Genre – Drama Series
Movie Total Runtime – 7 Hours 31 Minutes
Spoilers – Yes
Six episodes of eight in and I’m coming to realize the biggest problem with the work – I don’t care. I am not invested in the main plot, the side plots, or the characters. My enjoyment has come from nitpicking, and dissecting the craft of filmmaking. At 75% of the way in, this is not a good state for the show to be in. Episode seven starts with the Ghoul gunning down a wasteland teenager for some info, then switches to a flashback. Raider Queen is spewing the same sort of keyboard warrior online essay that makes me avoid most comments sections, followed by the same style of argumentation. Starting off with an ad hom against the cowboy when he stands up to leave, with the discourse rising no higher. Raider Queen claims to have been working on developing cold fusion before being bought out by Vault-Tek. Raider Queen also claims that this is “difficult to monetize”. It took me all of five seconds to come up with a monetization scheme – two words “Maintenance Contract”. It’s easy to make money off of cheap electricity. Though the real claim in the drivel was that the tech was bought up so that it could be buried. I’m still not sure, but the Raider Queen might be a man. I can’t be bothered to do the research, so I’ll just avoid pronoun usage, even though the character is supposed to be a woman.
Returning to Lucy, we get exposition that indicate that Vault 4’s current crop of vaulties are descended from test subjects who rebelled against the scientists who’d previously run the vault and were the source of the experiments on the forbidden level. But, Lucy did throw acid in the face of one of the vaulties when they caught her on the forbidden level, so she’s still getting punished. While she’s being dragged off, we check in with Squire Dude and find out just how badly hie foot was injured in the fight. What is this show’s, erm, fixation with foot injuries. Dane had boot razors, Enclave Scientist had his foot shot off by the Ghoul, now Squire Dude has crushed bone and compound fracturing. Of course he walks away when he shouldn’t be able to. Crippled limbs only slow you down in Fallout.
The vaulties kick Lucy and Maximus out of vault 4. After a simplistic ethical debate, the two opt not to steal the power core from the vailtues, leaving the power armor unpowered. With no other quests left in the quest log, Lucy and Maximus start going after Squire Dude, who is limping towards a transmitter to call the Brotherhood. Squire Dude runs into the chicken rapist from episode two who tries to sell him snake oil that turns out to actually work for healing, but chicken rapist make cryptic comments about the side effect. Speculation – the serum triggered ghoulification.
Back in Vault 33, Lucy’s brother has poisoned the raiders, and they begin the repopulation initiative for Vault 32. I’m not sure how that is expected to work. At the start of the series 33 has a population that is dangerously close to inbred, that was then later reduced by the raider attack. There doesn’t sound like there’s enough genetic stock to even maintain one vault, let alone split it up and resume to arms-reach relationship from before.
So, Lucy and Maximus catch up with Squire Dude at the transmitter where he called the Brotherhood. Turns out my surmise about the serum is correct. The arrival of the Brotherhood after the realization causes Squire Dude to flee and Maximus to concoct a plan to try to fool the Brotherhood. But remember, Maximus is a dumbass. He told the Brotherhood he was dead, Squire Dude made the call, and he’s planning to give them a head without the macguffin inside – meaning he doesn’t even have a “but I finished the mission” to fall back on.
Back in vault 33, Lucy’s brother bluffs his way into vault 31 without much of a plan on what to do when he got there. He sees something malfunctioning, but the video is too poor to tell what before credits roll.
To be honest, I’m getting kinda sick of this show. I’m only still watching because it’s one episode left to complete the review. My investment has been pretty low and I’d have dropped it if watching casually. Anyway, the Brotherhood brings Maximus and the fake head back to their base where the elders are waiting. They scan the fake head and discover the truth. Maximus begs to not be executed for multiple deceptions of the brotherhood and immediately offers to sell out Lucy and her destination in exchange for not being shot one the spot. Dane lies to get Maximus spared. The elders don’t believe the lie but refrain from shooting Maximus. Corrupt Elder lays out his plan to usurp the current brotherhood structure to try to get Maximus to spill.
Lucy finds the Raider Queen’s encampment where I want to rant about their agricultural practices. But I only see plowing next to fully mature corn stalks, so I don’t know for sure they’re planning to plant more corn. I’ll be charitable and say they’re prepping for a winter crop. These appear to be the body positivity raiders, as a lot of them are overfed for wastelanders, being chunky to obese. We get no dialog as it has to stop for a flashback before Lucy gets admitted to see the Raider queen who has her dad in a cage and a ghoul chained to a chair.
