was on my bicycle).

...I used to be waaaay into Ingress.  Pokemon Go is just better, except it's a lot harder to get invested in a local community :/  No built-in chat, much less all the extensive player-built organization and C&C software.  We would literally get dispatches near midnight to take down level-8 farms.  And I hear the lawful evil other team had a whole credit-system you could work your way up to become an officer.  I took it seriously, a lot of people took it seriously.  Never met someone who feels that way about Pokemon GO.

[smjjames]

In a combination of EuroPol and wtf, the Thuringia branch of Germany's AfD apparently has a Chief Escalation Officer? O.o https://www.politico.eu/article/german-artists-build-holocaust-memorial-outside-far-right-politicians-house/ last paragraph in the article. Don't know if that's a real thing or the author inserting their views or being sarcastic.

[Helgoland]

That guy's on the other side - you must've misread.

[smjjames]

Oh, wasn't clear who said that as the quote sounded like it could have come from either side.

[Eric Blank]

Got a thanksgiving night thunderstorm. Horrible fucking rain

Weather is whack this year

[ChairmanPoo]

For the life of me I can't like Titan Quest and Grim Dawn. I know people here love them as Diablo-likes, but I find them  extremely dull and boring, and kind of kitchen-sink feature wise.

I'd say that the last two great hack-and-slash games I've played were Diablo 2 and Torchlight 1 (Torchlight 2, conversely, felt worse than 1 to me. Very slow and boring gameplay, as stat allocation is severely handicapped)

[smjjames]

A minor wtf is that safari on mobile apparently does have a 'recently closed tabs function' (you press on the + symbol for a couple seconds rather than a quick tap), but I didn't notice until a couple days ago. The wtf is that I've been using mobile for years (since 2008 at least) and I didn't notice until recently. So, I have no idea how long that feature has been there.

[hector13]

Working retail on Black Friday was surprisingly painless.

I only work part-time though, and managed to find one task to keep me occupied for 3.5 of the 4 hours I was there.

Holy shit volume of people, however.

[birdy51]

Also working Black Friday Retail. At the grocery store. We ain't got shit.

[smjjames]

I don't think grocery stores tend to do Black Friday. Though apparently part of it is due to people doing it yesterday and partly due to more people shopping online.

[birdy51]

I don't think grocery stores tend to do Black Friday. Though apparently part of it is due to people doing it yesterday and partly due to more people shopping online.

We don't. I just being facetious.

[MrRoboto75]

I did morning shift black friday.  We're a farming supply store, and today we opened two hours earlier, and I had to be there at 5am.

It was actually rather uneventful. There was a bunch of sales on gun safes, some truck boxes, and bird seed, but that's about it.  It was honesty busier last Saturday.

[Arx]

For the life of me I can't like Titan Quest and Grim Dawn. I know people here love them as Diablo-likes, but I find them  extremely dull and boring, and kind of kitchen-sink feature wise.

My brother and I co-oped TQ for a while and then pretty much dropped it forever. You're not the only one that finds it boring, I know that much!

[Akura]

Also worked Black Friday retail. Aside from opening half an hour early, and some coworkers possibly trying to sabotage my work(alternate explanation, they're goddamn incompetent), there wasn't anything happening. There was one incident where someone found a bottle labeled "holy water", and started splashing it around like they were sanctifying the place with it, and the room smelled like ashes for a while afterwards. I'm actually pretty irritated with that, there's a very good reason why nobody is supposed to be playing with liquids. I still remember the incident where someone found a bottle of pepper spray.

It was actually rather uneventful. There was a bunch of sales on gun safes, some truck boxes, and bird seed, but that's about it.  It was honesty busier last Saturday.

I'm curious if anyone got all three at once and if any of them were named "Wile E. Coyote".