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Writer, TTRPG enthusiast, traveler, dog's best friend, and all around swell cat.

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Matt: How bad could it be? Matt 2 LONG minutes later:

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Don't get me wrong. Individual Jedi are clearly good & heroic. And in no way am I saying "the Sith are right." They're also evil, but in a different way. Yet the Jedi are a fundamentally evil, corrupting faction, a reminder of how mixing religion, power & politics always produces great suffering.

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Looks like I've got some catching up to do.

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Finally catching up with episode 6 of The Acolyte. I'm still enjoying it (episode 3 aside). But jeez, it's a reminder of how much I hate the Jedi. The more Star Wars writers explore them, the more it's like they're trying to make the Bene Gesserit into the good guys.

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“Fascism sucks up power left unattended” deserves to be carved over the entrances to grand public buildings

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Bro saying if I put cream & sugar in my coffee, I'm not drinking coffee; I'm drinking a milkshake. Dude. The world is on fire. The future is eating itself. Somehow the Royalists, Confederates, AND Nazis are back. Just let me enjoy my F'ing coffee the way I want & shut your dang mouth.

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Hey y’all! Here’s your friendly neighborhood tour guide with my number one travel hack: book direct whenever possible. You will save yourself (and your tour guide/operator) time, money, and headaches by doing so.

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Hey, remember Passengers (2016), where somebody accidentally made a Sci-Fi Horror script into a Sci-Fi Romance film? That was pretty messed up.

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The Venn diagram of posters who complain about cyclists breaking the law and posters who complain about cameras giving them a ticket when they break the law is a circle.

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Was watching a thing today and started to feel like I might be forming positive feelings toward The Beatles...

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Project 2025 was from the Chris Rufo school of fascist communications, where you discuss your evil schemes out loud, confident the "normies" are not paying enough attention to notice.

But now it seems less politically engaged people are taking notice.

www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

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When these two cats show up, you know things are about to pop off.

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That score is rough. Even worse than the US cut of Legend & the latter at least has the excuse that it was written & recorded in like 2 weeks.

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As a young man, I hoped to live in the future of Star Trek & Star Trek: TNG. I am profoundly disappointed to find myself living through the Star Wars prequels, instead.

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Can you imagine if Star Wars, original Trek or Next Gen, or Aliens came out today? They'd be in the streets, gnashing teeth and rending garments in fits of rage & aggrievement.

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Fans are really bringing back the term's original meaning. They're fanatics who have lost all sense of reason or proportion. I think it stems from resentment left over from the 80s, 90s & early 00s, compounded by internet echo chambers &...well, the state of the world.

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Capping the last eight years off with watching the new Hellboy movie trailer.

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Frame from a non-musical movie with a great soundtrack.

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More Free Comic Book Day reading catch-up.

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Can't say I have any "hate" for it. I just find it kinda bland. Like, anything I might do with it has a better version I could use instead.

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Trying to read through some Free Comic Book Day stuff.

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ENEMY MINE (1985) Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James. Dir: Wolfgang Petersen 10:15p ET (7:15p PT) Two enemies from different worlds must learn to work together to survive. 1h 48m | Sci-Fi

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I'm not usually a Stan Lee fan, but this pre-Marvel/Atlas comic strip still hits.

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Episode 5 was interesting. The show certainly looks nice. I'm not totally sold on the big reveal, but that might be my own problems with the storytelling around the Force & its followers.

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I just watched 4 and enjoyed it. Not sure if I'll get to 5 tonight. Episode 3 had stuff I liked, but I super hated the scripting around the twin kids.

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OK, I half-hated episode 3. Star Wars never seems to be able to handle child characters well. They're insufferable, stupid, or...insufferable and stupid.

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My second location stop for Free RPG Day.

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Recorded a video AND got it posted in just two days?! That's so unlike me.

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THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951) Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness. Dir: Christian Nyby 8:30a ET (5:30a PT) The crew of a remote Arctic base fights off a murderous monster from outer space. 1h 27m | Horror

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Cities, "Not overdrawing the power grid is a matter of personal responsibility, don't use your AC!" Every tech company, "LET'S ADD MORE AI SUCKING UP POWER" Cities, "Great idea! How about you do it here and don't pay taxes?"

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It seems like the more we learn about the universe, the more hostile to life it is & the more likely it is that we're alone. I think that's just about the saddest thing imaginable.

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If every hotel you've looked up in the city & its immediate surroundings charges for parking, maybe that should say something to you. Something like, parking isn't free. Or, don't drive in the city. Not let me ask what's close to everything, with free parking, a pool & free breakfast?

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"Your," not "you're." Dang it. I gotta stop typing while exhausted. Maybe I should try not being exhausted sometime.

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If you're help lines are always experiencing "heavier than normal traffic," maybe you should adjust what you consider "normal."

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A little international care package arrived today. Looks like I've got some reading to do.

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So much this. I'm from a very small, town in Maine where we prided ourselves on being cool with everyone. So many of my contemporaries went down a dark, hateful path since the 90s, though. I've come to think 9/11 broke a lot of people more and in ways we haven't processed.

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Fight to Survive. Doesn't use dice or cards. Plus, the game's focus is on the sadness and suffering of a martial life more than on the actual combat. And it has a very 70s/80s, The Warriors/Streets of Fire/Rocky/Karate Kid vibe that I dig.

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It's not that technology seems too prevalent or too quickly advancing. It's that corporate greed & stupidity is making that tech worse, and at an alarming & increasing rate.

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Another one I remember being on the shelf in the shop I worked at. I'm sure I skimmed through it, but not one I ever purchased.

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I checked & I actually still have my old books. Bummed my character sheet isn't with them. Glad to see it coming back. Forged in the Dark seems like a good fit.

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Tribe 8 was such a fascinating game. I only got to play it for a little while back around 1999 or 2000, but I really dug it.

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