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  1. Other than the bill screw up, was it any good?
  2. Tried to start Murderbot last night and it was so bad I only made it 10 minutes before stopping. It was one of those awkward shows/movies that you think is supposed to be funny but I couldn’t find a single line worth even snickering at. Not sure if it’s actually that bad or if I didn’t give it enough time or if I’m not the target audience. Oh well. Switched to Friends and Neighbors instead and wife and I both enjoyed the first episode. We were reluctant to start it because the trailer looked like generic cheese, but it was better than expected. We’ve also watched a few episodes of Carême and we’re liking it okay.
  3. Santa Fe is permanently closed, just fyi. There are some great places to have lunch, but I can’t imagine going to St. Barth and not going out for dinner. It’s one of our favorite things about it. Many of our favorite places are not even open for lunch.
  4. Heading back this week for the second time. Staying in a couple of different hotels and trying to explore some other areas. The agenda is to visit nice beaches and eat and drink the best food and wine we can find. I have high hopes.
  5. So we are not liberated after all?
  6. besthugerocks.com
  7. I probably won’t. I follow the official team accounts for the Longhorns and other teams, but I don’t see a reason to follow individual athletes. I mainly took issue with our starting QB advocating for Trump at a time when he was struggling to come back from an injury. Perhaps if he had been a better leader and not a turnover machine, it would’ve been easier to ignore his political posts.
  8. Oh yeah, I knew about Quinn because I was following him on IG for most of his Texas career until he started posting Trump shit in October leading up to the election. He completely lost me as a fan then. Good riddance.
  9. I’m in the dark so please elaborate.
  10. This thread resonates with me. I posted a while back that I was at an MLB game and realized during the national anthem that I didn’t want to sing it or even acknowledge it right now. The people currently in charge of this country are full of hate and I don’t feel right to honor that. I think July 4th will be weird this year and possibly for the next 4 years, maybe forever. I’m saddened by that but I won’t unconditionally profess my love to a country that is completely broken from the top down. Fuck that. I used to be fairly patriotic about July 4th, the national anthem, the Olympics, recognizing our country’s many accomplishments on the world stage, watching something like Band of Brothers and knowing my grandfather’s generation kicked some ass, the list goes on. Now those things evoke feelings of frustration and disappointment. Trump is an evil person, but MAGA is a disease that he unleashed on us and will be here long after he is gone. He has weaponized misinformation on a grand scale and created a perfect playbook for his eventual successors to continue down the same path. Corruption and lies are the keys to success because half of Americans think of politics as an “us vs. them” team sport or merely entertainment. Many people apparently get a sick pleasure from watching someone oppress people who are different (LGBTQ, female, brown, non-Christian, whatever), and they will gladly continue voting for politicians to continue to inflict that hate. America has a cancer for which there currently is no known cure. I don’t have much hope for a peaceful correction, unless possibly economic hardship eventually causes the MAGA movement to fail and a generation of voters dies off and gets replaced by people with new values. We also have to find a way to better educate (lol) our population and combat misinformation. All signs are currently pointing in the other direction.
  11. Maybe I missed something at the end of DR or the beginning of FR, but I didn’t understand why Luther was sick. Or maybe that’s not important and we just accept that he was sick as people are prone to get sick, but it was odd that he was in a little makeshift hospital room in the tunnels underneath London with a nurse but apparently no security, not even a door with a lock to keep people like Gabriel out. I guess I just got confused early on with the skipping around on camera work between Ethan and Gabriel and showing scenes in non-chronological order. If anyone has a better explanation for that part, I’d appreciate it.
  12. I thought the same but wife reminded me they used masks to bust Frenchie out at the beginning. Surprised that was it though. Like maybe Ethan could’ve at least been incognito at that gala where he got captured.
