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This might be the best thing that could have happened to Kyrie. He's been telling us for years that he was put on this Earth for more important things than just playing basketball. Now he can devote all his attention to educating the masses and solving the world's problems without being distracted. Personally, I wish him well. Go with God, as the saying goes (well, Allah in this case). I just hope he doesn't go towards anyone with a camera or a microphone in their hand, cause I'm tired of seeing his dour sourpuss face on my monitor.

Anyone want to recommend some games that aren't available on current-gen consoles? We got a new computer and a Steam Link, so I'm dipping a toe into PC gaming. So far, I'm nonplussed, but my Stem Deck is probably at least 6-8 months off and there are some games I'd like to play in the interim. Right now, I'm only interested in games not playable on PlayStation, Xbox, or Switch. Not much interested in online multiplayer titles. So far, I've bought a couple titles that may never get ported to home consoles (Killer7 remaster, Black Mesa, Paper Beast Folded Edition) and some PS3/PS Vita remasters that aren't backwards compatible and may never be remastered (A Rose in the Twilight, Firefly Diaries, Max Payne 3, Persona 4 Golden). I'm surprised Persona 4 and Killer7 haven't been brought to current consoles. Killer7 was supposed to get a Switch port but it never materialized and both the port studio and Suda51 deny it was ever considered.

I can't imagine anyone feeling grateful for their lives right now. I certainly don't. I seem to be constantly on edge, either dealing with the day to to day or worrying about the future. Will my 80-year-old parents ever get their lives and friends back (probably not, at their age)? Will my kids have futures? Be able to meet people and fall in love? Have careers? Was it a mistake having kids? When I'm not worrying, I'm angry and hostile. Angry at God, the unvaccinated, masks, politicians, medical community, progressives, Trumpers, I'm angry at pretty much everyone and everything these days. KInda hoping we get through the pandemic next year and there's something left of me besides a bitter shell, but... In general, I try to be more pragmatic than optimistic, so... Been seeing a therapist for the past year plus. Been an interesting experience, but I don't think I've gotten anything out of it. Current therapist seems nice enough and is probably decent at his job, but I mostly think his observations are trite.

I'll take the word of the detective who investigated the case. The widow (ex-wife?) does't come across as someone protecting K-9's image or whatever, but I really didn't take her at her word. I felt like she was either deluding herself about who her husband was, or just saw the best in him and remembers that. K-9 definitely came across as someone who probably could be manipulated by smarter people, but that doesn't absolve him. "Oh, sorry, I meant to blow up a strip bar instead" is a rather poor rationalizations. And it seems likely he had some role (probably as trigger man) in the double murder. He lad a long-history of run-in's with the police, worked as a mob enforcer, sold steroids & cocaine, etc. Probably the best thing I can say about the real Ion Croitoru is that the people he associated with were probably more dangerous than he was. The story about watering the pot was amusing, but also seems like the sort of thing that makes you lots of enemies.

One of the IT guys at work thinks the texture pack is already downloaded. Apparently some platforms have to download the texture pack separately, others don't. He thinks the texture pack installed when the game installed. His recommendation is to check the size of the game file and the version number of the file. If the file is 60-70 GB, you already have the texture pack installed. Also, according to him, the letters "HD" should appear in the the top left corner of the screen next to the version number of the file. Hope that helps. I can't check it myself. Buying FC6 for Xbox One, not PS5.

I’ve got my MeUndies on right now. Does that count?

As opposed to....? If you know more about his story than I do, don't keep it to yourself. I don't think I'm giving him an easy time so much as not rushing to judgment.

Now I don't feel so bad for surfing away from the site when it told me my estimated wait time was 13 min.

Possibly. According to Meltzer and a few other people, there was already bad blood between Ospreay and Pollyanna because Ospreay and Bea Priestly believe that Pollyanna bullied Priestly when she broke into the business, If that's true, and if Will believes the other accusation is false, I don't blame him for being a "dick" to her. The blackball allegation is iffy. Supposedly, Ospreay went to a number of promoters and asked them not to book Pollyanna. Everyone denied it except IWL who later recanted and told a different story. Ospreay did say some dumb stuff on social media. He also deleted said dumb stuff and apologized. No idea whether he meant it or not just like l have no idea whether he tried to blackball Pollyanna or not. I tend to think it's a case of someone making an accusation, there being a rush to judgment, and said accusation sticking like glue. I could be wrong. No way to know for certain. In any case, it doesn't detract from me watching Ospreay occasionally.

Is it generally accepted that Superman's heat vision is invisible to the naked eye? It makes some sense, but I never knew that. I've always thought that the "beams" were visible.

A couple years ago, I stumbled on Bischoff's podcast and listened to an episode or two before I lost interest (in wrestling podcasts, not Bischoff specifically). As expected, Eric showed he could talk and it was an entertaining hour or two, but my lasting impression of the eps was that Bisch was telling telling some Hogan-esque whoppers and rewriting history to make himself look good, and there was no one around to call him on it. There was another guy on the air with Bischoff, but the dude seemed like a mark who was just there to laugh at Eric's jokes and agree with anything Eric said, no matter how absurd. They identified the guy at the beginning of the broadcast, but the name Conrad Thompson meant noting to me. I assumed he was some friend/crony/hanger-on of Bischoff's. It wasn't until a year or so later that I discovered that Thompson is somewhat well-known in podcasting circles and was probably there to be the "professional" host. Reading this thread, I'm wondering if I was right about him the first time.

