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In my quest to burn through my savings purchasing ammunition, I took another trip to the shooting range today. I won't bore you with the details, but I am proud of this 15 yard grouping: Even the 3 outliers that went high were halfway decent shots, the other 12 shots were great. Side note: My Vortex Venom red dot has been terrific at holding up to getting constantly jostled by being mounted on a slide, not to mention the recoil that comes with a hand cannon. It has remained perfectly dialed in through over 500 shots.

I mostly went chalk except the Fins pick. I'm not a believer in the Bills, plus I still think Tua will be good. Father Time will catch up with Tom Brady at some point and I think this is the year, the Bucs still have enough talent to take the division, though. Conversely, I think Rodgers has 1 more MVP-level season in him, hence why I have them going to The Big Game. They're going to lose to my boy Joe Burrow and the Bengals, though. Sorry @Bartimaeus

With any luck, sooner. I'm praying to any and all gods that may be listening that this is a lame duck season and Sean Payton is the Cowboys head coach next year. I see you also are a non-believer in the Bills. I thought I was the only one. Edit: Ninja'd by @Gfted1

I mean, high fructose corn syrup is real sugar, but I know what you mean. I believe Mexican Coke uses cane sugar.

Predictions: Division Winners: AFC East: Dolphins West: Chiefs North: Bengals South: Titans NFC East: ABSTAIN* West: Rams North: Packers South: Bucs Superbowl The Big Game: Bengals vs Packers The Big Game winner: Bengals** * I cannot, in good faith, pick Muh Boys after our already suspect O Line lost its best player. Picking the Iggles would be grounds for me to commit seppuku. Side note: I am both perplexed and amused by the Iggles media circle jerk. I get picking them to win the NFC East, but folks are picking them to be the #1 seed and go to The Big Game. Jalen Hurts is still their QB, right? I mean, I'm happy they're doing it. It will make the potential Iggles fans schadenfreude that much tastier and schadenfreude is all I have left this season. ** I am an unashamed Joe Burrow schlong rider.

I generally don't mix with whisky, but if I do then there are better whisky choices to mix with than scotch IMHO.

Melodrama aside, I'm not big on mixing scotch, reason being that the good stuff is too good to mix and the cheap stuff is raw sewage not fit for human consumption. I generally stick to rum for mixing with brown sugar water

Here I sit with a glass of Dewar's 12 Year Old, a paltry $32 scotch. My heart weeps at the mere thought of perverting this delicious beverage with brown sugar water. WEEPS!

Why would you engage in such blasphemy? Sure, scotch & coke is probably tasty, but why would you defile the perfection that is scotch whisky with any sort of adulterant?

I thoroughly enjoyed Paradise Killer. It's not perfect, by any means, but it's one of the few detective games that doesn't hold your hand and allows you to do actual detective work. The tradeoff is a lot of running back and forth across the map, but that's a trade I'll make any day for a game allowing me to deduce things on my own and potentially make my own mistakes. I particularly liked that the game allows you to accuse anyone, and even get them convicted if you are convincing enough, whether they are guilty or not.

We're less than a month away from my favorite month of the year, October. I don't know how it is where you are, but here in Cackalacky October is AMAZING, as is November to a lesser degree. I don't need to run AC, I don't need to run heat, heck, I don't need a fan most of the time.

There have been so many The Three Musketeers movies over the years, how come nobody ever follows it up with Twenty Years After? The only movie made from the second D'Artagnan novel that I'm aware of was a Russian movie in the 90s that I've not seen. I guess The Return of the Musketeers is LOOSELY based on Twenty Years After. I cannot possibly ALL CAPS, bold, or underline "loosely" enough.

A rather disappointing amount of robot waifu customization. Better than nothing, I guess, though it would be nice if they dropped in a few more options for the full release this Thursday.

Maybe this is where I'll finally give the game a spin?

Where does creamed corn fit into the workings of the universe?

I'm a big fan of noir detective stories and many of its tropes (e.g. the femme fatale, two-faced characters playing each other) thus many of David Lynch's works are right up my alley. The surrealist nonsense is icing on the cake, the weirder the better. Obviously, Twin Peaks is completely my jam.

I'm making my way through Soul Hackers 2 on very hard difficulty. I'm at level 16 now, past the trash starter demons stage of a MegaTen game, but not quite into halfway decent demons territory (that tends to be around level 25 or 30). Progress is slow; I have to be very careful and there is quite a bit of save scumming. Still, I'm determined not to lower the difficulty, I wouldn't be able to handle the shame of being labeled a faux grognard. Luckily, the game allows you to save at any time, except in the middle of a battle, which makes save scumming less painful than if I had to save at waypoints. The inability to use items during battle is really crippling, though. In other MegaTen titles I would often run with just 1 healer until late game, but without being able to fall back on items, having only 1 healer is extremely risky, even in early game. This also makes status resistance skills much more important (again, because I can't use items) and combination skills (e.g. heal+ remove status effect) even more valuable, given that each party member have limited skill slots. The good combo skills generally don't show up until at least the mid game, it's going to be tough sledding until I get there.

I do love me some Lost Highway.

Blue Velvet is peak David Lynch, I put it above everything else he's done.

Even Blue Velvet?

Bone marrow crostinis sound amazing.

Are you going to Tokyo Drift it?

Ground beef taco with monterey jack cheese, lettuce, red onion, avocado, tomatillo, and cilantro lime salsa. Corn on the cob and merlot to accompany it.