Jace, Extat

Looks like the Colts took Tyler Warren, the TE. I love it! Mo Alie-Cox sucks and he's been the #1 TE for years, and Warren is one of the only players I know about in this draft. There was talk that he might go top-5. Unfortunately I almost expect this to lead to Daniel Jones getting the starting job. I can already see Captain Checkdown feeding the ball to this kid in practice while Richardson continues to be unable to hit water if he fell out of a boat. But Warren seems to be a big upgrade at the position and that's all you can ask for from the draft, to upgrade a position. I'll take it.

"Whiskey Leaks Pete"

I clapped at Dedra+Syril. I love it. Didn't see it coming, but it's just delightful. My favorite thing so far this season. You're right, it wasn't set up or even implied last season. But I think it's brilliant. The way she looks at him... I don't even have words to describe what her expression is... it's just fucking delightful.

Well, episode 2 was better. It still struggled with pacing and editing, the farm planet is just not interesting and it felt like every time we started to get some momentum going with Andor's story we had to cut back to this fucking farm. Ugh. And the wedding blows. Mon's husband is a prick and she's hiding in plain sight, we get it! The jungle story isn't bad, it's not a terrible idea to have this group splinter and have Andor stuck with them. But it should be the main plotline and it almost feels like an afterthough. Not sure I like this three-episodes-at-once release thing.

What is community trash pickup?

If a man can't spell it, he don't need it.

That one slipped by me! That's funny, though.

Um... Um... Oh no. I mean... oh NO! Oh NOOOOOO! I picked one helluva week to try sobriety. That might not have been good if I were stoned, but maybe I woulda laughed at least once. That first episode was BAD! Oh no! What a mess! I was lookin' forward to this, too.

I saw that the other day and she's a breath of fresh air. Democrats need to take fucking notes from this chick.

That makes sense, I figured they just weren't going to be spending a lot of time at the town once the main plot kicks off. But that makes a lot of sense.

Well that was uh... damn. That was damn. At first I wasn't digging Abby; because in the game she's a big girl, like a WNBA player type physique. And she seemed kinda stupid just running after two people on horseback on her own. But once she met Joel... damn. Great casting. She's just filled with hate and helplessness and seems desperate to deploy the only agency she feels she has left: violence. That was horrible to watch, but in a way where I felt a lot of sympathy for Abby even as she's torturing Joel. What he did in that hospital was wrong, and what Abby is doing to him is wrong but you can understand how she came to this place and that she was probably a different person before Joel killed her father. It's truly tragic, and now the kiss of violence has been forced onto Ellie. Ellie telling Joel to get up reminded me so much of Catelyn telling Robb to stand up and walk out of The Twins that I cried, even though I knew going in what was gonna happen. I cried again when she laid down next to his body and pressed her face against his. That was a powerful scene(s) played out by really talented actors. The uncomfortable expressions on the faces of Abby's friends really brought it all together, that these guys have never thought of themselves as the bad guys before, and they're not altogether okay with what they're taking part in. Wow. Damn. The battle at the town was a little... rushed, I think. It just felt like something that should have happened deeper into the season when we have a chance to know some of these characters a little better, but goddamn if it didn't end strong.

Aww... Well, if you insist: Sounds to me like you need a new vibrator. With proper equipment and application of, men are superfluous and you'll be having somethin' in bed but it won't be dreams.

Just imagine I said something depraved and not nearly as funny as to anyone else as it is to me.

