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troon_menace 1 point ago +1 / -0

Not exactly what you're asking for, but the 60s and 70s era Legion of Superheroes has a really distinct vibe that might be up your alley.

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troon_menace 2 points ago +2 / -0

I was really impressed by the amount of research this guy put in - going so far as to read obituaries to confirm that two brothers both named their kids Joe.

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troon_menace 7 points ago +7 / -0

Jesus, I was so fucking excited about Kindred at the time being a moody high schooler into V:tM and look what we got

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troon_menace 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's so crazy to me for them to have moved to cashless payments - when I lived there 25 years ago (I'm old, sue me) maybe 10% of places would even take a card.

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troon_menace 36 points ago +36 / -0

"But I’m not going out of state. I can’t afford to go out of state.”

The words of someone that can't afford two tanks of gas, but can afford to have unprotected sex

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troon_menace 3 points ago +3 / -0

The issue is that the compensation is so unfair. It should be 1/365 of your current year taxable income per day served, which you can estimate to get an immediate payout that's adjusted when you file. Employers should be prohibited from paying salary to prevent double-dipping.

Either this or the employers should be required to pay their employee (including the hourlies) while on jury duty. I don't know which one is the better option, you'd have to figure out a way to keep the pay from being known to the attorneys in your suggestion as it could (in theory) be used as a way to save the government money, resulting in a worse jury pool. If I'm on jury duty, I'm getting my salary regardless, so I guess I don't really care, the compensation issue hits non-exempt and hourly employees way harder.

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troon_menace 19 points ago +19 / -0

"Now, most days, Michelle masturbates in the morning, while John takes their daughter to preschool. He masturbates at night in the bathroom, while watching porn on his phone."

I can't

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troon_menace 5 points ago +5 / -0

I used to work with the author's childhood friend (they all still meet up a few times a year to play D&D) and would constantly be regaled with stories about how he had just met with Spielberg about getting the book turned into a movie.

I hadn't read the book, so I was lent a copy of it and had to try to come up with nice things to say about it. I love 80s culture as much as the next guy, but let me tell you, it was hard to do.

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troon_menace 3 points ago +3 / -0

I finally convinced my friend to watch DS9 after he swore he never would, and he told me he thought it was the best Trek series once he finished it. IMO it was the crowning achievement of Trek and will never be topped. It has its stinkers but as a complete product, it was something special and is still way too under appreciated because it wasn't set on a ship with a registry ending in 1701.

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troon_menace 1 point ago +1 / -0

For as not great as the first season was, I'd still recommend watching from the beginning. You'll have to watch Move Along Home, but the DS9 characters are so endearing and well written that it's worth sitting through the stinkers. Skipping the first season will leave you in the dark about things that happen in later seasons. DS9 being far more serialized (at least as far as Trek was at the time) makes skipping episodes more difficult than what you could get away with watching TNG or Voyager.

If you feel you need to cut the fat and are willing to miss things, late season 2 is where it starts to hit its stride.

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troon_menace 30 points ago +30 / -0

“Her”

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troon_menace 2 points ago +2 / -0

“Pull the strings”

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troon_menace 5 points ago +5 / -0

In fairness to the Weekly World News (the world’s only reliable news source) they did publish a true story about a woman dying in a town near me when she was smoking while putting on hairspray.

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troon_menace 5 points ago +5 / -0

My favorite part was when the secret service parked VP Blowjob right next to them, then stood around not caring

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troon_menace 7 points ago +7 / -0

Has 'tricks are something whores do for money' ever been a more appropriate response?

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