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I never got far once it went off the rails. Now that I generally know how it ends, I do want to give it a proper re-watch through to the finale, disappointing or no. I was really attached to that show for several seasons.

I grew up idolizing Jordan and was as much a fan as any Illinois kid, but I was a teenager without even basic cable, one TV and two parents who had PBS or Cheers on rather than an NBA game. But I've followed Jimmy Butler since his draft day and watched him relieve Luol Deng when Thibodeau was playing him 41 minutes a game. Devastated when the Bulls traded him. Butler went through a diva period where his relentless will overcame weaker teammates (Tywin, weigh in?) and I soured on him a bit, but this absolutely absurd playoff run they've made has made me realize that he is, if I had to pick one, my singular favorite player ever. Dude is everything that young hoopers should aspire to. An absolute dog who wins through sheer determination and hard work. "I just don't know if I'm the best person to talk to". In my life, the only guys who say that and mean it were MJ and Kobe. Straight up.

I think it was about the 3rd Bourne movie that I wished for some clever video editor to patch together a bunch of scenes of Ethan Hunt sprinting, then Jason Bourne walking purposefully through a crowd, back and forth.

I still listen to an AM broadcast station for baseball games sometimes, because the sport lends itself quite well to a radio broadcast. That said, I'm damning the tech, as I only ever listen to the station through their online stream, not actual AM radio tech.

I am absolutely cracking up at every scene. Even better than I thought it would be from the trailer. Hoult is in my favorite movie (Fury Road), a top-ten ever show for me (The Great), and now this delight of a film. He and Awkwafina are both terrific. They have to be, really, as two modest actors here would have been overwhelmed by Nic Cage barely managing to get his lines out without saying "IM NIC CAGE AS DRACULA MOTHER FUCKERS!". Edit: I am amazed at Cage's use of a completely different accent literally line-to-line throughout. He just doesn't give a shit.

I am the sort of sci fi/genre type that I rewatch great films far more often than most just to take in the visuals or vibe. Children of Men is such a beautifully immersive film - from the stunning world Cuaron builds to the outstanding long-shot sequences. I'm a lightweight movie watcher though - I'm content with stoner comedies, well made action films, and trippy sci fi stuff. I just rewatched Heat for like the 15th time last night. I don't think I'll have it in me to rewatch Children of Men for years yet. That film exhausted my emotions me more than near any ever. What a triumph.

He also doubled down on his Access Hollywood brag about being able to assault any woman he wants to because they all let him. And the crowd ate it up like he was Johnny Fucking Carson. I saw women in the crowd laughing. What in the living hell are these people brainwashed by? Does Trump need to actually rape their daughters before they are shocked out of this idol worship? My apologies for the incredible bluntness of that last line, but I truly cannot fathom the bigotry fueling like 130 million Americans. I wish I were Christian so I could be confident in the eternal hellfire this protodemon is doomed to.

I couldn't finish Bullet Train and I thought it'd instantly be one of my favorites. The banter was nails on chalkboard to me. I don't mind many absurd, flashy films where no single character ever speaks like any actual human being would ever speak in any given scene. I know a bunch who liked it, some that didnt, but AFAIK I definitely liked it the least. Possibly my least favorite ever Brad Pitt role, though he annoyed me far less than the manic pixie character or the Cockney stooges.

Also, I tried to get through more than 2 episodes of that Amazon mega-series Citadel. You could see the budget, they made sure of that. But Madden just doesn't have it, man. Didn't find him physically imposing in the action bits, nor charismatic in the family scenes. I've not watched any of Chopra's Bollywood megahits and am aware that she's well-regarded, but frankly I thought she was even worse than Madden. Is it just the chatGPT script? Is hero-with-amnesia the least interesting plot device in Hollywood by a long shot? Anyway I might make it through the season, especially a late night unsober view perhaps, but it sure is weird that it's a huge hit.

