There’s still a little time to get in at reasonable prices before they truly blow up and go insane. I’ve definitely started seeing increases such as a WD 8TB that went from $204.99 to $239.99 overnight after a short period of being out of stock. Depending on brand and size, some are still available at retail prices, but they’re quickly running out.

Ok, just checking as a fellow PNWesterner who feels like we sound bland or sure “neutral” if you wish while all other US accents sound pretty interesting and unique. I can’t think of a single thing genuinely unique to PNW accent, personally. I lived in the South for a while, so I’m very familiar with the wide variety of accents down there, and we just don’t have any real depth of variety of that sort I feel. Maybe I’m wrong, I haven’t hung out everywhere in the PNW.

*slaps nuts

Take a bow.

What’s the Pacific Northwest accent? Bland?

Insert Trump “I did that!” sticker.

I like the way it goes cronch in my mouth and makes it bleed.

Don’t worry, Debord didn’t think he was either! He actually thought that his Situationist writing would be forgotten and that he would be remembered for his (ironically now forgotten) board game Kriegspiel. Instead Society of the Spectacle is now considered an important piece of French culture and history.

Oh wow maybe I just had more luck in my internet searches, but I found the manual APN input as a solution a long time ago on like XDA forums I wanna say?

Genuinely, no one even has to explain why she’s famous.

She’s also famous for all the right reasons, putting herself in harms way for the right causes. Not for fame nor fortune but the cold hard work of helping others and trying to effect change.

Which in turn makes her infamous to the right wing culture warriors as well which is a real chef’s kiss to why she’s probably the best answer here.

Always has been.

The Situationists even created new words to describe how radical ideas are co-opted by the mainstream in ways that reduce or outright removing radicalism from the ideas, making them more palatable for mainstream society. They called it recuperation. They also argued we needed to be doing the opposite, and taking the banal and making it radical, which they called détournement. This was often exemplified in the 80s/90s/early 2000s through subversion and revision of corporate advertising, often called “culture jamming.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Détournement

The PS5 DualSense is definitely the second-best choice if you can’t get a Steam controller. It has comparable features, although I personally feel like the touchpads are placed in suboptimal position compared to the Steam controller. It also has comparable build quality, unlike Microsoft’s various iterations of Xbox controllers that all have absolutely disastrous build quality.

Also when renewing It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, he had Mac and Charlie blow him. Class act.

Tom Waits.

Perhaps a less well-known name but he’s been around forever in both film and music. He has famously never allowed any of his music to be used for marketing, ever. He also successfully sued a company that couldn’t license his music and instead produced a sound-alike artist mimicking one of his songs for a commercial. He seems generally good natured, and he has spent an intense amount of energy making sure his family’s privacy is respected. He’s even been arrested for fighting plainclothes cops who were harassing someone, and he sued the city of LA in civil court for false arrest and won.

Sure, his persona is more persona than reality, but it’s a persona that has served him well as an outsider that reveled in being an outsider. He speaks for us dregs of society who spend all night drinking coffee in all night diners, writing poetry and smoking cigarettes. The godfather of alternative rock, who holds a place for many in the younger generations that was held by Bob Dylan for the elder generations.

The gross up close up. It’s one of my favorite techniques.

EDIT: In fact I saw great use of it in a new cartoon pilot that I quite enjoyed: Gnome Show

“my lumps my lumps my lumps”

.crackhouse

I hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me.

To the shock of absolutely fucking no one. We’re officially at the “the rules are made up and the points don’t matter” part of the US decline.

Mild May my ass. It was fucking 87F today in the pacific northwest. May 1st was 81F.