Champloo was fine. I made it through the whole run, which is more than I can say for most series.

Bowser is basically an appendage of the real estate developers in the area. I believe she endorsed Michael Bloomberg in 2020.

I never really watched anime until Cowboy Bebop came on adult swim. I was like "whoa, is this what I've been missing out on?" The answer is no, it is a a unicorn. One of one. Basically nothing I've watched since has been even remotely as engaging for me. I've had a couple OK ones (Berserk) and guilty pleasures (Baki), but overall the medium as a whole just doesn't seem targeted toward me. And that's fine, I'm not litmus test for the universe. I enjoy other stuff.

The second fake dagger just casually being brought up after Rook escapes the prison screams late addition to the script after game was already in production. Makes me think that a lot of the ending was changed fairly deep into the run of production.

I have no other big thoughts on the ending. The Solas-Mythal stuff didn’t bother me too much, but I agree there was too much tell and not enough show. The memories we play through in the crossroads seem really underutilized as character building moments and then watching the regrets unfold after completing those memories seems odd. Why not have us play through the regrets?

The quasi-retcon of Flemmeth and Morrigan also seemed just kind of tossed in by having it be just a quick convo in the crossroads. Which might explain why so much of the Solas plot feels so disjointed as well. They were likely building the plane while it was in the air.

Overall, I agree but I didn’t make me all that upset. Was honestly just happy to have another DA game after 10 years. I have other quibbles with other parts of the game and the more YA tone of it rather than the bloody dark fantasy of earlier installments bothered me more than some of the bumbling to Solas’s arc.

I just use whatever products my wife buys me. I think CeraVe. It’s a face wash, retinol serum, let that settle by doing the rest of my routine and then facial moisturizer lotion with spf in it (30 maybe?). I’ve had people at my work place think I’m ten years younger than I actually am, so I assume it’s working.

Same. I'm surprised how little people talk about it considering how much of a splash Sorry to Bother You made.

This one speaks to an old like me even more

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I've been surprised how much my upper grade schooler pick up from osmosis of just being around without needing to have a "talk." We live in a super blue area, one of Kamala's biggest wins. So, between what he hears at home and at school, he knows Trump getting elected is bad on some level and I've told him to be understanding if any of his classmates are taking it particularly hard (he's literally the only white kid in his class). He doesn't really get policies or any of that yet outside of like environmentalism is good, wars are bad kind of thing and I doubt many of his peers do either.

His most advanced political belief might be that the anarchy A is a cool symbol and he has left it as chalk graffiti around the neighborhood and on the public art space near his weekly art class.

So, honestly, outside of encouraging him to have compassion for his friends and telling him that we're probably going to even more protests than we have been, I haven't said much to him.

Nu metal. I loved it in the late 90s. Godsmack. Early Limp Bizkit. System of a Down. But somewhere along the line people convinced me it was cringe and I should listen to garage rock or something. They're probably right, it is cringe, but I enjoy it and I just do so unapologetically now. It's a good time to be back into it, there's been a bit of a revival.

As the great American poet Mark Hoppus wrote:

A day late A buck short I’m writing The report On losing And failing When I move I’m flailing now And it’ll happen once again You’ll turn to a friend Someone that understands And sees through the master plan But everybody’s gone And I’ve been here for too long

I agree. Sentiment I'm seeing in my circles is rather than blaming Bernie bros, college kids or (insert minority here), they are instead focusing on how so many people voted for Trump and that they live in a fascist nation. Which is honestly a great step for a lot of them, but it needs to be tempered with something else or, like you say, they're gonna become doomers (or forget about it and go to brunch this weekend).

I believe Jade Empire was their only game that allowed a throuple so far. Though first Dragon Age allowed for at least a single one night stand with multiple folks. Maybe they’ll get back to their roots.

I was way too much of a goodie goodie to ever do that, but I definitely should have.

For lunch, my family qualified for free lunch. The way they distributed this was once a quarter we would get a collection of tickets to last that whole period. I'd tear one off every morning to take in to school. One year, there was a quarter where I didn't get get my tickets. So, I had to go to the school office once a week that week and get another set of tickets and the office ladies always assumed I was full of shit, but they gave me the tickets.

When the snow melted, we found a bunch of mail in a snow bank. Guessing a plow or something knocked them out of our mailbox and buried them all in one go. My parents had me do the honest thing and take the tickets to the office to surrender them, but the ladies were so impressed I was actually telling the truth the whole time, they just laughed and let me have them. I sold those to other kids, mostly other football players that wanted seconds, and lived like a king during that period (was able to buy a few Magic: The Gathering boosters).

Not to out just how old I am, but I kind of did this in high school. I was one of the only people in my grade that could type well (about 60 wpm, nothing crazy), so I would type everyone's handwritten essays for quick cash. It did not net me six figures, but maybe that's because I went to high school with a bunch of farmers and paper mill workers' children and not wherever Cuban sends his kids.

Not only did they get rid of it, the guy that was the biggest target of it: JD Vance, was basically treated like an old pal by Tim Walz at the VP debate. Instead of taking Vance's obvious repulsiveness and highlighting it, Walz went into the debate and was basically like "look, he's not Trump so we can be reasonable about things," and that was about the time the party also stopped using "weird" in general. Probably related, but can't say for sure.

Typical Democrats playing 4D chess. Running ads against her made her look cooler Trump supporters 100% caused this. For sure. Their plan all along!

The newer seasons of MST3K are a bit up and down, but their riff on the Jeffrey Combs' vehicle Dr. Mordrid is straight fire. Goes up there in the pantheon of the best of the series with stuff like Space Mutiny and Cave Dwellers.

Kind of amazing Kamala is losing ground daily to these guys.