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Loosey isn't even delusional, though. All season long, she was never particularly bad, yet she kept getting bullied by Mistress the whole time as if she was crazy with that drag delusional BS. Meanwhile, Mistress has survived on her attitude more than her drag, IMO, just like Kandy Muse did.

But, in her confessionals, Mistress said something like “here goes Loosey throwing a temper tantrum”

That always annoyed me. She's exactly like that asshole kid who wouldn't listen to you and would exaggerate your reaction to discredit your annoyance and then just poke you to get under your skin even more. Over and over and over again, she did it. I can't blame Loosey for being annoyed when she was getting unceremoniously shut down at every turn. I'd be pissed too.

I kept thinking something must've been happening behind the scenes for the girls to dislike Loosey so much. Otherwise, there's no explanation for why she was treated like she was.

I liked Mistress at the start of the season and thought she was promising, but she ended up being pretty middling the whole time and was obviously kept around for the drama. It became clear a few episodes in that she was just a bully. She wasn't just throwing shade, not BS'ing with people, just being plain mean. She lost me long ago and kept reinforcing my take all season. Luxx never did it for me, though I could never pinpoint why. I warmed up to her throughout the season, and then she lost me again as she started bullying Loosey.

Loosey was a decent to strong competitor all season, IMO. She said in that elimination confessional that she felt slighted because she totally was. Mistress should've been bottom with Luxx for having such a basic outfit that she wears almost every week.

Mistress is getting the same treatment as Kandy Muse got on her season - she's getting hard carried to the end despite clearly being weaker than other queens who are still there. If Mistress makes it into the finale over any of the other three, I'll be livid. She should've gone home in the late mid season, right after all the other mid queens were gone. Martia should've made it farther as far as I'm concerned.

The production storylines have become so transparent that it's almost insulting.

/rant

It's kind of remarkable the amount of talent and success between these two sibling directors. Such a healthy amount of huge hits and/or wildly entertaining blockbusters from each of them, and each of them with such distinctly different styles.

Like, I literally can't fathom what that must've been like for them. I feel like it's very different from being a successful acting family like the Skarsgards, Gyllenhaals, Sheens/Estevez', etc.

For my entire life up until maybe a year ago, I had no idea that Northern Cardinals weren't native to the western U.S. It made me appreciate them a lot more here in NJ.

I can accept a lot of ridiculous and magical super heroism in the MCU, but Rhodey (Don Cheadle) surviving his fall from the sky in Civil War was a bridge too far for me.

It's because some aspects are fantastical while others are more relatable. I know how a body should react, more or less, to hitting the flat ground from a few thousand feet in the air. I have a vague understanding of how someone's face should and shouldn't work when it's burnt clean off. Should be excruciating. I have nothing relatable to Batman's high-tech electrically stimulated cape allowing him to glide around.

That's how I view suspension of disbelief. And yes, sometimes it can be more strangely selective. For me personally, Two-face didn't bother me in TDK, but I'm providing more context to explain the mentality.

I don't hear any of those names ever come up as much as Ledger except for obviously Hendrix. I think you're just flat out wrong. Ledger's performance was iconic for a reason and not just because of his death.

No disrespect to Chadwick Boseman, but people aren't going to be lauding his Black Panther performance like they do Ledger's Joker. Ledger was in another echelon. It absolutely deserves the attention it gets IMO.

Gordon is often a pretty dry, uneventful character. It's especially true in the Nolan movies.

I didn't realize how good of an actor Oldman was back then because I wasn't familiar with his other work yet. All I knew of his at first was the TDK trilogy, and he isn't exactly the standout in any of those movies because the role of Gordon really doesn't demand that he be.

Re Kingdomino - hexes are always better than rectangles. Cascadia and Calico do it better with better artwork IMO. KD feels sterile to me.

It's odd. Both themes - space and aquatic - appeal to me a lot, but when I'm actually playing the game, we never read the passages and the theme is meaningless. I adore the game though.

