The case.

Cracking and sending it in again is possible, although I think the vast majority of thieves want a quick payday and would not be willing to invest money and wait the months or years (backlog) for grading.

There’s people who like to buy graded cards and “liberate them from their prisons” to be played. The whole collectors’ grading system is insane. See also: the massive fraud in video game grading by Wata and Heritage Auctions.

The card itself doesn’t get serialized, but the card gets “slabbed”; put in a plastic case that is serialized and can’t be opened without damage.

Indeed. It’s not the white “USA” hat, it’s the “white USA” hat.

I think they are implying that the far-right Paxton would mobilize left-wing voters more than the not-quite-so-far-right Cornyn.

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Me:

Phonetically, 'za should be short for lasagne, and 'sa for pizza… or people can just say the damn words.

Whatever, I guess. Peeps gon’ slang slang, for real, for real. 🤦‍♂️

In the eyes of a member of the ruling class, she fades into the background of the faceless proletariat.

Correct. Like “plunge” without the “lu”.

That reminds me of the court scene in Ghostbusters. “It’s true, your Honor. This man has no dick.”

There was also a kids’ animated series and action figures based on Toxic Avenger, which is definitely not a kids’ movie.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Nl-Gouda.ogg

A bit like “khow-da”. Also acceptable: gow-da. US: goo-da.

I listened to a Dutch person pronounce Gouda (cheese) and now pronounce it that way, much to the dismay of my fellow Americans.

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Kellyanne Conway, U.S. Counselor to the President, in 2017.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts

Of course companies wanted people to share the free demo versions but some full games did have annoying protection schemes in the '80s. Obfuscated data and purposely “bad” sectors on floppy; cardboard decoder wheels; asking for word #x from line #y of page #z of the game’s manual, or, similarly, a page of codes printed in black ink on dark maroon paper to prevent photocopying… leading to folks distributing cracked versions and the cracking tools themselves!

To be fair, it was a pretty ridiculous time. Computer club meetings just turned into floppy-copy-fests.

I got to meet Legaia’s creator Hidenori Shibao. He also created Lennus (“Paladin’s Quest” that I enjoyed on SNES in my youth) and its sequel.

The company that made my TV is engaged in copyright infringement, you say? Transmitting copyrighted images over the Internet for profit?

Huh.

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