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His transformation from beloved to hated in Blacksburg has been astonishing. He was on track to be the 2nd most celebrated coach in VT history, behind Frank Beamer - hell, he was probably already there. It's not only that he left, but the manner in which he did - didn't put out the obligatory "Thank you to the fans, I'll always cherish my time" message...he was just *gone* the day after we lost in the tourny. Very strange for a guy who spent his whole life in the Shenandoah Valley, and constantly preached about "family".

I hope Kentucky pours all their NIL money into men's basketball and leaves nothing for the women's team.

My son goes to Kent State University, in NE Ohio, and I made the plans ~8 months ago to visit him this past weekend and experience the eclipse. For 2017, I didn't travel to see the totality, and I'm very glad I did this time. I was expecting it to be really neat...but it was honestly one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. It's just incredibly surreal how you go from full daylight to twilight in a matter of a minute or two, and the temperature drops very noticeably. And then you look to the sky, and there is a black hole hanging there, and it's on fire. My big regret is that I didn't bring my SLR camera with me. Just never crossed my mind, as I thought special equipment would be needed to take photos. But during totality, you can just look directly at it, take pictures, etc. with no need for glasses or filters. Of course, you better be ready when the sun starts to peak back out! And besides that, on Sunday we went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, which was pretty cool in its own right.

Well, this seems relevant to folks in this thread, on this particular message board: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coe/tiny-epic-game-of-thrones I haven't played many of the Tiny Epic games. I think the original, Tiny Epic Galaxies is still generally considered the best. I played the western one a time or two. And maybe Kingdoms and Quest...but tbh, I don't remember much about them. This one looks very interesting to me,though...

Wait...there's trees in the Mad Max setting?

Don't you mean "Rely on it, you may"?

What era is this show supposed to be set in? Pre-prequels, I guess? But like hundreds of years prior, or just a bit prior? I know the comics have a series set a few hundred years prior to ANH. "High Republic" or something... ETA: I looked it up myself. Apparently about 100 years before The Phantom Menace. Odds there will be a Yoda cameo?

So many yellow lightsabers.

Been making my way through the latest season of "What If..." I still have one more to go, but overall I've found it to be kind of underwhelming. Boy, they sure fell in love with the Captain Carter character, and now that seems to mean that these stories are crossing over. I was particularly disappointed in the 1602 story. I was intrigued by the idea of an Avengers story set in that timeframe...but why were Hela and Thor the monarchs of England? Why is Happy Hogan some sort of weird Hulk spin-off (is this a cross-over from the earlier episode)? That idea seems like needed a lot more fleshing out, and instead is just seems like they were all their modern characters transported to that timeframe. And we have Dr. Strange popping up in several episodes (again, the crossover stuff). I just kind of wish they were standalone stories in their own settings.

Just started Act III, and it seems I've run into a few glitches: - Got the quest about the murdered priest, and was doing different parts of it...only to discover it's not in my quest log. So, not sure I'll get any credit for it. - Been working on romancing Shadowheart. By the end of Act II, it certainly seemed like we were a thing. And then talking to her about something else, this dialogue option comes up...something like "Seems like we had a chance for a relationship, but I think that time has passed", and her response was "maybe in another life". Wait...what?! What did I say?!?!

I rescued Halsin...never saw his confrontation with Kahga, she was gone. Then later found the whole Shadow Druid thing. So...my head canon is that she heard Halsin was free, and she just bugged out before he got back. shrug

I have not respecced anyone or tried any kind of multi-class stuff. I guess that's what the magic mirror in camp is for?

I'm towards the end of Act II (at least I think it's near the end), and I've never used a single fire barrel intentionally. I'll repeat what a few people have said...it seems like you have 3 tanks in your preferred party - you, Lae'zel and Karlach. That's a lot of redundancy. My party is typically me (ranger), Shadowheart, Lae'zel/Karlach, Gale/Wyll. Lae'zel and Karlach are kind of a tossup for me, but I think Gale is the much better wizard type. But I throw in Wyll for story purposes. I was never using Astarion because my character was good enough at picking locks...but I just started bringing him in more, and wow is he so much better at lockpicking. I just recently got access to the druid (Harsin?), but I haven't found much of a use for him. Mostly, I think I do ok in the fights because I'm over-leveled. I tend to go around and find every little side quest, and do those, so I *think* I'm levelling up faster than anticipated. I'm level 9 at the end of Act II. You can also do things ahead of time to make fights easier. At the end of Act II, there's a big fight in a castle. Instead of waiting for that big fight to be triggered and fight them all at once, I went around room-to-room and did a bunch of easier little fights (It's amazing that the guards didn't hear me fighting it out with their buddies in the next room over...)

Just saw that Carl Weathers has passed away at age 76.

My daughter and I hadn't yet gone to see this. First Marvel movie in a long time that we hadn't seen within a week of release. Looked to go see it on Friday...and couldn't find it in any of our local theaters. Decided that we could wait until Disney+