We're going to have to agree to disagree. When has "My Body, My Choice" ever been absolute? Most of us have gotten vaccinated at some point in our lives because it's required for school, certain jobs, etc. Likewise, we can drink or do whatever drugs we want, but then the government steps in and tells us what we can and can't do while alcohol and drugs are in our body. You can't drive while drunk because that makes you a potential hazard to other people. Likewise, firms have always had the ability to mandate flu vaccines, drug tests, dress codes, standards of behavior, and a whole host of other things. You're right that companies shouldn't require proof of vaccination. They shouldn't have to. People should be lining up to get this done without having to be forced, threatened, bribed, or anything else. But, most of us are shit people in one way or another, so expecting us to even know what the right thing is much less do it is like asking for a pony for Christmas. Giancarlo Esposito summed up my feelings pretty well. He gave an interview this week and advised actors who don't want to get vaccinated to not show up for work and find a desert island to live on. Works for me. Most of us want to get through this and stop wearing masks and the like, so, if you don't want to help, stay home and don't be a hindrance. I don't even really understand anti-vaxxers. Mask mandates, social distancing, and shutdowns aren't my idea of freedom. It seems logical to assume you'd have much more freedom if you just got jabbed. Sorry, but I think virtually everyone owes it to others to get vaccinated. No excuses. I view it as more of a public health issue than a referendum on personal freedom.

So was this year's draft the last chance for the NXT veterans? I feel like if Grimes, O'Reilly, KUSHIDA, etc. had any chance of getting a call-up, it was going to be this week. Instead, only a couple wrestlers got promoted and the rest of them probably have months of jobs for rookie to look forward to, followed by being released or their contract expiring. On the one hand, that makes sense given how the situation has changed. On the other hand, I'm finding I care even less about the NXT veterans since they're probably only around to give the new class some work. So far, 2.0 is making for boring tv for me. Most of the new faces aren't catching my interest. Really thought Gonzalez would get drafted. Wonder what that means? I don't have much of an opinion about her, but her size makes her an obvious prospect and SDL could probably use her. If she's not ready now, when will she be? I don't think jobbing to Mandy Rose is going to get her closer to a call-up. I'm hoping the new format is just going through growing pains and will be a better tv product before too long, but I'm skeptical given WWE's track record at fixing its issues. They've thrown too many people on tv with next to no introduction. A couple weeks of promos for most people to introduce us to the characters wouldn't have been a bad idea.

S So it's really just one guy throwing a hissy fit or is there more to it than that? This sounds ridiculous to me. I say that as someone who has never heard of John Arezzi or Brian Last before today, and knows virtually nothing about Conrad Thompson beyond he co-hosted a podcast with Eric Bischoff and might (?) be connected to Ric Flair... somehow? Related by marriage or something? I'm just curious about what I'm missing. Is there some reason Arezzi couldn't work with Thompson?

It took me a sec to realize that Joker = mystery opponent, so for a sec, I thought it was the former CZW wrestler (he was Kingston's stablemate in BLK OUT too).

'Cause they booked one guy once that you disapprove of? Wow!

Lol, for a second, I thought AEW booked Joker (the former CZW wrestler). Not sure he's still active though.

Came in to work this morning to find out one of my employees is suspended->almost certainly fired. The vaccine card he gave HR to prove vaccination status is apparently fake. Main reason this surprises me is that I distinctly remember him going to a vaccine event with several co-workers last spring. Apparently, he went but somehow ended up not getting the shot and just told people he did? Anyway, if you'd asked me yesterday, I would have said that the guy was completely honest and dependable. Guess I was wrong.

I like the Street Profits, but it's becoming increasingly obvious that Montez has a lot more of an upside than Dawkins. Not giving him a singles run somewhere down the line is probably leaving money on the table. Hopefully Vince realized that sooner instead of later. Big E should have gotten a singles push several years ago.

Honestly, does WWE still need to do the brand split? i don't think they do. They don't get much mileage out of it and it seems to lead to in-fighting among the networks over who gets the biggest draws. If they are going to do a split, I sort of wish they differentiate the shows a little by having one show host the tag team division and having the other show be home to the women's division. They don't really have enough depth in either division to split them up. Each show tends to end up with two or three top tag teams/women wrestlers and that group either feuds among themselves multiple times, or drops falls to midcarders they shouldn't be feuding with, much less losing too. A women's tag division with the Horsewoman on top, plus Asuka, would be very entertaining. It'd also give them enough depth in the women's undercard to put together a real tag team division. As it is, neither division is that great. Smackdown is going to be particularly rough if Shotzi can't carry the babyface side of things on her own. Personally, I don't think Sasha or Charlotte makes for a good babyface. Same thing with the tag division. We've seen Usos-New Day many, many times before, and SD doesn't have much else to work with. It'd be a much better division if Usos, Street Profits, New Day, Alpha Academy, etc. were on the same show.

I dunno that I’d be wanting to brag about that.

If you've never heard that, I'm going to assume it's just fake news. I was thinking that story might have come from you, but apparently not. Definitely head that rumor more than a few times around 2008-10, though. Glad it's not legit. Gannosuke was one of my favorites in FMW.

He was until earlier this morning. Now it might depend on what time his wife can get an appt. with the attorney.

Along those lines, there was a rumor that Mr. Gannosuke borrowed from the yakuza to keep Wrestling Marvelous Future going. When WMF closed up shop, Gannosuke "retired" and basically disappeared for six years. The rumor/suspicion was that he couldn't repay the yakuza and had to go underground for awhile. No idea if that's true, but it's not implausible. You'd think he'd learn from Arai's demise, but we say that a lot about wrestlers and are usually wrong.

Wouldn’t it be simpler to just not mention them at all? When I just don’t want to give someone or something attention, I…. just don’t talk about it. Lot less effort on my part same end result. Am I doing it wrong?