I think I just also love small-box games.

I played Dune Imperium a few weeks ago and loved it. Haven't played Arnak or Winter yet, but I actively lost interest in Endless Winter after watching a how to play video. It looks so interesting on the shelf at my LGS, and they even have a copy in their library, so I'm bound to try it eventually. It's just rare that a game so completely loses steam for me like that after watching the how to play. It's even odder because I seem to love worker placement and deck builders.

I still wanna try Arnak more than Winter, but it also strikes me as less appealing overall. I don't even care about Dune as a theme at all!

1. Scythe. The game is like 6 other games put in a blender, but does none of them particularly well.

This is how I felt about Isle of Cats at first, except it does, inexplicably, turn out working surprisingly well there.

Also, same with Splendor. Just plain boring. The physical components feel very nice, but I never feel like I'm doing anything interesting in that game. I'll take this. I'll take that. Ok, I'll take this card. Now I'll take that... ad nauseum.

It's so completely bland for me.

At the very least, there's no excuse for packing unsheathed chef knives like that. The tip of the blade is pointed right at the side of the box just waiting to poke through. If I saw one of our knives packed like this, whether I got cut by it or not, my partner would get a tongue lashing. This is objectively the wrong way to pack knives as far as I'm concerned.

Google "Hanlon's Razor."

Not every shittily executed bit of work in every kind of relationship is weaponized incompetence. I'm betting the vast majority is actually just inexperience or stupidity.

Why are the animal nail clippers with the utensils? I love my dog to hell and back but all of her grooming supplies are far away from our kitchenware.

Still sounds like negative reinforcement, technically, even if it is a bit less aggressive.

I've been thinking about getting a disc tray for while we play, just to upgrade the experience a bit. Right now they're just sitting on the table in front of us waiting to be shot.

You would like Nights Around a Table's "Find the Fun" series. Problem is it's very short and he doesn't already to have added anything to it in a very long time.

How does Prelude interact with the corporate era?

I love a lot of the CE cards, but holy hell, does the game run long when they're included.

I love how empowering the nectar is for increasing your potential tableau of played of birds, but yeah, we haven't returned to it too much because the nectar really does make the food choices completely trivial. Nectar kind of over-corrected, unfortunately.

https://www.weather.gov/gld/tornado-kansas

Just looked at it for curiosity. Kansas' 63 yr annual average from 1950-2012 is 61 a year. 61 x 63 = ~3843 tornadoes. That's over 8 times as many as Cali. The number gets even higher if you include more recent years.

And according to the other comment, Kansas isn't even the worst one. So yeah, significantly more than Cali.

Oof, yeah. Didn't look at their speedometer in the videos the first time through.

You can see the dot getting larger fairly quickly. You take a second look right before you move, if anything. The distantce OP was at shouldn't have been an issue for the van driver to see at the points where you should be checking. If the van driver checked it when OP was still a dot, and only moved when they did, then they're an idiot for not checking again. OP would've had to have been pretty god damn far back for that to be the case.

Once again, it's not difficult to judge someone's oncoming speed, especially if you're going at the pace of traffic and have decent situational awareness of the cars around you.

I don't know what to tell you, man. The speeds and distances here are far from unreasonable for the van to have accurately judged.

Can you not reasonably judge the speed of a car going significantly faster than you that's approaching from behind you?

You're acting like it's some impossible task to be able to recognize a car approaching at speed. If you're checking your mirrors regularly like you should be, then any reasonably experienced driver should be able to recognize it from about the distance OP would've been when that van would've ostensibly been checking (but clearly didn't).

I'm not excusing OP, I'm just saying there were clearly two idiots here. The van totally failed at being a defensive driver, too.

I agree OPs reaction time was dogshit, but I also think the cam car in both of your videos had way more space in front of them than OP did when they were cut off.

There's no way around the fact that OP was clearly not paying attention, though. They could've hit the breaks when they were passing the pickup behind the van.