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    Sledgstone reacted to DeathscytheX in Playstation 5   
    Not for me tho. Fiber FTW.
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    Sledgstone reacted to slippers in 2020s Predictions?   
    not to mention there are no real consequences when they get caught doing something illegal and held accountable. i dont pay attention to s.korean politics much but so far two recent presidents went to jail for corruption and one committed suicide. it may look bad on the outside and may damage korea’s reputation as a country but at least citizens have confidence in justice system that even the most powerful politicians are not invincible. thats something id like to see that happen in the US politics but yeah US politicians will never allow that and incriminate themselves lol. its nice to believe ppl have a choice between two parties but really makes no difference, even after the election most of them never bother to keep their campaign promises anyway. the process just seem pointless, spending hundreds of millions on their campaigns to begin with. what a waste
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    i guess its good that i fell asleep and slept in. i woke up late and expected to see a winner but this may drag on for awhile
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    Sledgstone got a reaction from slippers in Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)   
    Every state has it's own voting laws. Some might use touchscreens, some might use the old punch card booths, some use these scantron forms like in NY, some have paper ballot backups and others might be all digital. Theres no federal mandated specific voting style which is why every election night is a mess. But because its all on a state by state basis, the odds of the entire election being manipulated on a federal level is very low.
    Yeah I think its stupid that candidates can get themselves listed 2 or 3 times on a ballot under different parties. All the other parties are pretty pointless since none of them ever win. For a ballot like NY all that really matters is the top two lines for republican and democrat. I think they switch positions as to which is at the top of the form every other year. You heard the saying, "Vote across party lines"? It means this:

    The party lines go from left to right. The one I circled is the democrat party line. You fill in every circle on that line and you just voted for every democrat, one line down, vote from left to right and you just voted for every republican. The inside of the cardboard/plastic privacy things have examples and directions that make it all pretty straight forward to.
     
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    Sledgstone got a reaction from slippers in Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)   
    Way back in the day the voting booths I used in Ohio had curtains and when you walked in, you hit push buttons on a machine to indicate who you vote for, after you click push buttons for each category, I pulled a lever and it simultaneously imprinted a paper ballot with the vote and opened the curtain so I could walk out. I never liked that style because the paper vote was all inside the machine so you couldn't see it. All the voting I've done in NY has been the same for years, cheap cardboard privacy thing at a table with metal folding chairs. You get the ballot from one of the poll workers after you tell them who you are and they verify your address, then you sign for it. Take the ballot to a chair, sit down, fill in the circles for who you vote for like a multiple choice test in high school, then take the ballot to the machine and feed it into it. The machine sucks in the vote, says its casted and thats it.
    Heres sample images:

     
    I don't see a sample 2020 one so heres one from last time. I didn't take a pic of the ballot today because I think thats illegal.

    Basically you just fill in one bubble for each column to cast a vote. Only takes a couple minutes.
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    Sledgstone reacted to Myk JL in 2020s Predictions?   
    Tomorrow is an Important Day where I'll have a Philly Cheese Steak & a Chicken Parm.
     Wait, it's important tomorrow because it's an Election Day? I predict a Red Wave.
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    Sledgstone got a reaction from slippers in Cutting the cord, going streaming only. Recommendations?   
    My samsung tv has those free live channels too, but I wasn't impressed with the offerings. Plex live tv seems decent mostly because they have an entire channel dedicated to Bob Ross.  You can watch Bob Ross paint 24 hours a day.  btw, plex also has free movies on demand with ads. Vudu has free movies with ads to but I haven't used that app in a while since I have most of my digital movies all on my plex server.
    I haven't heard of tubitv until your post. lol. I'll look into that later to. My brother and a friend of mine both use the Kodi app to stream movies and series but they both say its a bit hit or miss, probably because I think alot of the kodi stuff is all pirated movies but the different servers or addons keep getting taken down. Something like that.
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    Sledgstone reacted to Myk JL in Cutting the cord, going streaming only. Recommendations?   
    I cut the cord over a decade ago from what I can tell.
