Contentious C

Well, wasn't the crux of 28 Weeks that certain people could be symptomless carriers? It's still Boyle and Garland writing and directing, so yeah, they'll figure something out. I'm just pissed they didn't do a "28 Months Later". Like, c'mon, hit all the time measurements!

Avoiding too many spoilers for myself, so... Playing through all of The Last of Us Part 1, then making it through the Left Behind DLC and its absolutely *brutal* Game Over cutscenes did *not* leave me in a good place for the first episode of Born Again. Ooof times a million. By the way, have you heard my new band, Elden Henson's Ozempic Face?

Man, the way things are going, these BIKTARVY commercials are going to have to do something about their fine print making "outrageous" claims. We're so fucked.

Hey my library actually has the Kawakami book. Cool. Saw a Stephen R Donaldson book at Goodwill for 2 bucks today but didn't grab it. It's not one of the Thomas Covenant books, so I wasn't sure if it was worth the pickup. I tried reading the first of the Covenant books a while ago and didn't exactly enjoy the style (not to mention the early events in that edition).

Welcome to the off-season, Chicago. Enjoy being the dictionary definition of mediocre for the foreseeable future.

Avowed is kinda fun through the tutorial stuff, so I have a good feeling about it. The combat feels a bit like Oblivion, which is janky, but the kind of jank I don't mind. But, as ever, no intention of paying full price for it. Maybe someday when it's half off at least.

And Bill Paxton was one of the set decorators!

Coby White looks like such a fucking hobo. I love it; basically the same look I went for with my character in Avowed.

Now I'm picturing him in the suit but with the Rust Cohle mustache and ponytail (and the age and baggy eyes), going on tangents about threshers and the ends of thousands of lives and discussing the monster at the end of the story, and weaving them in to that closing argument.

Does the producer not understand that the Viet Cong were not part of the Monsterverse?

Orlando is already boat racing Atlanta. They just don't have enough to do anything even if they win one of these two games. I think Miami has a reasonable chance to sneak into the 8. And Orlando isn't too bad, but they'll be lucky to steal 2 from Boston. And Trae got ejected on some punk behavior. I know people were saying Atlanta ultimately won the draft night Luka trade because of February, but maybe both teams lost??

Not to mention the policy, in retrospect, feels a lot like something intended to drive poor and sick kids into problems with administration, since who the Hell knows whether their parents could afford to take them to the doctor for a fucking note. And of course they're probably the first kids to draw suspicion if they didn't have an excuse, because "well, you're poor."

Well, PC Game Pass has already pissed me off. No download speed controls, no detailed indication of whether my system runs something well, just a "oh you're fine" bunch of shit. Thanks for the laziest interface, Microsoft. Idiots.

Turns out it does! I just have the PS4 edition of Part II, so I don't know if features like that still function on PS4 stuff, but I'll be looking out for the blue.

Well, it's a remake from '80 or '81 anyway; the original is on TUBI I think.