Oh I agree that Puss in Boots 2 was a far superior family animated movie, but Mario just has that momentum at this point. It's odd that these little gals, who are mostly obsessed with Bluey, are mad for a franchise they knew nothing about. My guess is the constant bombardment of colors and cute critters is hypnotic to them. And, possibly due to their dad's love of heavy metal, they are obsessed with the corny Jack Black song. They seriously had a little dance routine and the 5 year old knows the entire damn song - he has some app that lets them view Youtube videos he's tagged so of course they have it on replay until the iPad happily dies. The film's only been out like a month, right! As the adoptive uncle, I'm very excited to start showing the older one some truly great kids films beyond their Disney+ addiction.

My best friend has 3- and 5-year-old daughters. They've been twice and are haranguing the parents to bring them back. The 3yo has a conniption if she hasn't heard Jack Black's song Peaches every 20 minutes. The 5yo is very much in her Disney princess phase so a flashy, fun Princess Peach was very appealing. Neither has any interest at all in the video games (yet).

I whimpered out loud a bit. Yadi took a foul tip to the tip last year that probably would have ended me entirely.

KD is having himself a nice little game 27/10/5 on 16 shots with great defense. He is by far having the third best game on the court. Jokic like a 7 foot tall angry Serbian ballet dancer with the ball. Just brilliant. But Devin Booker is now 33 for his last 41 shots?! 33! For 41! Amazing game and 12 minutes to play!

I turned 12 four days after Jurassic Park released. Dad took me and my buddies. My folks raised me without much worry about European (usually French) movies with lots of casual nudity, but I saw very, very few violent or scary films prior to that. I was also obsessed with dinosaurs as a kid (wanted to be a paleontologist until I hit Bio 1 and.. eww). Jurassic park terrified me. I thought I was cool after we left, but obviously not. Either that night or shortly thereafter, I had a dream featuring a T-Rex slowly stalking through the woods outside my childhood bedroom window. In the dream, I did the "freeze and it wont see you" trick, then slowly hid under the springs under my bed. The T-Rex's giant head smashed through the bay window and, of course, I was only saved by the impossible strength of my mattress spring box. Anyway, I mention this because thirty years later I still have that god damn nightmare. Like once a year, there's the silhouette out there in the trees, then the window smashing and terror. At this point I usually wake up laughing that it's still in my subconscious all these years later. That was still like the best birthday party ever.

I really enjoyed Guardians 3. Some bits were so James Gunn that they jumped the shark a bit, but I expected that. I've skipped probably 2/3s of Marvel content since Endgame, but went to this one in the biggest theater. I loved the Guardians' space antics long before every other franchise are out there now. There's a big action set-piece that I feel was delightfully comics-put-to-life. Some great tunes. An entertaining bad guy for once with Chukwudi Iwuji just chewing the hell out of every scene like a pitbull. He was great. No spoilers, but if you're going, there are two post-credit scenes and the second one at the very end is wholly unnecessary and not worth waiting to pee.

it's been a year or two, but surely you have your hook with you? Just hold the button on em. The reefs have all sorts of delights to move your tech tree forward! Hope you're getting comfortable jousting with sharks! I figured out a sort of dashing up-swing straight through their attacking mouth that harms them and doesn't get you bit, but it takes timing and facing an angry shark! They won't spawn a certain distance from your boat, so I usually parked on a far side of a small island and hurried to the other to do my snorkeling. edit: Oh you have to be fully underwater yourself to "mine" the underwater stuff, no standing up and pulling it out of the water, that'd be just silly!

Raft is a terrific game. Lots of fun to figure out the crafting tree and find new mats. And a lovely little story campaign once you feel like it. I had some great nights over Covid shutdown building a chaotic with my brother and his buddies on the other side of the country. Just four guys chillin' on a boat, doin' some fishin. In a way.

