Contentious C

Road Rash is probably what she would have had from running away, if Jerry Bruckheimer's lecherous ass were still producing with Bay. Doesn't look like that's the case, though.

At this point, they're going to rename the Electric Slide after Shedeur.

I'm interested to hear more about this game. I've not seriously played a turn-based RPG in...ugh, I dunno, 25 years? FF9 might have been my last? But since they're a small dev doing a game that's got a lot of good chatter so far, I wouldn't mind being talked into giving it a shot at some point (when I can afford to buy new games again, mostly). I think it was the Gameranx Before You Buy, though, that mentioned it has parry-window bullshit in some of the boss fights, and you can probably guess how I feel about those. Are they actually necessary, or is it just one way of approaching??

Memphis showed up tonight. A lot of time left, but it looks like OKC could drop one, anyway, and that pace might be their only weakness. But Morant took a NASTY fall and who knows if he returns (to the game or the series), or if they can keep this up in the second half. People tried to make a big deal about Zach Edey falling to Memphis after the draft, but GOD does he have hands of FUCKING STONE. LOL, never mind.

Detroit citizens don't seem to like Jalen Brunson.

I would say that's ridiculous, but out of probably 20 separate Skyrim playthroughs, I probably only beat the game twice, and one of those was just to get all the achievements. It's the ultimate "wander off" game. And then when you do 'beat' what you're supposed to, you think, "That's it???"

Pat Spencer is, bafflingly, getting big minutes in the 2nd quarter over Moody or Payton (Butler and Podziemski are injured/sick), and he looks like a total rec leaguer compared to everyone else, but he has 9 points somehow. Total trash half for GSW and yet it isn't fully out of reach.

If they want to pay me $50k a year to be a professional Oscar voter, I'll fucking do it gladly.

Mostly I want to see the controller change colors. Only put it off this long because I wanted my credit card bill to flip over and because my controller seems to have some D-Pad drift that may require a disassembly. Meanwhile I'm trying to get a NG+ on Part 1 going where the infinite ammo cheat actually works. I guess I may have to try a custom difficulty setting because it didn't do anything on Survivor after foolishly trying it on Grounded.

Goga Bitadze just dropped a Bionic Elbow on Porzingis that busted him open hardway. Weirdly, Bitadze might have taken the worst of it by wrenching his shoulder.

Terence Malick doing weird oil-droplet shots that are supposed to symbolize the Predator fertilization and incubation stage. "Life. Born to die. Dying to live. All for what? A few scraps? A few trophies? A few skulls? "Do you realize how inefficient that is? Collect kneecaps," Pa said, "at least they're flat."" (Of course all of this is completely obscured by the fact that it's in the Predator language and you can't understand that Klingon-in-a-garbage-disposal shit)

Why does the NBA need an Official Motor Oil???????

Well that's just cruel and unusual punishment. I suppose that's very Catholic.

Biggest annoyance about the Pope dying, besides the overblown degree of wall-to-wall coverage, is that places keep mentioning 'camerlengos' and now I want to play Blood & Wine again...

Finally starting playing The Last of Us Part II after putting it off for a couple of years (granted, I had That Moment spoiled for me before I ever played the first game). Seems like the color-scheme stuff on the controller is PS5-edition-specific, which I guess isn't surprising. Playing through the Jackson chapters with both Abby and Ellie are blue on the PS4 physical copy, so, since I wanted to anyway, I'll probably buy the PS5 upgrade at some point and verify that it changes (Reddit says controlling Abby makes it yellow instead of blue or green). Anyway, just a nice touch, and if it improves the load times, that's also welcome and possibly worth the $10.

Jamal Murray seemed like he thought about hitting the Rock Bottom on Norman Powell there for a second. It's the playoffs!!!!

Great response game by Detroit, even if the fourth looked like Saturday for a few minutes. Cunningham? He's a Guy. I think other than the three title favorites, every other series could be great. Bucks/Pacers might be the least competitive of the other 5 if Dame doesn't play. If he does play, who knows? Do all five series go 6/7?

Whew, that new Tim McMahon article on ESPN really makes Nico Harrison sound like a total fucking idiot. Sorry, Mavs fans. Sounds like the Knicks benefitted from some of the staff shakeup in the process.

Not 100% sure why I zagged back for it (probably the little info drips from Born Again that confused me after 3 years) but Echo is a pretty darn weird show for Marvel. I get trying to center another female character, I get trying to show disabilities differently, but it feels like they should have connected it to something else better. Oh, and it probably would have helped if they hadn't just trotted out literally every Native actor we've seen lately in Westworld.

That's 2 days in a row that went pretty much as expected. Memphis stinks, Orlando is the defense version of Denver, and who knows if Miami can steal any from Cleveland. But Houston did not play well. Too many turnovers, but mostly they just don't have Guys. Sengun could be, Jalen Green could be, maybe Thompson too, but they're not Guys yet. And usually to become Guys, you need to take some fucking lumps like this. Tonight was definitely a lump, aside from the 25-6 run or whatever it was.

Is that the Japanese silent film from 1928, the Britney Spears/Zoe Saldana vehicle, or the Ralph Macchio? Guessing the last one. Still sounds like "From Dusk Till Dawn" with racism.

Is McAfee attending, and Dart is doing the smart thing by avoiding the urge to break his throwing hand on Pat's face? Fully understand if so.

At this point, that function is too overwhelmed to do much good.

Pretty sure one of the more recent software updates on my 7-year-old TV resulted in motion smoothing being permanently enabled (it's not a model with its own setting to toggle). This has made me more than a little furious. Now if only I could afford to replace it...

Hahahahahahaahahah, fuck the Lakers. Series is probably still going 7, but fuck those guys.