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the texas rb is a curious selection because while expert consensus is he ranks as the best rb prospect since saquon barkley, rb is having such diminished value that it is difficult for many teams to invest any first round pick on an rb. few people would be surprised if bijan robinson dropped to the later half of the first round, 'cause is only a handful o' teams willing to draft him round 1. by the same token, he could go in the top ten. as for te, michael mayer is a guy much like the aforementioned suggs and thomas in that his athletic measurables are not elite, so it will be interesting to see just how far he drops. edit: jahmyr gibbs, the alabama rb, is rating as a top-ten overall prospect on many team draft boards. we would not be shocked if he were drafted round one. also, tyree wilson has been dropped complete from a few team draft boards as there is reported unresolved medical issues related to his foot. HA! Good Fun!

brown paper bag edition so, draft day is here... https://www.nfl.com/ https://walterfootball.com/index.php "* After parting ways with Zeke and with Pollard on the roster, muh Boys move up and draft Bijan." not seeing why this is funny. recent zeke production has been uninspired and the cowboys remain idiosyncratic a run-first team. bijan robinson is the only guy from this draft we feel confident predicting as a likely future hall of fame inductee... barring injuries 'course. trade up to get the best player in the draft makes sense. is hardly shocking both the patriots and cowboys appear interested in the texas rb. as usual, the most predictable funny is gonna be how teams way overreach for quarterbacks, although is not gonna be necessarily funny in 2023. the raiders jamarcus russell pick were funny, but on day 1 o' the 2007 draft, pundits were split on the wisdom o' choosing russell and few woulda' suggested the lsu qb did not deserve a first round grade. how far does he fall stories is funny... and sad. am not feeling sorry for jalen carter dropping 'cause he is carrying so much baggage. even so, would not surprise us if a team which talks 'bout character and the importance o' team leadership nevertheless selects the georgia star. converse, is gonna be a terrell suggs or zach thomas player who had world beater stats in college but cause o' less than impressive measurables he is predicted to slide. suggs ended up going tenth in the first round in spite o' a terrible forty time. zach thomas ended up in the hall of fame, but his terrible combine performance included a woeful vertical leap and bad forty time so he dropped to the fifth round. gonna take the safe bet and suggest the most immediate draft funny will be related to something improbable a draft expert says. mel kiper and booger mcfarland is obvious picks for a "what did he say," award. suzy kolber, who frequent interviews round 1 players immediate after they has been selected, has been known to ask asinine questions. in any event, the most amusing story is gonna be qb overreach, 'cause it happens almost every year. HA! Good Fun!

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Dev Diary #6: Banished Court: Scions & Monsters harebrained is leaning heavy into h.p. lovecraft territory for their adversaries. edit: complete unrelated, but whenever am thinking o' lovecraft, we cannot help but consider the creepy physical similarity o' zuckerberg and lovecraft. am thinking the doppelgangers is more spooky than the banished court. HA! Good Fun!

fyi, the state efforts to prosecute trump, assuming such efforts by the respective state DAs proceed as anticipated, is not gonna result in trials starting soonish. if ms. willis indicts in july, then a trial is unlikely to happen until late first quarter o' 2024, or even a bit later. the ny thing, if it even goes to trial, will occur late 2023. however, the feds do different than states insofar as speedy trial is concerned. defendants have a right to speedy trial in state court proceedings as well as fed, but is likely trump don't want speedy. am assuming team trump will delay state prosecutions as long as possible and it sure looks as if the state prosecutors dragged their feet before indicting. the feds tend to be meticulous 'bout building their cases, and they rare charge unless they is certain they will win, so if charges are brought against trump by the feds, then am suspecting more than a few people will be surprised by just how quickly a fed trial happens. observation: if the feds get a first crack at trump and succeed in convicting trump for the mar-a-lago documents kerfuffle, then significant pressure on state prosecutors to bring trump to justice is removed. am not reading the minds o' the ny or ga prosecutors, but we cannot help but recognize how much easier the political lives o' willis and bragg become if trump is already convicted by the feds before state criminal trials begin. HA! Good Fun!