The showrunners decide they want to try to be clever by cutting between Lucy and the undying Raider Queen, Lucy’s Brother poking around Vault 31, and the Cowboy in the past eavesdropping on a meeting between bigwigs from memberberry organizations from the games. While these caricatures play straw capitalist in the past, Lucy’s Brother finds that vault 31 is full of cryotubes where all of their people are on ice. The overseer is a miniature robobrain with none of the mobility or manipulation abilities of the real thing. A Robobrain is a brain in a jar driving a heavily armored tracked robot. The subtitles call the 31 overseer “brain on a roomba”. That’s a bit too cruel.
Then comes the stupidest line so far in the series “There’s a lot of earning potential in the end of the world”. How? You have just deleted the infrastructure required to do anything. This is followed by the supposed bombshell that the big plan for Vault-tek is to start the nuclear exchange so that the vault experiments kick off. We also have Lucy’s father show up in the past before having been frozen. The uncanny valley deaging CGI doesn’t work quite right. Given the number of special effects wins so far, it stands out for being so off.
This episode is dragging having become an exposition fest. A better storyteller would have pushed more of the content to earlier installments so that you get revelations that lead to new questions that can be answered in later revelations. No, they just expodump in the last episode, taking up more than half of it. I did get one really good laugh at 28:28 when the wide shot shows the whole Raider Queen compound. The cultivated patches are smaller than the rest of the settlement, making up about a quarter of the total space. I get that raiders get their food by stealing it, but if you’re going to quarter-ass your farm, why bother?
During more infodump, we finally find that the Enclave Scientist had smuggled out the completed cold fusion something or other – they don’t seem to be clear on what exactly this object actually does being the size of a pet’s RFID tag. Somehow it is also code-locked and Lucy’s Father has the code. Why he would have the code is unclear, since he was just an executive assistant pre-war. Unless the executive was so lax that she gave him all her passwords. Also, Raider Queen accuses Lucy’s Father of having nuked Shady Sands. The way the show is show we’re expected to believe the Raider Queen, but I see no reason to.
Even as the Brotherhood finally arrives, Lucy’s Father keeps speechifying. I have many derogatory things to say about the content of the speech, as it demonstrates a lack of understanding of human nature. But that’s par for a villain speech in mediocre media. So I’m not going to rant.
The Ghoul teleports in and solos the Brotherhood in the dark so as to save on the effects budget.
When Lucy tells Maximus that her dad nuked Shady Sands, we get another flashback to little Maximus emerging from his hiding spot. It was a fridge. He supposedly survived a nuclear blast in a fridge. No, Hollywood! Bad! Stop that!
Lucy’s Dad takes a suit of Brotherhood armor from among the many lying around no longer needed and slaps Maximus around before the Ghoul drives him off.
The Ghoul gives a conspiracy speech to continue expositing as a second Brotherhood wave appears on the horizon. For whatever reason, he invites Lucy to go with him into Season 2. Mind you this two have been antagonistic the whole time. They leave the wounded and unconscious Maxiumus for the Brotherhood.
Frustratingly, the Raider Queen still isn’t dead. Raider Queen turns on the cold fusion device and a bunch of lights in the ruins of Los Angeles turn on. Nevermind the damage to the transmission wires from a nuclear blast and centuries of scavenging, corrosion, and non-maintenance. Raider Queen doesn’t have enough time to speechify and finally dies.
In the fade out from Season one, we get a Deathclaw skull for memberberries since they didn’t make an appearance yet, then the final shot of New Vegas in the distance.
So, after eight episodes, I’ve spilled most of my praise, dislike, and disappointment. The biggest problems are the inconsistant writing quality, the extreme backloading of reveals, and the lack of any reason to care about the characters. The biggest pluses are due to the effects teams and the set dressers. They captured the visuals very well. I’m not going to tell you to avoid the show, but I can’t recommend it.
The more I think on the plot inconsistancies and unexplained plotholes, the worse it gets. With such a small population all on ice, how did Vault 31 clean up Vault 32 in under a day? How was Raider Queen still alive? Why did they never even drop a one-line explainer as to who the Enclave was? How do people keep moving between Los Angeles and Shady Sands so fast?
