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Neither does Andor, for most of the others, apparently. Deal with it and move on.

Kerry Hau reporting that Bayern have opened negotiations with Rangnick.

Sure…due to the decades of support the US has already provided them. I’m not necessarily agreeing or disagreeing with the protests. Indeed, my immediate concern is how similar efforts may impede my ability to do my job today and at least already has fucked up my parking. But the logic of the protesters is really not hard to understand unless you’re entirely new to protesting.

Esb is slow between Hoth and Vader’s Bespin reveal

The real Benjen died during the Rebellion after choking on a sausage. Arthur Dayne assumed his identity and joined the Watch under his name. Then he recruited Jon to keep an eye on him. But when he heard Dany was getting married he decided he'd better go and check that out. On the way, he adopted a new disguise and had got fully into character by the time he got there, abandoning his former identities and becoming Strong Belwas.

So? Wouldn't you rather your government not be involved in something if you think that something is horrible? Wouldn't you rather see that money spent on something other than military support for a violent action you disagree with?

Man id love a second season of this just focused on Toranagas Reign and Anjins continued growing role as his advisor... or a movie at the very least!

Which I’m not thrilled by. But this isn’t like Vietnam where the US was directly involved. Further if the US cut off military aid today the Israeli war in Gaza could continue without US support… right?

Emery has extended at Villa until 2027, one more top manager off the table.

Perhaps because the US just passed a bill providing $17 billion to Israel to fund the war effort? Anyway, here’s an article on what Z was talking about last night.

I’m talking about tone and feel, not necessarily the plot details.ESB dosent feel depressing , badly slow paced and boring like Andor.

Given that the US isn’t a direct participant… I’m not sure I understand the point of disrupting US Universities.

As long as you aren’t doing any gay bashing, you have nothing to worry about. Being upset about the existence of gay bashing is NOT a way to have a preemptive strike against thise who disagree with you and its sad if you think most people (andbnot a few outliars) do this.

And, of course, it had the assassination of Greedo by the coward Harrison Ford.

I had the good fortune to see The Iron Claw yesterday, another wonderful film by A24, by far the most interesting studio working right now. I remember seeing the trailer for this a few months back and it seemed to me that there was some buzz for it back then, but that seems to have fizzled out somewhat as it didn't garner any nominations for the Academy Awards which is absolutely criminal, especially in a year that saw such a dearth in good male performances in both the lead and supporting category. The Iron Claw on the other hand is full of great performances by male actors. Zac Efron has never been better, Holt McCallany as the despotic wrestling patriarch was a revelation and all the other performers from Jeremy Allen White (who goes from The Bear to playing a character with bearish strength in this film) to Harris Dickinson to Stanley Simmons are outstanding as well. Each of the male supporting performances in this film was miles beyond Downey Jr.'s pity oscar performance in Oppenheimer. Zac Efron's Kevin Von Erich was also better than Cillian Murphy's Oppenheimer to me, so it's a real shame he did not even get a nomination for his leading role here. I guess wrestling is just to low-brow for the Hollywood brass. The story was also incredibly touching, with a lot of big emotions artfully channeled into these characters who were not equipped to healthily handle their emotions. I was flabbergasted to learn that director and writer Sean Durkin has actually downplayed the tragedy in the lives of the Von Erich dynasty, as their real life story is even more sad, but he did so to great effect. The narrative drive in this film never lets up and I was genuinely touched by their story. This despite not knowing anything about wrestling beyond what I learned from Mickey Rourke's 2008 film The Wrestler and South Park's parody of a few years ago. That being said, I saw it with a mate who has some knowledge of the sport and he loved it as well, so I guess it definitely treats the phenomenon of wrestling with respect. Out of all the films that had their original release in 2023, I think only Poor Things was better and it's actually really close for me in terms of quality. I'd definitely recommend seeing this film, it's a real treat and the type of film I want to see more off! I have read about this scene online and really hope someone will upload it to YouTube soon, because I'm very curious to see the result Quoted for truth. For that matter, in the original Star Wars the Empire Very lighthearted stuff indeed.

For someone with such a 'its just a game' vibe, Jokic lost his shit.

I agree warfare has definitely changed, and drones are a massive part of it, but how goes the meme: improvise, adapt overcome? The reason why tanks and every other ground/surface vehicle (armored or not) is so vulnerable to them is because none of them were designed to withstand them or to kill them. They were all designed and produced between ca. 1945 and 2005 and they were designed to win a fight in every war prior to 2005, in none of those wars cheap ass drones were a thing. What we already see is improvisation with things such as reactive armor, cope cages, turtle tanks, (multiple) machine guns (sometimes WWI water cooled ones, that allow longer bursts) against air, Jammers, DEW (such as lasers), various manpads, decoy vehicles (inflatable or just painted), and the "resurgence" of Flak (tanks such as Gepard). We also see a certain change in the way that tanks are used (tactics and operations) more as infantry support vehicles and indirect fire vehicles rather than in the "classic" tank role. All with various degrees of success, trial and error, military evolution unfolding right in front of our eyes. The tragedy is that those errors cost lives. Whoever designs the next generation of military vehicles will design them according to the threat of drones, swarms of them, of various kinds (even ones that are not yet operational). They will be operated in combined arms to protect each other from both "classical threats" artillery, tanks etc as well as drones... I expect that future tanks and military vehicles (including ships, submarines, boats, etc.) will have major changes. For the next gen tanks I could see the following ones: Autoloaders with separated ammo compartments (reducing crew from 4 to 3 and reducing turret size, while increasing firing rate) Remote operated turret and turret machine guns 360° (optical) sensors allowing to operate the tank at all times with hatch closed Increased capacity of software/AI that will further reduce the crew from 3 to 2 New motor/engine: currently it's either a diesel engine or a gas turbine: in the future it will be a hybrid engine: gas turbine electric, diesel-electric, gas turbine-diesel-electric combined with a modern (solid state) natrium or lithium battery and hydrogen fuel cells. This will reduce wear and tear, repairs, fuel consumption, engine size and placement, heat and noise (thus making IR less useful) Probably a combination of Anti drone measures: (more flexible) machine guns, shotguns, jammers, dews, cage armour, reactive armour on top of the tank, flares, smoke grenades, more layered armour on top etc.

I would, if I knew any of the actors. But just searching up their name doesn't give me any useful information other than their looks, and well, that can be changed anyway, so I know next to nothing about these people.

Will keep that in mind. Alright, here we go... Marry Jaime Bang Rhaegar Kill Robert (an inhuman feat, I'm a supermaaaan) This was surprisingly hard to decide on. Next choices: the Stark brothers, previous generation Benjen, Eddard, Brandon

Lakers got nothing from their bench. Such a shame. Gabe Vincent's play proves that Spo is the best coach in the league. Dude is worse than a 0, -6 today.

Let me try. Although I'm not very good at it probably. Umm, has it been seen in only a female POV, and not a male POV?

While I am very much in the camp of fairness is more important than inclusion when it comes to elite sports, I refuse to accept anyone would put themselves through that much, just to win an Olympic medal.

Brunson has been historically (for him) inefficient and we're up 2-0? We'll take it. Josh Hart is quickly becoming one of my fav all time Knicks.

Still funny now, IMO. But these Deadpool movies really do nothing for me, and this seems no different, even with Jackman as Wolverine wearing the original costume.

The Liefeld joke indicates some element of time travel, since it would last have been funny twenty years ago.