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Sounds like you guys need cookies.

That is because Neil Breen is the best at everything.

6:41 in and I already want to turn it off after hearing the explanation for last week's super dumb episode end. Seriously? What is it with writeres these days lampshading their terrible writing as if that makes it all right? Oh we know it was bad, look! Look! With each passing day my disposition creeps ever closer to Will Ferrell's interpretation of Alex Trebek.

Eh, never mind, not worth a potential warning.

We'll see in 2024.

Cynical take: if the Ukraine was moved to some place in Asia, we'd be supporting the moderate extremists attacking them.

Why do you not want to check out the bestest show ever made? Am genuinely baffled here. Baffled, I tells ya.

Dirty Mexican posing as true, blue Texan.

^ Ratings or shares, people are going to wonder what 'quotes' is supposed to mean in context (Quote = German word for rating, share, proportion, quota). Not very fond of retroactively ruining the finale with David Tennant's Doctor, but I'll tune in regardless. Yeah, still not really over Clara.

Let me know what you think. It's odd to feel an uncanny valley effect for the entire series, and I wonder if it is just me finally going off the deep end, or on purpose.

Narutaru: I don't know how to put this, but Texhnolyze made more sense, in some ways. Texhnolyze has the big issue of the viewer being unfamiliar with the setting and one not getting a whole lot of direct exposition, but this one? Here we have a familiar setting, and everything is a little as if there's just a thin coat of paint on a world that's entirely wrong. Basically, this isn't an eldritch horror series, the series IS an eldritch horror entity. Edit: Shiina's mother made note of how Shiina spells her name in katakana, and muses that she is ashamed of her name, so I just spent looking at almost fourty different ways to spell Shiina in kanji, but none of them mean anything particularily noteworthy, so no real clues there, although it's hard to say if the site I looked at had all possible spellings. Kanji readings for names are a science in and of themself.

Are they going to turn themselves in? /Trump

I have no idea what y'all's issue with Electric Callboy is. Did you turn the song off before the intro was over?

Narutaru: Yep. This really isn't going to end well, is it?

B-b-b-b-but if I wanted to post a human rights violation, I'd post this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWhT6oze9RI Yeah, it cannot be embedded, so just, like, click on it. A wonderful song by a group called HOMOFÜRST (literal translation either homo-prince or Prince of Homos, i.e. Prince of Gays). Anyway, this should be more your thing:

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Perfect bliss, and not even Scooter! Eh...

That was pretty much because Shady had Sisko as avatar at the time. Back in the days of yore when we shared pictures of ourselves on the forums (there was always some variation of a 'post your ugly mug' thread) I was always a little weirded out when people did not look like their avatars. Because that is clearly the reasonable thing to expect, that forum posters look like their chosen profile picture (bonus points on forums without custom avatars, like the old BIS board).

Yesterday, Kurz released a transcript of a phone call he had with Schmid two weeks after the police raids on the ÖVP's party headquarter. A call Kurz apparently recorded, where he asked Schmid what is going on and repeatedly states how he does not even know what the case is they are trying to make against him, and that he never, really never ordered anything untoward (he all but says pinky swear), and Schmid agrees. They both try to cast blame on their press agents and consulters. Apparently Kurz thinks this proves his innocence, because if he was the mastermind behind illegal financing of manipulated polls, he would not have to ask these questions, right? Right. Criminals of the world, take heed, this is the best line of defense ever. Can't wait for copycats trying to say that they cannot possibly have robbed the jewelry store even when caught with the jewelry because they called their mother and asked about the theft later.

Looks like the lettuce won! Well done, lettuce! Link-repost (probably):

Yes, but only one scene.

Well, that was one hell of an ending, and the absolutely stupidest... dumbest... whatever that was. The Boys already streched credulity by Homelander not just murdering everyone, but this is a damned sight dumberer, me thinking. Me like good things. Me like smash. Me will crush you, crush you to goo. Episode spent half its runtime on trying to inject drama into a foregone conclusion but forgetting the most important part about it: it only works if we have characters we like. Yes, I also already knew that Tyrion is going to survive the Battle of Blackwater, but the way there was at least entertaining. It ended up setting an impossible to pass bar within the series that the showrunners nevertheless tried to pass and invariably failed, but it was a fine episode. This? Seriously, nope.

Lord Christ, please free me from this mortal coil, this episode of House of the Dragon is so incredibly painful, and I am only through fifteen of its sixty minutes. Please just make it stop. Please.