A 1970 Corvette

They could be you! They could be me! They could even be

They could be you! They could be me! They could even be

On one of his many, many, OJ Simpson related bits Norm Macdonald does a fake phone call with OJ.  During the phone call OJ Simpson gives out the number "1-800-555-0165" twice as a number to call to get his new video showing why he didn't really do the crime.  Near the end of the bit Norm requests to say the number again.  Each time it is read off the number is said slowly and carefully.
 
Now obviously this is a fake number, but what is its purpose?  If it was just being used as a fake number there would be no need to repeat it, and especially not twice.  There also wouldn't be an attempt to say the number clearly, since the number would actually be more inconspicuous if the "555" didn't have attention drawn to it.  Since Norm has been known to intentionally put a hidden level of humor into things, the obvious purpose would be to have a hidden joke.  But what could it be?  My first thought was that the last four digits (those being the only unique to the number) actually spelled out a word like "GILT" or something to continue on Norm's long tradition of never being able to say that OJ was guilty too many times.  But neither 0 nor 1 correspond to any letters, and it's hard to do anything with just two numbers.  I've looked online and all I can find in reference to this number are a couple of Norm references and some ARG that apparently included this number (probably as a reference to the skit.)
 
...wait, with 65 you can do "OJ."  Is it as simple as that?  It'd be a huge unnecessary setup for no payoff, but with Norm there's a very real possibility that the entire point is having a large setup for no payoff.

I finished my first VN route without a translation today! It was a very simple slice of life romcom VN that I'm sure about twelve people on earth really remember but it's still a victory in my book.
 
At times I really wondered if I was taking in the stuff I was reading, and how much I was just glancing past, but at the same time, that's almost exactly how I read english, so... I wasn't overtly confused by much so I think I can consider this a win for me. Now if only I could manage to put together a coherent sentence in japanese, I'd be able to maybe pass an elementary school test

I finished my first VN route without a translation today! It was a very simple slice of life romcom VN that I'm sure about twelve people on earth really remember but it's still a victory in my book.
 
At times I really wondered if I was taking in the stuff I was reading, and how much I was just glancing past, but at the same time, that's almost exactly how I read english, so... I wasn't overtly confused by much so I think I can consider this a win for me. Now if only I could manage to put together a coherent sentence in japanese, I'd be able to maybe pass an elementary school test

I finished my first VN route without a translation today! It was a very simple slice of life romcom VN that I'm sure about twelve people on earth really remember but it's still a victory in my book.
 
At times I really wondered if I was taking in the stuff I was reading, and how much I was just glancing past, but at the same time, that's almost exactly how I read english, so... I wasn't overtly confused by much so I think I can consider this a win for me. Now if only I could manage to put together a coherent sentence in japanese, I'd be able to maybe pass an elementary school test

I feel like the dub voices are a bit cheesy tho

Here's a variety of stuff I played I guess.  No rankings but I'll write way too long of reviews to make up for it.
 

This silly song is like way too perfect for a "slice of life shenanigans" theme and is too catchy for anyone's good 
 
Especially when it's looping in the background while you menu through a bunch of inane hoops that a mobile game would make you do

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On a completely unrelated note, who's ready for the Matrix 4?

>Actually find vintage, legit, anime soundtrack on Amazon for a decent price.
>Remember that there was that one Tenchi Muyo album with the official English versions of the OPs/EDs which I'm nostalgic for because I'm a dinosaur boomer.
>Search "Tenchi-Muyo English Song CD"
>Get a bunch of nursery rhyme and Disney soundtracks.  Some Tenchi muyo stuff down the page, but none of the right cds.
>Oh that's right, it was called "Meet the Tenchi-Muyo" and had box art themed after Meet the Beatles/Abbey Road
>Search Meet the Tenchi-Muyo
>Results are:
>>MANSCAPED groin hair trimmer
>>Frito-Lay variety pack
>>Lego Star Wars The Mandalorian set
>>Essential oils
>>"Poop like a champion" cereal.
>Okay something is going weird with the synonyms.  Let's try the search with quotes.  This is marginally better, getting:
>>Some anime DVDs (But NOT anything related to Tenchi-Muyo; mainly full metal panic)
>>Meat thermometers
>>Star Wars Lego sets
>>A defunct Tenchi Muyo amazon video page
>Okay, it was a Japan only release (despite having English songs) so let's put on the Japanese title of the show, together with the title in quotes. That is, "Meet the Tenchi Muyo" 天地無用. Back to Manscaped and the like.  Maybe it drops quotes if you use more than one set.  I don't know.
 
