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The President being given another cognitive test.

Adrenaline in my soul Eat popcorn from my hair hole

I have also made the difficult decision to not tour with Ed Sheeran.

In conclusion

AI girlfriends, being advertised to nerds for over 30 years.

My age verification

Found the perfect piece for @robzacny.bsky.social the next time @remapradio.bsky.social has an in person streaming week. Larry King's portable typewriter. www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/200...

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The creative direction is to sell the ip for a song to someone who might make good of it and get a little bit of positive momentum from it.

Mischief Movie Night In is back this weekend and I couldn't be happier. The 4th (of 8) streams is beginning right now.

If I had a nickel for every Dota 2 game in the last month I have played where someone DDosed near the end of the game I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right? youtu.be/9n5xhUTwpoA

I hope @valvesoftware.com deals with this player. It's so blatant of a DDoS attack in the replay and cost everyone in the game Crownfall tokens. youtu.be/mKDP8pXQTII?...

If Trump keeps pushing on this "Biden called you all garbage" thing I predict that Biden is cooked. No way is he winning next week.

Flashback to the time they celebrated repealing the ACA. www.salon.com/2017/05/04/t...

When buying beer decided I needed one of these in honor of @janochoa.bsky.social

Happy birthday dad. Almost 4 years gone now.

AEW hardcores give me whiplash between “wrestling should be realistic and the rankings are important” and “wrestling should be stupid and the owner getting beat up is good.”

In retrospect, I could have written the description of the events that led up to the image better, but only for other people. The subject would still have thrown a hissy fit because he's a 70+ year old small child.

Somewhere around where the last group of comics were posted I finished novel #2 of the year.

Reading for 1/10/24

Reading for 1/9 (I’ve had issues hang me up)

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The character limit was an issue and has only gotten worse, not in a bad way, for my comic posting. But I have still been reading and will play catchup. Just without commentary. Those are on my TikTok for the full writing and edited for Instagram. TikTok had a 4000 character limit. It’s insane.

This issue is set up for the rest of the arc. Frank and Micro face to face, but Frank appearing helpless in custody. The agents working with Micro all get to experience Frank Castle, and react differently to seeing the Punisher in person, the one common element being the intensity of Frank Castle.

A lot of world building going on, not of supporting characters but of the tone and concepts the series will be about. Side characters can be comedic and veer into the familiar tone of an Ennis comic, but Frank Castle remains serious, a monster hunting down his prey without a second thought.

When Ennis isn’t writing crude jokes and adolescent humor (there is a little of that here) he can be one of the best writers in comics. And The Punisher may be his masterpiece. Frank Castle is an obsessed killing machine, taking his justice out on the mobsters because they are the bad guys.

Booster’s fall from grace and maybe redemption is a good hook for the issue. Supernova’s identity remains a mystery, but at this point it doesn’t matter because anyone could be Booster’s foil. The Renee plot does get a little icky, but resolves before it can get there.

The Renee story is a bit weak as it’s mostly travel, and the time in Kahndaq is mostly walking. The Magnus story is better and the Steel bit feels superfluous, almost like they had a cover and needed to throw him in the book.

The issues have gotten very streamlined down to following one major story and a side story. Not being as all over the place really helps the stories focused on and the pace of the issue.

Spider-Man 2099 gets nearly killed and falls into the downtown. Ground level New York City. There he is helped by a doctor before being snatched by Vulture 2099. World building of things that aren’t what we’ve already seen. Those downtown are the downtrodden.

They make fun of wanting Ninja Turtles in the second issue. It’s a comic based on a kid’s cartoon. Hey, one is named Vinny.

Mostly a recap of Batman’s origins and events like having the Robins. The 0 issues were all resets following Zero Hour.

Mark and William visit a college campus. Issue 7 is the first twist, setting up the Guardians of the Globe being gathered and being introduced to each of them. And then they all are killed and we get the shock ending of it being Omni-Man. The next issue is the fallout with the funerals.

Week eleven is mostly Renee and Charlie and meeting Batwoman. Week 12 is Black Adam giving the power of Isis to Adrianna. We also get Ralph catching up to Cassie after learning a dress of Sue’s was stolen from his storage unit, and a few other little catch ups.

Jean Grey leaves the X-Men to go to college. Roy Thomas continues to call Iceman “Bobby Blake.” The villain is a fired professor who built a ray gun that would make bugs grow huge. He is beaten by the X-Men and Xavier dressed as a hermit.

I didn’t realize reading this that it was the author of the novels turned into movies/TV miniseries The Hustler, The Color of Money, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and The Queen’s Gambit. I have longer thoughts on other socials but this book is an interesting examination of money not bringing happiness.

There is some weirdness looking back on this. Alex refuses to use the names everyone wants to be called (hmm.) But when he calls Arsenic “Gert” she complains about him using her slave name. No. They introduce a new kid who may have evil parents, but there’s a fun twist there revealed in issue nine.

The Circle Chase concludes. Deadpool discovers the secret of Tolliver’s will, the Zero unit. There’s action and some deaths, but nobody important. We do see some of Deadpool’s unmasked head.

Julia, thinks Alfred killed her mother because before she was born the mother in a fit of near death would call out for Alfred. Guess the twist. This is the second appearance of the pre-Crisis Julia Pennyworth. Having seen the new version of her show up it was fun to see the old version.

Deadpool in his own miniseries. It’s Deadpool, but it’s early Deadpool so he’s all one liners and not much personality. Juggernaut and Black Tom show up briefly.

Batman finds himself in a collapsed mine with the villain Blockbuster. But the real villain is the evil union head. Definitely an anti-union sentiment going around in the early 80s between this, a few of the other comics I’ve reread, and a book I am reading.

Professor Xavier has opened his school to a new class, to train them in the use of their abilities. Chris Claremont and Bob McCloud at their finest. An overwrought soap opera, mainly focused on the suffering of Danielle Moonstar. A brilliant beginning to the countless X-Men spinoffs to come.