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Went to the country side with my parents to gather grapes to make wine. Wasn’t that eventful but I did see a rainbow (it’s actually a double rainbow but the second one is very hard to see in the photo)

Made some new friends

Ye olde way of crushing grapes because my old man is really cheap when it comes to buying an electric crusher or anything that is modern.

We only managed to gather like ~520kg of grapes which he said it wasn’t enough so he decided to go buy some more… and haul everything in our car :crazy_face:

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If you hadn’t said grapes, I would’ve thought that was marijuana. :wink:

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Over a ton of Mary Jane? Far out dude!

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Interesting that that’s where your mind first went.

Bag of Marijuana: :notes: “I pulled into @Nazareth, was feelin’ about half past dead…”

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If we can get an excellent modern TV series of Mickey Mouse shorts featuring his shrill, high-pitched voice (The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse), I don’t understand why we can’t get a good Mario movie where Charles Martinet does the same.

Heck, I’m sure the cartoonish, slapstick antics of the old-fashioned cartoon style would fit Mario very well as a fully-animated character.

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I’d prefer a real cartoon over a CGI Movie tbh, I’ve always loved the 90s Artworks from Club Nintendo Magazin.
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Because they want to use the hype of “hey, this famous person you’ve seen in all these movies is gonna be the voice of this other famous character you’ve probably heard of!” Because film execs have no faith in their audiences.

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I probably should have noted my confusion was rhetorical/sarcastic. I know why they’ve got the Pratt headlining the film, as well as the rest of the cast being Hollywood A-listers.

It’s just unfortunate that it’s what Illumination is doing to a series, to a pop-culture icon that probably doesn’t need such tactics, while also still including that original iconic voice-actor as some unknown minor role

Exactly! He would fit so well in a 2D animated style, maybe even in a more comedy-focused genre, instead of the educational animated games of the past, or the adventurous style of the Super Show.

Maybe that’s a bad idea, but I’m watching this series of new Mickey Mouse shorts on Disney Plus (there’s also plenty on Youtube from before D+ was created) – clearly inspired by his classic designs, featuring lots of dialogue between iconic characters – add in a lot of insane situations and things taken to their cartoonish extreme, and I can’t help but wonder if there can’t be something similar for Mario and co., if they’re so interested in finally giving him a proper animated outing.

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Ah, Vlad the Inhaler :smirk:

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You rang?
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Home internet is down and checking my ISP’s website on my phone, it’s a known issue and ETA for a fix is in approx 18 hours.

Thank Jeebus I have the latest Peacock server downloaded, but this has been a sharp reminder that the torches and pitchforks should come out if IOI don’t patch H3 to be fully featured in Offline mode in the future.

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DONE! All 3 sniper maps at 20 mastery, the final sniper rifle unlocked! After 3 years of putting it off, I’ve finally gotten through it. Now all that’s left is escalations, whatever map challenges I haven’t yet attended to, and any new challenges to unlock IOI puts out, such as when they release new ETAs and such. But now I can break from Hitman until Freelancer comes, I think.

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First day of work wet well, I spent all day getting tech issues resolved and took a single phone call when they finally resolved them.

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what’s the job?

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Customer service rep. for the passport office.

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kinda like papers please? :wink:

thank your lucky stars it’s inbound calls rather than having to make outbound ones.

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Almost exact like it actually.

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This plane is so old!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!
In the background you can see the retro under footrest luggage space. This is almost as cool as the backwards facing seats. …also I’m drinking a lot bc we are over an hour delayed but they still boarded on time.

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give my luck to your uncle, then.

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Today got myself into some technics shop and was surprised with the prices for stuff being sold there.
Most likely things are preused, but may be new as well, look like as new. I didn’t ask, was just wandering with no exact purpose.
For example Xbox One is sold for about £150, PS5 - £555, GeForce 3090 Editors Edition (or something like that, don’t remember exactly) is about £800. Various VR sets from 40 to 85 pounds.
I consider the prices more or less adequate.
Oh, well, to be honest I consider UK prices more or less adequate in comparison to ukrainian ones :slight_smile:

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