Nathan Strum

I don't pay a dime for Spotify. I just put up with the ads. No worse than actual radio.

At one point I signed up for the FREE Trial (Either one month or 3) of whatever they call their Premium version (No Ads)...It's FREE just give us your Credit Card Haha, I should have known. A day before the trial was up I canceled. Except the "Cancel" button on their website didn't work! But they had a contact us email, I want to say they even had something for an email us to Cancel, Which I did! And they still charged my card! I had to sic the Credit Card c...

...Company on them.

I think they should call it "super sweeper" instead of curling. That would make more sense.

It might make sense to put their pictures on a "suitcase" or a bag of Cheese Curls.

I think it'd be better to have Olympic Shuffle Board...And you wouldn't need skating rinks to do it. IMO, It'd easily be more entertaining with less resources ...But Thumbs up for Cocoa Puffs! (Been Forever)

I imagine there is huge pressure to commercialize for silly kids toys. This is my only explanation except mental exhaustion.

I don't hate JJ any more than Lucas.

I'm kind of surprised that JJ came back. He set up all these intriguing story threads in TFA, and TLJ just chucked them all out the window and killed Luke, and now Leia is dead, too. What else is there for the other characters to do, besides go back to the goofy casino planet with the Porgs to free more space llamas?

Agreed. I always liked/rooted for the Mariners against the rest of the AL....but we're going to get fleeced by the East Coast clubs. ALWAYS. The fix has always been in. The umps will throw the game. They control it. MLB doesn't want computers/lasers seeing how bad calls are botched. The umps will throw a World Series Game (98' Padres/vs Yanks)

In the NFL, certain teams wine & dine the refs to get calls THEIR way!

San Diego voted for the NFL to go away - and I agree.

And the same rule for e.g. ski-jumping, alpine skiing, skating, cross-country, biathlon, curling etc. pp., right?

In South Korea we now would have only short track and speed skating.

Valid points. In South Korea they have reused golf courses for cross-country skiing and biathlon. Indoor arenas in theory are easier to reuse, though Sochi still has a surplus skating rink waiting to get disassembled and moved elsewhere. Mountains probably are very expensive to build, so the Netherlands doesn't need to apply unless they co-host with a neighbouring country.

IMO the IOC should define 3 to 5 Olympic cities and alternate between them. But due to hefty corruption benefits for the IOC members this will never happen.

Not rocks, stones

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

Is that like bending spoons? Is it done with telekinesis? Doesn't it give you a headache?

Cleveland too.

To my first comment...If you could watch your dream over and over...Would it really be so special?

Hmm... watched it just now and seemed fairly decent to me. I kind of like the new Star Wars movies for what they are. If you don't sit and over analyze them to death, they're at least on a par with the best of the super hero movies that's been flooding out for years now. In other words, I'll take these Star Wars offshoots over most of the crap being released these days.

The trailer looks terrible, but I'll go see it anyways.

Also a fine choice.

But when I see it, I hear Radar Rider in my head.

Don't forget. Before a Tesla played Bowie, Bowie played Tesla. https://i.redd.it/a4x1sext874z.jpg

What is "football"?

The whole thing was a circus.

Super bowl has been in early February for several years now...

Or how about an old Atari Property? ...Coming Soon..Tic Tac Toe ! In 3D!!

Has anyone made a movie based on Yars Revenge yet?

TBH I think an ANIME style movie based on Yar's Revenge would be Killer! (Like if the Box Art came to life!)

He's also a big Svengoolie fan.

Don't forget about Corvette Summer.

Also lots of voiceover work...Ya can't beat a nice guy, who is also Luke Skywalker...And also gives mad props to Weird Al!

Listen, they green lit Murphy Brown and Crocodile Dundee, what more do you want?

I want Murphy Brown Versus Crocodile Dundee! Yeeeeahhh! Bill & Ted 3 Would be Cool!

Wouldn't it have been cheaper to close one eye?

If I buy a second one, I can use them for 3D.

It's crazy to think that 24" is small. The LCD TV on my bed is 26" and it's huge because of the bigger frame around the screen and the TV's back. Newer LCDs that are 32" are even smaller than mine because all a TV in 2018 is a screen on a stand.

If RCT for the switch was such a great idea then how come they can't secure private funding? Sucks to see any iteration of Atari begging for a loan from the public.

Yeah, RCT is an established franchise, so why do they have to crowdfund it??? "Atari" may not have much clout, but you'd think they'd be able to secure private investment just on the strength of the franchise (if people really wanted it).

I can't understand how a company can have all that IP but no money to make any games from them? Might as well hold up a sign that says "Will remake 2600 games for food"

We should do an experiment and see if it will let people donate past the goal. Quick, somebody donate five thousand dollars and see what happens.

It wouldn't let me.

Didn't work for me either.

On YouTube I told one of those guys it's supposed to be a suppository.

Nice. That's worth it just for making them do a Google search for "suppository".

The leaders of tomorrow!

I wish I could afford to bid that high! but Alas...I have very little money...I also already have that game, but that's not the point haha...

Believe me, I already regret it.

If Atari cared one ounce about the real fans, they would throw in a SpeakerHat into that auction.

It would certainly generate some goodwill.

Too bad they don't actually care.

So now it is rain, underbrush grows back, it gets dry again, and more fires I assume...

It'll take 10 years at least to grow back what burned.

They gotta watch for Mudslides! They need trees to hold soil...

Lol!

Maybe I should bid 2,000 dollars. Then it will get more attention and a crazy bidding war will be started that will gain national attention and the game will end up selling for 5 million dollars.

And this is not just any old boxed copy of Boulder dash.

I just reached over 5 views!

Need to hit a billion. Of course, I don't know if that's the short scale or long scale billion....

Mine is over a million views. I guess that's what happens when you update a blog for over 10 years.

I do remember. Hell, as a little kid I remember when airliners had a smoking section.

frankodragon "I never flown"

You've -never- flown? Ever? Wow. I've probably flown hundreds of times, I'm not sure I could even estimate accurately. You should give it a try sometime; maybe a local flight on a small sight-seeing plane. Flying is amazing - it's all the security theater bullshit that sucks.

The only thing I really hate about security, other than having to get there early is taking off your shoes, because of the shoe bomber...But the trick to flying is to hit the airport bar beforehand...2 beers and I'm good And hopefully No Turbulence!