EXCLUSIVE: DA says indictment announcement coming this summer in Trump probe Willis revealed the timetable in a letter to local law enforcement in which she asked them to be ready for “heightened security and preparedness” because she predicted her announcement “may provoke a significant public reaction.” no doubt ms. willis is concerned 'bout the need for heightened security 'cause she is intending to indict relative nameless fake electors or perhaps lindsey graham, or... am not a fan o' idle speculation in the absence o' facts, but this story, assuming is true, makes the question o' whether or not trump will be indicted in georgia much less o' a question, eh? HA! Good Fun!

what are the chances the irony o' the situation is public recognized by all the fox taking heads who have screeched incessant regarding the insidious evils o' cancel culture? HA! Good Fun!

am not sure if media personalities being fired qualifies as dystopian unless they were fired for speaking truth to power. lemon and carlson, whatever is the reasons they got fired, is not gone 'cause they were fighting for the cause o' right and justice. desantis' war on wokeism is in the dystopian wheelhouse, but the fact he has a fit whenever a reporter challenges him on inconvenient facts or mentions his flagging poll numbers likely makes him less appealing to the moderate republicans who inexplicable see desantis as a saner and smarter alternative to trump. desantis failing with republicans nationally is surprising reasonable. converse, trump increased popularity 'mongst the gop is the kinda irrational but inevitable am thinking kp is shooting for. converse, and speaking o' shooting, the 2nd amendment purists (who all fail from a bad case o' misunderstanding history) reflexive opine that the solution to gun violence is more guns is so exact the kinda brain freeze stoopid we expect in 2023. rockets blowing up is kinda common in real life testing o' rocket science... go figure. however, am gonna need learn how much damage were done to the launchpad before seeing the recent unscheduled disassembly *eye roll* as a devestating loss. video shows debris being scattered at launch and at least one storage tank were deformed. odd, but a dented storage tank might be more meaningful than is the explosion o' the world's largest rocket. perhaps more significant, gop politicians, in spite o' the obvious handicap dobbs has created for them is nevertheless doubling down on abortion limits and most is lining up to support trump in 2024 regardless o' the fact trump is the republican candidate most likely to result in democrats once again showing up at the polls. is the kinda simultaneous insane and predictable behavior am having come to expect in 2023. similar, from the other side o' the aisle, Congressmen is refusing to question dianne feinestein fitness and nobody seems to wanna talk 'bout biden's age. aoc says the biden administration should ignore the Courts when abortion rulings go 'gainst women rights and sudden all the rule of law democrats turn mute. meanwhile, in a post volker universe, the fed seems incapable o' doing anything but making matters worse while elected politicians play a game o' chicken with the debt ceiling? alito... our opinion o' alito is not a secret. even so, we wouldn't have heretofore expected an alito dissent which knowing and willful mischaracterized the criticisms o' the shadow docket. to stop an execution when new evidence or a question o' law is raised in the 11th hour is not gonna shock the conscience o' any follower o' the Courts, save for the conservative majority who has used shadow docket far less than recent SCOTUS incarnations to interfere with executions. similar, use the shadow docket to preserve the status quo when the alternative would cause obvious and immediate harm to americans is what the shadow docket is meant to achieve. alito, in a display o' uncharacteristic churlishness for a Justice, misrepresented the criticisms o' SCOTUS for using the shadow docket to overturn precedent w/o a written explanation or even oral arguments, however 'cause only dissents o' shadow docket rulings is published, no Justice had a chance to respond to alito's obvious mischaracterization. particular as the Justices who has recent criticized the shadow docket includes Kagan and ACB, alito comes off as the worst kinda mansplainer and he did so with devious intent 'cause Kagan and Barett literal had no opportunity to correct alito. really wanna crank up the black dystopian hilarity, then there is russia's ukraine war or china's self inflicted population crisis or (name your daily stoopid from the UK). etc. unfortunate, look back at the past few years, am calling this a rather ordinary monday. HA! Good Fun!

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there is an option on ulbrig's ability menu titled wild shape (return). green color so it stands out. HA! Good Fun!

perhaps not as pivotal as the bowling green massacre, but april 23 is worth memorializing and reflecting 'pon as a moment o' import. HA! Good Fun!

bed, bath & beyond is filing for bankruptcy. many stores will be closed. in an effort to raise cash and possible exist post bankruptcy, we suspect rather dramatic fire sales in the not distant future, as early as wednesday perhaps. so if you have been considering buying towels, small kitchen appliances or new couch cushions... circle of life and all that rot. HA! Good Fun!

