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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.

Well... Jesus F*cking H. Christ.

What a glorious day this was. Looks like a key player of our former and 'somewhat' corrupt government has turned and made some sweeping statements during fifteen days of questioning in exchange for potentially becoming a crown witness (i.e. reduces sentences if their testimony turns out useful and sheds new light on complex cases). Hopefully this is the breakthrough that will cleanse our political landscape of a whole lot of filth. I am under no real illusions that many of them will go where they belong, namely jail, but at least there is a good chance they will be removed from any official posts now. I particularily want our President of the National Council gone. As president of the national council, it is his right and duty to preside over inquiry boards appointed by the national council. There currently is one of those working on the cases of corruption in our People's Party (ÖVP). Fun fact, the president of the board of inquiry and president of our national council, who is supposed to conduct the investigative work of the board on the topic of corruption in the ÖVP, is actually a member of... yes, right, the ÖVP. Because why not. I am certain there is no conflict of interest here. This is the sort of thing that would not be legal in any real nation on the planet. I mean, not even Trump could make that up. Thomas Schmid apparently decided to cooperate with the authorities after being asked by Kurz (our former chancellor) to basically fall on a sword for him. Kurz told him that he should take all the blame and insist that Kurz was not invovled in any illegal activity and basically forced him to resign a while back. See, this is the sort of thing you get for not learning from history. A huge number of Thomas Schmid's messages were uncovered on a backup, and the attorneys of the WKStA have been pouring over them for a while. In one of them he called himself Sebastian Kurz's praetorian guard. Kurz should have seen that one coming, the preatorian guards were rather infamous for making Emperors, but also very readily deposing of them. Also, to quote from the article: Sounds about right, huh? Guy must be right up Thiel's alley.

Federal Banana Republic of Austria The article quotes the press conferences wrong, for some reason. They really did say nothing left to find. Which implies something different than the translated "nothing will be found", of course. Anyway, there are no English links to the case brought forth by Die Tagespresse, but apparently I was wrong as the case was not dismissed (it was actually accepted), but Die Tagespresse chose to withdraw the action.