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They treat their own with a bit more restraint. ba-dum *tsk*

Glass - Wow. I enjoyed Unbreakable when it came out 20 years ago, but I never expected it to turn into this. Split was also really good, but so very different. But the way he brought them together was just amazing. This is a seriously ambitious movie making long play. I teared up big time at the end.

This is clearly more of a fun vignette than a full campaign. Heck, it's only $10. I am sure Xcom 3 will let us get back to the soldier grindhouse that we are all used to.

Oh yeah, get your squeeze on with a viper and then lay some eggs.

It does look like the perfect VR game, given how well they've simulated being in the schlongpit.

Looks like a fun Xcom Police Squad game People are super weird.

As a state that is pretty much always blue, I typically don't worry too much about which way I vote for president. If my vote can help a 3rd party candidate that I think deserves recognition, then I will throw it their way. But Trump has been hard to watch for 4 years, and it has really been glaring during the pandemic. I don't know if Biden can win, and I'm not in love with him as a candidate, but I'd like to see him get a strong popular vote showing over the current dumpster fire administration we have in office. So yeah, one of the few years I know way in advance who I am voting for.

Do you get to walk around in X4? I thought I was going to be able to do that in Elite: Dangerous, but I'm trapped in my ship. If I land on a planet, I can use a rover, but at no point do I get to stretch my legs. Always seems to be a weird limitation. Of course, in No Man's Sky I can wander around, but I can't get into that setting at all.

Elite Dangerous has a solo mode, but you may still need to be online to play it. I think I'm in over my head and need a more arcadey game, but it does have some cool stuff going. You can actually land on planets and rover around. All I've done is run some courier missions at this point though, and I'm still trying to figure out how to fly efficiently. I spent 10 minutes trying to get to a planetary outpost last night because I entered orbit too soon. I have Everspace in my library. Maybe that is more my speed? I don't know, I was looking for something more chill too. I want to just trade in goods like an honest merchant!

I know you were being glib But really, I spend all year telling students to stop trying to memorize dates. They would all rather just rote memorize a bunch of dates and definitions than actually think critically about the events that have happened in the past. It's pretty hard to get 12-year olds to think about cause and effect and the ripples of actions centuries ago. Of course, now that they are living through a major historical event, it might be a bit easier to get them to engage.

I picked up Elite: Dangerous, and it turns out I am a lousy pilot.

I cover a lot of Viking history in the Dark Ages, but I only teach 7th grade and we have a limited window of time. I think I remember covering some Swedish rulers during AP Euro History in High School. This looks like the unit: https://www.tomrichey.net/blog/the-thirty-years-war-ap-euro-lecture-notes I mention the general area during tge Reformation as well, but the focus tends to be on Luther.

I think California has benefited from a terrible public transit system. Hard to spread the virus when we are all sitting in traffic a car's length apart.

I've always assume ktchong types this stuff up on an old Microsoft Word document and then blasts it across the internet as a service to mankind or something.

Today during my lunch break I rode up to the top of Mount Umunhum. The views were amazing, you could see all the way across the San Francisco Bay.

I read his post. Getting burned out on big RPG projects that don't bring in enough money seems like a rational decision, not a breakdown. It's not like he said he is quitting the business, he said he is planning on focusing on simpler projects.

Scrubs is a good comparison. It is not a serious look at police work. But if you don't like Andy Sandberg, it would be hard to get into.

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Boris Johnson just went into intensive care. Crazy. I'm also watching Gavin Newsome do a press conference. I think he has been the most aggressive governor in the country on this, and it is going to give him a lot of political equity when this is over. Quite a change in tone watching his press conference compared to the Trump ones.

Brooklyn 99 is hilarious. One of the better comedies currently running.

The Tiger King memes based on that story are off the hook.

I enjoyed 13th Warrior. Antonia Banderas is hard not to like. But I had also read the book beforehand, and I think that made it more engaging to watch. I'm also a sucker for any historical fiction.

I don't have anything to add, but I do want to say this is why I love our forum. This conversation about Crozier is fantastic.

Ooh, I have a binch of good back exercises worked into my yoga routine. Look up Yoga with Adriene, she is really good.