Lastly, the contrast in acting ability between different cast members only highlights the studio’s flaws. Maximus’ actor can barely outperform a wooden board. Lucy’s performance makes me wonder if her head would sound hollow when knocked. Raider Queen lacks the gravitas that the role requires given the lack of screen time.
So, this marks the 23rd Episode of the Unwatched, and I’m going to call that Season 1. I know the title says Episode 22, but the pilot counts as Episode 0. Season 2 will pick up probably next week. I’m adding a new category of media – found ain a thrift shop. After the disappointment some of you showed that my “western” movie wasn’t in the Western genre, I realized I didn’t have any unwatched westerns in my collection. I bought some at Goodwill. They’re not next week, but are in the queue.
So, the brain in a jar claims there’s no food in the cryochamber for the brother. My first thought was “There’s a lot of food here, it’s all on ice” Fallout does tend to have cannibals crop up often enough, so I don’t disregard it. I just don’t think the brother would make that association.
Six pounds of fat and a couple gallons of Gatorade in that drone body…
plus a few dozen people in the cryotubes who will be vulnerable in the wake of the defrosting sequence.
Long pork baby.
Has a dramatization of a video game ever matched or exceeded the quality of the original medium?
No.
What makes a dramatization good and what makes a video game good are incompatable.
Does that apply if a dramatization (movie/TV series) is then used as the basis of a video game?
(an original dramatization, I mean, not adapted from another medium.)
The video game adaptation of the film is a category that is notoriously bad. I know of only a handful that are passable.
There needs to be a Leisure Suit Larry movie.
I enjoyed Prince of Persia. But I could never get out of the city in the original game. So I have no idea if it’s any good compared to the source material.
Possibly some Japanese media?
There are some works that are designed from the ground up as multimedia – games, anime and possibly comics. They don’t always come out concurrently.
I generally only watch the anime so I can’t say if one medium is better
I’ll give them credit because it taps multiple markets, lets them reuse art and generally use the same voice talent in the game and anime. This helps on costs.
Some of the Resident Evil movies have been entertaining.
I had a similar thought.
Those were generally fun.
I was going to add that.
I only played the games a little but IIRC the movies are very different? I liked a couple of them.
Good video game to movie adaptations (IMO):
Street Fighter II [Animated – 1994]
Mortal Kombat [1995]
Werewolves Within [2021]
Mortal Kombat was pretty good.
Nice sound track too.
I might add one or two of the Silent Hill movies. They seem to be reaching for “so bad it’s good” territory and succeeding on that level.
Spoiler – it’s not next week, that will be an installment of “Judge of Jinwick”.
+1. Looking forward to it.
https://preview.redd.it/i-instantly-thought-of-yall-v0-4hddmq0l56bg1.jpeg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=dcd60a0a216bc4f8d3bda765da2e959696a62056
Bush wasent (neither of them) a conservative a d neither has Trump ever been.
Trump is a ’90s Clinton Democrat. That’s how far the Overton window has shifted. if JFK were alive today, he’d be a Republican and his name would be Mitt Romney.
I always thought of OMB as an 80s yuppie democrat.
Has NA commented on starting to play FO4 yet?
I haven’t started season 2 yet. Soon.
And I’m NEVER doing the Dead Money dlc on NV ever again after I finish it for the first and last time. FFS.
I hated the New Vegas DLC, and each of them have more or less the same problems of being boring, linear, and frustrating one-way sidelines where you are trapped in the DLC until you finish, often without most or and of your resources.
I didn’t mind Honest Hearts. ❤️ the .45 pistol
Honest hearts was so forgettable because it was repeditive, and all of the locations looked the same, all of the tribals looked the same, all of the plots were boring. Finding nothing different anywhere I rapidly fell into “I want to get out of this place” and at some point start to abandon the exploring the identical looking spaces in favor of accellerating the end of the main plot.
Every New Vegas DLC was better than all of FO4.
That bad?
I’m waiting for the price to come down before buying GOTY edition. Should I skip it?
You, sir, are out of your fucking mind.
Threedoor:
I’m an old Fallout player. Love one and two, pre-ordered the special edition of 3 and was so pissed at the shoddy feelies and “but thou must” ending (which was the exact opposite of how Fallout 1 and 2 could end), I avoided New Vegas for far too long. Even with the forced time skip, it held much more to the ethos of the original games than 3. The fact that FO4 removed skills entirely for a neutered perk system pissed me off more.
