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    Nancy Pelosi officially announced that she's stepping down from being Democrats' leader of the House. She was the first woman House Minority Whip, House Minority Leader, and Speaker of the House, and held the Minority/Speaker position for Democrats for the last 20 years.
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    KP recommended that show to me a while back after finishing Samurai Champloo (made by the same people?), and I put it on the list. Given that you and I don't seem to agree on much any kind of media to my knowledge, I must admit to some amount of trepidation now...but I guess even Sarex has liked a couple of things I do as well. ...Well? Is he? Moonlighting as a wacked out anime director doesn't seem like it'd be completely out of the question for him...
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    One year after his traumatic run-ins with trouble during the events of Home Alone and Home Alone II, lovable but violent child prankster Macaulay Culkin... In some universe, specifically this universe, important people who were responsible for letting this happen apparently thought having American sweetheart child star Macaulay Culkin play this role fresh off his success of the Home Alone films was actually a good idea. Well, all I can say is...bravo. I mean, the movie is sort of terrible on the whole, but these kinds of moments were usually hilarious because it was Macaulay Culkin performing them, so I can't complain too much.
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    When Trump has been on the ballot in 2016 and 2020, he has majorly outperformed expectations. In both of those elections, it was right on the margin of error for how well he over-performed. He lost the 2020 election by a combined mere 65,009 votes through just four key states (Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Nebraska) that would have won him the election...and that was after the absolute clown fiesta nightmare 4 years that we experienced with him and with him utterly bungling a deadly global pandemic - if not for just the latter, he absolutely would still be president right now. In 2018 and 2022 when he hasn't been on the ballot, it has been a completely different story. For so many people in this country, Trump is their guy, the only guy that they truly believe in, that nobody else could ever be for them. It is called a cult of personality for a reason, and so while these midterm performances with him as the "leader" of the Republican Party have been weak, I very strongly hope that he does not win the Republican ticket for 2024 because it is my feeling that there is a significant voter base that only he can tap into, and if the Republican party rejects him, that base will neither forgive nor vote for the Republican party, and good riddance to them. Probably the absolute best scenario, of course, would be that Trump loses the Republican nomination and then still runs independent as an act of revenge. I'm sure the majority of us would love to see that and the resulting implosion.
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    I'm more just in shock that apparently the later entries are MUCH WORSE. Like, so much worse that it makes this look good in comparison? Everyone has their trash, so to speak, so it's whatever if you can sit through and enjoy it, but...my brain just can't compute that part. Admittedly, I have *the* highest of standards of anyone here in at least a few particular ways, so I don't have any chance of experiencing the truly terrible stuff...
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    Uh...no, whatever that means. I guess I'll find out, or not. The show has been mainly focusing on Jun and her very dear lady friend, Kazumi, in between all the murdering. Which is just as well for me, since that's predominantly what I care about, . I did make sure that I was looking at the original 2003 show, so if the later shows are much worse...I mean, come on. I don't think I'd be able to watch more than a minute of this crud, .
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    She...was in the anime, yes. Yeah, it's kind of this show's MO, the only thing that surprised me was that it happened so quickly. It made sense a minute or two later once I realized the show was doing a different angle, though.
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    Devilman Lady, episode 14. The episode opens up directly with this: Now, if you know anything about Devilman Lady like I do, you know that we're going to learn a lot about this little girl over the course of this episode, including whatever unfortunate circumstances or outright tragedy she's preserved through, and then we're a thousand percent going to horrifically maim and then kill her. It should be a pretty good time, all things considered.
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    Oh, that's so apropos what with her having released "How One Man Kept Water Cremation Illegal" just a few days ago and going into the silliness of the political process of legalizing it in just one U.S. state. My condolences: even in death, we can't escape this kind of ridiculous racket. Recover well and speedily from whatever's ailing you, .
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    Top tags...ecchi, action, martial arts. Poster shows lady doing a kick and showing off her lady bits. The user-submitted screenshots are all of...women in various stages of either undress, upshots, downshots, and/or "action" poses. Yes, I'm sure it's just a perfectly quality show with a perfectly wonderful fan following, . Now if you will excuse me, I have to get back to slitting my wrists...although in light of what I've just seen, maybe I should focus more on my eyes instead.
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    Ah, . I...genuinely can't remember the context of how I found her. It was only a few weeks ago, but I got covid maybe a few days later and had about four or five days of fevers between 101 and 103 so that kind of knocked the crap outta me and made the surrounding time period a bit of a blur. I'm really trying to remember, but I honestly don't have a clue. Nothing as sad as your grandma passing away, that's for sure, .
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    Were you already a fan, or did you just become one?
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    I liked a number of the little micro-narratives in DS1, DeS, and BB...I mean, I didn't give a crap about them in DS2 and DS3, but that's because I didn't give a crap about those games in general. I'm not sure if that proves your point or not. I haven't touched Elden Ring, so I can't say anything about it really, except that I hope its quality of quests is at least higher than Breath of the Wild's.
