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hayden_horn

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  1. fucking mooseoutfront told us. i miss little things like this all the time, and i like to think i'm paying close attention.
  2. deepeasttexas nailed it. nothing in the game or the show really is a wasted interaction. it's hard to explain without getting too spoilery, but the timeline skips ahead here and there as they travel. the pieces of the timeline we see are important to the story. i'm sure they kill tons of runners and clickers in the in-between time, but that's not the point of the game's story. we saw bill get shot and his care for frank with his hurried instructions. he's not just some guy who chuckles when his booby traps work. now it matters. now it's more than the game it was, because of frank, and because of frank, bill has changed. that's what makes a good story. bill consented for frank to fix the place up a bit. he later says in the episode that he wasn't scared until frank came along. he changed over the course of the episode, in a loving and caring and amazing way. so when he gets shot, we see the depth of their care for each other. bill has made contingincies for frank, because of course he did. but it also underlined how close bill and joel become. there is so much implied off screen work (including the blowjob) going on in this episode and they dont insult the viewer by pounding it home that joel and bill are close in the fashion they can be given who they each are. we get bill and frank's relationship. joel and tess at dinner. then joel and ellie finding the letter. goddamn, it's so good.
  3. it's a fucking sickness. whoever posted that tweet above where he compared himself to al fucking capone had me in laughing in hysterics. i hate this man. what is wrong with me?
  4. wait, heb is closed. fuck
  5. jesus mary christ, i forgot about that
  6. +1 to aisd for canceling proactively. this is much better to me than shitting around waiting until 7am tomorrow to call it.
  7. you are right in that it had an excacerbating effect, but i've been taking shit from my london colleagues over aisd closing at the drop of a hat for more than a decade now. it seems that no matter what the school district does, it hems and haws and drags its feet and ends up making the wrong decision anyways. fuck it. err on the side of caution if you are uncertain. cancel. just fucking make the decision so people can plan. also, understand that you aren't dallas or houston. we are austin. don't stay open just to stay open. this city can't handle it. talk to the surrounding districts, maybe. coordinate. plan. HAVE A PLAN. fuck. even if you don't, just make one. call it. that all makes sense. but everything seems to be doing that heading south thing when you can sense things are wrong, you don't know why, but you just know. when the messages are all mixed, its time to just cancel everything.
  8. this i get, and this should be the message. but this is ominously reminiscent of that snow day aisd wouldn't cancel, then people couldn't get their kids because it started snowing at noon or whatever. how is there not a fucking clearly eloquted (is that a word?) policy for this shit by now? we fucking know this is going to happen a couple of times a year. put a fucking time and temp and precip or not on it and let's all move forward with our lives. it's the fucking wishy-washy guessing i can't stand.
  9. i don't fucking get it either. i keep text my wife "what am i missing," checking my phone, getting more alerts of places closing, looking outside, i see nothing. a cold day in january. i mean, are we going to cancel over a cold rainy day? jesus. i don't even see it getting below 32. sure, that'll freeze some overpasses, maybe. delay school or cancel it, i don't really care. but i'm not at all ready for mass power outages or my gas heat going off. what the hell am i missing?
  10. and i've repped everyone in this thread since that episode because.
  11. so i don't know what to say. that was an amazing episode. i'm still reeling. for those of you asking if that was in the game, i'll answer in spoiler tags, but i'm not spoiling anything, i don't think. and they did it in a way that i don't think i'll ever see done again. that was incredible. just fucking incredible.
  12. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11692549/Memphis-DA-rule-charges-against-officers-scene-Tyre-Nichols-beating.html huh. weird.
  13. because there are way way way more racists out there than we realize. modding this relatively sane board exposes me to plenty of racism and has since the shag days. you can definitely see it in the rep histories for sure. i always find it funny that people think that's anonymous. warning: if you go looking you will be disappointed at some point or another. they are everywhere.
  14. no shit and 100% correct. i'm only just now scratching the surface of racial inequality in this country, and i only just started really digging. and before that i thought i understood race relations and history in this country. i've made statements like "we're 50 years after the civil rights movement!" and "are we in a post racial world yet?" i didn't realize how racist i was being. i actually thought i was being reasonable. that's the thing about ignorance. you can learn what you don't know, but you can't magically know what you don't know. that's why i asked @52-80 if he asks himself critical questions before posting.
  15. it's really bizarre. i mean, i don't want to go full cloak conspiracy, but this dude seems to be firing people with whom he politically disagrees. it's his radio business, so it's his call, but the market is primarily austin, not bastrop or lampasas.
  16. and i missed this post. great fucking post.
  17. agreed 100% - and you did a great job of what i was trying to say. race is nevertheless inescapable in this instance. it is impossible to overlook. you have to put in some real effort to be race-blind to this issue.
  18. fair enough to ask questions - lord knows i've asked enough in this thread. i answered in line above.
  19. hey, man, i told her to stop calling me.
  20. i think it's important to note that my poist wasn't directed as a rebuttal to yours. i get what you are saying. i'm sorry if it seemed like i was coming at you - that was not my intention. i agree with you 100%, and i hope there are no riots, just peaceful marches and candlelight vigils. i really hope we can get to a point where cops are only accidentally killing people rather than BEATING THEM TO DEATH.
  21. i know, i know, but you can only hit your dog so often before it bites you or somebody else. and that bite might actually manifest sometime when you aren't hitting the dog. but guess what? the dog thought you were going to hit it again and it's sick of your shit.
  22. i know i'm repeating myself but i'm going to post this THIRTY-FIVE YEAR OLD song: and again, for reference, these issues are still very manifest today. take a couple minutes and actually LISTEN to the lyrics and THINK for a goddamn minute about why they are saying these things THAT ARE STILL HAPPENING TODAY. for reference, 35 years prior to this song's release, it was 1953. right around the time of brown v boe. just for reference.
  23. when people are uniformly angry and act out en masse against power, is it their fault? my kid throws a tantrum at the store because they haven't eaten for 6 hours. is it their fault? some of it. some of it is mine. some of it is unfortunate timing. but my child's distress is real and he's not just having fun at my expense. sometimes, i think many of yall view race relations the same way. like black people are just having a go at white people. that they invent reasons to get angry and it doesn't have to do with generations of systemic oppression. OF COURSE THEY ARE FUCKING PISSED.
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