    I'd recommend
    Saving your money and just watch whatever you can get for free online. Play more video games. (Especially if you can avoid microtransactions.) Read Web Comics Creative Writing (Try AI Dungeon) If you're looking for a YouTube recommendation I'd recommend Fennah.
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    Sledgstone got a reaction from slippers in Cutting the cord, going streaming only. Recommendations?   
    Spectrum raised my cable rate again by almost $40 a month. $150 for cable alone, screw that. I'm trying youtube tv now. Just started it today. $64.99 a month. I like HBO so I added HBO max to the account for an extra $15 to. So roughly $80 not including tax. I now have youtube tv app on my nvidia shield and all my rokus. My nvidia shield has HBO max app which worked great. I've been watching movies on it today. The rokus only have the HBO app and not HBO max, but I was able to log into those with the account no problem. HBO max should be getting alot better now that all the DC universe content is going on there. I should be saving roughly $70 a month now. I also have netflix, my digital movies on vudu, movies anywhere and my plex account. Plex and Pluto tv apps also have free live tv channels.
    I like the unlimited DVR of youtube tv and it has all my local channels. Hulu looks interesting but it doesn't have all my locals which is why I went with youtube tv. The on demand for youtube tv looks pretty good so far. It looks like I can watch 10 seasons of mythbusters and season 2 of one punch man is on there. I'll have to try it out more. There's a promo right now where I got 2 weeks free trial and after the first month payment they'll send me a free chromecast worth $50.
    Any other streaming services you guys recommend? I'm tempted to get amazon prime again since it'll give me their streaming service and free fast shipping. I'd like to get add free premium youtube but it looks like it'd be tied to my youtube account only as opposed to letting lady watch ad free on her account too. Instead of a per user account I was hoping it'd be a family account like YouTube tv is.
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    Sledgstone reacted to slippers in Cutting the cord, going streaming only. Recommendations?   
    no cable service since 2012ish. kept adding random channels and charge them without notice. i think it was road runner. horrible service.
    ondemandkorea is really good but you have to be a fan of kpop and kdramas/movies it offers a lot of variety shows, documantaries, and news channels and they are all free with ads. and i have apple tv 4k about 2 years now but i only use it to watch netflix, youtube, amazon prime etc. even though my new iphone offers 1 year free trial to watch apple original tvs and dramas but im not that interested. i havent really checked other features like games and stuff but its really easy to use with a remote so i like it.
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    Sledgstone got a reaction from slippers in Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)   
    It's all good.  The way Biden is going I expect him to drop dead in the first year and Kamala Harris will be president. Lol. I honestly don't care for Biden at all. I'm literally just that burned out on Trump.
    I went shopping yesterday just to be on the safe side. I wont be going out on Wednesday just in case. Screw that.
    The covid stuff is aggravating me. I hear ya about the hospitals. I don't understand the reasoning for shutting everything down at this point anymore. They keep saying cases keep spreading, but the whole point of the lockdowns and restrictions were to keep the hospitals from exceeding capacity. They're not exceeding capacity, it doesn't look like they will, at least around here that's for certain, so I don't see the point in the news constantly covering it. But that's how the news is now. They run on a single story that's getting them ratings and that's all they'll cover. It's the same with trump, he'll tweet something at 4am and that's all the news will talk about for 24 hours. The news is all pointless anymore. I'm guessing covid is giving them more ratings than constantly quoting trump so they keep running with it. And that's why I try not to watch anymore. The only news I watch now is the nightly local news and NBC nightly news because it's only 30 mins. The rest of the news I'll check my google news feed. I purposely don't block different news feeds I don't agree with because I try to read all sides of something. But I don't read any of the headlines anymore and now I try to stick with science news.
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    Sledgstone reacted to Myk JL in XBOX Series X   
    I need a freezer.
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    Sledgstone reacted to DeathscytheX in The Mandalorian   
    The first ep was good. Tons in fanservice, and the whole ep was inspired by the end of the main quest on that planet from KOTOR. I enjoyed that aspect more than anything else. They did a good job of keeping the actual mission objectives the same even though the story and end goal was different. 
