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[scriver]

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[...]What's that?[/...]

[Frumple]

That's... just an ellipsis, doin' ellipsis things. Sometimes an ellipsis is just an ellipsis.

[Yoink]

Gigantic goddamn grasshopper infiltrated the house and it fell to me to do (non-lethal) battle with it.   
'Twas terrifying and exhilarating.

[Naturegirl1999]

Did you have food laying around in the house? What do ou think may have prompted it to come inside?

[Yoink]

Oh no, it just (probably unintentionally) stowed away on the mop, which was hanging up outside.   
I even checked the bloody mop because I'd seen the thing lurking on it in the past, but it must have been hiding.   

[Naturegirl1999]

Maybe it think the mop is comfortable sleeping spot...insects do sleep, right?

[Yoink]

I know I sure ain't after that experience.    

[Grim Portent]

Maybe it think the mop is comfortable sleeping spot...insects do sleep, right?

Not exactly but sort of, as I understand it they go into a state of torpor rather than sleeping the way we do. I don't think they're technically unconcious the way most sleeping mammals are, just dropped to a much lower activity level through several metabolic mechanisms and they can ramp back up very quickly if they get disturbed. It does serve as their equivalent of sleep though.

[Kagus]

So, the Fallout 76 in-game currency "atom" store has apparently... Come to Steam. As a 'DLC'.

Naturally, the community-provided tags have labeled it as "Psychological Horror", "Capitalism", and "Dark Comedy". The less-populated tags include the standard assortment of Memes, Gore, Sex, and Illuminati.

[nenjin]

Sat down to watch a movie with my mom on Mother's Day.

Went to HBO, which we pay for, and went to their free movie list.

Found "Pitch Black." Ok, decent movie.

Immediately I notice something is off. I get a message that "you may not be able to use fast forward functionality with this movie."

Huh, ok, that's weird. All streamed movies on HBO let you do that.

Then the movie starts and another oddity shows itself. The USA Network logo pops up front and center. That's.....weird. Why would HBO be showing a version of the movie licensed from USA Networks, a garden variety cable station.

The movie starts and within 2 minutes, I realize the reason it's got the USA logo. It IS the TV edit, complete with all the swearing muted out of it.

And then the final insult....7 minutes in to the movie it starts showing me fucking commercials.

So with Coronavirus and the fact that probably 3/4 of the world is now relying on streaming for their entertainment 24/7, HBO has obviously done something to their movie licensing deals. Rather than licensing a theatrical release copy to show on HBO, they're now licensing the GARBAGE cable TV edits of these movies AND running fucking commercials on them, either for their benefit or as part of their agreement with whoever they licensed these movies from.

Like.....what's the goddamn point of paying for HBO to watch movies if you're going to get the exact same experience as watching it on cable TV? Oh, so you can watch a 15 year old movie any time you want?

Pretty much bullshit. If my roommate didn't insist we have HBO as part of our cable package, I'd fucking boot that shit to the curb tomorrow.

What's worse is, this is probably the new norm from now on. Once a precedent has been set that is more profitable than the previous standard, they'll never go back.

[Dunamisdeos]

YO somebody sent me an email that said their pancake had been stolen and they wanted a refund.

[Eschar]

Well are you going to refund them, you dirty thief?

[Dunamisdeos]

Need to write a book, if I TOOK THE PANCAKE, here's how I DID IT.

[hector13]

Some people may construe this as Ana emission of guilt!

Fakeedit: emission of guilt is a terrific phrase.

I will leave it.

[Frumple]

“Qing Ming City News Report…”

“Breaking News… A building is on the run. It was last seen on the ring expressway… at a speed of more than three hundred miles. Vehicles nearby please take note!

Yeah, okay, this webnovel or whatever it is is actually pretty okay. Regularly amusing, it started going in a good direction somewhere around the point it started air dropping bulls on people.

E:

A driver that was speaking on the phone with his daughter-in-law looked bewildered at the black shadow in the distance. He took a while to come to his senses.

“Daughter-in-law. Have you ever seen a building that drifts?”