Sus-Scrofa

re: The weirdest Star Trek pitch ever

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/10/26 at 4:05 pm to DesScorp

That’s ridiculous. Jesus was a Jedi. They don’t exist in the Star Trek world.

re: Interesting Facts About Arkansas Fooball

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/9/26 at 6:34 pm to captdalton

Actually surprised at 25 conference wins

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re: Taylor Sheridan Shows. I Just Lose Interest.

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/9/26 at 6:33 pm to PurpleandGold Motown

So does he, so it all works out

re: When you realize you are the same age as the people you grew up watching

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/9/26 at 4:20 pm to PrattvilleTiger

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Good grief. What's in the water we're drinking now? Very few people I know in their 40's and 50's look as old as the people in that group.

Like the war on cigarettes or not, everyone no longer being engulfed in smoke everywhere you go had to help.

re: Life Insurance Payout

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/9/26 at 4:15 pm to Blizzard of Chizz

If dad lives with you, his 48k a year is probably good for his needs and to feed some to any savings he already has.

If he’s able, get him to have some fun with at least a part of the 100k. A trip with his four boys or something.

Money Talk

re: When you realize you are the same age as the people you grew up watching

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/9/26 at 6:33 am to FLTech

I remember going home once to see my parents and running into some parents of my friends growing up.

You do the math and realize some of them had kids at 18-20 and your friends parents were actually only about 25 when you first met them. In my memories they always seemed older than that.

re: What % of your net take home pay is your mortgage payment?

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/8/26 at 4:54 pm to Brobocop

4% at 2.5% interest.

Was supposed to be a temporary house, but my cheap arse will stay put out of cheapness.

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re: Thoughts on Game of Thrones:

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/8/26 at 6:16 am to Adajax

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As someone who read the books long before HBO announced the series, I found the ending disappointing but I think the herd mentality of "worst ending ever" is overblown. Don't let everyone else sway you before you've watched the show and formed your own opinion. Just watch with an open mind and make your own conclusions. Great books, very good show.

Every story like this with such a well built world, background, and history has this problem.

Because of the detail, fans know the world and the characters, so if you go beyond what has been written, fans have a pretty good understanding of what should happen.

So movie and tv writers have a problem, because typically, they’re not as big of fans of the story as the fans, so there is no way they can write something that checks all the boxes.

Imagine trying to add a book to the Bible and make a show about it. There’s no way you could write one that is consistent with and connects with all of the strings throughout the whole Bible. Same thing here, but obviously on a smaller scale.

Fans know that and will be happy if it looks like you at least tried. It’s been pointed out for a decade now that it doesn’t seem like they tried very hard in the last few seasons of game of thrones.

re: Rant about weighted GPAs.

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/7/26 at 7:13 pm to GeauxTigers123

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For sure. But that’s an entirely additional argument. ACT, SAT, lsat, cat, gmat, gre or whatever. I was just talking about how these random scales are hard to interpret.

LSAT is a funny one.

It’s a bizarre test, but statistically it absolutely correlates with law school grades and bar passage rates.

And there’s not really a good explanation for why other than “it works and we’ve used for a long time now”

re: Dude finds out about his wife's affair in her memoir

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/6/26 at 2:23 pm to 777Tiger

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all it takes is a computer and Amazon

The general rule probably applies even more to people like that claiming to be authors!

re: Dude finds out about his wife's affair in her memoir

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/6/26 at 2:19 pm to prplhze2000

Basically none of us will marry an author, but if you do, and she says “don’t under any circumstances read my book”, you should be nervous.

re: Top Doctor Sounds Alarm on Trump, 79, Over ‘Dementia Signs’

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/6/26 at 12:04 pm to ronricks

They truly are just a despicable and shameless group of people.

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re: Artermis astronauts will be in 40 minute blackout while on dark side of moon..

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/6/26 at 11:36 am to Cell of Awareness

I have a stupid question. Why can’t they just set it up to bounce communication off of something else?

Do they really not have an angle at anything?

Seems like you could put something out there to keep contact.

I’m sure that question makes me sound like an idiot and everything else up there in orbit is too low to use.

re: Florida teen arrested and charged with murder for killing and chopping up a sex offender

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/4/26 at 8:49 am to stout

So what does prison look like for this guy? Has to go in with some respect right?

re: Two Teachers caught with same student in Arizona

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/3/26 at 12:28 pm to Lowdermilk

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She looks like an adult Winnie Cooper.

How dare you. Adult Winnie Cooper is the GOAT of aging well.

re: Richmond fell to the U.S. Army 161 years ago today...

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/3/26 at 10:41 am to Turnblad85

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If I had the gift of time travel I'd travel back to the 1860's and fight with my southern brothers at Vicksburg. To fight and possibly die with men of the South would be the greatest honor I can imagine.

Horrible choice. You’d just be waiting around starting to starve until surrendering to Grant.

If you just want to go back and die in a wild charge, Franklin is where you’d want to go.

re: Mt Everest guides poisoned 4,700 foreign climbers to force fake rescues in $20m scam

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/3/26 at 9:38 am to Shexter

That’s wrong, but you have to respect the hustle a little.

A ready made group of targets with an inherently dangerous activity, known risks of sickness you could mimic with baking powder and water, and people who by definition have money to burn and good insurance.

re: Arkie sugar daddy going to be in trouble.

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/2/26 at 3:40 pm to WildcatMike

Walmart has their name on the field, but the Waltons are too busy building bike trails and spending a billion dollars on cricket teams in India (google it) to have anything to do with Razorback NIL.

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re: Minneapolis recs

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/2/26 at 3:12 pm to LSUFootballLover

You probably won’t go this far west, but if you got out to the suburbs and Minnetrista specifically, Buddy Boy Fine Barbeque is much better than it has any business being in a Twin Cities suburb.

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re: Nike’s stock has slumped to its lowest level in more than a decade.

Posted by Sus-Scrofa on 4/2/26 at 2:16 pm to BoomerandSooner

Nike made it clear to half the population that they did not want or care about getting their business.

And half the population said okay.

They forgot the Michael Jordan rule at the same time that the athletic wear market got flooded with options. Just bad business.

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