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AlfredicEnglishRules 4 points ago +4 / -0

That has a truth to it. On the other hand all of my major girlfriends and my wife are from Facebook geek stuff. Mutual friends and groups let us comment back and forth, become friends and then realized it was more than that.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 17 points ago +17 / -0

The traditional deal was sex and babies for wealth and protection. This has been played even though it no longer works as it did.

Geeks have been very strong in the new mating ritual of shared experience and interests.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 19 points ago +19 / -0

He's winning. This has been amazing to watch.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 9 points ago +9 / -0

They did, no one watched them.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 5 points ago +5 / -0

The guys name is Fink? Like a fake king?

I believe it.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 3 points ago +3 / -0

Protests at University is kind of insane. The teachers are specifically teaching it because they were taught to do it. During Vietnam most students didn't care, but the people who lived through Korea and WWII did, so they started teaching students to protest. It's been like that ever since.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 6 points ago +6 / -0

Doctor 7 and Ace explore the dangers of thatcherism part 5 should have been the obvious hint.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'm wondering what will happen to Mandalorian. The company defeated itself in Florida, and has been shooting its own foot in many other ways. Can another season save it?

I agree with the AI DJ. It's hard to put the links in perfect places. I do know I don't want AI DJ.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 2 points ago +2 / -0

Makes me think about the Molly Maguires and the Pinkerton's. The private police force is now security guards, and they work at places like google.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 3 points ago +3 / -0

That's how George Lucas made Indy and Star Wars. He put in stuff he liked, and made visuals for it. He also lucked out by having Harrison Ford.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 1 point ago +1 / -0

That sounds like Ehlers Danlos. Look into it and if you can get help. You don't need to man up if you don't have to.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 5 points ago +5 / -0

It's the middle aged nostalgia factor. As you enter middle age you have the money and means to buy stuff you wanted as a kid. So, all the games go up in price by people who want to make extra money.

The best trick is to buy them before the nostalgia kicks in. My PS3 and 4 collection grew quickly because everything was around $2.

It goes back down when the same people enter geezerhood.

At the Portland retro gaming expo, we had Atari and odyssey games going for hundreds as the creators were treated like celebrities. Now I can buy all those games for $10 for the lot. The creators are still treated nicely though.

I'm waiting for arcade games to drop back. Every time I think I have the money, the price doubles.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 2 points ago +2 / -0

I felt like she was being very blonde at the moment.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 2 points ago +2 / -0

Reading this made me realize that most teens are new to having unstructured play time. The cool fun stuff is fairly organized like scouts. Going to an arcade has to be an actual choice, and it's difficult to do that when it's new.

That's probably why we have kids in so many organized things. Karate is both a skill, and a babysitter. Just letting the kid go do whatever, when they have no idea is kind of scary.

As a teen in the 90's, Seattle was amazing. I had my 14th birthday party at a Discover Zone, and my 17th was finding out all the hills were a deathwish if I wanted to rollerblade. It had tons of arcades, and weird things to find. There were still times where I felt like there was nothing to do. That sense of indecision was being a teen, and not anything to do with the world around me.

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