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    Sledgstone reacted to slippers in Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)   
    its nothing special that schools are reopened and ppl are having parties though. its only businesses that suffer bc of fines and restrictions that are placed on them. for the rest of ppl, they could careless. i know this bc a local news report about a party goer or two getting killed from drive by shootings with hundreds of attendees without any eyewitnesses and not bc of covid. its been like that even before the lockdown and almost everyweek it never fails something goes wrong during those dumbass parties like this recent one where two numbnuts fall from 4 story balcony while partying/drinking their asses off. and cops dont stop ppl from having parties even during lockdowns, at least not here anyway. and kids here have a choice to stay home and study online or go back to school for a couple months now and houston actually have been getting lowest covid cases since it started. also not too long ago texas gov tried to limit the voting booth per county (blaming it on covid but in reality he was trying to discourage poor ppl with commute difficulties from voting) so he had been criticized for trying to rig the election. 
    for the news exposure, i watch one of those one hour long nbc's dateline when i come from work. and the rest on youtube and yahoo articles. not everyday though, hells kitchen is free on roku tv so right now i been watching that lol. so when my coworker told me about a possible riot, a foreign news source thats mostly neutral, it was news to me that i havent heard of. if republicans are pissed off about the election result, they arent going after petty retail stores for cheap thrill of looting, theyll probably go after officials and govt properties so id be in less danger if i wanted to go shopping after the election day..i did all my shopping today just incase lol. and when i was writing that post last night about agenda, nbc's headline was like "88,000 new covid cases in ONE DAY in 25+ states!!" and showing empty hospital beds all over again, i was like alright thats enough news for today. whats contradicting with news and reality is that i have customers who are ailing (cancer and other diseases) and i ask them lots of times about hospital capicity when they mention about their health and their hospital visits and they are like, oh i didnt even wait that long, hospitals are usually empty..this was when houston was suppose to have high covid resurge. im not just going to blindly accept crap like, holy shit 100,000,000,000 ppl got covid and body bags everywhere (and insert images of italian covid patients..which they got caught and aplogized for)!!
    and what turned me off completely from biden is his last prez debat with trump. i mean he got obliterated when trump asked him to answer "who built the cages?" biden's answer was "we made a mistake." for crying out loud, 50 years of political career and 8 years in obama administration and that's his answer? then biden turns around and says he'll fix 4 years of trump's mishandling. im sorry but using biden's own logic, trump should get re-elected so he can fix his mistakes too, thats only fair. and bipartisan bickering will never go away unless you turn off from news completely. i only watch it to see whats going on, and most of time i tune out when two politicians argue about whos better at lying. if anyone but biden, id root for them so trump goes away too, but biden is a such weak candidate to begin with. at least i know what trump would do, even if its reckless. but biden? hell even obama tried to talk him out of it of uncertainty saying, biden, you dont have to do this." thats just big yikes.
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    “They've had early voting here for a while now but they've been swamped so I haven't voted yet. I have election day off so I'll go that morning.“
    ps im not saying who you should vote for, both of them can drop dead for all i care. i re-read my post and it kinda sounded that way. i didnt vote but i prefer trump to win over biden since theres not much left in biden imo. and i hope you dont have to wait long to vote on the election day.
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    Sledgstone reacted to slippers in 2020s Predictions?   
    this guy got some guts. its no foolproof against global recession/hyperinflation but he was preparing before covid hit. one ounce of gold is a fortune right now, gold price skyrocketed since pandemic and im not even fully committed but i did get some 5 grand worth of gold and silver recently. a couple more stimulus checks after november and itll be like i didnt spend a dime on it! anyway its very risky and expensive to buy precious metals at this late stage but it could pay off in the long term if fear of covid drags on and gold price keep going up. but i think we are heading that way as more covid cases surge and talk of more lockdowns on businesses looming. *fingers crossed*
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    Sledgstone reacted to DeathscytheX in Godzilla Singular Point   
    JET JAGUAR?! AWWWW YEAAAAAHH!!!
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    Sledgstone reacted to DeathscytheX in Raised by Wolves - HBO Max Series   
    Been meaning to watch this since I have Max for free with my cellphone plan. Travis Fimmel is also rumored to be in talks to play Daemon Targaryen in the GoT spinoff.
