No game of Magic I’ve ever played has been like this.
“A remake in name only, in other words, but what a name to cash in on!”
“Magic: The Gathering officially recognizes a new multiplayer format, Oathbreaker”
“Inspired By Modders, Valve Releases Offical Steam Deck Start-Up Movies”
“I feel like we’ve done so much,” [Olsen] went on. “Now, we can really have fun; I feel like there’s a lot more humor to be had with her.
Here’s a clue, lady: we don’t care about the character arc or the humor. Just take your shirt off every once in a while and we’ll be happy.
I take that article to mean they can jump canon and just make poop smeared Disney crap.
I like how entertainment journalists ask these questions of actors, as if they were the ones writing the characters they portray.
In imposing DST, the government hasn’t changed the sun, stars, nor the revolution of the earth that brings to us what we call daylight.
Come on, we all know Canute just didn’t decree hard enough.
Abolish it. One more government program eliminated.
Standard Time. Daylight Savings Time. Do your worst, doesn’t matter to me. Just keep your grubby hands off my pineapple pizza!
How about banana pizza?
I wonder if I can get a grant to study the effects of DST on abortion and circumcision rates?
Riven!
I really think the car should be on the market by April.
Maybe, but I like sunlight later into the evening. So fuck you, AASM.
Ah, you’re right. I honestly do have it on my agenda on Saturday, provided I get my lifting done tonight and don’t have to push that to tomorrow morning.
And I honestly don’t care which side we come down on, time-wise, as long as we stop with the clock changing every 6 months.
We’re down to just 3 months of “standard” time now. March through November is DST. In that sense, DST is already more the “standard” than standard time.
This won’t be enough for the insane pro-permanent DST people.
I waited for the school bus in the dark already without DST in the winter.
I lived.
Oh good, you’re ready to fall back and leave it that way.
Really, I don’t care much about this issue at all.
The issue is we tried this already in 1974… and everyone (enough people) hated it… “history, second time as farce”
You want to work earlier.. I’m sure most businesses will fit that in these days. This isn’t 1940. I used to go to work at 7:00am to beat the traffic.. they were fine with that, and leaving at 15:00. that was 20 years ago.
Majority hates changing the clocks. Majority hated permanent DST when it was tried. Therefore…
Democracy sucks is all I can really conclude.
Whatever it takes to get you to that conclusion.
Everybody is awake between 4 and 5 pm in December. Not everyone would suffer from a late sunrise: some people (me) wake up late. Also I spent the first half of my life waking up in the dark throughout winter. Not a big deal.
It’s not about waking up when it’s dark, it’s that it can stay dark until nearing 9am.
Not where I live. My position is that New England should be on the Atlantic Standard Time all year round. It’s exactly the same as having permanent DST in the Eastern Time zone.
But even in places where sunrises are late, every single person is awake from 5 to 6 pm.
I work 6-2:30 and would prefer year-round DST.
Fuck that sad bullshit. You are not taking an hour of sunlight from my afternoons, when I can actually enjoy it.
Weird, the government stole that hour from you in the first place.
Ultimately, it was the government that imposed an arbitrary “standard” division of time along oddly-constructed time zone boundaries to begin with. One is no more or less arbitrary and capricious than another.
I have a slight preference for standard time, but I get up early regardless. If they do anything, it will be DST, because for some reason more people want to stay up late and sleep in, then go to bed and get up earlier.
In this era of WFH and flexible schedules, it seems to me a lot of people could get more daylight after work by shifting their schedule. If the labor force participation rate data is accurate, hardly anyone has a job these days anyhow.
I would love to sleep in but I like stopping my day at 5PM even more 🙂
I will say that if I had to drag my ass into the office by 8AM, well (a) that wouldn’t happen because (b) I would have to get up at least an hour earlier so I might then consider shifting to a later schedule. 🙁
As if it hasn’t been standard procedure since forever to jack up a title and slide a completely different story under it.
“Howdy Doody: The Reckoning”
“Velma”?
Whatever that idiotic Witcher prequel was supposed to be?
Hell… even though I enjoyed a good chunk of it (the ending episode was horrid), Wednesday… or “I really want to make Gothic Hogworts! What can I use to do that?”
Instead, it would apparently perpetuate the unhealthy, unproductive, and anti-family ills of DST year-round.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
Faces of Death takes me back. When I was in junior high, my mom would take me to the video store and for some inexplicable reason let me get anything I wanted short of stuff from the little room with the curtain. Pretty sure she didn’t know what Faces of Death, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre were about. But that was childhood in the 80’s for ya.
I saw it when I was 13 or 14. A few of the clips were pretty unsavory.
Yes they were. I didn’t know at the time some of it was fake.
This seems creepy now but I’m just remembering that an older guy in the neighborhood would invite us teenagers over for beer, and that was where I saw Faces and Scarface.
Relevant!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sJNV4FMpGh8
I bought a bottle of good Irish whiskey for today. So I may show up to the Zoom a bit tipsy.
I’ll try not to Seamus.
Don’t paddy yourself on the back too hard for that pun.
Sounds like you want each Zoomer to be paid in Full.
Just don’t start any Troubles.
There’s no Tulling what you may say.
As long as no one blows things out of proportion.
I have the remnants of a bottle of Tullamore Dew, and I have pre-gamed on Guinness and Magners….I am with ya!
82-year-old Virginia woman is the world’s oldest female hockey player
What a woman!
One of the dudes from my old Friday night skate is late 70s. Inspiring as hell!
I only don’t care about DST is because I don’t have to get up to go to work anywhere, and since my set working hours are 7p-midnight, it’s dark anyway, save for an hour or two.
We might venture down to Fremont Street or just buy some whiskey and watch bad Irish accents in Boondock Saints. Choices choices
Why nae both?
