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Comixology is having a DC Buy One Get One Free Sale with promo code SDCC17. Runs through the 23rd and excludes comics released after July 7th and the first issue of Dark Days: The Forge.

PTSD from Brett Ratner. The brain has reworked itself to eliminate the memory of Ratner directed movies. According to IMDB, Kinberg is credited as one of the writers for Last Stand.

I suppose that is true. To take things back to a more productive topic, I never had to worry about losing earbuds because I was too busy snagging and snapping the cord on things.

Do people actually work in workplaces where discussing how much everyone earns is a good and acceptable thing? I probably should know better, since I work with passive aggressive women, but they recently switched us from commission to hourly so they gave us our average from last year. When they did so they told us that hourly salary were capped at a certain point but my average hourly was greater than the cap so I basically created a loophole. So for three weeks one of my co-workers has been saying that they modified our average hourly to fit them under the cap and half asking, half stating that I must be getting the max. So I finally just started that wasn't the case because my average hourly was higher and that I was being paid accordingly. The result was a half hour breakdown on my co-worker part and having to do damage control on my part to prevent her from storming into HR and demanding an eight cent raise (difference between her rate and the max rate) by citing my rate since I really didn't want potential blowback from telling it. And sadly this is probably the co-worker that would take this the best. So I always read articles that talk about it being a good thing to discuss salaries in a workplace, are these simply theoretical workplaces or do they actually exist?

If they can't have Daniel Bryan for Talking Smack then JBL should definitely be there go to choice. JBL during the Becky Lynch segment was so great. Also love the setup for the week suspension by having Corban react with an "Oh shit" face after he pushed the ref.

Such a horrible day to work a 3:30 PM to close shift. That said "not winning a game 1 at home" is such a weird streak.

Just finished Iron Fist and I enjoyed it more than both seasons of Daredevil and Luke Cage. Daredevil and Luke Cage felt like chores to finish while Iron Fist was enjoyable enough to get through in a couple days. It had its flaws (dialogue and fight scenes) and had less high points but it at least didn't seem to meander as much.

Comixology is having a BOGO Marvel sale through the 13th. Promo code is MARVEL. Edit: It looks like Amazon as usual have taken 50% off whatever their sale prices were. So in most cases things will be a better deal on Amazon.

As good as Smackdown was, Talking Smack was even better. AJ Styles...Flat Earther.

II suppose my counterpoint would be that Ben's period as Spider-Man feels a bit like a blip that came after most people were turned off by the Clone Saga. Spider-Girl while never being a major seller at least was around for a while. I at least have read a couple issues of Spider-Girl, I don't believe I ever read a single issue of the Ben's Spider-Man phase.

I know the scheme is more known for Mayday but I would have preferred Ben's Spider-Man costume to the Scarlet Spider costume.

First official trailer for Marvel's Iron Fist. Doesn't seem to give too much away but still the Marvel/Netflix show that I'm most excited for.

Prophetic.

Football analysis does have a tendency to over emphasis the importance of coaching over the importance of players.

For the most part I would say that the new All-Star Voting system seemed to work out. It prevents vote for the worst movements or just popular but not necessarily deserving players being voted to the All-Star Game. I feel there is discussion to be had with the front court selections and I feel like anyway you would cut it there would be a degree of dissatisfaction with both the east and the west back courts. Edit: The official release has breakdowns of the voting which is also interesting to look at. Especially some of the differences between the player and media votes.

Well that is certainly not what I was expecting when I went to bed during the third quarter of Warriors/Grizzlies.

Riverdale looks like someone decided to make a dark and gritty Dawson's Creek instead of anything tied to the Archie series. So disappointing with what they're doing with the Archie comics right now.

The DC sale is a bit underwhelming in that since everything is $5.99 you have a lot of 4 issues for $5.99. Also a lot of the prices for the Marvel sale are better on Amazon and they're also seemingly having an across the board 50% off Image sale.

That inner "NOOOO!" when you realize that someone from work bought you something for Christmas when you weren't planning on getting them(or anyone else) anything for Christmas.

So glad the world got the time they did with Craig Sager after the initial diagnosis. He will be missed.

Hopefully they never stop with the F&F movies.

I will say it was a LITTLE better last night because they seemed to limit the crowd reactions to the replays instead of the more recent cutting to crowd reactions during live action. But yeah, horrible move in general.

Something they did do a really good job last night compared to HitC was they didn't overshadow the main event with the earlier gimmick matches. Especially with the ladder match, they told a great story and had a great match without needing to do a lot of big spots that would subtract from them in the main event. And while Miz is great, I think Talking Smack is the MVP of the Smackdown brand.

Apparently Lakers in LA has become the trap game for the Warriors.

The Sasha stretcher spot went on for so long that I was hoping that they'd actually just have someone come out and replace Sasha and beat Charlotte for the title. Sasha getting stretchered out only for the crowd to cheer Bayley for beating Charlotte would have been perfect motivation for a Sasha heel turn. Plus since Raw can't book multiple women angles at once, they might as well put Sasha on the shelf for a month or two.