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#TTRPG enthusiast, #Movie buff, #Cats lover, #FantasyNovel reader, filthy liberal.

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What does Caleb Williams do well?

He's an inaccurate passer.
At the NFL level, he's not an exceptional athlete like Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson.
He seems to make really questionable decisions with the ball under pressure.
And he doesn't seem particularly well loved, though maybe he is?
January 11, 2026 at 3:19 AM
You all realize the next steps are suspending elections and saying anyone opposing that is a terrorist, a paid agitator, etc. and turning guns on protestors right?

There is no "saving democracy" - it's already lost. And there's literally only been one way, throughout history, this ends.
January 10, 2026 at 7:15 PM
With the first pick in the 2026 NFL draft, the Las Vegas Raiders select:
January 10, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Man, imagine having so many continuity errors and plot holes and general dissatisfaction that an entire fan base thinks the ending you wrote is a fake reality and that there was going to be an additional episode that undid all those things for a more sensible ending.
January 8, 2026 at 8:52 PM
I say this as one of the OGs of the Snyder Cut movement:

#ConformityGate is some wild shit.

I honestly hoped it was true, mostly because the speculation and theories were far better than the reality of the ending. It's wild that so many clues, aka holes, exist in a show this massive.
January 8, 2026 at 12:43 AM
I'm not gonna lie, if there IS a secret final episode for Stranger Things coming and all the terrible execution was a setup... It would be the greatest TV rope-a-dope of all time.

But I don't believe the Duffer Bros are that clever.
January 6, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Modern civics books:

The President isn't allowed to do things like start wars without Congressional approval, but when he does them anyway those actions become crimes, and the Judicial branch, appointed by the president, determined he cannot commit crimes while in office.
January 5, 2026 at 1:29 PM
The Steelers did not deserve to win that game but they did. The Ravens also didn't deserve to win that game.

Nobody learned anything and things never change.
January 5, 2026 at 4:38 AM
My problem with Aaron Rodgers: how good can you actually be if you constantly need everything to be exactly how you want it?

Your WRs.
Your route concepts.
Your OC.

He plays the game like a bitch, imo. Always has.
January 5, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Best Case Scenario: This is the last time I watch Mike Tomlin coach the Steelers.

Most Likely Scenario: I'll be watching the Steelers fire coordinators in two weeks after getting smoked by the Texans.

Worst Case Scenario: They somehow rock right their way to the divisional round and nothing ends.
January 5, 2026 at 1:14 AM
You know what's dumber than, "Daenerys forgot about the Iron Fleet" or having tie-in shows you need to watch movies like the MCU?

Having a tie-in play that shows in only London and NY that gives critical backstory but then realizing that might confuse the bulk of your audience.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Steelers Fans

Is there any real, meaningful difference between:

A. Losing to the Ravens and missing the playoffs.

or

B. Beating the Ravens and then getting trounced by the Bills, Chargers, or Texans in the first round?
December 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Honestly, the best long term outcome for the Steelers is to lose hilariously to the Browns today, so the Browns think Shedeur is the long term solution (he isn't) and then crash out vs the Ravens next week, miss the playoffs and have to reevaluate their coaching staff for next year.
December 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Rewatching Hilda. One of the best cozy fantasy things to exist.

Also, the Wood Man is my favorite.
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December 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Now Reading: Within the Weeping Eye by Matthew John.

To Walk on Worlds was awesome. So far, the first story in Weeping Eye: awesome.

Great, modern sword & sorcery is out there.
December 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Easily my favorite Christmas movie of all time.
"Well, what shall we hang? The holly, or each other?"

Now that's a Christmas movie.

From 'The Lion in Winter' (1968).
With the brilliant Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole
December 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
3pm and I'm already filled with ham

Xmas is a great time of year
December 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
As a pretty normal, sane, American citizen, I'd just like to know where the line for MAGA is. You've accepted racism, sexism, felonies, lying, rape, pedophilia, probable treason ... What else is there?

He hasn't even made your own lives better, but demonstrably worse.

Where is the line?
December 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Possibly Hot Take?

I HATE "How do you want to do this?" in D&D. It takes me out of the game to hear it, as a player I feel put on the spot to come up with something narratively interesting, and as a DM it interrupts my own flow to have to think about it.

It's a device contrived for actual plays.
December 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
HE DID WHAT
December 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Verizon's holiday commercials get worse every year. I thought awkward Kate MacKinnon was the bottom, but then boom, in comes this Melissa McCarthy elf on a shelf nonsense.
December 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Drop some MAGIC
December 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Ranking the Rob Reiner films I've seen, may he and his wife RIP:

7. When Harry Met Sally
6. The American President
5. This Is Spinal Tap
4. Stand By Me
3. A Few Good Men
2. Misery
1. The Princess Bride
December 16, 2025 at 3:59 AM
hahaha F Kenny Pickett
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December 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
But I thought Shedeur Sanders was the ultimate QB who was only going to get better and better now that he was given a chance?
December 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM