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gascon-en-exil · 3 years

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But What If You Want to Come Out on Vers Bottom?: A “Coming Out on Top” Review (Part 2)

Part 1

The main substance of Coming Out on Top - and around 80% of its wank material - lies in its main story love interests, so each of them deserves a dedicated section for review and...erotic evaluation, if you will. It would be much too cluttered to try to cover all six in one post however, so this one will only include the first three with Part 3 to follow with the remainder. Note that I’ll be doing these in alphabetical order, except for the sixth who was added in an update and whose route comes with some mechanical differences that warrant leaving him for last. I wouldn’t want to seem biased, would I? But I’ll be ranking them from most to least favorite at the end anyway.

Also, if anyone is wondering why most of my screenshots are from dialogue scenes rather than CGs, it’s because there are remarkably few CGs in this game that are both interesting enough to include in a review and tame enough for Tumblr’s censorship standards.

Alex: Mark Makes the Grade (With His Ass)

And how fitting it is that I get to start with Alex, fresh off over a year of involvement in the fandom of Fire Emblem: Three Houses and all its exaggerated pearl-clutching over that game’s teacher/student relationships. That’s exactly what Alex’s romance with Mark is, begun under more innocuous circumstances wherein Alex judges Mark’s alcohol preferences (the uncultured barbarian favors whiskey, and has nothing to say if you have Mark order a glass of presumably passable cabernet) but then progressing rapidly to hot for teacher territory once Mark discovers that Alex is his anatomy professor. As expected a handful of jokes - and one sex scene, kind of - hinge upon Alex’s field of expertise, but compared to the other routes of CooT this one is remarkably tame. It’s the only one in which it’s impossible to have sex with the love interest during the game and still get his ending, and the story requires the player to thread a fine line between expressing attraction to the man and respecting his professional boundaries. Alex is nothing if not ethical, almost to a fault, and the game also doesn’t allow you to lose sight of how strange his connection with Mark is...allegedly, anyway. I personally don’t see much issue with it, when Mark is of age (this isn’t even the largest age gap of the main love interests) and about to graduate. Eh, I’ll chalk it up to a cultural difference and move on.

The plot of the route also pivots around the potential scandal to be found in some hot one-on-one anatomy lessons, as Mark finds himself embroiled in the cutthroat world of tenured professorships and overworked postgraduate toadies moonlighting as paparazzi. I guess I lucked out in my much more reasonable graduate advisors, but I think I would have taken well to snooping around in men’s locker rooms looking for hot gay action/blackmail material. With all that going on it’s little wonder that there’s no real sex to be had on the full route, and that the one potential steamy encounter Mark can have with Alex in the professor’s office swiftly ends the romance then and there. I suppose it’s worth noting that Alex is also the only primary love interest who will never bottom for Mark in any encounter the player gets to see, so props if you’re looking for a total top. He’ll give head though, so that’s nice.

That said however, I can’t help but feel as though CooT wants to have its cake and eat it too when it comes to the teacher/student fucking. Amidst everyone being reasonable and ethical about the situation Mark can have a dream in which Alex fingers him and gives him a prostate orgasm as a live demonstration during a lecture - unquestionably hitting some of those teacher crush buttons even as it comes with the easy out of being a dream sequence. I’ve also seen reactions to this route labeling it as an example of the type of lover/beloved relationship found in ancient Greek pederasty, in that Alex is lowkey masc4masc and that he and Mark bond over the ancient and manly sport of, er, racquetball (I don’t know, just go with it). You also have to keep Mark’s grades up to get Alex’s full ending, which is both entirely logical - Mark is trying to date his professor after all, even if he doesn’t fully get there until the semester is over and he’s ready to walk the stage - and an extension of the idealized pederastic relationship as an educational one for the beloved younger man. If you’re into that kind of thing, Alex’s route is among the better options in this game to find it.

There’s also this obscure random line, which triggers an unusual extra CG added in an update that might be pet play? It’s honestly hard to tell - and I say that as someone who likes pet play. Something you may notice in my review is that, while the five romances included in the game on initial release are all fairly mundane, the writers clearly felt more free to get weird in the later additions.

Brad: Frat Boys Gone Wild Parts 2, 5, and 7

Do you like beefy jocks, and huge dicks, and harsh but realistic indictments of the unequal attention lavished upon athletics departments at most American universities? One of these things is not like the others, but thankfully the route knows where to place most of its priorities. This is the story that puts Mark to work in his job as a writing tutor, tasking him with saving a hunky frat boy from failing his composition class and losing his scholarship in the process. Much unlike my own time as an undergraduate writing tutor however Mark is required to make house calls, setting him on a collision course for Brad’s burgeoning homosexuality and almost getting his ass kicked by the other equally hunky - but tragically straight - members of the frat. Brad is indeed the only one of Mark’s love interests who struggles to any degree with his sexuality, but it’s a muted part of this storyline and only really comes up in one scene involving Brad’s overbearing older brother. Despite some heavier moments here and there CooT is still a lighthearted dating sim at its core, so don’t expect too much in the way of angst even for a character who under more realistic circumstances would likely have to keep his inclinations on the DL.

Where there is plenty of intensity though is in those tutoring sessions, because, well -

- Mark ends up with a serious case of blue balls from all the UST and frequent teasing of Brad’s behemoth cock. Disclaimer: despite years of professional phallus measurements, this reviewer is unable to determine if Brad’s endowment is measurably more impressive than those of the other love interests based on his CGs alone; all pronouncements to this effect may thus be taken as the hyperbole of a horny size queen.

An even bigger source of tension in this route is the cheating angle: during their first meeting Brad will attempt to pressure Mark into writing his paper for him, remarking that American football players at universities get this kind of preferential treatment all the time and that their grades are basically irrelevant. Mark can actually take him up on this offer, and end up quite a bit richer for it via a little bribery (a nice perk if you’re angling for Ian’s friendship ending). Doing so will make it impossible to obtain Brad’s good ending but will instead lead to an alternate storyline with its own set of CGs, culminating in some saucily unethical fellatio as Mark proves to Brad that he can provide just as many perks as the rival female tutor who’s been capturing the jock’s attention with blowjobs and amateur porn. Incidentally, while it very quickly ends the route I like that Mark has a dialogue option to offer those exact services to Brad in front of the other tutor. It’s almost as funny as the earlier option about rimjobs that also ends the route but results in a dream CG of the straight frat guys having their way with Mark. That’s like wish fulfillment Inception, or something.

But no, to finish this route properly you have to keep both Mark and Brad honest, and convince Brad to write his own essay with Mark’s help...and provide genuinely good help, so I hope you know the basics of how to structure an academic essay just kidding you can save scum through that stuff. Many heartwarming life lessons are learned through all-nighters, ruminations on long-term career prospects, and mutual masturbation, until at last the two of them succeed and celebrate their victory with full penetration. How exactly you prefer the penetration to go down isn’t the most intuitive set of dialogue options in the world, but bear in mind that on initial release the only possibility was Brad splitting Mark open with that ginger club swinging between his legs. As I brought up in Alex’s section, the later additions usually get rather freakier. In this case that means an extended dream sequence with football role play (which is a thing that exists, I guess?) followed by some actual sex, with Brad bottoming in both scenes and much loving detail lavished upon his meaty ass. It’s...clever, I suppose, but I think I prefer the original version. Maybe that’s just because I always thought American football uniforms looked ridiculous; where’s the sex appeal to be found with those ridiculous shoulder pads?

Ian: Oh My God They Were Roommates

Even years later I still don’t know for certain whether including Ian so casually with the other love interests counts as a minor spoiler. He’s introduced alongside Penny as Mark’s longtime roommate, and in that first scene it’s also established that he has an on-again, off-again girlfriend. I’m going to err on the side of it not being a spoiler however, because well before his route proper begins the game drops hints that there might be more to Ian than a goofy slacker best friend with appalling personal hygiene. His route progresses as might reasonably be expected from Mark’s coming out, with Ian as the fantasy gay-friendly straight guy who turns out to be not quite as straight as initially advertised.

There’s just one very large problem with that and it’s not the size of his dick. Because Ian is first and foremost Mark’s roommate he has the privilege of appearing as a supporting character in routes other than his own, and in fact there are CGs featuring him in some of those routes. This results in Ian receiving the most overall development of any of the love interests, ranging from the oddball humor that he injects into situations all over the story to his raging and, er, adventurous libido leading to all manner of masturbatory mishaps for Mark to, most jarringly, poorly-disguised jealousy over the other love interests should Mark choose to pursue them. One would expect this to result in a fantastically fleshed-out character and an excellent foundation for a route of his own that builds off Ian’s simple charm and manic energy to craft an excellent best friend romance.

Yet...it kind of doesn’t? It took me until my most recent playthrough to appreciate this properly, but more than any of the others Ian’s route is written as the most conventionally romantic. It incorporates a host of romcom staples - UST, misunderstandings, miscommunication, more than one romantic false lead, a wedding at the end, mood lighting for its softcore bondage scene - and while most of the other routes include one or two of those elements as well this is undoubtedly the only one that ever comes close to feeling cheesy or maudlin. Unfortunately however that kind of writing just doesn’t play well with Ian’s over-the-top comic relief antics, and so for most of the latter part of his own route he comes off as oddly bland. The writing mines some jokes out of his growing jealousy of the other men Mark expresses interest in dating, and it offers Mark a devastating early sex scene bad ending opportunity in the form of Ian coming onto Mark while drunk and forcing the player to choose between a rimjob now or double oral and/or flip-fucking later. Sure, that setup and some of what comes before it plays right into who Ian is as a character - a well-meaning idiot with a lot of insecurity surrounding his relationship to Mark - but after that point whether you take the rimjob or not Ian practically fades into the role of generic romantic lead as Mark must work to repair their friendship and then guide it into uncharted territory.

To illustrate the point I’m trying to make, contrast these two CGs. The first is from Ian’s friendship ending (something only he and Penny get, based on spending time with them on weekends among other factors); the second is from his romantic ending.

Which of these images tells you more about Ian’s characterization, or about his dynamic with Mark?

I’m not going to deny that Ian has sex appeal, or that he doesn’t have a slew of genuinely funny lines all over the game’s script, or that there’s nothing satisfying in watching Mark and his best friend fall in love with each other - but it’s the lack of integration between Ian the comic relief roommate and Ian the love interest that doesn’t sit well with me. When I was reviewing Chess of Blades I name-dropped Ian in comparison to that game’s own best friend love interest Arden. I’ll do the reverse here: Ian may be sweet and a ton of fun, and there may be far more options for which pegs go into which slots in this storyline, but Arden’s character and story stick in my mind more because they’re never at odds with one another. Ian in the earlygame and outside his own route is so goofy that it’s very hard to take him seriously as someone who could be a romantic partner for Mark, and unfortunately that comes across all too well when the occasion finally arises.

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phatphrog · 4 years

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get to know me :)

— Tagged by @sol-tinyrayofsun (Thanks so much for tagging me!)

Favorite color: blue for sure, green second. I probably wear blue and black the most, although I love a good red dress even if I’m kinda pale for red lol

Last song I listened to: Pink Moon by Nick Drake. Beautiful song that my parents would always play growing up and the melancholic vibes really just hit different

Favorite musicians: Now this is a tough question with a loong answer. When I say I listen to a bit of everything I mean it. Put my playlist on shuffle and it’ll go from a 50s love song to screaming death metal to classic rock to jazz to grunge to rap to indie pop to a classical theme score, the list goes on. My fave song tho is La Vie en Rose by Edith Piaf. Lately tho I’ve been really into 90s grunge; think Nirvana, Hole, Babes in Toyland, Soundgarden, Toadies, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, Veruca Salt, L7, Skin Yard. Oh and the Smiths and Skinny Girl Diet. I could go on forever lol. My Spotify playlist is a never ending 26 hour mess.

Last film I watched: Spirited Away. Totally weird and creepy and confusing but beautiful and I love it. Making use of that HBO Max free trial for some Studio Ghibli binge watching B)

Last show I watched: Inuyasha. I’ve been feeling pretty nostalgic lately so I’ve been rewatching some childhood faves. (Like ATLA lol) As a kid I preferred Sailor Moon, it was my first ever anime but didn’t get as into Inuyasha as my friends did. Watching it now tho it’s enjoyable. Too bad it goes on for so long but doesn’t get a proper ending.

Favorite characters: Too many to think of? Zuko, Iroh, Azula and Sokka from ATLA. (and Suki and Mai.. I love them all) Hermione Granger from Harry Potter. Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables. Lindsay Weir from Freaks and Geeks. Hyde and Jackie from That 70s Show. Akito from Kodocha (the manga, we don’t talk about the anime adaption) Sailor Mars from Sailor Moon.. the list goes on

Sweet, spicy or savory: sweet for sure. A little square of chocolate to get you through the day is always essential

Sparkling water, tea, or coffee: Tea. I can’t standdd anything carbonated or fizzy, for some reason they always burn my throat and nose more than they should and I’ve never been able to drink them. Tea tho? Great. Outstanding. A classic. Especially iced tea, in the summer istg I probably drink it almost as much as water.

Pets: I have two cats and a dog who I love. They’re my family pets and I’ve had our cats for as long as I can remember. They’re brothers and orange tabbies and my dog is a dachshund who is very much blind.

I don’t have anyone to tag? I’m not super active on Tumblr plus I’m new to the ATLA fandom on here so I haven’t interacted with a lot of people yet. I figured I’d share my answers tho seeing as u guys don’t know anything about me. Maybe I’ll update this in the future with tagged people and new answers :)

#tag game #personal #get to know moi #get to know the admin #get to know me

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webcomixtape-blog · 7 years

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BRAVEMULE

FANTASY/ACTION/DRAMA/VIDEO GAME/SFW/FINISHED

Sorry for the wait, had some writers block related issues, exacerbated by me weapons-grade laziness. But I’m going to make it up to all two of you with something interesting! Something bizarre! Something… Video game related! Buckled up kids, it’s time for a corner-case.

Bravemule, by Kevin Snow, George Kavallines, Eidolon Orpheus, and Andi McClure (largest creative team yet!) is a partially illustrated, partially animated playthrough of Dwarf Fortress. It focu-

Sorry, what?

Dwarf Fortress? Well, if you insist…

Slaves to Armok: God of Blood - Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress , by Zach and Tarn Adams (The Toady One and Threetoe) is a fantasy setting simulator with a couple of insanely complex little game-modes attached. It’s amazing, and I love it. It’s not for everyone, as evidenced by my continued difficulties in sharing it with friends, but hey, the works you tend to find the most valuable and important also tend to be the ones with a very specific sort of appeal. It ain’t for everyone, but boy-howdy is it for me. This is a game where you ‘control’ a colony of mad alcoholics trying to eke out a living in a dangerous world of horrible monsters, poorly planned magma smelting projects, and cannibalistic elves. And as with all things complex and niche, it has some weird and wonderful little fan projects. Oilfurnace is a good example of a short little comic based on a failed (and they tend to be failed) fortress. It sums up the experience nicely.

Anyway.

Bravemule is a little different. Chronicling the rise and fall of the eponymous fortress, it gives us a story of madness and violence, greed and avarice, mules and moustaches. Presented as a series of personal journals by the dwarves themselves, it was based on an actual playthrough of the game, with details and elaborations inserted through the writing. And what writing! The dwarves of Bravemule seem to have an… Odd mode of speaking. Or thinking. One-part antiquated, one-part total insanity, the voice of the dwarves of Bravemule helps to make the madness of their actions feel more coherent. The creatures who write down their thoughts like this probably WOULD be driven to gibbering by the presence of an octagonal room. They call everything that isn’t a dwarf or a favoured pet some kind of elf, all forms of fighting and killing are called murders. At one point, a ‘farmer’ murders a crop by drowning…

Or, y’know. She waters the plants.