/deletes further 10,000 word rant about Fallout
😳
Bold statement, Neph.
4 plays better and crashes less.
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Buy it. It’s good entertainment.
Same advice I gave NA, get the goty version, but don’t start with Automatron enabled.
Sean:
I admit my biases. For those who first learned about Fallout with FO3, than I can believe they see FO4 as a great game. My complaint is it’s not a “Fallout” game. It’s a franchise I have a (likely) unhealthy connection to, to the point of still having all of the PDFs for the Fallout Bibles backed up across multiple drives.
I have not played the origional.
2, 3, Stuck at the end of NV.
I just wrapped up the main quest of Oblivion so I’m looking for something new to me.
I like open world shooters, puzzles, nothing with timed missions.
Threedoor:
Then I would guess you would enjoy Fallout 4 a lot. If you don’t, feel free to curse my name in the Friday afternoon links for several months. 🙂
3door – you should be happy with FO4 then, it’s a capable shooter. Mr Ilium’s issues are unrelated to the game in isolation.
Thanks all.
I’ll pick it up, I’ll wait for the price to drop though. I
May have bought the fancy new super X box but paying more than $40 for a game still pisses me off.
My wife commented at some point in the second episode of season two.
‘I’m not invested, im not interested even though how well produced this show is. I’m not into it and do t care about the characters.’
I paraphrase as it was several days ago and she’s right. They dropped the ball somewhere. Likely right at the beginning
That and I have been
Soaking in a hot bath for two hours and they hydrocodone has kicked in.
I won’t drown. They just make the pain a little lower level. Some people say they can get high off of them. I wish that was a thing in my body for once. Just less pain. Less. Not no pain. Is comparing what being high feels like? It that why the promise of a new body in heaven is so appealing? As I get older and more gimpy it makes sense to me.
Westerns you say?
This one comes full circle and I loved it.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0906665/
I almost played that last year.
Found it at goodwill and thought to myself, $2 you say?
My wife claims she found it.
I have my doubts.
Here it is, still on Tubi. Unlike last Thursday’s film.
https://link.tubi.tv/ohGOfsmnFZb
That’s a mobile link, not sure how it will work.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/you-cant-make-this-up-92-year-old/
That doesn’t bode well for Trump.
He’s likely to die before anything happens.
What is with people who refuse to retire?
Power allows your true self to come out.
The good die young
It isn’t just old judges and politicans.
The other day I was in a line at the checkout with the only cashier on duty who was dead tired, thus working slow. Behind me was a guy who said the meme of “kids these days don’t want to work” and bragged about “still working at 82”. I admit I responded to that with “That sounds like a You problem” but his hearing wasn’t good enough to understand what I said. Indeed, he didn’t get that I was disagreeing with him. I wanted to insult his financial responsability since he was still working when he should be retired, but it became my turn to check out and I was going to be out of these.
This is why you use self-checkout.
It’s going to get it’s as tens of millions more of them realize that SS was a con job. They won admit to being conned. They’ll screech ‘it’s my money, Reagan spent it all on an aircraft carrier’ or some other nonsense while going to their grave still working an entry level job and praying to their Fascist God King FDR.
Ted – All of the self checkout stations were out of order.
You would be free to wait for the tech to arrive, but it could be a while.
3door – whatever his finances, he was trying to brag about it as if it reflected positively on his worth ethic as part of his denegration of the poor cashier. Pissed me right off.
Self checkout.
There is a little old Korean lady holding that job down making sure I don’t take bags and thus deprive the state its nickle. Going up to 15c this year.
Fuck you jay Inslee and side show bob.
I sort of understand people who have built something not retiring ASAP but if you’re hourly and still working, you dun fucked up.
Guy should get a hobby painting miniatures or something and get out of the job pool.
The olds working night shift at the gas station Slum. Or the 65 year old mechanic out in the field still.
He’s gotta be a slip and fall WC claim waiting to happen.
Some people bank on that Sean.
If I fall and hurt myself on the job o go out of business and my family goes hungry, my customers likewise are fucked as I’m super niche and there is one of me and the guy that works with me in the NW.
It’s a different game when you’re an NPC and know it filling a warm body job at Mega Corp.
65 year old was born in 1960. Hit the job market around 1980. We already knew SS was In trouble by then. Plans should have been made.
