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I really enjoyed Gargano as an overconfident chickenshit heel so I'm not overjoyed but they've been mostly booking him like a babyface for a while now. I kinda wish they had run with the idea that Joe scared Johnny straight and he would revert to his evil ways once he thought Joe wasn't lurking around the corner waiting to pound on him. I don't think Gargano is going to be with NXT much longer regardless.

I hated the idea of live-action Cowboy Bebop until about 120 seconds ago, but that trailer.... makes me think the idea can work. My interest in the show just went from -5 to "Why is today not November 18?"

Correct, The parent company is changing its name, but Facebook will still exist as one of the apps under the parent company umbrella - along with Instagram, Oculus, and whatever else Facebook owns, I think this is partially in response to Facebook's various regulatory and PR nightmares and a general desire to not be (as) synonymous with social media. But it also seems to be growing out of a desire to brand themselves as a more broad-based technology company. Zuckerberg has been trying to get the term "metaverse company" into the public consciousness lately and has been pouring a fair bit into research and development of some pretty far out tech like augmented reality glasses for the masses (which Facebook swears will be as ubiquitous as smart phones in a few years.

...and Witcher 3 upgrade delayed to Q2 2022. That's amusing because sites have sites have been reporting that PS5/Xbox Series X versions of the game have been rated in Europe and speculating release date was imminent, That story was in my Twitter feed this morning right before the announcement from CDPR. Quite the shitshow.

First episode airs on November 14. I've kinda drifted out of anime, but I'm going to check this out. Creators are Shinji Aramaki & Kenji Kamiyama. Aramaki is mostly known for the CGI Appleseed flims. Kamiyama wrote & directed Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex as well as Moribito, Eden of the East, etc. Big fan of Kamiya's work pre-2010, not as much the more recent stuff. He's wrote/directed a couple of Netflix's recent anime (Ultraman. Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, Cyborg 009: Call of Justice) and they were fairly average, imo. Still, Standalone Complex is one of my favorite anime and I really liked Moribito & Eden of the East, so I'm on-board whenever I see his name attached. Black Lotus is set several years after Blade Runner. Iirc, it's a sequel to Blade Runner" Black Out 2022, a short anime film (15-20 min) directed by Cowboy Bebop director Shinichirō Watanabe (it was an extra on at least some versions of the Blade Runner 2049 dvd/blu ray. I'm thinking there was a 2 disc version with more extras).

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From what I can remember, Young never actually joined, though he did do a run-in once or twice to help MVP after he turned heel and feuded with Roode. Homicide showed up near the end and helped BDC win a match. The assumption was that he was joining/had joined BDC. But, 'Cide got injured almost immediately and angle didn't go anywhere. 'Cide sat out with an injury and got released after BDC broke up. Hernanadez joined a week before Low-ki quit TNA. He was gone from the company three weeks later because he was still under contract with Lucha Underground (he apparently told TNA he'd been let out of the contract, or something to that effect). TNA had already shot several weeks of storylines and segments with Hernandez and BDC but had to scrap it all because of LU. MVP quit a couple of days after this, leaving Kenny King as the only member of BDC still with the company. King was taken off TV and eventually went back to Ring of Honor.

I got a smug and snobby lecture on natural immunity today. FROM A JANITOR WITH A GED. This is where we are as a society. What the actual hell? I mean, I have three college diplomas at home, plus a reasonably lengthy list of certifications and academic honors. I read a lot, I once took the LSAT and scored in the top 3% of test takers, I'm decent at Jeopardy. Not to be immodest, but I'm feel fairly confident I'm not stupid. Wanna know how qualified I am to speak on topics like modern medicine, vaccines, and herd immunity? Trick question, I know very little about any of those topics, so if an actual doctor or scientist tells me to do something, I'm probably going to do it. If a doctor tells me that swinging a dead rodent over my head at midnight while chanting verses from the Book of the Dead will end Covid, I will most likely give it a try. I'm around doctors and nurses regularly. There's even one I talk to virtually every day - mostly because she'd want half my stuff if I asked her to leave. Still don't know anything. Osmosis isn't doing me any good in this situation. When it came time to make decisions about our kids health, my wife did the thinking and I looked pretty and drove the car. I'm just bewildered by how dumb and self-destructive we've decided to be. I wish the world really was flat. I'd ask Kyrie Irving to pull the big lever that makes the planet stop in its tracks, then I'd climb over the side and jump off.

Chucky's gotta feud with Bron, right?

Robo Umps will never be more than a fad. We'll be back to human umpires by the year 3000.

I didn't do many of the side quests. I mostly just stick to the main quests in games. Not a completionist or a trophy hunter. I'm estimating I spent 35-45 hours with in over 12 days. That's a lot more time than I usually spend on games. Most of that play time occurred between 11 PM and 3 AM. I don't sleep much and, since the pandemic started, I've fallen into the habit of playing for a couple hours after my wife heads to bed. I enjoyed FC6 a lot so I'll most likely go back to it after they release some patches and dlc and try to check out more of the world One long game I do plan to dig into soon is AC: Valhalla. I bounced off it pretty quickly last year, but have gotten more into it recently and want to spend a lot of time with it over the winter. Hoping to clear some of the shorter games off my pile by December something and give that some time in December and January.

