Jace, Extat

Tywin and DMC arguing over something nobody else gives a fuck about. It's beautiful. This is what the board is supposed to be. You two in a "nuh-uh" fight while we all catch up between streaming a few episodes of something in the evening. It's beautiful. Fuck that scorpion woman, you two are meant for each other.

I like that idea. And it would actually help the players out for once. But instead we got idiocy.

17 games is an abomination. The schedule structure was perfect. Perfect. And they ruined it for nothing more than abject greed.

Oh, I fully expect a 7-9 season of pure mediocrity. Bad enough to make Sundays not fun, not bad enough to find a replacement. I'd rather just give Richardson a whole 'nother year to see if he has a magic leap within him. I know what Daniel Jones is and I don't want to watch it.

You get nothing for being right. Like I will get nothing for watching this LOSER play. A cat climbing down from a tree is inspirational. The two mentally handicapped kids working at my local McDonalds are inspirational. Daniel Jones is not inspirational. And the only thing he's fit to mentor is a bus of nuns trying to learn how to check down on 3rd and long.

God DAMMIT

I wanted to spend some time on this one before I responded, because I think I lied when I said things were trending Ukraine's way but I didn't exactly mean to. I think things in the Russia-Ukraine war are trending against Russia. That's not the same as trending in Ukraine's favor, I realize. I suppose I would rather continue to see Russia hollow itself out fighting like it's 1944 than be allowed to recouperate and potentially modernize their war capacity/doctrines. That is... pretty cold, I realize. But there it is. I also reflexively dislike the idea of Ukraine surrendering any of its territory when they still have the capacity to fight on against an enemy that may collapse on itself.

I am quite concerned. Particularly about political violence in circumstances where armament and government favor the right.

Please keep talking. Jace needs it.

Damn! One a week. Nice. I tend to be sporadic in my reading pace. If I'm reading a series I'll go through it in like a week or two (depending on the size) but then I'll go a week without reading anything before I pick up something else. Never tracked how many books I read in a year. Would have been highest when I didn't have the internet to distract me on hand at every moment.

I think the greater danger is not that people won't listen, but that they won't care. Not enough to act. I'm quite dreading what 2028 will look like.

I tend to agree with this. It's not my people dying, I don't know as much about the war as I could, but Ukraine seems to be getting stronger as Russia is getting weaker. You don't make a bad peace or ceasefire when you're the defender and things are trending your way.

I would say that probably 60 million people voted for Trump because of these reasons. Maybe because I have to, I believe that the other 17 million simply weren't equipped to abhor Trump's profound danger more than the fact that their circumstances were better (whatever that may mean) 4 years ago and his opponent was appointed instead of elected as candidate. I will not argue that ignorance doesn't fuel this man's success, but I think it's unproductive to write off half the country as simply racist and sexist. Stupid? Sure.

A lot of people thought it was. No wars in Ukraine or Gaza, gas was cheaper, and food prices were lower.

I haven't read that far into the Gap series, but Donaldson is a genius. Thomas Covenant changed the way I approach my own attempts at storytelling.

I share your horror at the inevitability of the next four years, and actually maybe the next fifty. But this is unfair. Harris was a poor candidate who ran a poor campaign against the luckiest moron in the universe who could say "it was better when I was in charge". That's hard to beat, no matter the bigotry and ignorance of much of the right.

I cancelled my YoutubeTV the day after the superbowl. I stream an episode or two of something most days, depending on if I'm gonna be playing videogames with my cos and friends on a given evening. Shamefully, I have not read a book this year other than my uncle's children's book he had published. No real reason other than I haven't decided what to read next and I'm still figuring out my after-work routine with a longer transit time for my new job.

Is this real or a joke? Because I might cry if it's real.

I hear ya there. I gave up watching news channels a while ago.

Well, I ain't a segregationist. But other than that... I've been called worse.

You're on a roll this afternoon. An angry, bearded, midget professor who's out for blood. Like Gimli with a degree. "Now it's true you don't see many dwarf faculty. And that has given rise to the belief that there are no dwarf faculty. And that dwarf professors just spring out of holes in the ground! Which is of course ridiculous."

To this point, my sister's kids are monsters. About two weeks ago I was on my way to work when my sister called me. She sounded horrible, and needed me to take her to the hospital. So I turned around, called my boss, and ran a red light or two to get to her house. I checked over my sister, who was weak and dehydrated from the flu and tried to corral the children so I could drop them off at school on our way to the ER. But the girl-child refused to leave until she'd packed her lunch for the day, even though I told her I needed to take her momma to the hospital and she could eat the school lunch. She outright refused, and we had to wait around as her toaster strudel toasted and she picked out which fruit cup she wanted. Monsters, I say.

I think it does look cool. But in a way that's about 60 or 70 percent retarded.

Well at least it looks cool, right?

You're not thinking about the long game, baby. In ten years snow will just be some thing old people talk about.