I still don’t think that would be enough for me to remember it. It would mean I’d have to give it out to people. But, I didn’t do that so often that I’d have memorized the number and remembered it for 30 years.

I know a fucking grifter when I see a grifter

Sure, I agree. That doesn’t mean that he always wins when he tries to grift. There’s a well known expression “you can’t con an honest man”. I’m sure that he thought he was getting the better end of the deal. But, clearly he didn’t.

You don’t have to pretend he’s some omnipotent super-being who never gets scammed.

If you want to claim that Logan Paul is a genius who never gets caught in one of his own attempted scams, go for it, but… I mean… look at the guy.

Clearly, you have an agenda and simply think that someone as dumb as Logan Paul couldn’t simply have made a dumb choice. You need to come up with some kind of conspiracy theory where he did it to benefit.

Which still means he lost more than half a million dollars from a bad investment.

My steam account dates from the release of the Orange Box. That was a few years after launch, because back at the beginning Steam was only for Valve games and those weren’t really my jam. But, the Orange Box was a great deal. So, I bought it (retail version) and then I had to register a Steam account.

I can remember mine too, 4170129. I just can’t remember why I remember it. The numbers I tend to remember are the ones that I actually had to use often. For example, I remember some phone numbers because to call someone I actually had to punch in (or dial) their phone number. But, did we have to type in our IDs from memory when logging in or something? That seems like it would be a terrible UI, and surely by the mid 90s nobody was still doing that.

I remember my ICQ number, 4170129, but I don’t remember why I know it.

Surely I didn’t have to type it in every time I logged in, did I? That would be a really stupid UI.

Just accept the reality that dumb people make dumb “investments”.

Or aliens descended from space and messed with everybody’s minds so we all think that he’s a real person.

C’mon, stick to reality.

That doesn’t help that he actually paid $635,000 for it and now it’s worthless.

It’s as if he took half a million dollars and just set it on fire. Being able to claim a loss on his taxes, if that’s allowed (which I’m pretty sure it isn’t), doesn’t really help with that.

They’re still the stupidest thing I’ve heard of.

No, they’re stupid.

Looks good to me now. Also good choice with Lovecraft Country. I hadn’t seen that mentioned elsewhere. It’s a bit of a hidden gem.

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At least the most innovative. I think it was meant for kids, so the stories were fairly simple, but the way of using the visual medium to tell those stories was ingenious.

Yeah. I knew the character from the comics, but I didn’t know how they were going to tell that story in a TV medium. What they came up with was unexpected but great.

What I like is that there’s a reason for the surrealist vibe. Often surreal stuff is the way it is because that’s just how the director likes to make things.

Also Monk, Beef, Life, Taxi, and other 4-letter TV shows.

So good.

Only when those presidents are “deep state” types. Most of the time he’s killing and torturing all kinds of people, uncovering all these hidden plots. And he has to be the one man army righting all the wrongs because the establishment is either corrupt, or too slow to react, or whatever.