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    I keep trying, but nobody's picking up the phone... I'm even willin' to sign over my soul and everything. Does anyone have any tips? ...Oh no, is it because I'm not a magical girl? Okay, if I just get an otherworldly entity to change me into...aw, crap: is this one of those "you have to be a magical girl to become a magical girl" situations? Life's such a crock of crap, I tells ya. Yeah, well, he also gave Maison Ikkoku a 9/10, so the guy's a moron. Or maybe just old. I guess there's a lot worse than liking 1986 shonens, particularly if you watched it when you were young-ish... He was talking purely about the manga, not the anime, so who knows - I guess you'll knows when/if you read the manga, .
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    Some lady I came across recently on YouTube recently who does long-ish form content on all matters related to death ("Let's Visit the Churches Made of Human Skulls"). She calls her subscribers "deathlings": I guess I'm now a deathling. She mixes humor and interesting information in a way that reminds me a lot of Lindsay Ellis, who is now retired from the YouTube game on account of social media being cancer.
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    I didn't realize "bone chapels" (aka charnel houses) like this actually existed: I honestly thought this was just made up for that one Planescape: Torment bones guy.
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    I didn't think "guro" meant erotic, just gore/grotesque. I haven't actually typed "anime guro meaning" into Google, and I'm not going to, but that was my impression. This particular poster, funnily, is actually...uh, believe it or not, literally the only person I know of from that website that has even a lick of sense: I remember them because of that stupid avatar, and because of the amount of times I've seen them comment on something that I've watched and I've thought "man, this guy really is the only other semi-sane person on this entire website", . Case in point, they have NGE as one of their highest rated shows but didn't even bother to watch the Rebuilds, or if they did, they did not rate them. They're also fans of various old shoujo series series like Ririka SOS, Sailor Moon, and Devilman Lady, so avatar notwithstanding, I can't complain too much about their judgement...
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    A mildly spoilery post I read about the series: Doesn't seem to be my sort of thing from everything I've heard about it, really, .
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    I think you're overlooking something: I demand more dumb Trixie faces!
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    Although it would've been a bunch of dysfunctional fun to see a 218-217 House (Democrat or Republican, either way), it looks like it's going to be 220-215 Republican. Truly an injustice.
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    I'm sure it's a fine show. Except for the fact that it made me want to decapitate the main character within the first minute of watching it, and seeing the rest of the episode only made me want to slowly draw and quarter him instead. Could be the greatest show or movie of all time, if I hate the main character and can't connect with them when I'm supposed to, it's not going to be enjoyable. Call it an issue of appeal more than anything else, since they clearly weren't trying to appeal to me with that bozo. @majestic I was wondering if you were going to give Amentep an earful for daring to post that, particularly without the context of having seen the show himself. Although I should admit that I almost nitpicked the same thing about the first ten or so episodes not even having Chibi-Usa...but the thing is, I did restrain myself. Luckily, I had you to pick up the slack, . Personally, I saw the show as an adult first and didn't have an issue with Chibi-Usa and liked her outside of SuperS, but most everyone and everything is wrong in SuperS, so I'm not going to hold it against her personally even though she and her pegasus problem are definitely the absolute worst part of that season. So unless Scrappy Doo is actually magically much better as an adult (and that would be very difficult to believe), the comparison really just doesn't fit for me.
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    Scappy Doo was just an awful joke character that was constantly getting in the way and being annoying for comic relief...but Chibi-Usa becomes a protagonist where much of the story is told exclusively from her perspective with a big focus on the way she feels. If you hate Chibi-Usa, this is probably much worse than just being the joke character, .
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    I'm just glad we won't have to much hear or see Mitch McConnell. Now there is a guy that I could do the rest of my life without ever thinking about again. Having the Georgia seat is important for another reason as well: the 2024 senatorial elections will defend 2018's results, and that was a blue wave year in a large way, so it is likely that one or multiple of those seats will flip. In particular... 1. Sinema's seat in Arizona (who may be primaried out anyways) 2. Jon Tester in Montana 3. Jacky Rosen in Nevada 4. Sherrod Brown in Ohio 5. Joe Manchin in West Virginia ...are probably all the most vulnerable seats, especially IMO Tester and Manchin (both of these guys are kind of unicorns for continuing to win their seats). There doesn't look to be even a single seat in 2024 that Democrats could realistically expand their majority with - maybe Indiana and Tennessee, but I'd say both are long shots. (e): One other positive from this election has been that the cries against "fraud" and democracy have been way less compared to two years ago. Seems like a lot of the conservative anger has instead been directed towards Trump and other leaders not named Ron DeSantis; DeSantis and Trump look to be the presumed heavyweights for the 2024 presidential election, assuming Trump is still a free man by that point. DeSantis winning that battle could certainly be...interesting, what with the cultish fervor Trump inspires. On a completely separate note, via ballot initiative, it looks like Connecticut will implement early voting, Nevada will implement open primaries and ranked choice voting, and Michigan will implement early voting.
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