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  1. Which if the SB clans are still active? I either got denied requesting to join one this week or it's still sitting there unanswered. 

    I stopped playing for about two years but picked it back up while I was jobless a few months ago, and I also ended up creating a second account. My current clan is not active at all, and the leader just had a baby so I haven't been able to get him to lower the trophy count to get my second account into the clan.

  2. 13 minutes ago, tokamak said:

    That show was a really impressive collection of awful characters. Stephen Root is the bomb. The main Nazi guy was fine, I guess. Other than that I'm drawing a blank on any more characters that weren't horrible. What a waste of a super interesting premise and world that show was.

    Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa may have been the best actor and character on the show.

  3. I'm betting hard on the former pro wrestlers.

    James Harris aka Kamala the Ugandan Giant – 69 (5/28/50)

    Lawrence Shreve aka Abdullah the Butcher – 78 (1/11/41)

    Scott Hall aka Razor Ramon – 62 (10/20/58)

    Bret Hart – 62 (7/2/57)

    Vince McMahon – 74 (8/24/45)

    Marv Levy – 93 (8/3/25)

    Don Shula – 90 (1/4/30)

    Dan Rather – 88 (10/31/31)

    Nick Nolte – 78 (2/8/41)

    Logan Paul – 24 (4/1/95)

  4. I'm finally getting around to S2 of Mrs. Maisel. There's a lot I like about this show, but at the same time far too often the characters are wholly unlikable. And why won't anyone ever just tell someone what they think? They hem and haw and take forever to get to the point (Midge/Abe in Paris, Midge telling her family about the comedy on Yom Kippur, and for God's sake) and it annoys me to no end. 

  5. My job is ending in a month and I have little to do right now, work-wise, so I've been watching a lot of Netflix.

    Unbelievable and The Spy were both terrific.  I know Toni Collette has garnered a lot of (deserved) praise for her performance, but I also really liked Merritt Weaver, who I had only previously known as for her short-lived role as the lesbian doctor on The Walking Dead. 

    I've also started Cheers from the beginning. During the initial run I never really watched it on a regular basis, though I know I saw parts of the later seasons back in HS, and maybe the occasional show from syndication runs since. Most of what I know about Ted Danson has been from The Good Place, Curb, and that HBO show he did with Jason Schwartzman. What a great show.

  6. An AV Club article yesterday about a new Chuck Palahniuk adaptation (Invisible Monsters) made me think about what I'd like to see adapted to the screen.

    Palahniuk's Survivor was allegedly in the works and scrapped after 9/11, but it's been 18 years now and I think it could work now.

    I'd love to see anything from Christopher Moore adapted. He's mentioned many times that most or all of his novels have either been sold or optioned. Lamb would be an interesting, albeit controversial choice, though the recent Noir would also work well, IMO. Fool, too, perhaps. and either of his SF series would make for a good limited run Netflix or Amazon series. 

    American Gods has been underwhelming, but I would love to see Gaiman's Neverwhere as a series. I thought Good Omens was well done (never read or seen Stardust, but it seems like it was well received).

    I watched Annihilation the other day after finishing the book, and given that the former bears little resemblance to the latter, I'd like to see someone else take a stab at it, with an opening to then adapt the follow-ups.

    Sirens of Titan is supposedly going to be a TV series from  Dan Harmon, but it's been more than a year since I saw any update about it.

    What else?

  7. On 8/5/2019 at 7:10 PM, Liquor and Poker said:

    Sooooo boring.  The lead is as interesting as a cardboard box and shows about half the range.  

    I'm right there with you. The partner is great, as is the guy they interviewed a bunch (Kemper?),  but the lead is just awful. 

  8. A repeated nitpick I've read is about the size of the Hawkins newspaper staff, and it doesn't seem like a big deal to me. I covered Temple HS sports as a stringer for the Temple Daily Telegram in HS (93-95) and at the time they had a sports staff of 4, I think it was, with dedicated beats for city gov, county gov, education, police, and arts, plus a half dozen more editors... so at least 15 people (plus two f/t photogs) for a paper with a circulation of ~20K, in a city of about 50K. I assume Hawkins was a similar size, maybe a little smaller, and it looked like they only had 6-8 people on staff, plus the two interns. Doesn't seem like much of a stretch to me.

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