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DuckTales: Intro Unforgettable

Dee Wallace and special effects artist Greg Nicotero posing with an original, life-sized werewolf puppet from the 1981 horror film The Howling.

The Diablo franchise will turn 30 this year. It ranks among the most successful and highest-grossing game franchises of all time. Over 100 million copies have been sold across the four main games (including expansion sets), bringing the franchise close to US$3 billion in total revenue. Diablo IV alone generated US$666 million in global sell-through revenue in its first five days after release in June 2023, making it Blizzard's fastest-selling game ever at the time. Now, here comes the real kicker: Within one year of Diablo IV's release, revenue from microtransactions had already surpassed the combined lifetime revenue of Diablo I and Diablo II. Let that sink in - not from the original sale of the game, but purely from in-game purchases, Diablo IV is dwarfing the first two entries in the series combined. Sales figures for games still matter, but mainly as an indicator of the multiplier that can be applied to in-game microtransaction revenue; that endless stream of dollars pouring into mega-corporations, powered by quick dopamine hits from microtransactions. With younger generations growing up in an essentially cashless society, the perceived value of money has declined. If you’ve never held a $100 bill (let alone earned one), it's easy to forget what it really means. It becomes just a number on a credit card bill. When in-game transactions are small (single-digit amounts) they feel like almost nothing… but in the end, they add up to billions for those who design games that are meticulously streamlined and fine-tuned to guide players toward yet another microtransaction… and another… and another. Maybe after all those cover images on the game boxes are more fitting than we know.

Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now

Bruce McNeil went to a Buffalo Police Department precinct in 2019 to lodge a complaint against two officers who stopped him for no reason. They handcuffed him and put him in the back of their patrol car. After searching his vehicle, they let him go. Shortly after, McNeil went to lodge the complaint and was told he'd be arrested if he continued. The officers claimed they found crack cocaine in the back of their patrol car where they stashed McNeil during the search. McNeil had no crack cocaine. The officers had planted it. The prosecution tried to scare McNeil into accepting a plea deal – but he refused. The prosecutors dropped the case because they didn't want to place the two officers under oath. But it didn't stop there. One of the officers pulled McNeil two more times and handcuffed him. "I heard you didn't accept the plea deal," he allegeldy told McNeil. Now, the city is going to pay McNeil a $700,000 settlement. But the officers involved are still employed even though they have had other complaints lodged against them for excessive force.

Voted for him in the primary and he’d have my vote in 2028. Just think the country is too dumb to ever vote for him.

Walken was 57 when he did this, by the time I was 57 I couldn't fart without breaking a limb. One of THE greatest videos ever made. Fatboy Slim - Genius.

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You finally start making middle class money but it’s 2026, not 2014 and there isn’t a middle class anymore . You’re either rich or poor 🤣🤣

Geek Squad dropped into a cover 3 defense with no blitz

Thank God for the backbone of a man named Ron DeSantis who stood firmly against the insanity of COVID tyranny.

@bluesky That’s cool, but you’ll suspend accounts that state scientific facts: Men cannot become women. It’s a left-wing echo chamber and insane asylum.

@Dexerto The easiest way for them to make it cheaper would be by lowering the cost

1. Just because Ralph Baric's research was essential to creating the "ecosystem" that resulted in SARS-CoV-2, doesn't mean it was created in his lab. 2. Just because Ralph Baric can claim SARS-CoV-2 wasn't created in his lab, doesn't mean he bears no responsibility for its creation.

Was it the sorcerer or the apprentice? There’s a new theory in the Covid-origin debate being pushed by some people, namely that the virus was probably created in America by Ralph Baric’s research group at the Chapel Hill campus of the University of North Carolina - and sent to China from there. It’s not plausible for many reasons. But it plays into the hands of the Chinese government, who may be surreptitiously pushing it through their friends in the west to confuse the issue and distract from the evidence. That evidence strongly suggests that there was indeed a lab leak but it was in Wuhan and it was of a virus assembled in Wuhan. Ralph Baric did collaborate closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), it is true, and he pioneered the synthesis of chimeric sarbecoviruses and testing these on humanized mice - which his Wuhan counterpart, Shi Zhengli, later began doing in her own laboratory but at low biosafety level. That much is on the record. Baric has steadfastly refused to share his email correspondence and his university has gone to court to prevent its release. He has also refused to testify in open session before Congress so far. This is a mistake on his part because it is now fuelling speculation that he created virus. He should reveal what he knows to clear the air. Here are three reasons that it is highly unlikely that Baric made SARS-CoV-2 in a North Carolina lab. First, sarbecoviruses do not exist in the wild in the Americas. The horseshoe bats that host them are only found in the old world. In order to work on SARS-related viruses at all, Baric has to import them or their digital sequences from China – in his case from Wuhan. Where would he have got the backbone virus from to do the experiment? After all, the WIV and Baric were competitors as well as collaborators. Baric has admitted that the WIV would not have shared their most interesting strains with him, much less the novel lineage 4 viruses which they obscured in their 2019 paper. Second, even if they did send him the information from which to assemble SARS-CoV-2, rather than doing it themselves, why on earth would he then ship the completed chimeric sarbecovirus back to Wuhan for testing? Or send the digital recipe for them to copy? That would have been pointless as well as highly irresponsible. Baric may be guilty of encouraging foolish experiments and concealing his own role in collaborating with Wuhan, but there is no evidence for any of this. Third, the notorious “Defuse” proposal for inserting a furin cleavage site into a sarbecovirus for the first time in 2018 stated clearly that the work would mostly be done in Wuhan, because it could be done at a lower biosafety level there to save costs. (A shocking revelation in itself.) An early draft of the proposal even includes an exchange in which Baric is told he won’t get to do most of the work, and he protests at the low biosafety level used in Wuhan, saying it will “freak out” US scientists.

Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero #80s

Target does WHAT?

Bruce Campbell and Charisma Carpenter

Actor Vince Vaughn calls out late-night comedians, says people like Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and others have all become the “SAME SHOW.” “It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a f*cking class I didn’t want to take.” THEO VON: “A lot of the late shows have struggled.” VINCE VAUGHN: “Oh, bro.” THEO: “Because… the only person they could make fun of at a certain point was just like white redneck kind of people. And it f*cking tanked [ratings].” VINCE: “I think that the talk shows, to a large part, became really agenda-based.” “They were gonna evangelize people to what they thought… It felt like they had an agenda.” “It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a f*cking class I didn’t want to take.” “They all became the same show.” “And they all became so about their politics and who’s good and who’s bad.” “Imagine sitting next to someone like that on a f*cking plane. You’d be like, how do I get out of this f*cking seat?” THEO: “I would FART right next to them.” VINCE: “You’d fart your way out of it?” THEO: “Yeah, I would. I would for sure.”

I remember a psychiatrist once telling me that I gamble in order to escape the reality of life, and I told him that’s why everyone does everything. ― Norm Macdonald, 2016