have finally played a new wotr game deep enough to do all o' act ii with the new companion as well as the act iii ulbrig specific content. quick observations: - the new content is owlcat ordinary which means if you enjoyed wotr, then you will possible grumble 'bout narrative shortcomings or bugs related to the dlc, but such is no worse than the bulk o' what has been previous released. however, a few o' the quests is kinda haphazard and ill-defined; you may feel the need to check your journal to be sure a couple quests is finished, or not. - the only act iii content other than crusade management we completed before exploring gundrun were greengates and the molten scar which had us reach level 11 by a handful o' xp. after completing the act iii ulbrig quests am ~3/4 to level 12; is a fair amount o' content available on decent sized maps. there is more happening in currantglen and gundrun than we expected. the dlc is not just 'bout the shifter class with a wotr companion tacked on for good measure. ulbrig and his relevant maps result in considerable more content than other wotr companions, for better or worse. - is a few munchkin bait l00t items considering the level o' the content. is multiple +6 enhancement gear pieces and those items have bonuses beyond the enhancement. -the crusade upgrades from ulbrig provide your army with new military units but have only accessed infantry and archers 'cause as am having stated, am early in act iii. even so our new default infantry unit is the ulbrig specific houndmasters. - am highly recommending upgrading the phylactery of stevanius (ring) with the convert to force damage option before tackling gundrun. - a merchant in gundrun sells multiple weapons and items which target lycanthropes. am not yet having encountered lycanthropes, so... regardless, am gonna repeat am pleasant surprised by the amount o' new content provided by the dlc. HA! Good Fun!!

the business model o' rush limbaugh and steve bannon were predicated on the stoopid and hate o' people. for years most o' us laughed at individuals who read national enquirer as serious news unaware that it weren't just a fringe element who saw the enquirer and similar fare as legit. marjorie taylor greene gets elected not in spite o' her wackadoodle conspiracy theories but because o' them. oh, and lest we forget, in late 2001 more than 50% o' democrats believed george bush were complicit in the 9/11 attacks. particular when people are afraid, they will become angry and stoopid. however, am gonna concede how in 2023 it is near impossible for reasonable people to predict which new stoopid will be embraced by people. why crt? why dylan mulvaney? is so many other inanities which were seized 'pon by the now mainstream alt-right, but most such conspiracy theories and stoopid die quietly and with little fanfare. predicting which new stoopid goes viral is difficult to divine. am s'posing the unpredictable threshold o' critical mass outrage is why the conservative radio and mtg go with a scattergun approach. stoopid and hate is not only predictable but is ordinary. even so, am agreeing am uncertain why the seeming trivial dylan mulvaney thing resonates while in spite o' efforts from the nypost, conservative radio and other members o' the 2023 legion of doom there were no widespread outrage over nhl pride. HA! Good Fun!

lamplighters dev diary #5. turn-based combat one aspect we found intriguing in part 'cause o' what is not detailed-- The Stress System Being attacked in combat is stressful. In The Lamplighters League you can use the stress of your enemies to your advantage! But you also have to pay attention to your own Agent’s stress levels as well. Let’s dive into the rules! What is Stress? Every time any unit is attacked, they will accrue a point of Stress. Note: Hits AND Misses both accrue the same amount of Stress. So even missed abilities have some effect! Stress is represented by the pips above the unit’s Health Bars. When a unit reaches maximum Stress, they will Stress Break. Stress Breaking When a unit Stress Breaks and hits max stress, something happens! For Enemies: Some enemies Flee and will cower for a turn. Some enemies go Berserk and attack a nearby target – friend or foe! For Player Agents: Stress Broken Agents will lose 1 AP their next turn. More effects to be revealed later… am getting how stress is a fatigue mechanic, and am curious, but we would like more info. HA! Good Fun!

to be fair, the old trope were closer to demogorgon. grendel were one o' the firstest bogeymen in literature and he were a vaguely anthropomorphized fear o' that which lurks just beyond the longhouse door-- something monstrous and indescribable. as a species we became more "civilized" and less afraid o' the unknown birthed by the darkness. we realized hic sunt dracones were less scary than our neighbors. whether is climate change, nuclear war, or handguns, chances are you see mankind as the origin o' the mostest likely nightmares you will need confront. not surprising, our monsters changed from unknowable and indescribable to something much more familiar... and human. the motivations and appearance o' our monsters became recognizable and describable. nevertheless, the old terrors were never genuine dispatched and they crouch in the midnight corners o' our collective unconscious. like it or not, we all got a monkey brain and on a fundamental level we know there is monsters waiting for us in the darkness. HA! Good Fun!

could be wishful thinking. is more than a few historical examples o' opiate of the masses or bread and circus and predictable the 21st century has its novel addition with the internet becoming a source o' monolithic mind numbing infotainment which woulda' made nietzsche reassess his observation that god is dead. unfortunate, the new god o' the 21st century is a chimeric beast offering none o' the benefits which made fredrich lament the passing o' the previous western Deity o' All. late 20th century prophets o' doom were afeared o' tv. fools. they didn't realize just how trivial were their nightmares when compared to the possibilities created by a 21st century internet. we listened to Congressmen discussing a tik tok ban in the US and sure enough a few legislators were comical ill informed or they were using their platform to promote tangential issues. even so, the collective angst from the multitudes at the thought o' the possibility o' a tik tok ban were amusing one one level but also kinda spooky. tik tok? am not seeing any real possibility o' some kinda mass rejection o' the internet. would be swell if we were wrong. to see the people rise up and decide their new god needs to end in flames wouldn't be the worst thing we could imagine, but am thinking is too late for most o' the west. HA! Good Fun!