  13. Ellie killing the pregnant woman and then covering her belly as she died was brutal. No way to know if those 2 adults were guilty of anything other than being associated with Abby (whose guilt is also open to debate), but the baby was innocent and Ellie panicked and didn't even try to save it. In that moment, she really came across as a mad person on a senseless quest for vengeance that will result in more unnecessary human death. Jesse is already on the list. Death that is acceptable to her as long as she avenges Joel. Hard to be in her corner at this point. Having not played the game and not knowing what happens next, it's hard to say how I feel about the ending. It's certainly possible that Ellie is actually dead. It seems obvious that we will spend at least a small part of season 3 seeing the world from Abby's POV. The only thing we know of that Abby has done wrong so far was to kill Joel, which was her own vengeance for him murdering her father. She's morally no worse than Ellie, possibly better. This story is good at blurring the lines between good and evil. I suppose when you play as Joel or Ellie in the video game, it's like you are that character and you live and die with the decisions the game is requiring you to make. You believe that you can charge into dark buildings with potential zombies and raiders because that's how video games operate and ultimately killing a person like Abby is the task you've accepted when you play the game. When you are watching the show, you feel more like a third party observing someone else making these decisions, so psychologically there is a little bit of a difference and it allows a TV viewer to be more judgemental over the character's actions. I'm also annoying about the predicted 2 year wait for season 3. Not sure if that blame gets assigned to TLOU team or to HBO execs, probably the latter, unless the writers are just really slow about getting the story together. It's certainly not unique to this show but it does kill momentum and this is a frustating place to leave a story in limbo for that long. Maybe I'll pick up TLOU2 game and play it out on the easiest setting.
  14. lol at a $300 end of year teacher gift. I say that as someone who’s wife was a public school teacher and never received anything close to that, and as someone who tries to be very generous to the teachers at our kid’s preschool. Anyone who gives that level of gift most likely has their kids at a pricey private school. Casually suggesting that it should be the norm for an average family is a bit out of touch.
  15. There were parts of it I really liked and parts of it that felt somewhat messy. The action was incredible as always, especially the submarine scene and the airplane scene. The visuals were great and I appreciated the cast and their performances. Tom Cruise and his stunts will be missed when he is finally done making movies. Perhaps a bit too much time was spent revisiting scenes and people from previous MI films. I think a callback to one character (Donloe) and then one montage would be great, but the first hour felt like they were trying too hard to pay tribute to the franchise. The overall plot of DR and FR felt a bit sloppy, especially trying to tie it back to the Rabbit’s Foot and make this all Ethan’s fault. They could write the AI villain and combine it with human villains (Gabriel) and keep it a little tighter without all the extra moving parts and footnotes. It’s probably a step below Fallout and Ghost Protocol for me, but I still enjoyed watching it and would take an “average” Mission Impossible movie any day. I think this is written to be the end of the series but could definitely see Tom Cruise pull a Tom Brady and come back for more.
  16. Rewatched Dead Reckoning last weekend. Going to see the new one tonight.
  17. Kinda sad that I half expect this to be on our horizon.
  18. Regarding our public schools, I get all the frustration regarding the lack of funding increases, the existence of vouchers, and discrepancy in public allotment vs. vouchers. I’m curious though, how does this actually stack up compared to other states? What financial metrics are available to know where Texas falls compared to everyone else? Are there a lot of other states that are doing better, or is everyone slipping in similar fashion? Perhaps more importantly, what reliable indicators of overall state academic performance are there? I’m not very well informed on these, so despite my frustrations about the first point, I’d like to better understand the big picture. Suppose I want to move one day and I want K-12 education to be a factor in deciding, how to I begin to evaluate that in the least biased way possible?
  19. Are they permanently closing?
  20. We watched the most recent episode of The Studio immediately before TLOU and it was funny seeing Catherine O’Hara in both shows with such different roles.
  21. Thought it was very well done. Liked seeing Joel and Ellie back on screen together. Explains a lot about Ellie’s attitude this season.
  22. The president of our country is going on senile online rants against Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen, commenting specifically on their physical appearance while he is a fat old fuck with orange skin. How embarrassing that our country elected this asshole.
  23. Some of his behaviors seem a little autistic and I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s on the spectrum, but he’s also just a narcissistic asshole.
  24. Congrats to the nerds. They were great when they needed to be great, apart from that one leg when they had horrible navigation. This was a very good season of TAR. Lots of competitive teams, close finishes, cool locations and challenges. We’ve beat the Jonathan horse to death but he’s a miserable asshole and Ana needs to leave him. The way he talks to her is beyond pathetic.
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