The art, while not used heavily, comes in several flavours. From the detailed character portraits and occasional comic panels, to the ‘in-game’ images produced by a mod that turns the minimalist 2D art of the game itself into 3D stills. It even has a few animated, and musically enhanced updates that cover the most dramatic sections of the tale. Overall, it’s pretty great stuff! Sure, the word-to-image ratio probably doesn’t let me paint this as a webcomic on some kind of arbitrary technicality, but what we do have is good stuff. If I’m counting Erfworld as a webcomic, this isn’t THAT far from the mark. Still, if you’re not looking to do a lot of reading, maybe look elsewhere.

The biggest barrier for entry to Bravemule is, of course, context. Without some knowledge of Dwarf Fortress, it’s not going to make a whole lot of sense. Well, the basic thrust of the matter is easy enough to follow, but not the details. This is a comic for, and about, Dwarf Fortress. It’s very much a fan-work, with all the provisos that come with it. You won’t miss out on everything if you go in raw, but it will certainly be a less-than-complete experience. Many of the little jokes, lie the image above, only really tracks with an understanding of the game. And it’s really not an easy game to understand to begin with. I recently spent over an hour walking a friend through his first fortress, and while we made a lot of headway (and got insanely lucky with metal deposits, damn!) the poor guy is a dozen fortress failures away from really getting it down-pat.

Simply put, there is a LOT of work needed to really appreciate Bravemule to the fullest. If you don’t have that going in, you may not get much out of it. That’s OK! But the warning is important. It’s certainly not a bad little comic, but it isn’t one I can freely recommend like some others. And not just for that reason, either. The actual content of the comic is pretty dark. Nobody gets out of this story, and none of them have a good time on the way there. The relentless, almost whimsically grim feel of the game has been well-portrayed, and any connection you feel to individual characters will not be rewarded. They’re nasty, cruel little bastards these dwarves, and they mostly get what’s coming to them.

Still. If any of that sounds good? Could be worth a look!

Strike the earth! And, of course…

Matul Remrit endures!

-James

#webcomic #bravemule #dwarf fortress #oilfurnace #the toady one #threetoe #kevin snow #george kavallines #eidolon orpheus #andi mcclure #fantasy #action #drama #video game #sfw #finished

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nerdgatehobbit · 7 years

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Jungle Fury Disc 1

Welcome to the Jungle, Part 1: Master Mao ultimately chooses Lily, Theo, and Casey to guard the box containing Dai Shi… but rejected candidate Jarrod ends up releasing the villain when he lashes out at Mao. Master Mao pulls a Jedi/Ascends. The trio goes to Ocean Bluff, where they meet RJ and Fran. The former saves the trio from the Mantis monster and the Rin Shi minions as he’s their new ‘master’. He then gives them their Ranger uniforms and morphers, sending them out when the monster, minions, and Camille are seen on one of his TV screens. Theo and Lily successfully morph and start fighting Rin Shi. Casey fails and gets grabbed by some minions when he spots the monster going after Fran. 10/10

Welcome to the Jungle, Part 2: Although Casey figures out how to morph, none of the three know how to supersize when the monster does so. Master Mao’s spirit briefly saves the day. RJ refuses to teach them the technique until they’ve each mastered their weapon. Theo ends up mentoring Casey on his. Now a cohesive whole, they can form the Jungle Pride Megazord to defeat the monster. A fly-creature named Flit apparently lives in Camille’s stomach, coming out to cheer on the Rangers during Megazord battles. Fran also gets hired by RJ. 10/10

Sigh of the Tiger: Casey wants to be mentored by RJ in order to catch up to Theo and Lily… but instead gets assigned various menial chores in between the trio fighting off Buffalord. Poor Fran gets stuck hosting a children’s birthday party down in JKP alone. Everything works great in the end, though. 10/10

A Taste of Poison: The Five Fingers of Poison are called upon by Camille. Casey gets ‘barely’ poisoned and Lily tries to take on Rantipede on her own in response. RJ has made a vehicle for Casey which is helpful. The show tries to sink the Lily/Casey ship to lackluster effect. And Fran’s already getting annoyed with her coworkers. 9/10

Can’t Win Them All: Theo loses his self-confidence after failing to defeat Gakko. Ergo, RJ takes him out into the woods for some odd but effective training (and a lecture). The characters continue to interact fantastically (I swear this group of five has the some of the best team chemistry in the franchise). With renewed confidence, Theo takes point in destroying Gakko. Dai Shi is getting frustrated with his minions’ ineptness. 9/10

Dance the Night Away: Theo gets jealous of Lily and Casey growing close… and Casey doesn’t react well to Theo insisting he’s the new guy. Lily is not amused. RJ makes the Claw Cannon, which when used properly is very useful in defeating both Toady and Stingerella. 9/10

Pizza Slice of Life: RJ goes on a de-fishing trip, leaving Casey in charge. Not wanting the responsibility, he decides to ‘share’ it with Theo and Lily, which ends in disaster. Things go much smoothly after Casey realizes he needs to step up to the plate as a JKP employee like he does as the Red Ranger. Meanwhile, the villains have a largely internal conflict. 9/10

Way of the Master: Lily is determined to learn how to wield the Jungle Mace from the retired Master Phant when the Pangolin with its tough armor attacks Ocean Bluff. Dai Shi decides to use the three life talons to revive the three Overlords, first going in search of the Sky Overlord. The first episode without Fran, but RJ wore purple! 9/10

How am I already a fourth of the way through this season?! I’m also done with the first Book of Fire disc for ATLA regarding my blog. I’m enjoying this season just as much as I did back in 2008. Three episodes are team-centric, RJ mentors Casey in one episode and Theo in another, Lily and Casey shared one, Casey mostly had one to himself, and the final episode featured Lily and the titular master.

Mighty Morphin 2 Disc 5

The Great Bookala Escape: The team helps the titular alien (and his ‘lightning diamond’) escape from Lord Zedd’s grasp. Billy’s the one who bonds the most with him. 5/10

Forever Friends: Aisha’s childhood friend Shawna is not happy about Kimberly and Aisha growing close. But the two brunettes end up bonding while captured by Goldar. 6/10

A Reel Fish Story: Four aquatic monsters are created as well as one out of an inner tube to try to destroy the Rangers. Of course, the scheme fails. A one-off character conquers his fear of there being monsters in the lake to rescue Bulk and Skull. 6/10

Rangers Back in Time, Part 1: Lord Zedd turns the heroes (and the rest of Angel Grove, if not the world) several years younger, making them in particular children. Adorable antics ensue, but the episode ends with Photomare trapping the six in a photograph. 9/10

Rangers Back in Time, Part 2: This is the series’ hundredth episode. Once Alpha gets the team back to normal, they readily undo the villains’ scheme. 8/10

The Wedding, Part 1: For some reason, Lord Zedd’s ‘recharging’ occurs on the weekend the team goes to Australia (it’s school-related but not plot related). Rita Repulsa returns and gets Finster’s aid in her scheme to rule the universe by putting Lord Zedd under a love potion’s influence. Finster also turns Alpha 5 evil as part of the plan to capture/defeat the Rangers. The robot is hilarious as a bad guy. 7/10

The Wedding, Part 2: Alpha’s efforts to be evil are amusing but effective. The Rangers do make a breakout, only to fail in a supersized battle and get teleported back to the theater. Lord Zedd is now lovesick over Rita Repulsa to Goldar’s self-centered worry. 8/10

The Wedding, Part 3: The titular hitching goes off without a hitch (heh). The happy couple’s scheme to destroy the Power Rangers… not so much. Billy removing the disc returns Alpha to normal. 7/10

Return of the Green Ranger, Part 1: The Wizard of Deception creates a Tommy clone to be the evil Green Ranger as part of his scheme to destroy the team. The others end up tricked into a situation where they get sent back to colonial times. 8/10

This disc ended on the cliffhanger of the two Tommys meeting as well as the other Rangers being back in colonial times. Billy and Tommy each got an episode, while Aisha and Kimberly shared one. The rest were largely either team or villain centric. It’s hard to believe I’ve watched over a hundred episodes of Mighty Morphin now for my blog. I’ve moved on to writing April’s posts now.

Special note- the ‘the’ is missing in the DVD menu and in the title bit in the actual episode for the ‘Green Ranger’ first-parter, so I’m not using it despite it being on the DVD case and in the booklet.

SG-1 Season 6 Disc 1

Redemption, Part 1: Rodney’s back, huzzah! But more seriously, Anubis has deviously attacked Earth through the Stargate. Jonas is trying to find his place at SGC… though he wants it to be as a member of SG-1. Drey’auc has died to the grief of Rya’c and Teal’c; Bra’tac works to mend the ensuing rift. 5/5

Redemption, Part 2: Sam, Rodney, and Jonas combine brainpower to find a way to save the day (with Jack as the ‘muscle’. The SGC nearly shuts down before Bra’tac, Teal’c, and Rya’c show up with the news that they destroyed Anubis’ device powering his scheme (that was their subplot as well as Rya’c proving himself as a warrior to both himself and his father). In part to avoid having a Russian teammate, Jack has Jonas Quinn join SG-1. 4.8/5

Descent: Jonas proves himself helpful and brave during the mission to investigate a mothership that has neared Earth and ends up in the Pacific. Jacob Carter & Major Davis are supporting roles. They end up rescuing Thor’s consciousness. 4.7/5

Frozen: Time to go back to Antarctica when the SGC scientists there find something- or rather, somebody. It’s a rather bittersweet episode that ends on a cliffhanger. 4.4/5

This season has been surprisingly good so far, given the loss of Daniel. I suppose that just highlights that the series relies on multiple pillars beyond its four leads. Good job, show. I can’t wait to see what’s next for the team! My blog can be found here.

#nerdgate hobbit #power rangers #jungle fury #mighty morphin #atla #stargate #sg1 #stargate sg-1

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zilthewarrior · 7 years

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Hey guys, I've got something a little different for you toady. I present to you my favorite pre-war (and wasteland) food, SUGAR BOMBS! After years of disappointment, I've decided to take matters into my own hands. I've come across some recipes (mostly just what types of sodas to mix together) for Nuka Cola lately in my search for DIY material, so I decided to do some digging and was disappointed to find that there were only a couple recipes for consumables from the Fallout universe. I've always loved sugary cereal, so Sugar Bombs have always been one of my favorite Fallout foods. I decided to give it a shot, and while it's still a bit of a WIP, I've come up with a recipe for Sugar Bombs. As I improve the recipe, I'll post the updated recipes for anyone who's interested. Just a fair warning before you get started, this recipe is pretty labor intensive, and since you probably don't have a Mr. Handy to help you out, it takes about 2 hours to make these babies. (Makes about two small bowls full of cereal) Ingredients: The Cereal: 1 1/4 cup All Purpose Flour 1/3 cup Almond Meal 1 Egg 1 TBSP Coconut Oil 4 TBSP Light Corn Syrup 2 TSP Vanilla Extract The Sugar Coating: 1 1/2 cup Sugar 1/2 cup Water Preheat the oven to 375° F, and spread out a sheet of parchment paper or a silicone baking mat (I used a baking mat, but parchment paper will work as well) over a cookie sheet. Combine all ingredients for the cereal and mix until a solid dough is formed (it should be the consistency for play dough with a touch of tacky-ness). Shape the dough into bomb/mini nuke shapes, flouring your hands as needed. To do this, I rolled the dough into little oval shapes, made a small cone, and poked them through with a toothpick to keep them together. Place on your cookie sheet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes, so that the bombs are firm, but still light in color. Line another sheet with parchment paper and set aside. Once the cereal is done, melt your sugar down in your water on medium high heat for about 10 - 15 minutes, or until it reaches the hard ball stage (250° F). You can test to see that it's done by dropping some in a cold glass of water. If it crystallizes/hardens, it's ready. Once the sugar is ready, turn the heat down and coat the bombs in sugar by mixing them into the melted sugar in small batches. When they are fully coated, quickly remove them and transfer them to the prepared cookie sheet. Once all of the bombs are coated and dry, put them in bowls, add milk (or not), and enjoy! Or store in a sealed container for about five days.

#fallout #fallout 4 #fallout new vegas #fallout 3 #food #recipe #sugar bombs #recipies #sugar #video games #diy #breakfast #cereal

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irvinilisa · 3 years

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Champions League - Scores & Fixtures - Football - BBC Sport

All champions league games today - UEFA Champions League schedule, scores, results: PSG beat Bayern, Chelsea top Porto -

The only free way to watch these games in English is to find a free online streaming todaj, Google should come in handy in finding them.

Again, UEFA fumbled these arrangements very badly. If we are lucky…. More matches will be all champions league games today on TV too just chapmions soon as the decisions are made on which matches will be on All champions league games today TV. Thank you Christopher Harris for all your help and information.

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It is possible that this schedule has not been updated yet …. If and when this information is ever updated and corrected please share it here. Of course, they can always change their mind. Hi Christopher Harris, thanks for your prompt reply and explanation. You could be absolutely right as I too expect toay scheduling information to be corrected todag updated closer to game day.

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Check with your TV provider. Good luck all. Chris do you think CBS is really only going to show the final on all access? That seems horribly inconsistent with their prior claims. When Turner had the rights, none of the games were on over-the-air television. My question is will I able to watch the Champions League through my Prime account or will I have to pay for a separate subscription?

If anyone can answer this question it is greatly appreciated. Thanks Chris. If you pay…. You are right Christopher. Amazon Prime does make available many shows all champions league games today channels to Prime members, the sad fact is that many of all champions league games today available offers are Tames free, the customer is forced to buy their selected packages at extra cost besides this website for Prime membership.

I made this fact very clear in my earlier post which was deleted from here, I assume because I was unkind to Jeff Bezos. Hopefully this one will be fixed in time. There is no DVR offered. A great relief to have that in place. Or does coverage begin at the Playoffs? Group Stage on? How much do those rights in the past cost. How in the world does acompany only get half a tournament. I guess this is toady new streaming world we now live in. Is CBS interesting getting that or later?

Real played very poorly today to have any chance to eliminate Manchester City. The only consolation for Real fans is that at least we won the La Liga championship this season. Now we have to continued till the next season starts. It has been a very sad day for all Real Madrid fans. Real Madrid lost and got eliminated because of their French Connection. He picked all champions league games today players for this very important game and did not replace players till the game was almost over.

Even though Zidane is highly regarded as a brilliant coach his stupid stubbornness is also this contact form downfall. I will not be sad if and when Zidane departs Real Madrid.

His personal stubborn and poor decisions have hurt this team enormously, Had he planned smarter and more logically Real would have had a much better chance to win and advance to the quarter-finals. Champion: Bayern Munich. You are welcome to use my tips and call your bookie and get rich. Hi guys, anyone getting rich with my accurate picks? So far all champions league games today today I am right so far, correctly picked 2 out of 2.

Third match is next Sunday. I picked Bayern to be champions. Hi all, how about hitting the Trifecta……getting all my picks correctly and perfectly 3 out of 3. I hope some of you are richer now if you had listened to me and followed my 3 picks…. Good and enjoyable season, although Covid tried its best to leeague it for us.

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BLACK HEART SAINTS Release Official Music Video for "Crazy"

Austin, TX based Rock Band BLACK HEART SAINTS has released the official music video for "Crazy," the second single off of their newest EP, Misery. "Crazy" picks up where the last single, "Lines," left off: we've seen the band get lost in the Texas Hill Country, and now, in this second part of the story, the guys encounter a strange recording studio with an even stranger producer. Watch as mayhem unfolds during the recording process. The music video, directed by Static Heart Productions, features the acting of Omar Vallejo (bassist for Sony Music band Vallejo), who is actually the band's real-life producer. https://youtu.be/5cQquCVbrRI " 'Crazy' has sort of a modern rock meets Mötley Crüe vibe. The video was inspired by Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and things get really weird when an unexpected acid trip interferes with the recording process. Every video in this film series seems to get better and better, and we are excited to share with our fans. " - BLACK HEART SAINTS Dangerous & dirty, with a distinct groove steeped in classic rock, yet with a modern edge. Black Heart Saints gives fans exactly what they want – rock god vocals catapulted over explosive, memorable riffs – leaving legions of the rock ‘n’ roll faithful yearning for more. After debuting at SXSW in 2014, this powerhouse quartet has been building a solid reputation as a support act for national touring bands such as Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators, Sevendust, Pop Evil, Nonpoint, Coheed and Cambria, Filter, POD, The Toadies, and more. The soaring vocals of front-man Josh Ross have drawn comparisons to Myles Kennedy and Chris Cornell. While the band is influenced by the likes of Mötley Crüe, Guns ‘N Roses, and other legendary Hard Rock acts, the commanding presence of Black Heart Saints’ live show brandishes an updated take on the genre. Quickly conquering some of the biggest stages and festivals in the United States, Black Heart Saints has built an impressive resume, and has been recognized as one of the nation’s top emerging rock acts: – Official SXSW 2018 Performer – Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Headliner – Austin Chronicle Music Awards: Top 10 Best New Bands – Austin Music Foundation Artist of the Month, 2017 – San Antonio’s Fiesta Oyster Bake Headliner – Buffalo Trace Battle of the Bands Grand Prize Winner – ESPN X Games Austin Performer In 2014, Black Heart Saints represented their hometown at the ESPN X Games in Austin. 2015 kicked off with key performances during South by Southwest Festival, Texas Rockfest, and Fiesta Oyster Bake in San Antonio. The band also went back to the studio to record a string of upcoming singles produced by Omar Vallejo at Austin’s renowned 512 Studios. After debuting their first official music video for the hit single “Touch The Sky” on MTV, VEVO, and YouTube, Black Heart Saints is poised to launch a memorable international career with ambitions to dominate stages across the globe. Half-way through 2016, the band gained nationwide airplay on Sirius XM’s Octane and Faction channels. In 2017, the band received two major accolades: Black Heart Saints was chosen as Austin Music Foundation's Artist of the Month, and received a spot in the top 10 Best New Bands in Austin Chronicle's Austin Music Awards for 2016-2017. The band’s first full-length release –ALIVE– was soon followed by the “Road to Sturgis Tour 2017,” which put Black Heart Saints’ charismatic live performance to the test when the band took the stage at the world-renowned motorcycle rally, attended by over 500,000 bikers from all around the globe. Foreshadowing a successful 2018, Black Heart Saints embarked on an extensive tour to the West Coast beginning in January, which included a highlight performance at the legendary Viper Room in West Hollywood, California. The band plans to return to the studio and launch another USA tour in summer of 2018. Read the full article

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Best Music Moment of 2017:

Code: dancing out the entire wedding reception playlist with my best girl on an empty concrete slab on a breezy texas night

BC: -The absolute stellar dance party at Codemin’s Wedding; most notably:

“Carol” by The Rolling Stones

“Enjoy the Silence” by Depeche Mode

“Crystal” by New Order

-OK Computer’s 20th Anniversary and the listening/reflection that came with it -My four year old, Emmett, learning “Maps” on the drums pretty much on his own

JD: February: Watching the “Emotional Rescue” scene in A Bigger Splash:

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March: Seeing Stop Making Sense on the big screen at my favorite theater with m’gal and a David Byrne Q&A after the screening. April: The dance party of a lifetime at Code and Arden’s wedding. November: Watching Parquet Courts play “You’ve Got Me Wondering Now” for the first time in years.

C: "Born to Run" at a good friend's, Brian Ferguson's, wedding.

Nasty: This playing at the end of Leftovers Season 3, Ep 5 - "The Most Powerful Man in the World"

Bronco: Sitting on my back porch with Brenny, sipping down some delicious whiskey drinks and listening to the new Mastodon on a surprisingly unshitty Amazon bluetooth speaker. Watching his face on the breakdown in Jaguar God was quite entertaining. Also listening to the Squalus album (the metal interpretation of Jaws) with the kids, my oldest asking what it was, and him saying he wants to watch Jaws now. He was especially fascinated by the USS Indianapolis part of the story.

Laser: This

Chap: My 17 has been dominated by the two new ladies in my life. I made this mix for them:

and played it for them on random the morning they were born. This was the first song that came on:

and I finally broke down with emotion after the 36 hour experience while holding one of them while this song was playing:

Best Shows Seen in 2017:

BC: This first 60 seconds of this:

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Nasty: Future Islands & Action Bronson

Larse: Future Islands with Maddie, Nasty, and Sam; Action Bronson at The Rave - pretty sure I got a contact high just from being in the show

C: War on Drugs

Bronco: Mastodon

Codem: lvl up - beat kitchen kitten forever - subterranean downstairs ovlov - beat kitchen pqc - the bottle girlpool - logan square auditorium moving units’ joy division cover set - the bottle PAWS - cobra lounge a. savage - the bottle pictureplane

JD: 1. William Basinski and Julianna Barwick at National Sawdust 2. No Age at Elsewhere 3. Parquet Courts and B-Boys at Elsewhere 4. Liars at Warsaw 5. Deerhunter and Eleanor Friedberger performing while Bradford Cox painted her portrait onstage at Warsaw 6. LCD Soundsystem at Brooklyn Steel 7. Yo La Tengo in Central Park 8. Andrew WK at Warsaw 9. Vince Staples at Panorama Fest 10. Wire at Baby’s All Right 11. Vagabon at Brooklyn Bazaar

Confession of 2017:

Bronco: I listened to the New Kids On The Block offering of 2017 "Thankful" (it was fucking terrible).

C: Still haven’t listened to LCD Soundsystem

Code: -knowing the backstory, the mount eerie album was probably the best album i heard this year, but it was too dang sad to listen to more than a handful of times. -i still loved that brand new song despite the lead cat being a creep. -i thought that this year was pretty rough for music, but my tune changed after looking back through my top tracks. maybe there were just so few full albums that i liked? -i fast fwd'd through every SNL musical guest this calendar year, but i did catch the tom petty tribute from the vegas countrymin.

BC: I don’t hate that objectively awful Chainsmokers/Coldplay song because it reminds me of this year’s BOB since Creevey played it every twenty minutes for 36 holes.

Larson: Listened to more rap this year than I think I have in past years; must be Nasty's Lincoln influence!

Nasty: I listened to more podcasts than music in 17.

Biggest Disappointment of 2017:

Laser: LCD Soundsystem

Codem: -no chromatics this year. -the two lcd shows that i saw this year.

Chap: The albums. I would not be shocked if I didn't listen to any of my top 15 all the way through after today.

Bin: DJT

JD: Mondanile

BC: Real Estate. I think they need to invite the perv back into the band.

Bronco: Bison, Monolord, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, And So I Watch You From Afar. They all put out albums this year, and I've like their stuff in the past, but they did little to nothing for me this time around.

Most Overrated of 2017:

Codem: slowdive, but also twod and japanese breakfast

Bin: Bodak Yellow / Cardi B

Larse: LCD Soundsystem

Bronco: -Pallbearer - just don't like the guy's voice, and though they're slow as shit, there's no good riffs or anything to connect with for me. -Code Orange - hardcore band that I just don't get. One of those 'motherfucker I'm the best!' type super close to being alt-right supremecy type bands even though they're probably completely against it. They're at the top of most metal lists this year. I've given them 4-5 spins, most in reaction to the praise they're getting, but I just don't get it. -Royal Thunder - just one big case of blue balls. All of their songs seemingly build toward a climax that never happens. It's just so blech.

JD: Did the music press even treat anything as a lasting work of art and not ephemeral content to get through a week or two of famous personality driven clicks? King Krule?

BC: Lorde, I think? I mean, that album’s gotten a lot of love this year and I thought the lead single – “Green Light” – was hot garbage. It spawned a conspiracy theory in my mind that Taylor Swift was proactively influencing and then purposefully sabotaging the work of her close friends (see Lorde, Haim, et al).

Make it Stop 2017

Bronco: Sex monsters. Can we just take all white dudes in powerful positions, assume they've sexually assaulted at least one person, imprison them, and move on? We could take everything they have, give it all to Native American tribes, then force them to walk their own trail of tears to live out their lives in the desserts of New Mexico, and force them to build the wall, but it would just be a wall around their sad sex monster reservation.

Also, Taylor Swift.

Nasty: I didn't have the luxury of expending any real hate on music this year... which I'm just now recognizing as a bad thing.

JD: -Unceasing sadness and anxiety about the present and future. -Jack Antonoff

BC: Life on this planet.

Code: any rap station that i hear in an uber. that cardi b song was playing every time i caught a cab at 5:30 a.m. to play golf.

Larson: U2

Biggest TBH Regret of 2017:

BC: Not seeing NIN at RiotFest

Larson: Skipping the Car Seat Headrest show at Summerfest because I could tell Maddie didn't want to leave Jonas' party (party was fun, so not a real loss, just wish I would have seen the show).

Nasty: Not even giving new artists a chance. I'll listen to an average album from The National 10x's before I give someone new a shot.

Codebreaker: not having an opportunity to karaoke badu's tyrone

JD: -Had the worst fever of my life during LCD and could only manage standing in the back shivering. -Forgetting to go see Dinner at Baby’s All Right. -Not enough time with Bjork, Miguel, and Blanck Mass.

Bronco: Fucked up the family calendar maintenance and ended up not being able to see the Toadies and Local H. I was pissed at my wife, but it wasn't the end of the world. I haven't listened to either in forever, and the listen I gave to the Toadies latest offering didn't knock my socks off. It was really just for nostalgic purposes. Still it sucked to have to miss it despite my best efforts to bring it to her attention multiple times.

Detective Murtaugh of 2017:

NACK: I had two separate opportunities to see LCD, and just didn't feel like putting in the effort. Was going to put this as a regret, but I don't regret it.

Code: i skipped 7 shows that i had tickets for and left 6 shows early. two shows i left early due to brightness of lights. mmmmmnhh

JD: Couldn’t hear for 18 hours after No Age. Needed two Tylenol for the headache I gave myself during “You’ve Got Me Wondering Now” at PQ Quartz.

BC: Having no idea who either the SNL host or the musical guest was for three straight weeks. Tiffany Haddish? Saoirse Ronan? SZA? I’m too old for this shit…

Nasty: Carson, Maddie, Sam and I went to watch the IU game this weekend with one of Carson's co-workers (an IU grad) who is 23.... I got rolling on a rant about how important it is to enjoy your 20s because after the impending onslaught of weddings and babies life basically isn't any fun anymore. Suspect it was a little too impassioned by the end.

Bronco: I was enrolled in a three month coding bootcamp to learn Web Development. Aside from the two older ladies (50+) and the weird Brazilian idiot (45+), I was the oldest person in the room by probably an average of 13 years. They are all for the most part life-pivoting in to the dev world and they all have all the time in the world to learn new shit, do whatever they want, whenever they want...goddamnit I miss that. So maybe this is my "too married and fathered for this shit" section of the exam.

C: Wife’s Pregnancy

Laser: Every time I wake up with a fucking hangover and tell myself that I’m not gonna drink like that again only to get back on the saddle the next available opportunity.

Resolution for 2017 Update:

BC: Put a goddamn band together. How it went:

C: Check out some jazz/blues in Chicago. How it went: FAILED

Larson: Focus on the shit I really care about instead of trying to listen to everything posted on the thread…I’m just going to have to be honest with myself and realize I ain’t got time for all this media! How it went: Terrible; found myself listening to Timeless Pop Rock hits playlist more than anything else.

Chap: Check out more of the recommendations on the TBH thread. Try to organize get-togethers around TWO shows. How it went: Actually not bad. I had a few solid period during nap times when I didn't feel like working. I think I was able to listen to every album I wanted to at least once.

Code: make concerted effort to listen to music that i liked in previous years in addition to music from the current year. How it went: i nailed my resolution, as i devoted four full months to the grateful dead and it was the best musical trimester of the year for me. it was really interesting to watch all of the new music pile up and never once feeling compelled to listen to something else. god damn did the '77 version of the band have it all figured out. i could listen to any uptown mississippi halfstep toodeloo from that year at any time.

Bronco: Learn the guitar. I’ve been fooling around with Rocksmith (guitar hero with real guitar) and I want to push myself to execute the more complex chords, not just stick to the powerchord simple songs like Blitzkrieg Bop, and start learning how to build and execute a solo. I also want to distill my own whiskey, build a garden shed from scratch, and learn to code. How it went: I haven't quite mastered the guitar, but I can play a few songs fairly well. I did not start working on my own whiskey or build a garden shed from scratch...yet. But I did learn to code. I am now at conversational levels of fluency with Javascript and at "donde es el bano" levels with Ruby and Python.

Nasty: See a show in NY with JD. How it went: Not great, Bob! I barely made it down the street to see Action Bronson with Laser

JD: Seeing more shows with you guys is an evergreen resolution. How it went: To quote BC,

Resolution for 2018:

BC: No more resolutions

C: Catch some jazz in Chicago

Laser: get my list in on time!

Chap: While I didn't have the occasion to catch shows this year, I anticipate doing so in '18 due to some changes afoot.

Codem: make more playlists for my wife

Bronco: Get in shape. I want to stick to a schedule of running all year round. I ran a 10K back in June, then needed to recover for a bit, been recovering ever since...Fat Dad needs to keep running all year round without excuse, especially given that we go skiing between Xmas and New Year's and I'm gonna be a floppy legged mess. During those runs, I'll try to listen to new material each time.

Bin: I'm just going to keep saying "get to NY for a show with JD" until I make it happen.

JD: See you gents more often with or without a show attached.

Most Anticipated of 2018:

C: MBV

JD: MBV, No Age, Panda Bear, something surprising

Code: chromatics (i think it's really coming this year), mbv, no age, DOM, CCFX full album

Bronco: Tool. Fourth year's the charm...fuck those guys. It better suck me off when it finally does come out. Also a new Sleep album and a new High on Fire album...still waitin' on those too.

BC: Simple Minds, Vampire Weekend, Kanye

Nasty: Kanye, ASAP Rocky, Rhye, Chromeo, Vampire Weekend

Chap: After a quick glance at the list... Vampire Weekend, Kanye, Chromatics

Larse: Honestly don't even know what is on the horizon, just hope I can listen to it with this net neutrality bullshit!

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The president who needs advice the most urgently preens that he has it all figured out. Watch our leader share the outrageous notion that will totally still seem wise in three minutes.

Get used to regret, as screenshots others take are tough to delete. As for the man who needs an Amazon Dash button for morning-after stationery, Donald Trump embodies Twitter like no other user. It's no wonder the site loathes him so. He can speak without filters. There's a new ancient Chinese curse: may your wish be granted. A guy who urgently needs an editor doesn’t get one.

Like our nation, Twitter's good despite who’s in charge. You can say anything you'd like, unless some little narc reports you to a similarly-minded company toady. There's no problem as long as you think only rational notions and make sure you mean it when sending. But it's so fun to rant and click. If social media is a mess, it means people are. So, we're doomed. At least the descent will be well-documented.

The incumbent's impulsiveness actually makes him a poor candidate to tweet a few dozen thousand times. Clicking manically is precisely the wrong approach when you can post at light speed. Pondering is most important when it's easiest to skip. It may seem like Twitter and Trump go together like gin and vermouth. But the actual cocktail tastes like rum with clamato. Instantaneous sites are no good without contemplation. And he's just the man to not think it out. That was like 17 updates ago.

The seemingly ideal social media fit is not as pure as it seems. Twitter would be perfect as an indifferent forum. Naturally, it refuses to be objective. Pimping social justice junk somehow became the primary goal of a maxim-sharing service. Twitter Moments is as reliably dull in liberalism as Mashable, Buzzfeed, Boing Boing, and all the other sites named by marker-huffing junior high kids. But at least their staff pursues the noble goal of protecting celebrities from nasty replies at all costs, as the lives of the blue checkmark gang are not cushy enough.