I get it, life happens. But SS hasn’t yet taken the inevitable haircut so even if you were just planning on that (which would have been a bad idea) you should already be done.
Or you are bad with money. Which happens. *eyes older brother*
slumbrew:
Back in the 90s, there were groups of us yutes that were willing to agree to never collect social security if we were exempt from the taxes. We were called selfish assholes.
I’m a few months shy of 69. And I have no intentions of retiring anytime soon.
Friends parents are living on SS. One is
Morbidly obese and likely undiagnosed diabetic. The other is about 15 years older than the wife and frail. House is mortgaged to the gills and Medicaid will take it when either of them goes. And it’s one fall for either of them at this point. True believers in the social security system. The bought all of the propoganda and never set aside a dime for tomorrow much less gave a thought about legacy.
I was there with you, Neph.
Regardless, my plans have always planned for “$0/mo in SS”.
Oof, that’s a slow brewing disaster, Threedoor.
I’m aiming at pulling to plug at 58. I think my body can hack it for another ten years.
It’s all based on when everything g craters though. If it falls apart what I have saved is t going to put me in a position not to work. If we struggle along and go to a place like the eurozone I’ll be OK and will have something to help my kids get a leg up and have some meager assets when we die.
They have three kids and only two grandkids.
One kid has his shot together financially and has no kids.
One kid married a guy that should have everything g together but she’s spendy enough at the lower level.
Third works for an outfit that’s always on the edge of going out of business and haz zero assets with a wife that thinks Baby Shark is a great workout song and with two kids of her own he’s propping up and bad spending habits.
It’s sad but not my circus.
slumbrew:
I walked away from a financial adviser who was making jokes about people planning for retirement as if there wouldn’t be social security. This was over 20 years ago. Regardless of the assumptions being made, worst case scenario for those planning as if there wouldn’t be SS money is that they would invest MORE with your company.
If you’re that short sighted for your self interest, why would I trust anything you said for mine?
The number of dolts who make a living as financial advisors is depressing.
My last two accountants are the same.
One dosent have more than ten years left in him. The other is a much younger frunk but likely won’t make it ten either and that guy has nothing. I fired him the April 16th. He knew how to spend money and hire painted ladies to work in his fancy office while over chargin g his clients.
Ironically several employees at the local SS administration offices refuse to retire even with a full pension and SS. Many employees are over 70 and do next to nothing all day.
For some elderly workers the office / workplace is their only social outlet.
In the case of a gov job it leads to paying people to socialize and spend all day ordering coffee and lunch.
One, with military time and buying that back towards retirement…I am at 30 years of federal service. Im 46, and 6 more years is my max timeframe and getting out. If an offer comes up with early retirement or buyout, im gone before that.
At 52, I can still do what I want to do…maybe a business.
I mean at 52 I will have 30 years. Obviously didnt join the military at 16.
Retirement eligible later this year. Figure I’m at least 20-30 years from actual retirement. I like what I do, generally.
I have a classmate friend, came from a poor family, as many of us did in the ’50s. Russ worked hard, rose through the ranks and ended up well off. A saver/investor and multimillionaire and now in assisted living, his wife passed away a couple years ago. Russ was always urging me to get a financial advisor, even recommending his.
I asked Russ how old was his advisor? In his 60s. Russ retired at 62. I told Russ I should be advising his advisor, since I’d retired at 55. I’ve been retired nearly 34 years. I’m glad I did.
OFFS 🙄
Get it in before Dems complain about old SCOTUS judges some more….
All in a day’s work for a humble meme-smith
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2026/01/trump-unveils-new-golden-mre.html
Shows good enough and relative to nearly anything currently running, its middle ground watchable without terribly pissing myself or wife off.
Season two…feels like writers took to reddit and decided to make everyone happy while making everyone mad.
Novak in beginning sets the place in NV of anyone who played and then….they are nowhere near New Vegas? Some shots appear to be Zion…
Its of my opinion that of any video game makes a TV adaptation they need to use the rules and lore of the universe and then…completely move to nothing seen in games.
FO tv show would have been better served to be in Colorado or Chicago leaving avid gamers nothing to try and equate to on their paths in the games
Hm. Is Fallout: Detroit the next installment?