Even Chucky has standards?

I feel like vax rates among athletes are probably higher than the general public. Most of the college teams I've heard about have high vaccination rates, most teams in NFL and MLB have high rates, NBA says it's up to 96%, NHL says it has one unvaccinated player, etc. Athletes don't want to lose playing time or cause the team to miss games. I'm assistant coach of a high school volleyball team (my daughter is head coach). Early in the season, one of the kids tested positive and most of the team had to quarantine because they were unvaccinated. My daughter had been encouraging them to get vaccinated since practice started in the summer, to no avail. I took a different tactic. While the kids were quarantined, I emailed families and basically said "if you want to sit out state playoffs this year because someone tests positive the weekend before sectionals, keep it up. By the way, if we spend too much time sitting out because unvaccinated players keep testing positive, me and my daughter will probably find something else to do with our time next year." We have a pretty good chance of going deep in postseason this year - hopefully to states. Kids got out of quarantine, a couple of the seniors leaned on the younger kids, most everyone got their first shot the following week.

Probably. Though if you're looking at an 84-year-old man with cancer of the blood and multiple other conditions and drawing broad conclusions, you probably are an idiot. Powell's immune system was likely devastated long before Covid. Let's be honest though. There aren't many of us over the age of 12 sitting on the fence. The anti-vaxxers have already made up their mind and are only going to get vaccinated if scared into it by the virus hitting close to home or forced into it by job requirements or whatever. Vaccines for kids 5-12 will likely be approved first week of November. So we have that to look forward too, Yay! Ultimately, I think the government will mandate vaccines in schools nationwide and that will de-politicize it somewhat, but it's going to be rough until then. You'd think sports people would look at, well, sports, and learn some lessons, but nope. Last year at this time, it was dicey which schools would play next weekend and we were playing pro games on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Baseball got through the season with only a couple minor issues and so far we haven't had a NFL game canceled and no college games (that I know of).

Apparently she's morally opposed to getting a vaccine that isn't 100% effective stopping transmission. ??? Why that makes a moral and ethical difference to her, I dunno. I don't think any vaccine in history has been 100% effective. Then again, Williams' comment on the issue have been half-informed and fairly dumb. Personally, I'd fire people like Williams and Sage Steele instantly for publicly whining about how terrible ESPN is. If i - or anyone else - went on social media and complained my firm to Nazis and cried about how awful they are, the firm would come down on us almost immediately. And they wouldn't be wrong to do so.

Finished Far Cry 6. On the one hand, I understand why some people feel like they've been playing the same game since Far Cry 3. On the the other hand, the formula still works, so why mess with it. 6 might be/is probably my favorite game in the franchise. Memorable villain? Check. Huge open-world with a lot to do? Check. Attack crocodiles? Check check check. I do wish Antón Castillo had a bigger role, but that's my standard complaint with Far Cry's psychopaths. Besides, it's not like the game was short on evil crazy people. Throw a rock.... Anyway, really liked the game Probably won't be my GotY but it will be high on the list. I am glad they got away from the trope of average guy protagonist who frequently says "I'm not a trained killer" - right before he murders a roomful of people exactly like a trained killer would.

FX has canceled Y the Last Man. No second season.

I'm curious as to why there's no chairs and no band. Covid? Cost? Everyone else forgot their was a wedding too? Bride and groom secretly dislike their families and are really passive aggressive?

I'd like to see ReDragon have a run in AEW, but the clock's probably ticking. Fish will be 45 at the end of October and O'Reilly is under contract for at least a while yet. The writing's probably on the wall for him in NXT, but I wouldn't be too surprised in Vince keeps him around to delay a ReDragon reunion.

No, but they did tell him to wrestle with porpoise.

I feel like $50 a year is rather reasonable. I'll end up with Switch Online eventually. But, yeah, they're going to have to keep adding games and offer me something I can't get on the Wii U virtual console or the Sega Genesis mini. Streaming is not my favorite way to play so they're going to have to start digging some of the less obvious suspects out of the N64 catalog. Call me when you upload Mischief Makers. My wife still plays Animal Crossing almost daily so she's thrilled about the AC updates.

Pre-orders for the Xbox fridge start on Monday. Actual item will be released sometime in December. MSRP is $99. Only available from select retailers. One retailer in each country/region? Apparently, Target is going to be the only official retailer in the US. I guess it's time to start figuring out how much I'm willing to pay a scalper for one of these things.

Solar Ash has been delayed from October 26 to December 2.

I thought they were going to India. Not sure where I got that idea. Obviously, I’m not paying close attention these days. My bad.

Considering the KotR final is part of the Crown Jewel card, it'd be fairly dumb not to book Jinder into the finals and put him over. I'm not that interested in a "King Jinder" push, but it's the right business call. Putting the crown on Kofi or Xavier isn't going to do anything for either guy (not that it needs to).