I was just outside doing a few of the multitude of tasks I have been putting off. Like a first pass at cleaning up the scraggly dwarf (!) fruit trees out front. After looking at pole saws at places like Lowes and the ranch store for $100 and up, I went to arbor Freight and got one for ~$25. Maybe it won’t last forever, but I’m not a professional arborist.
I don’t think I did my shoulder any favors hoisting the battery up over the fender of the truck when I put it back in.
Harbor Freight and Hobby Lobby are my go-to retail therapy spots.
Harbor Freight totally rocks my fucking nuts off. Hells yeah.
If they moved the clocks up at 2PM on Monday instead of on the weekend I would stop torturing my friends with my bitching every year.
FRIDAY FUNBAAAAAAAGZ!
https://archive.is/ZQzQb
I am as far away from a deadline as possible. And I’ve got every lead I need for the next few editions…? (I think I’m getting better at this.)
Deadline was really at 2:15, but I then had two interviews, one lasting over an hour. (I need to learn to walk away quicker.) He was keen on telling me about legit election fraud in a certain county in northern, rural Indiana. One person, convicted of felony perjury, lied about that when he filed. Contact told me about at least four others who may have done something similar.
The guy is a Republican, as are most of the county. So, OK. Bias noted, but interestingly, he asked “Why are the Dems allowing this to happen?” That…is a pretty good angle. Might take some work.
So now, I’m officially off for the rest of the day. I am not answering anything but an emergency. Tomorrow I’m going to an arts and crafts show to get a pretty easy front page story+art. I now, shall do what I please. And Q just put up some funbags. And, here’s an issue. I’ve been jerking off A LOT recently. Not abusively. But…the urge hits frequently. That might come up.
It will be after I eat for the first time today, which is now, if the feeling remains.
What if actual news happens?
“Not now. ‘Batin’.”
Most legit news so far was a superintendent resigning after a DUI or some such. This might be something. I’ll ask my boss about what he thinks, he worked there for 3+ years and knows local history, to see what type of There is there.
Hrm.
You should write about the worst leprechaun movie ever made:
Leprechaun 4: In Space
\\https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biZ_dM_Becc
Boy, that’s a total link fail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvHHdJTJdYA
They started early up in Switzytown.
Priceless. If that is your handiwork, kudos.
OK, that was good. Really good.
HA!
Zoom links reminder. Thank you Neph! If I don’t wear green, may a hot hairy bear will pinch me.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Thanks! Might drop in, not going out tonight
The days of my Friday zooms are over. I’m making a lot more money than I was so I need to be on top of that shit.
I am sad for the Zooms, yet delighted to hear you are making good scratch.
Miss you, but hope you keep rolloing in the dough.
Saturdays, then?
HA! I will swill some Tullamore Dew and be comic relief…until I pass out early.
Chug it.
…maybe.
I have a half-forgotten, half-10-pack of Guinness in the basement. It’s not the freshest-tasting Guinness I’ve had, but not bad for maybe 4 years old?
Also, as mentioned last night, this is really fantastic for $25:
https://www.hinchdistillery.com/whiskey/5-year-old-double-wood
(should be $40 or so, but they’re new to the states)
Bottles or cans?
Cans, so a bit hardier
https://mobile.twitter.com/liz_churchill8/status/1636817517820690433
It’s a joke and he should be able to make jokes.
That was actually pretty funny.
Agreed.
OTOH he should be subjected to the same treatment as anyone else. Cancel 46!
Yep. I’ll give him credit for that one.
Stopped clock. It can happen.
I thought you were only allowed to make jokes about white people.
Ninja vs. Shark?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ueCMtvEie0&t=69s
Well, rats.
The hotel internet isn’t working. No zoomies for me tonight.
Happy St Patrick’s to all. We had a darn good one so far. Took the day off and hit the mountain to ski with the wife and kidlets. It’s always a challenge skiing with kids, but we had some good runs and kids are improving. The seven year old had a meltdown on the last run but did really well overall. Bluebird day with tons of snow. Got the sauna turned up and just waiting for it to hit 120 degrees. Pork tenderloin for dinner is going to get massacred.
Nice! Where did you go?
Squaw Valley (now called Palisades). It’s my favorite resort here as it’s so big and there are endless challenges there as well as having plenty of blue groomers for the kiddos. If I could ski fifty days a year I would absolutely do so, typically I can get in 5-10 days. So nice being in the mountains on a pair of skis looking down something steep.
OK, groomer.
Do you ski out there in the Rockies?
I hate the traffic, so the last time I went out was Big Sky! 🙂
My son is out all the time. Steamboat has gotten a ton of snow. He was at Winter Park the other day and it looked epic. Daughter said A-Basin was still awesome.
Heheh Ted.
Colorado is ski heaven, I really have to get out there. We went to Big Sky during the plague summer, what a fantastic (but ultra high dollar) area. So many great hikes there.
BH, I assume that was mostly at Taos? That place sounds epic, I’d also love to get out there one day.
My old ski-buddy* and I used to have a last-run challenge: First to turn has to buy the beer. I usually lost.
*RIP Tad
By the way, thanks to Compelled Speechless, DEG and Rhywun for recommending The Lives of Others. I watched it last night and it was insanely good.
I’ve been thinking about it all day. Appreciate it, boys!
Fuck DST. Once I am almost not driving to work in the dark, I again have to drive to work in the dark. End it.
Dangit. Tornado north of Panama City Beach. Wife is freaking so I am in the center room of the pre-fab beach home. Would rather be back on Zoom.
Eh, just get a big enough life insurance policy so you’re worth more dead than alive, and she’ll quit bugging you about stuff like that.