deserves a second post, 'cause have mentioned previous how you misread ray bradbury's fahrenheit 451. repeat for emphasis: It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade journals. the wrong identified by bradbury were what led to books becoming illegal in his dystopian near future. book bans and burnings happened 'cause too many embraced wrong. happened 'cause just as many ignored or laughed off a wrong. they are all bad and is all propaganda anyways so it don't make a difference, right? obviously the solution is more guns, yes? is a tragedy so few read fahrenheit 451 nowadays. is no less terrible when people read bradbury and then fail to learn. HA! Good Fun! ps in gd's defense, am gonna admit F 451 is one o' the most misrepresented and poor taught books o' the 20th century. is ez to embrace a message that book burning is bad and censorship is wrong. to delve further rare happens with 451. as a nuanced critique o' populism, mass media and the costs o' trying to make people safe, 451 has too frequent failed to resonate even amongst those who have read the work.

... there is a serious communication gap, but am not sure how to fix. how many different ways does Gromnir need identify legal ≠ right? is not 'bout criminal v. legal for gawdsakes. are you channeling bruce or something? have mentioned how many times Gromnir has defended white supremacist's right to speak, but that so don't mean am thinking hateful utterances is right and we sure as hell ain't laughing when the racists burn things. legal? yeah/ far different than right, but for gd, as long as the folks in the white robes used their own bed linens to make their hoods and purchased their own lumber to craft and then burn their cross, then is no more than an eyes of the beholder situation. he laughs at such symbolic burning? you are the tax is theft guy. you is the person who expounded how you would kill an officer o' the law who legal attempted to confiscate your rusty chainsaw 'cause o' the principle o' the matter. 'member? and again, you have derided book burnings in the past and those book burnings in the US were not state sponsored 'cause even in florida there is still first amendment prohibitions which preclude that kinda thing. also, blame on shelters for allowing any person to adopt animals is 'bout the most ridiculous response we has seen. again, as the guy who thinks tax is theft, what is your solution? magic some kinda telepathy sooperpower to animal shelter employees? abandoned dogs and cats is a drain on county/state resources, but gd wants to blame shelters for failure to be proactive in diving bad pet owners. pets is so not a different rabbit hole. pets is personal property and is no more due diligence required o' shelters than is the case for other personal property such as hammers, reading glasses and ballpoint pens, 'cept where democracy makes a law 'bout such and then taxes GD to pay for increased scrutiny... which is theft, so no-win, eh? regardless, you distinguish your position on book burnings yesterday from today. you plant your flag on legal property ownership as being dispositive unless is animals and taxes 'cause you has feelings 'bout such stuff. you are willful inconsistent. HA! Good Fun!

so now you are ok with book burnings? wasn't as if in the past the point o' those book burning stories were that the authors were being deprived o' royalties. ... am not sure how many times we need go through this, but legal ≠ right. the book bans in florida is getting attention today, but similar bans has been happening in the US since the US were a thing and is not as if those "bans" were illegal. desantis is gonna lose any number o' court cases 'cause he went overbroad with his war on wokeism, but is hardly illegal for a school district to decide they no longer wanna teach 1984 or they wanna keep i know why the caged bird sings off shelves. legal. you has complained 'bout such in the past. today is different? eye o' the beholder morality? am talking 'bout your eye chum 'cause you has espoused indignation in the past at perfect legal book bans and book burnings. on any other day not today your eye could recognize that just 'cause is legal to buy up every copy o' a book that makes you uncomfortable and set it aflame is legal but wrong. today is different 'cause you would rather double-down then reflect. disposing o' a pet is perfect legal. take a healthy animal and shoot it 'cause it became inconvenient is ok. oh, and btw, in most states shoot somebody else's dog 'cause it growls at you is also ok ... and any sorta fear expressed don't even need be reasonable save in a few jurisdictions. your neighbor says that your dog maybe growled at him and is a good chance the law says she is in the right for killing. in ohio, for example, is ok to kill another person's dog 'cause it trespassed on your property. when we says "ok," we mean, it is legal to do so. is your expected outrage gonna be over property rights? less dramatic, but am thinking most people are still able to identify as wrong is the following how many post pandemic pets has been taken to shelters 'cause they became inconvenient. did you laugh at that situation too, 'cause at least the pet shop owner or dog breeder still got paid? you own the only hospital for hundreds o' miles but you have it razed instead o' selling it to new owners who is willing to pay fair market. lord knows you has funny ideas 'bout legal ≠ right where eminent domain is concerned. etc. double-down is a thing 'round here. HA! Good Fun!

