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Between Rodgers' broken thumb, potentially broken ribs, and the season being 99% mathematically lost at this point, I'd say so. Start Jordan Love, see that he probably sucks, lose most or all of the rest of our games, get a nice draft pick, try again next year. If Jordan Love sucks, we finally know for sure that he doesn't matter and it's the Aaron Rodgers' show for the next couple of seasons...if he shockingly doesn't, then...well, that's a good even if difficult problem to have.

"You have to break an egg if you are to know what is inside."

It was pretty good, I'd recommend it.

is it just becoming a meme show i mean, it kind of already was for the first season, but it's sounding more so for the second

The World of Tomorrow II: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts and The World of Tomorrow III: The Absent Destinations of David Prime.

I once heard a pretty good line about that: problems that disappear on their own can also come back on their own. Maybe it should be corrected to "will" instead of "can".

Hey, you never know, Packers might have already been the stupid loss.

A slightly better second half. Well, probably: I didn't actually watch any of the game, Thanksgiving stuff.

At least he got his big celebration, ALS worked overtime to off him it seems.

I had to go check: in the English dub (and in the subtitles for Japanese that I'm reading), Minako specifically mentions Luna having given her the transformation pen to do it. The creator being young and dumb and thinking it was all naively romantic is one thing, but everyone else going along with it without taking the effort to reframe it and make it less creepy is a whole other...

But Usagi doesn't, that's a Sailor Star Maker power. Star Maker? Hmm... Naoko Takeuchi was on some stuff, methinks. Didn't Minako also use it in the third season, to transform herself into the hilarious knockoff version of Sailor Moon?

It's pretty 'incredible' that they couldn't find more uses for that in the series. Then again, the show mostly didn't give a crap about the functional applicability of their powers in the first place, as they mostly just used whatever was the latest they had "unlocked"...with just a few exceptions. I was thinking Makoto could be possible as well...but really thinking about it made me reconsider: it would probably be significantly easier for somebody white to have some kind of resemblance to Makoto than someone Japanese.

Federally, it's 6-2 for House seats in Wisconsin...but what I've heard is that the real filth is in the state legislative, where Republicans very nearly have a "can override the governor"-proof supermajority (but not quite - enjoy your annoying Democrat governor, attorney general, and secretary of state), which wouldn't seem to make a lot of sense with the vote distribution, but I have not personally dove into it to actually confirm it. Yeah, for reasons mentioned before, I'm not super inclined to make any big conclusions about this election, because 2018 looked like such a vehement rejection of the entirety of Trumpism, and then two years later, he was millimeters away from being re-elected...time will tell.

I don't have any strong feelings either way, to be honest. What is a different Democrat that can win the nomination (i.e. not a progressive firebrand like Bernie Sanders) going to accomplish that Biden isn't/hasn't tried to? I'd like for him to be a touch more progressive as well as forceful in his pursuit of a few particular issues, but the way he has played his very limited hand has been competent, he himself has generally stayed out of the limelight (thank the merciful stars), the government has been dumpster fire-free...given that a Democrat-controlled Congress to this point hasn't really supported much in the way of progressive initiatives or reforms already, is there really even a point? Maybe, I don't know, but he doesn't really seem like he's been "the issue", so to speak.

Yeah, I would've been very gladly wrong if Boebert had lost. And there were a few seats lost by about half a percentage point that some thought had a chance of going the other way...alas.

More severe gerrymandering from redistricting in a few states (and in a few cases, courts saying they're illegal but allowing them to use them anyways because of the "well, it's too close to the election to change it now" excuse or whatever) combined with bad Florida and New York turnout plus a few other just genuinely really close calls did Democrats in for the House. Warnock will probably take Georgia and make a 51-49 Democrat Senate, but in two years they'll probably lose a seat or two while we re-elect Joe Biden with who knows what happening to the House, and so nothing too much will happen on a federal level for probably the next six years...but at least the government won't be proverbially completely on fire, I suppose.

In other news not related to the eternal (and always deserved) mocking of one particular Obsidian forums resident (additionally recommended and appreciated by yours truly), House Republicans officially have 220 seats, likely to climb up to 221 after professional glue-sniffer Lauren Boebert escapes with her "safe" Republican district by just a few hundred votes. ...I only provide an update because I said it would be 220, while @Pidesco said it would be 219 or less and that we should bet on it. Sadly, I did not take him up on it, although I should've given that I was pretty confident it was going to be at least 220.

I'm sorry, I had to fix that, that was just too low quality and worse (unforgivably!), it didn't loop correctly.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/9eecebmwncfq8ap/mpc-hc64_KeJS1skIML.mp4 I had to go find and re-watch this scene. I imagine it's probably difficult for some people in here to believe that this, too, is technically anime. Also, she looks slightly less insane seeing the full frame: Charlie Brown-looking lady...

what is this person like, what

That description immediately called to mind the first episode of season 4 Stranger Things for me - the dynamic between Chrissy the cheerleader and Eddie. That little bit of normal, humanizing, silly character stuff was probably the most fun I had in that season, and then we immediately banished it away right after in favor of same old monster mash trash with the usual suspects when wotsitsface* caved her face in and Eddie had to go into hiding for half of the season. Mm, no - you had me, and then ya lost me. *No, I don't remember what the monster was called, and who gives a crap?

Haven't seen much out of Love to suggest that he could ever be the guy (even though he hasn't had much public opportunity), and the fact that the coaching/front office did the opposite of what they did with Favre pretty much cements that he's a bust to me: you wouldn't keep paying Rodgers 50 million a year at the very tail-end of his career if you really felt like you already had the guy in waiting. But regarding the void year...to my knowledge, the extension he signed this past off-season got rid of the void year stuff, so his contract is real until he retires (well, assuming he retires by 2026).

I hope it was a kind of reverse and that the main character became a zombie and actually ate her pancreas, that's the only way that would possibly make it better.

The Packers can lose maybe one more game for the rest of the season and still make it, and that's not certain, particularly given we already lost to the Commanders who are currently sitting two (effectively three) games above us...with the Giants and Cowboys being even higher for the other two wildcard spots (whoa, the entire NFC East may well make the playoffs...though I think the 49ers will challenge the Commanders for the last one, particularly with them still yet to play each other). Luckily, with the margin being somewhere between zero and maybe one games to lose for the rest of the season, the Packers still have to play @Eagles, Bears, Rams, @Dolphins, Vikings (who we've already lost to), and Lions (who we've already lost to). Should be easy!

Uh, why are you giving him ideas?