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Rogan seems like a good fight analyst and I'd say he is an expert on the MMA stuff. But on other topics, meh. He is a poor man's Howard Stern.

I'm glad you like the guy, but the idea that a Kennedy is "anti-establishment" seems unlikely. Just like the idea that a guy who literally lives in a golden tower is going to represent the working man. Pete Buttigieg isn't an old man, so I might back him. My wife's mom lives with us and she is 70+, and I have to make sure she turns off the burners off on the stove every time she uses the kitchen, so I'm not a fan of senior citizens running the country. When I'm 70 I hope to to have less responsibilities, not more. I want to enjoy retirement.

I don't think I've ever believed in a political candidate. It is basically always a least worse person scenario.

Podcasts suck and Joe Rogan is boring.

That seems like a good way to piss a bear off. I'm sure it may kill the bear eventually, but I wouldn't want to chance it.

Oh. Yeah, if you didn't like their Fallouts or their recent ES games, you aren't going to like Starfield. That seems like a safe bet.

One bad game isn't enough for me to give up on a developer. Fallout 76 was also built on the faulty premise that the wasteland was just missing a bunch of other players and an MMO feel. Starfield is a single player RPG, and it looks like it will be typical of the rest of their stable. Big world, good exploration, questionable storytelling. That's enough for me.

We actually have a ton of Indian pizza places in the Bay Area. Veggie Masala Pizza is fantastic. The one near my house also has a great craft beer list. Samosa bites beat wings every day of the week. https://www.parktownpizza.com/

What if it is 5 hours of awesome and 45 hours of meh, though?

Jagged Alliance 3 is like $35, so go get two copies of that instead of Starfield.

It's weird that anyone treats Trump or Obama as a friend. Don't trust tge politicians, people.

Most documentaries are fairly biased. This had him narrating the whole time, so no surprise it painted him in the best light. The Duggar family one was clearly a hit piece. Granted that was probably well deserved, but bias is inherent and all that.

Lots to unpack with all of this. I will start with the easiest one. Cyberpunk: Escape from Dogtown - I look forward to meeting Snake Plissken. Avowed - It looks like Outer Worlds with swords. Gameplay is always 2nd to story with Obsidian, so I'm not worried. Fable - Looks fun. I wish more of the Fable games were playable on the PC. Star Wars - It would be cool if this was basically Privateer in the SW universe. But that is probably not happening. I have no idea what it will be based on that trailer.

Flaming Hot - This was the best movie I've seen in awhile. I'd put it next to Dolemite is My Name in terms of fantastic biographical stories. Flaming Hot is a bit more family friendly, but still hits all the right tones. My wife is Mexican. Her dad grew up running around the vineyards of Santa Clara, where his family worked the fields. His dad eventually became a mechanic working on the crop dusters, and my wife's dad followed suite. This story had a lot of similarities. My kids also grew up running around a nursery and migrant housing, and eating the best authentic Mexican food. You can't find this stuff in a restaurant, you just have to hope you show up as the food come off the discado. Anyways, the movie tells a great true story. We also finished the Arnold documentary. The first two parts were fun. I loved learning about the Mr. Universe stuff, and it was a good time watching clip of the movies he did. The importance of Conan in his career was really emphasized. I thought episode 3 was good too. Sure, it was more politics, and they treated him with kid gloves, but they did get Gray Davis to speak and that was a surprise. It was clearly his side of the whole story, but he is still a pretty charismatic guy.

Cyberknights released a new trailer: It looks better than I was expecting.

As a citizen of California, I found his foray into politics to be entertaining, but terribly misguided. The whole recall and special election was pretty much a train wreck, but you had to admire the chutzpah. I mean, he basically targeted teachers and firefighters on day one. It didn't go well. I will have to wait to watch it until the weekend, since my wife wants to see it too. I did just watch a great documentary on the Duggar family on Amazon Prime, Shiny Happy People. It was pretty crazy to hear the background on their church and this whole homeschool cultish movement we have happening. Then I watched a 30 for 30 on the American Gladiators. That was also a good one. The style of the documentary was a bit weird, but I enjoyed hearing form the athletes involved. They definitely got ripped off for the work they were doing, though.

Sounds like the T-band, which stretches from the butt down to the kneecap. It can mess up lower back all the way to the knee. Physical therapy can help.

Yeah, I got 2 episodes into FUBAR before giving up. His documentary will hopefully be better.

It looks like they have Dark Ages of Camelot and Ultima Online right now, but I don't know what they've done to those games. TOR is also kind of stuck with the narrative experience of the game. Like, you can't rework the leveling system without messing up the storylines of the level 1-60 experience. They'd benefit from new classes or something fresh to attract people, but I don't think it would be simple to implement. WoW and LotRO have rebuilt the starting areas and introduced new classes numerous times to make it fresh.

What a Saint.

Hopefully this works out well for TOR. Plenty of MMO's have changed hands and continued on alright. LotrO going for Turbine to Standing Stone (a smaller group made up of former Turbine employees) and that worked out pretty well.

This has definitely become my favorite youtube channel. Tim has some great stories and clearly took good notes. I also really enjoyed his gay pride video and was happy to hear Obsidian was one of the most tolerant and accepting of the companies he has worked with.

I'm always surprised when people complain about the pricing of indie games. They are usually less than $30, and you can guarantee indie developers are pouring their blood, sweat and tears into those projects with almost no compensation up front. Your $30 doesn't go as far as you think. But yeah, DLC like this is silly.

Hah, Young MC is so wholesome and innocent compared to the first two.

Current century is most definitely better in comparison, given that all of those conflicts are in a relatively small area, outside of the Ukrainian war. You also have a remarkable amount of cohesion (or maybe a better word would be reliance) economically and politically in comparison to the previous century.