do not read too much into the delay. however, am gonna admit our surprise fox hadn't made a concerted effort to settle before the release o' all the damning discovery we has become privy to these past months. in an ordinary billion dollar case (<-sarcasm) holding out for voir dire makes sense to us as typically jury selection is more outcome determinative than is evidence, lawyer skillz, or planetary alignments. even so, is no way fox were surprised to learn that emails, texts and depositions would serious hurt fox efforts to defend. and once the judge decided as a matter o' law that fox stories were making factual representations as 'posed to sharing newsworthy opinions o' trump, powell, giuliani and others... HA! Good Fun!

its her _________, so why should i care if she burns it? quran hospital copy of 1984 flag dog etc. gonna suggest you are conflating different issues and am recommending you needs be careful how far you wanna take your analogy 'cause it results in the defense o' those book burnings am recalling you deride and it would also apply to michael vick. whatever the specific protest issues may be, they do not end with a recognition o' property ownership. even when is a legal property right to dispose o' a thing, there might very well be reasons to consider if such destruction is wise. there is a legal right to burn maya angelou books in florida. we would hope @Guard Dog recognizes he has a moral duty to criticize the burning o' maya angelou books by floridians. again, am not genuine following the bud light story, so am not speaking specific to the issue at hand. even so, am recalling gd does, at times, overgeneralize to his detriment. HA! Good Fun!

am incapable o' complaining while am a guest, save for when am paying for the guest-right such as staying at a hotel. have endured countless terrible meals, freezing temps, extreme heat and ill-trained pets/children with silent resolve 'cause the alternative is so antithetical to the way we were raised. HA! Good Fun!

am having no idea what the bud light story is 'bout as am only having seen it mentioned via on-line sources we don't consider to be newsworthy. has not been covered to any degree at npr/pbs, wapo or even cnn, so am not able to be bothered to educate our self further beyond a bare minimum. however... did a quick search for dylan mulvaney, a name we did not recognize until @Hurlshotmentioned, and am seeing mostly nypost and newsweek articles... nyt has one story posted one hour ago, but am nevertheless not curious enough to indulge in what am guessing is some kinda faux outrage if is getting mentions from nypost and the national review. as to clarence thomas, am thinking the new reveals run into some o' the same problems as does the old in that many readers, particular if they is liberal, is gonna see a wrong w/o being able to specific articulate a meaningful legal or ethical mistake. admitted, when we hear o' harlan crow we immediate think o' justified with a name like harlan crow, is difficult not to think appalachia royalty, eh? the thing is, mr. crow(e) (dewey or harlan) never had a case or controversy before the Court. mr. crow did not receive any specific legal benefit from his gifts to justice thomas. so... on a gut level most o' us is feeling it is wrong for a Justice to be accepting massive gifts from billionaires. admitted when is liberal billionaires making donations or gifts some boardies likely find a way to distinguish the wrong from what clarence did, but am nevertheless thinking the majority o' reasonable people see a problem with public servants receiving gifts particular if those individuals invested with the public trust is taking efforts to hide such gifting. why hide if it ain't wrong, eh? the thing is, while is not difficult to see what thomas did wrong, it is gonna be far more difficult to articulate a specific ethical or legal wrong. even if thomas didn't report proper, the rationale for judges reporting gifts is not to prevent the accepting o' gifts but rather to prevent unknown conflicts o' interest from escaping scrutiny. the thing is, harlan crow does not appear to have benefited from the failures to report and Justices is functional free o' such burdens in any event as SCOTUS is different as stated previous. should not be so challenging to articulate an actionable wrong by thomas, but it is. HA! Good Fun!

at 1:37 is mentioned the narrator sees visual flash from fusion. ... maybe everything else is complete legit, and perhaps the lightshow is for the tourists, but is no way you should be seeing anything. if visual light is escaping their containment, then so too is rather extreme x-ray energy. admitted we did not watch further 'cause we had already read articles 'bout what helion is doing. am actual optimistic 'bout helion particular after the JASON review, but am thinking some o' what o' going on in the video is a glorified flea circus to generate funding. HA! Good Fun!