Oh, D2R is great. Gorgeous, and of course a far larger player base and more stable servers than this 3rd party mod I'm endeared to. This one is smashing together what 20 year D2 vets always wanted, plus modern stuff people liked from D3 and POE. I'd pay an absolutely silly amount of money for D2R with full modding support (although the fella behind PD2 says it'll never be possible to port with just how much code changed). My interest in this mod is also due to my apathy regarding D4. Love how it looks, and if they actually pull it off, I'll likely dive in headfirst. My skepticism sees Blizzard/Activision's predatory pricing - paying another 10 bucks for the first week is incredibly lame to me. In game, I very much dislike level scaling in open world games and I still think the itemization (including spoilers from leaks) looks incredibly underwhelming. At least the paragon board manipulation sounds resonably complex. I'm also done with POE until their big expansion - although it has excellent player retention, I found this current league to be a big disappointment.

Enjoy the best version of d2!

Hmm. I can't recall but I believe if you can get LOD installed and working you can download the mods launcher and gi from there. I have both CDKeys attached to my ancient bnet account and to reinstall LOD as I recall it asks for both. My druid summoner AngryPuppies has progressed past Meph runs etc and is into the simple Mapping system now. Still no skill GCs etc as it's apparently a very meta build and gear upgrades are expensive. I have found some awesome stuff (which with new Loot Filters is super satisfying).

Jumped in to the newest season of Project Diablo 2, a superb mod of og D2 with its own large community, a trade portal, and a vast reimagining of my favorite game ever. The newest patch uses a new renderer to give it a very smooth 60 fps though the game is still calculated in its 25 frame glory. The graphics can't compare to D2R of course but in my opinion that downgrade pales in comparison to the vast and modern changes its made to the old stalwart. A multifaceted endgame like POE. Tons of skill and monster balancing to make lots of builds and under-appreciated zones relevant. QoL all over. If I don't finally spring on a graphics card before D4, I'll be fully content casually playing this season and with my colossal single player hoard (unlimited stash mmm). I can do all the try-hard content or just blast as I watch a game or show on the main screen. Don't think I'll be buying D4 until a week or three in, regardless.

I don't know if Thibs was just giving respect to his guy, but I'm baffled the Knicks didn't immediately go at Jimmy when he was utterly immobile. Or sag off him when he was sitting in the corner on offense. Baffling collapse. I guess missing 30 three pointers will do that.

He was amazing tonight. It's been one heck of an April for the Cardinals, that's for sure. Shows how useless Spring Training stats are vs the regular season. Card went like 17-6 or something and had a bunch of their starters playing in the WBC. Now 10 games back - of the Pirates! What the hell! It's a nice chance for lots of fanbases with simmering resentments of the organization to gleefully point and laugh. Reddit is generally a cesspool for echo chamber negativity, but boy howdy is the r/baseball sub enjoying this worst-in-50-years start. I truly have no idea what's happening; I've been to 3 games now at Busch and all three were deflating losses.

Do any of you ever get into a cold bed and horizontally run a bit to warm it up? Like a dog spinning in its spot before nodding off. I was asleep on the couch when my girl let herself in after her late shift and went to bed. When I moved rooms to my half the bed, I did the leg warmup. She's still mostly asleep and reaches over and scratches my back and says "Who's a good boy" and goes back to snoring. If I had a tail it'd still be wagging.

Just very strange. I feel like I would have noticed in the (many) trailers before the film. Surely they were just as fuzzy as the film itself. Regardless, I enjoyed it throughout and look forward to seeing it - in oddly a better setting than a movie theater. The bard illusion had me hooting as well. The couple next to me were clearly DnD veterans and ooh'ed and aah'ed at several minor bits that surely were existing lore I missed. Their sense of humor was wholly different than mine; I laughed pretty hard several times, never at moments they did, but they found several bits hilarious that I felt missed badly. It was an odd experience and I was a bit embarrassed by the end when I'd find myself snickering. I found the film much, much funnier than expected. Having seen John Wick 4 and Super Mario Brothers recently as well, I find myself going more to the theater this season than any since Covid. Might catch Renfield next Tuesday.