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4 school shooters are reported tied to Rage. One had done a book report on Rage before his rampage, and one had read it repeatedly. 2 shooters had copies of the book but not on them (closest was one had it in his locker). After the last one, King let it and the collection with it in it to go out of print.

Proving I'm not Nostradamus, Magnum's been cancelled. Mind you, Jay Hernandez kind of telegraphed it saying he didn't think Magnum and Higgins would hook up until the last episode of the last season, and that happened, so guess we can't be too surprised.

I think the last director assigned to The Long Walk film was André Øvredal (Trollhunter, Autopsy of Jane Doe, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark). Not sure if he's still on it, though, as he's working on The Last Voyage of the Demeter and, theoretically, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 2. Only Bachman books I ever read was The Running Man and Thinner, as I recall. Although something in the back of my mind makes me think I might have read Desperation /The Regulators as well to compare the King vs Bachman versions of the story.

I'm really looking forward to seeing Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Earnest Scared Stupid is an 80s masterpiece. Even if it came out in 1991.

John Cherry, advertising executive who, with the late Jim Varney, created the character Earnest P. Worrell. He directed the 11 Earnest films, many (if not all) of the ads and 13 of the 26 episodes of the "Hey Vern, It's Earnest" tv series. He did a few other movies sans Varney/Earnest, including Pirates of the Plains (w/Tim Curry): and an attempt to revive Laurel and Hardy with Bronson Pinchot (as Laurel) and longtime collaborator Gailard Sartain (as Hardy): He sold his advertising agency in the late 1990s, but continued to direct in regional film-making, directing a number of short video films.

Google Translate gives: "Very serious issue after update. Open the game on Steam, it will say "Loading...", then the game will automatically quit. Reinstalling Windows 10 didn't help either. Please help me"

Problem is Mad Max convinced everyone to invest in assless chaps.

I will say, having watched the first 3 episodes of Picard, I don't like the title sequence. I liked Discovery and Strange New Worlds okay (I haven't seen SNW the show, but did watch the title sequence).

True confession time: I've never watched the Ghost in the Shell anime, because I thought the manga was terrible. After reading Ghost in the Shell, I was basically left with the general impression that I wished Shirow had worked on Part V of Appleseed instead. YMMV. Also the anime was recommended highly by the same people who highly recommended The Wings of Honnêamise, so that tended to be a high dis-recommendation in my book.

Production companies have traditionally wanted to get shows to at least 100 episodes for syndication purposes (this is less necessary in this day and age, though). Most shows hit this mark in their 5th year. After the 5th year, not-coincidentally, most featured regular cast members have to renew their contract, making shows much more expensive to produce after season 5 and the reason why season 5 is the last season for many multi-season shows unless the show is doing astoundingly great ratings (NCIS, Simpsons - although Simpsons also has great merchandising). This is probably partially the rationale for cancelling the MacGyver reboot that was Magnum's lead-in after it had it's season 5 (even though they only had 94 episodes, which is still good enough for syndication, since its now in syndication) although I've also heard rumors of some production conflicts regarding the last season there as well (been awhile since I read it, so I don't recall the details).

Magnum season finale was terrible. The final scene was clumsily handled.

He'd been sick for awhile, so at least any pain/suffering is over. R.I.P.

Had to guess at BA so assumed Business Analysist. "Perform quality control on data files to ensure that we operate with the highest level of data confidence prior to distribution to appropriate parties for analysis" Or if you want buzzwords "Do a value added deep dive for quality control on data files to ensure best in class data is available to our analysts for use in their action plan to bring to the table customer centric counsel." Sorry, I got no clue what you actually do.

I think they made money off of Tomb Raider. I think the real problem is that Square Enix sees their core business is the Square and Enix IPs and anything else is a dalliance. I think they had just as much of an idea of what they wanted to do with Eidos/Crystal Dynamics when they bought them as they currently do with NFTs.

So what you're saying is...your memory of Vegas stayed in Vegas? ... ... ... I'll get me coat.

Cast and Crew of Original ‘Star Trek’ Pilot Reunite for Virtual Set Recreation by Otoy

Sorry, the statement triggered my minutiae response circuits...

I'm not sure that they're gone entirely - Trump's Post Master General certainly seemed to be operating under orders to (once again) attempt to destroy the Post Office. And the whole Charter School movement has seemed to be an attempt to meld companies and education in a different way than private schools. But you are right, a lot of the religious right hate public schools because they're not teaching about God to the kids, so they must be teaching Satanism or, worse, Atheism.

Not familiar with it - its not the cover for the Kickstartered Florida Man comic from Mike Baron that is going to be distributed by American Mythology, so I'm guessing its either a parody or a different book entirely.

There's been, for years, a libertarian part of the Republican party that seem to want to demonize any federal or state government agency (Post office, schools), presumably in the hope that they can completely privatize these functions so that they are done by magical loving corporations who will lovingly provide loving services to all people regardless of financial bottom lines and costs out of the kindness of their heart and everything will be flowers and love.

Discounting shore leave situations or visiting starbases or federation planets (like Archer-T'Pol-Tucker's visit to a Vulcan monastary in Enterprise), I can't think of one where it was intentional to have all three command crew on an away team, even if a situation arises. For TOS, I can't think of any story that didn't have either Spock or Scott left on the bridge if the other joined Kirk. I'm making an exception of the movies as Star Trek III and Star Trek IV makes the entire bridge crew an away team by circumstance, so shouldn't really count. For TNG, all three (Picard-Riker-Data) end up on an off-ship mission in at least Time's Arrow (although originally Picard isn't on the away team, but beams down and gets caught in the temporal disturbance, so this isn't intentional). For Voyager, Chakotay (1st off) and Tuvok (I think he's 2nd Off) are both on an away mission searching for Janeway according to the internet in "Time and Again". Since Kes, Torres and Kim are also on this mission according to the internet, and Janeway and Paris are lost, I have no clue who was running the ship (Neelix? The Doctor? The Maquis who wanted to kill Janeway and take over? Its been too long since I've seen Voyager to remember the details). I know this is an early episode, so one could argue the command structure wasn't finalized, so this may be considered an exception to the rule. I'm not sure Discovery ever had a clear 2nd officer after Landry got killed in the first season (so Lorca-Landry-Saru prior to her death, who knows after that?). IWe're privy to much less of the ship life in Discover compared to earlier Treks as it focuses so heavily on non-Command crew in the first two seasons. I'd consider the way the Defiant is used to be an exception, generally, since IIRC it was an off-the-books kind of thing. But like Voyager, I haven't seen DS9 since it was first run (and I missed most of it because they kept changing its air-time locally).

@majesticI think your post was where I got mine from, but I couldn't remember what was in the zip file any more. I was thinking 1 was missing but I don't remember what one (and my memory may be lying).