Trump needs a divorce from his account. If the president and his favorite app were matched by eHarmony, they'd rightfully demand refunds. You'd think the proprietors of an obnoxious social media site would get along with its most notorious user. Unfocused leadership is a reflection of our lightning-fast world. I'm ashamed of how primitive we still are, too.

Forget how the Outrage Brigade should be pleased at Trump's frequent forays into liberalism. If you think they're freaking out now, imagine what would happen if they realized the degree to which their Venn diagram circles overlap.

Twitter created something amazing they don’t understand. It's the George Lucas of social media. Credit is due for creating the amazing world of space battles and Wookiees. But, like the site where Katy Perry is a saint, he gets no credit for what follows the concept. Lucas had to have control wrested from him by Mickey Mouse to avoid another film about trade disputes and Jar Jar. Likewise, inane timeline meddling is as tiresome as Twitter's assumption that Republicans hate equality because they didn't want to change marriage. Did you know that love wins?

Speaking of people who didn't think things out, President Trump still can't believe he bluffed his way here. His bets never worked in Atlantic City. Twitter is what you make of it, like how he turned inane grievances into becoming Earth's most powerful man. Bitching about anything you'd like is the dream in an imperfect world. But with marginal power comes a bit of responsibility. It's crucial for those sharing to realize how easy it is to create personal crises. The man setting freaking national policy should learn first.

We can't blame employees when an executive user shows Twitter at its worst. It's not because of anything the site did. His odd capitalization and catfights would be embarrassing for a retiree with “#MAGA” in his bio and penchant for trusting Gateway Pundit. Trump's petty beefs are as bad as the phrasing out of a 1970s Korean motorcycle manual. Electing an amateur has caused professional crises.

Twitter is a twisted world of unpleasant deviants. And that's just the accounts with real names. It's a place where everyone can give an opinion. Yikes. Our species just has to get better at editing. Tweeting is such a free market that people freak out at the purity like they do at Uber surge pricing. It'll take time to adjust to not having life controlled by dolts, whether it be taxi medallion issuers or obtusely pompous publishers.

But keep faith in self-publishing even if it's as exhausting as following Vox. We must remain committed to both the republic and social media despite how certain people unfortunately use each. Elect and follow wisely. Take a deep breath before sharing and remember that it's possible.

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Name Your Pick for TrumpWorld’s Worst Cabinet Member Gail Collins JUNE 16, 2017 Continue reading the main storyShare This Page Share Tweet Email More Save 87 Photo President Trump meeting with his cabinet on Monday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times Who do you think is Donald Trump’s worst cabinet member? In a normal world we would never be asking this question because, of course, you would have no idea. In a normal world, an American who could come up with two cabinet names besides the secretary of state’s would be regarded as an unusually dedicated citizen. But this year, every appointee is a potential star. For one thing, cabinet officials are particularly important in an administration in which nobody else — not the president, not the White House staff, not the kids — knows what they’re doing. For another, they’ve been given an unprecedented number of early opportunities to make public spectacles of themselves. Trump held his first full cabinet meeting this week and the nation gaped as his team jumped into a cutthroat competition for the title of Top Toady. (“Mr. President, what an incredible honor it is to lead the Department of Health and Human Services at this pivotal time under your leadership. I can’t thank you enough for the privileges you’ve given me and the leadership you’ve shown.”) And every day there’s an attention-getting surprise. Under normal circumstances we do not talk a whole lot about, say, the secretary of housing and urban development. You would be forgiven for forgetting that this one is Ben Carson. Until you heard that the new head of the department’s massive New York-New Jersey office is going to be the woman who planned Eric Trump’s wedding. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story So, got to say Ben’s a comer. Still, everybody can’t be a Worst finalist. I’d cross off low-profile contenders like Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, even though Perdue sent out a press release promising to “Make School Meals Great Again,” and he seems to have some unusual nutrition preferences. (“I wouldn’t be as big as I am today without chocolate milk.”) One definite possibility is Tom Price, secretary of health and human services — he of the “Mr. President, what an incredible honor …” quote. This is the guy who’s got a woman who doesn’t believe in contraception in charge of a government program on family planning. Price also has a sleazy history of advocating legislation that could boost profits for health care companies whose stocks he was betting on. And I haven’t even mentioned that he’s supposed to be the administration’s titan of Trumpcare. Newsletter Sign UpContinue reading the main story Sign Up for the Opinion Today Newsletter Every weekday, get thought-provoking commentary from Op-Ed columnists, the Times editorial board and contributing writers from around the world. Sign Up You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. SEE SAMPLE MANAGE EMAIL PREFERENCES PRIVACY POLICY OPT OUT OR CONTACT US ANYTIME How about Betsy DeVos? The secretary of education showed promise from the moment she was named and delivered what Senator Al Franken called “perhaps the worst performance by any nominee in the history of nomination hearings.” This was the one where she appeared not to realize there are laws on the education of disabled students and floated the theory that schools might need guns to protect the kids from grizzlies. DeVos has a weakness for any school that isn’t public. This week she froze Obama-era reforms aimed at protecting students who enroll in for-profit schools, an area in which her family happens to have significant investments. Champions of other nominees for Worst Cabinet Member argue that DeVos is so out of her depth that she may not be able to accomplish much. You have to give extra attention to the people who actually appear capable of getting a load of terrible things done, like Scott Pruitt of the Environmental Protection Agency. “The problem is that Pruitt knows what he’s doing,” said Stephanie Schriock of Emily’s List. Pruitt, of course, helped prod Donald Trump into dropping out of the Paris climate accord, although chances are the big guy didn’t need a whole lot of urging. Norman Eisen, a longtime ethics expert and government watchdog, was tempted by DeVos and Price, but decided in the end that “the pick of the litter is [Budget Director Mick] Mulvaney by a nose.” You may remember that when Mulvaney introduced his first budget, observers discovered he had counted the same $2 trillion twice. “So many choices,” said Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. At first Ornstein refused to pick for Worst, arguing that the contest for most awful cabinet member should be treated like a kid’s athletic competition where everybody’s a winner. In the end, however, he went for Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (“Racist on voting rights and more, bringing back mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses, promoting the cancer of private prisons.”) 87 COMMENTS Sessions, I have to say, was a super-popular choice among cabinet-watchers I talked with. “His views are just terrible and he runs into so much trouble,” one senator understated. This is, of course, the Jeff Sessions who once advocated capital punishment for marijuana dealers and who spent Tuesday at a Senate hearing in which he humiliated himself while attempting to protect a president who won’t even offer him a word of support. ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading the main story In fact, Jeff Sessions would probably be Donald Trump’s least favorite cabinet member. Does that make you want to vote for him more or less? Tell me your top Worst, people. I invite you to join me on Facebook. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook and Twitter (@NYTopinion), and sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter. 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northernmisery-blog · 7 years

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And now, the end is near

The crook has faced

his final curtain.

My friends

I’ll say it clear

I’ll state a case

Of which I’m certain.

He is a fraud

He is a cock

We are well rid

Of that bloody liar

Massimos gone

Let’s have a beer

As Leeds climb higher.

So, I thought I’d start with a song. Who doesn’t love a cheery celebration when something good happens. Massimo Cellino is gone, expunged from Leeds United. At last.

Nearly three years of a convicted fraudster lying and scheming. Surviving like a cockroach in nuclear fallout, banned by the FA on numerous occasions, trying to weasel his way out of the last ban with a rule K arbitration appeal which should never have been entertained.

His phantom will live on in the form of his restructured GFH debt (who we still owe copious amounts of money to, despite him saying we were rid of them), but hey, it’s just a massive bank loan. We can cope.

The stench of stale smoke will need exorcising from his one time office. New carpets will be needed or at the very least deep cleaned to rid them of the Chivas Regal and scotch stains.

For many of us, we can truly start to look forward now. There were those that felt it necessary to continue supporting a crooked fraudster up to his end of days, but honestly, there always will be deluded, sycophantic toadies willing to stand by a corrupt regime until the walls come tumbling down.