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    Sledgstone reacted to Strider Hiryu in YT thread   
    Hey we getting there, apparently they sliced through a safe in the last video (haven't watched it yet). Small step my friend, eventually we'll have full blown lightsabers.
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    Sledgstone reacted to Myk JL in YT thread   
    I want this...
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    Sledgstone reacted to Strider Hiryu in YT thread   
    Boys they did it, we now have a lightsaber (sorry a proto-plasma saber). God damn is this thing fucking cool.
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    Sledgstone reacted to Myk JL in Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)   
    Trump's popularity is irrelevant. Trump is president now because Hillary was stupid enough to only focused on The Popular Vote instead of The Electoral College. I'm more scared of what happens 4 years after Trump wins his second term.
    That being a third Bernie Sanders primary loss because
    Bernie's backbone is made out of ice cream. (His any blue will do mentality.) Bernie's want to defend socialism instead of focus on his policies. Bernie calling corporate democrats his friends. Bernie overshadowing people who have real backbones, like Richard Ojeda. The Karens and their Soy Boys like to play identity politics instead of focus on actual policies. The corporate democrats being "woke" which is just their failed attempt at appealing to younger voters. The Boob Tube Generation will still be the average democratic voter. If Biden wins (which I still doubt) I expect Kamala Harris will be president in 2023. In that scenario I don't have to worry about another Democratic Presidential Primary until 2028 or 2032.
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    Sledgstone reacted to Strider Hiryu in Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)   
    And this is why I don't watch TV anymore, read the paper/news apps, why I blocked his ass on Twitter (only so I can't read his tweets, I still have to read the aftermath), and why I stay out of anything that has to do with him/politics/etc. Sadly I can't get away from it as much as I'd like since I live in a red state and everyone up here praises/worships the ground he walks on (and the majority of my extended family are Trump supporters so I get to hear it from them as well (and people wonder why I'm anti-social and hate being around my family)). Sadly this show won't be getting cancelled because I don't think Biden can pull out a win no matter how hard he tries (and even if he managed to Trump will bitch, moan, and take it into legislation where he'll most likely win if his Supreme Court nominee gets in (which will most likely happen)). I just wish the lot of this was over with (both Trump and COVID) but my only hope of one of them going away seems to be getting slimmer and slimmer by the day (I leave it to your imaginations as to what I'm implying here).
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    Sledgstone got a reaction from Myk JL in Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)   
    I missed that youtube video before it got taken down. I'm guessing it was a Trump having covid video. Seems like a giant publicity stunt seeing how every news station is hanging off his every word again. Even my local news app has been spamming me with Trump updates. I'm burned out trump. It's not possible to go a single day without seeing his face or hearing his voice on almost any medium I use for almost 5 years. Its been roughly 5 years (counting his initial primary election) of trump tv. I don't want to watch this reality show anymore and I hope it gets canceled.
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    Sledgstone reacted to DeathscytheX in Genshin Impact   
    This is worth the download. Its free and the world is pretty big. Combat is pretty simple. You attack with O. you can hold down O for a charged attack or a delayed heavy attack depending on the character. You evade with R1, perform an elemental attack with R2, and a big elemental attack with triangle when the meter is full. Combat is very Zelda-esque. Since its a Chinese game they took quite a bit from Zelda and GW2 from what I can tell, along with other MMOs i've never played. You have cooking, chain element attack modifiers. There are multiple close together WPs you unlock by touching throughout the world. The stamina meter is kinda a let down when it's attacked to sprint, but its generous for climbing and gliding.
    There is a gacha for extra characters. The game gives you plenty of free ones. Of course there is a cash shop to buy currency to roll the gacha, but the game does give you currency at a slow rate to roll... in fact I've had 3 10 pulls for free so far just playing the game. For a mobile game port to console the graphics are pretty damn good. There are some framerate issues at times. But it is a free game and a polished game in general for being free.
     
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    Sledgstone reacted to DeathscytheX in Playstation 5   
    My power didn't come back on until well after the event, and my cell service has been shit since the storm so I got screwed either way.
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