The best part?  The item IS still listed by Amazon.https://www.amazon.com/MEET-THE-TENCHI-MUYO-天地無用/dp/B00005FXRP  Came up as the first result of a duckduckgo search restricted to Amazon.
 
It's kind of amazing how useless search engines are on big sites if you are trying to do something remotely non-mainstream.  Like, I get that I'm searching for something that maybe one in a million people are searching for.  But when I'm giving such specific searches pull up the matching entry instead of having your algorithm vomit out what your stochastic models falsely predict I "really want."

When grading a paper I almost left a comment of "this is bad civilization" before I caught myself.

For a big list of names, this site put all the spells in the Wizard's Spell Compendinium into a big csv file:
 
https://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2017/07/ad-wizards-spell-compendium-index.html
 
That's basically the name of every single 2nd edition and BECMI wizard spell (including stuff from class books, player's option, dragon magazine, published adventures, etc.)

If there are any, I've never found them. Adobe probably has a hit squad that kills anyone trying to create one.

Ran into a high school friend yesterday, whom I hadn't seen for years.  He's now fairly high in management in a large technology company.  Not computers, large machines.  I won't get more specific than that, but it's a company you've probably heard of.
 
Anyway, he started ranting against "Right to Repair" portraying it as "idiots want to upgrade their machines themselves but they're too dumb to know what they really want.  If they were smart they'd just buy what we make for them."  That took me off guard enough but before long he was basically gloating how customers would have to continually go back to his company for purchases forever, and that if they wanted to they could make existing machines useless with service updates to force customers to upgrade.
 
Took all I had not to ask him if he had literally sold his soul for money in the years since I had last talked to him.

Thank you for the warning.  I mean that sincerely, I know that sort of thing can come off as sarcastic but it is a valuable piece of input.  But I'm not worried for two reasons:
 
1.) I really doubt that the IT staff is competent enough to both catch what I did and prove that I did it maliciously.  Even if they did show that I intentionally caused my computer to forget the old network settings, they haven't sent a message of "everyone must switch to the new network," they just silently switched network preferences in an update, so like you say it would be very easy to play dumb.
 
2.) As chance would have it I had a meeting today with a manager two levels up from me (it's was a regularly scheduled thing.)  It was done electronically and at the beginning of the meeting he said, without prompting from me, "First of all let me apologize if I cut out during the meeting.  IT switched my computer over to this new network and while they claim it is better, it's speed and connectivity is horrible.  I'll probably try to find a way to switch back to the old network for future meetings."  So I think that's a pretty clear sign that I'm in the clear.

So if Poppo gets Special Stage and uses it, the game will play the Poppo version of Ultimate Weapon Girl.  But if Sham gets Special Stage and uses it, it plays the vocaless version and not the Sham solo version.
 
What the hell Fruitbat?
 
EDIT: In retrospect, I quit the game in disgust after 30 seconds or so, but upon listening to the Sham version the vocals don't actually start until 40 seconds, so maybe I'm wrong.

It disgusts me when people discriminate against others based on the color of their skin.
 
What actually makes you better or worse is eye color.
 

he's been here since the beginning

Most music owned for each letter
 
A - America
B - Blue Oyster Cult
C - Collective Soul
D - Dream Theater
E - Electric Light Orchestra
F - Franz Ferdinand
G - Genesis
H - Haken
I - Iron Maiden
J - Journey
K - Kansas
L - London Symphony Orchestra
M - Manfred Mann (On second look it's actually Marasy, but I missed it since he's listed as まらしい in my playlists.)
N - Nitro (at one song, which amazes me.  Don't actually own anything by Nirvana, Nightwish or Nine Inch Nails though you'd think I might.)
O - Mike Oldfield
P - The Prodigy
Q - Queen
R - Rush
S - Sabaton
T - Two-Mix
U - Uriah Heep
V - ??? (You'd think I'd own some Van Halen but apparently not.)
W - Wishbone Ash
X -  Can I count Racer-X? (Though I really should order an X-Japan album)
Y - Yes
Z - Warren Zevon