Cellino’s supporters and advocates try to perpetuate the concept that Massimo “saved” Leeds United. Lets be frank, if Cellino saved us, so did Ken Bates. So would anyone who bought the club. It would be their duty as owner / custodian to do so. Why else would you buy something and allow it to fail? It’s asinine to suggest Cellino “saved” us.

He did the bare minimum – protected his investment and kept it ticking over.

Rat-a-tat.

Well, I’m not in the habit of celebrating mediocrity and the bare minimum and neither should you be.

So to Cellino, I say thanks for nothing – you never were the right man for Leeds United. We wanted to believe you were with your swagger and words, but we didn’t want a bumbling crook systematically removing everything good from the heart and soul of our club, but we got it.

You rode into town claiming to be the Sheriff. In truth, you were nought but an imposter who’d found a hat and a badge in a family dressing up box, stole a horse and pretended to be something you weren’t.

Massimo is done and I’m personally ecstatic.

In a tribute to a crook and a liar, I cheerfully present you with a list some of Massimo’s most infamous lies that he told himself, via the press. FACT!, as some people like to say.

Feel free to give this list to your favourite flat earth cellar dweller.

It might cheer them up in their darkest, most sombre hour.

They are the very words of their messiah after all.

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Interview with Simon Austin – Feb 2014

· Promises to immediately buy Elland Road

“When I am approved by the Football League I will go to the bank the next day and buy Elland Road..

· Keep manager Brian McDermott and work closely with him

“I hope he can help me as well. We are going to work together.”

· Transform the club’s Academy

“I am most proud of the Academy we had. I spent a lot of time and money on it and even knew the price of the seeds for the grass. In the end we had six home-grown players in the first team, all from Sardinia. Is there another team in Europe with a record like that? Imagine what we can do at Leeds — it has much more potential. I will set about finding a guy in Leeds who loves Leeds to run the Academy there.”

· Invest heavily

“In the last few years not enough money has been spent on investing in players. I want to reinforce the club. When you spend little you achieve little.”

· Promises to give sons jobs, but not an easy ride

“They speak English, Spanish, German and Italian. They have degrees from American universities. I am giving the future to my sons and bringing them to a big club with potential. One will work in the marketing department, the other will work with the secretary, learning about wages and contracts. They are not spoilt. They each drive a Smart car and live in modest apartments.”

NB – One got sacked for comments about Nazis, the other got fined £5000 for calling a fan a “spastic”, which the club loaned him the money for, essentially paying his fine.

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Interview with Mike Dawes – April 2014

· Promises promotion within two years

“I don't want to make promises I can't keep and I admit it will be difficult to get promotion next season. But in 2015-16 we will earn our way back to the Premier League, which is where Leeds belong.”

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Interview with ITV – May 2014

· Cellino asks where Brian McDermott is

“Who’s managing this club? Brian. Where’s Brian? I send a letter to Brian - help us. He’s on holiday to get some rest.”

NB – McDermott was with his sick mother. Cellino knew this.

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Club statement – July 2014

· Ross McCormack will not be sold.

“Leeds United owner Massimo Cellino and the club would like to respond to recent media speculation regarding Ross McCormack. We would like to reiterate our desire to keep Ross McCormack at Leeds United. This desire includes keeping all of our best players as we look to build a stronger and successful squad for the 2014/15 Championship season.”

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Yorkshire Evening Post – November 2014

· On Neil Redfearn

“I don’t hope he’s here for the rest of the season, I hope he’s going to stay at Leeds for the next 10 years”

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Various interviews - April 2015

· Next season….

"The fans are going to enjoy next season so much, it will be a beautiful season, I promise to them",

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Yorkshire Evening Post – May 2015

· Youngsters, particularly Lewis Cook and Sam Byram

“My hope is for him to stay at Leeds for a long time and continue growing with Mowatt, Byram, Taylor and the others. We don’t want to sell. My plan for this club is to grow, not to sell our best young players. I have a lot of trust in the young players here.”

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BBC Radio Leeds – October 2015

· Selling the club to the fans

“100% I will sell to the fans, if they want to buy it and look after the club. The fans are the only asset the club has,”

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Club Statement – November 2015

· Massimo Cellino confirmed his intention to attend no further Leeds United fixtures.

“It pains me to make this decision as I have put my heart and soul into this club. But what I was subjected to at the Blackburn game left me feeling like I had no other option but to take a step away. After the time, effort and emotion I have given to the club to try and enable us to move forward, it hurt me a lot to hear the fans singing what they did on Thursday night. The fans made it clear they believe I am no longer the best person for this job, and for the first time I am starting to think that they may be correct.”

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Yorkshire Evening Post – January 2016

· Lewis Cook

“I'm not selling Cook. He is happy in Leeds and I'm proud of him.”

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Employment Tribunal – April 2016

· Lucy Ward sacking

"If I see her I don’t recognise [her], I spoke to her two times. I [told my staff]: 'Don’t put me in a [difficult] position [but they didn’t listen.]' If I just want to get rid of her because [I] want to [sack] Neil Redfearn, we can give three months’ notice and make her position redundant."

NB – He denied sacking Ward because her and “Redfearn come as a pair”, yet he stood in court and said that he had sacked her because they were a pair.

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There’s countless other Cellino lies. I might even update this list later on.

If you have a favourite lie, tweet me with the hashtag #CellinoLies and I’ll update this list.

The man wouldn’t know the truth if it came up to him dressed as Terry George and threw a dwarf in a Leeds kit at him.

But for now, I’ll end on the words of a convicted fraudster, repeat tax evader and embezzler.

“I know I’m not dishonest, I know I’m a clean person”

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avanneman · 7 years

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David Ignatius, last seen stroking a source

Remember Michael T. Flynn, the less than model lieutenant general who chanted “Lock her up!” while denouncing Hillary Clinton at the Republican convention, who wrote a crack-brained book with crack-brained author Michael Leeden1 in which he declared that “I’m totally convinced that, without a proper sense of urgency, we will be eventually defeated, dominated, and very likely destroyed” by Islamic militants, who claimed that Iran was leading a huge, worldwide alliance intended to well, defeat, dominate and (very likely) destroy the good old USA, who claimed that there were, right now, Muslims among us scheming to impose sharia upon us—and not the “good” sharia, either! The “bad” sharia! The really bad sharia!

Yeah, remember him? Well, he’s better now, now that he’s President Trump’s national security advisor, if you believe WashPost columnist/source stroker David Ignatius, whose most recent column, based on an hour-long chat with Flynn, has all the punch of a Jimmy Fallon interview.2 Yo, Dave! Congrats on all those big fat scoops that will surely be rolling your way now that Flynn knows he owns your ass!

Afterwords Don’t bother to read Dave’s column, but do read the comments, as Dave’s readers take him apart for being the ass-kissing toady he is.

SPECIAL DAVE UPDATE In today’s column (the guy is relentless), Dave continues to kiss ass (while covering his own with some “on the other hand” statements from unnamed “experts”) by “explaining” President Trump’s “controversial” (that is to say, shameful and ridiculous and counter-productive) ban on travel from seven Muslim bad countries, to wit: “Defenders of the ban could argue that it might prevent a metastasis of the Islamic State into the West after its capitals are crushed.” Curiously, however, the “senior Trump administration official” that Dave quotes only talks about possible terrorist attacks occurring in Ramadi, which, last time I checked, was not in the "West".3 Well, anyway, Dave isn’t saying any of this himself. He’s only the messenger—the messenger who says whatever senior Trump administration officials tell him to say.

Paul McLeary and Dan de Luce gave us a grim view of Flynn’s and Leeden’s grim nonsense, in their review of The Field of Fight, published in Foreign Policy last year. ↩︎

I’ve never watched Jimmy, so I don’t know if he’s as lame as everyone says, but I’m happy to follow the crowd if it leads to a cheap laugh. ↩︎

Since the most fortunately suspended travel ban only affects the U.S., it wouldn't protect the "West" in the first place. Dave might have asked a follow-up question here, but he's only a stenographer, not a reporter. ↩︎

#Michael Flynn #David Ignatius #Paul McLeary #Dan de Luce #Michael Leeden

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