I like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_xo0sz4tUc
The ruins of Detroit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbBqXnTU9RY
Ooh, just got a new satire idea: NASA unveils plan to terraform Detroit
I believe it has been floated as a full game replacement mod, similar to FO: London
random thoughts
A basic problem of civilization is how you get people who lack empathy or intelligence to behave. Traditionally, this has been solved with a mix religion and punishment.
epic cars and trucks of Africa – may disturb gearhead glibs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnyBxykQ0kw
“A better storyteller would have pushed more of the content to earlier installments so that you get revelations that lead to new questions that can be answered in later revelations. ”
Reminds me again of that Vonnegut list. His last rule for writing a short story:
“Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.”
He put this list in his memoir. Right after: “The greatest American short story writer of my generation was Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964). She broke practically every one of my rules but the first. Great writers tend to do that.”
That first? “Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.”
It’s dangerous when the only happy people in a country are the ruling class and its goons. Hopefully the US will never sink to that level. It won’t get that bad so long as the people are armed.
I miss my politicians prefer unarmed peasants bumper sticker:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2014/06/farewell-to-my-85-chevy-celebrity.html
Since Somalia is in the news, here’s a relevant re-run:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/07/somalia-sends-peacekeepers-to-portland.html
and another from my archives:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2008/12/stop-sending-food-to-somalia.html
Tubi loves my Adblocker. My Adblocker loves Tubi.
I love Tubi.
Then again- how high do I need to be to appreciate Space: 1999 ?
Beer isnt helping.
Watch the episode with the space vampire who sucks out people’s energy. That’s a great episode.
It depends which season you are watching. I doubt you are as high as the writers of S01 were. S02 is more straightforward action-adventure.
8(?) year old me thought season 1 was better than season 2.
I do find myself re-watching S01 a lot more than S02.
Ergo, Tubi has a big, fat ass.
Hey! I’m right here!
And very small breasts.
From the way you’re describing the story I think what the plot needs is for some of the characters to stumble across an old underground silo containing an apparently intact ballistic missile that they accidentally launch. But unbeknownst to them it has a faulty trigger mechanism which causes its H-bomb warhead to prematurely detonate, nuking the entire site from orbit.
It must be a day ending in Y because OMG look it’s another communist working with Z to help destroy NYC.
It’s cute when they try to hide it. 🙄
Cutest of all is when the media doesn’t report how the self-confessed “trained Marxists” got caught stealing BLM/ Antifa $$ and buying mansions for themselves. TMITE knows enough to not say that part out loud.
You moved out just in time. Housing is about to get less available and more expensive.
I never thought LA would redlined by institutional real estate investors but the last several years achieved it. Now I’m wondering if NYC can repeat that “success.”
My odd Xmas present to myself and Mom is for her to give me singing lessons. It (and dancing) are two things Bro does really well that my brain kinda won’t let me be in public. So she’s giving me lessons and that’s starting tomorrow.
Really just an odd, unfortunate mind-virus about ’em. I have a good voice control and I do play with it, but I don’t have any technical ‘ability.’ Not concerned about that one, more of a ‘performing’ fear than anything.
Meh, many odd thoughts a’swirlin’. I hope tomorrow isn’t otherwise ‘too’ chill. I’ve been more-than-normal shocked at how quickly time has disappeared the last couple of days. ‘No solutions, only tradeoffs.’ I’ve got a post-holiday meeting with the voca rehab folk as I flip the job hunt switch to Active.
This is also a good example of my brain not having a ‘Chill” setting.
Can someone check on Bro? The Pittsburgh game is more than half over and he hasn’t been around to rant about Tomlinson.
I’d prefer not to.
I forget who hates or detests Baltimore and why or why not.
I rolled my eyes at Lamar Jackson’s grill earlier this evening but otherwise have no strong opinion on either team.
I forget who hates or detests Baltimore and why or why not.
Everybody, except for the Old Man. Because it’s Baltimore.
Whoops. Was supposed to be “loves or hates.” Never been to Baltimore. Glad I haven’t, save for ‘inside’ jabs in The Wire. I’ve only been to Hershey, PA, oddly enough. Been to DC, Boston, NYC, Maine, but only touched Pennsylvania for the theme park as a kid.
‘Spose I’m glad i have no interest in this game.
I’ve never been south of the Mason-Dixon Line lol.
Missed extra point LOL
Entertaining calamity.
I’m from the west coast.
I did t know what the mason dixon line was until I was in my 20s.