So tonight I was playing Marvel Rivals with some friends, and we were a party of four (in a six-person team) and I think I encountered my soul mate. One of the two randos on our team was just ramblin' on the whole match about how he's joined a frat and had to fast this whole week, being allowed to only eat ramen noodles and drink soda. He had a whole bit about how bad his stomach hurts, and he just wants some water but the frat won't let him have any or he has to go through more hazing. He also insisted that he was playing the game while wearing a butt plug, saying "it's plug and play", and they come to check to make sure he's still wearing it. All delivered with this straight-man deadpan and insistence that he can't do anything about the situation. It was hilarious. I did not stop laughing for the whole match, and there was even a bit in there about how he wants to quit the frat and try the furry frat instead, but he's scared of what their hazing must be like. I tell 'ya, it was like hearing a funnier version of myself, just teasing you along to see how plausible they can make this ridiculous tale while keeping you laughing. I sent the guy a friend request after the match, something I've never done in my life. He got my maximum laugh out of me, which is like this shrill "Ha Ha Ha" that repeats until I run out of breath Thought I'd share. #NotAllGamers

Well Russia today hasn't nearly mobilized their economy like the Nazi's had, so I don't doubt that damage can be done to their war efforts. But I wouldn't count on these strikes to actually stop the war. Ukraine simply doesn't have the capacity to do enough damage to keep the Russians from maintaining armies in the field.

'Aight... 'aight. I dig that! I've put hella hours into X-Com, I dig that!

Fair. That suggests that Alviarin must have really believed she was a darkfriend, which was not the vibe I got from that scene, but that's fair. I take that back.

No doubt, you're right about the transport system for all this equipment being destroyed. But the actual creation of most of the equipment (according to Speer) was humming along basically 'till the end. Now; they didn't have soldiers to use that equipment (try female soldiers next time, Germany), they didn't have trucks to get it where it needed to go, and they had no fuel for half this shit anyway. But according to Speer the actual production of guns and planes and bullets never stopped until the Allies physically captured the factories.

It didn't bother anyone else that an Aes Sedai used saidar to kill Siuan even though she was stilled and defenseless? That should have immediately revealed whoever did it as Black Ajah.

Small quibble, Speer had the Nazi armaments factories still producing into 1945. They didn't lack equipment, actually they had too much of a lot of useless things like planes but no oil to fly them. But because Nazis are fucking dumb it was considered "defeatist" to shift production away from useless materiel so thousands and thousands of planes were made in the last year-or-so of the war that never got off the ground. Speer could have been lying, maybe, but he was quite insistent that production capacity was actually not affected very much by strategic bombing.

I believe it. Because I can't afford nothin' with all the $$$ I'm spending on Quaker's oatmeal. And these boi's, oh my god... every time I take the bits out it's always "we're cold" or "you don't feed us enough" and "why won't you let us go?" I ain't sayin' I'm offering a lucrative option, I'm sayin' I need the help!

I got a stable job for you. Twenty-six pony boys are living in my shed rent-free and turning an enormous amount of oatmeal into gargantuan piles of shit that get bigger every day. Running a boi harem is a lot more work than I was expecting. I can pay you eighteen dollars a day; hop a flight playa.

I need to check out the UK politics thread more often!

After work yesterday I took my uncle to pick up his truck from a shop that installed a "topper" for him. I mention it because the owner of the shop and one of the employees brought up tariffs and started listing the parts (all of them) on the truck that are made in China, and how every aspect of their business is now up in the air because they don't know how they're going to get parts for their work. This is a truck modification shop, in Indiana, and these guys are almost certainly Trump voters and they were hot about tariffs. It's not much, they didn't say they were about to march on Washington or anything, but they weren't blaming Democrats. That's something.

I don't know what the fuck y'all were watching. That was a rushed mess! That was truly terrible. Turrable. They really need 10 episodes for these seasons. They need it bad. None of these moments have any time to breathe, Nynaeve overcoming her block leads straight into Siuan being deposed which leads straight into Lan seeing his countryman rejecting the shadow which leads straight into Rand breaking the Aiel which leads straight into Moiraine fighting Lanfear which weaves together with Siuan being killed after a shitty speech which weaves with the Aiel splitting apart which weaves together with Rand calling on saidin to make rain which ends with Egwene speaking for only the second time in the episode. Oh my goodness! That should be half-a-season of individual moments with their own build up and payoffs. Oh my goodness!