Was 27 before I realized that people still cared about it.
It’s moments like these where I have to do what everyone true fan has to do in the dark moments. I have to pick myself up off the mat, dust myself off, and put some money down on Mike Tomlin losing in the Wild Card round in an epic beatdown where he ties Marvin Lewis for playoff futility.
Also, Steelers were MeToo’ed into the playoffs. Justin Tucker, even a washed version, doesn’t miss that fucking kick.
Goodnight, everybody.
Somebody better check on OMWC
That was… something else. More entertaining than usual.
That game was nuts.
Indeed, we need a welfare check, stat.
I believe OMWC is way too drunk to be despondent right now. Tomorrow morning on the other hand….
I’m in far, far more pain than OMWC after what the Steelers failed to lose that one.
I’m legit heartbroken and I’ve been nothing but apathetic to sports/football for a decade.
You know, I may legitimately laugh like once a year if that. It’s rare for me.
That Steelers game? I’m like delirious right now. I can’t stop.
Fuher Goodell and Mike Tomlin killed any and all fucks I had to give for football and the NFL. I’m never going to be rid of either one of them.
Also, I can change jobs. I can change clothes. I can divorce my wife. Two things are sacred to me.
My dog and my football team. And Mike Tomlin has completely ruined any joy I get out of one of those two things.
And no I’m not married because I’m not *that* retarded. I’m making a point here, people.
I don’t enjoy football anymore because I have grown.
I just hate Mike Tomlin *this* much. I honestly think I’ll give up on the sport if he ever goes. Out of sheer satisfaction.
I’m stuck believing I’ll die before that ever happens. This bug eyed fuck is going to coach the Steelers longer than Paterno at Penn State. I’m going to die before he does. And somehow he’ll have managed to luck his way into a NHALs for 49 consecutive seasons with 32 straight playoff losses with no consequences.
I’m just going to play this on an endless loop until sunrise.
I’m glad I somehow stayed up for the end of that one. That… was not what I was expecting. I expect failures, yes, but not multiple by different teams on the same play with only seconds in between.
Football gods are fickle. Kinda like the other ones, but. Ya know. This time beneficial for my enjoyment. That’s a rarity, and oh, my. How I chuckled.
I expect many with prop bets got their fortunes turned in those final moments. I think of them, and even then, I chuckle. (Not to their face, but ya know. More maliciously.)
Stay inward, shoppers. Weekend begins in T-minus 10hrs. Stay inward then, as well.
Back to the monocle farms, y’all.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p50JG49loH8
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You want to spoon Wally Cox?
I already spooned the Beaver this morning.
Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., and EfE!
Morning, GT.
Good morning, U! How are you today?
I first woke up one minute before my alarm, started my morning routine, then lay back down. Thankfully it’s a remote day, I’ve gotten the trash to the curb and connected to work. It did mean reducing Glib time.
In other too-local news, we have some disused rail lines that have been converted into walking/biking trails. However, we also have one of those “scenic” railways that operates seasonally on a small section of track that I don’t believe is connected to any other rail any longer. Some people have been fairly clearly trying to put the scenic railway out of business for a while now to get that section of track converted to walking/biking only. (This would connect up quite a few trails.) Those attempts are getting more violent:
If you don’t get paywalled, there are photos of both the locomotive on fire and the post-fire damage in the article. The on fire photo should be before the paywall here. (I don’t subscribe, and these two articles haven’t been paywalled for me.)
Eco-terrorists are some of the worst trash.
Kicking off the week with a cold/respiratory infection.
This is just great.
Hope you feel better ASAP!
Ick. Sorry man
Good morning!
If I have time at 8:30 I will comment on two series I took for a test watch.
I haven’t stared FO4, I’ve been sucked back into WoW. I took a break for four expansions and now that I’m maxed on the current one, I’m going back to the earlier ones. The storylines/plots when not time-gated and with greatly reduced grinds buy the catchup mechanisms put into place (and being able to faceroll the challenge gates) are pretty great.
What’s the level cap now?
The Newsboy.
80. They’ve done multiple stat squishes. My previous 80s (Legion) had been squished to 45. Vanilla/Classic now caps at 20, with 5 or 10 levels for each successive one. They do have an adjustment/level scaling process for LFG groups so you can queue for dungeon runs while questing and cap out fast.
Oh no! My poor level 90s!