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  1. 1 minute ago, Ghost_MH said:

     

    The easiest thing to tell these people, even if it simplifies things beyond the point of resembling reality, is that what she and Trump did wasn't criminal until Trump made it so in 2018. Yeah, that's not really what's going on here, but it's worked for a few conservatives I work with who were bitching about this whole thing yesterday afternoon.

     

    This is exactly how I explain why Tom Brady absolutely had footballs deflated to Pats fans, Brady and other QBs wanted the rules changed to let teams handle the balls. They hate when I say it and have no comebacks. :p

  2. 11 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

    This story is really, really difficult to read.

     

    I simply cannot conceive living with such a condition :(

     

    One of the many, many, many reasons I know that we are not a "Christian nation" and anyone who purports that we are immediately goes onto my shit list is the extent to which we deliberately deprioritize taking care of the sick, the disabled, the elderly, etc.

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  3. Halfway through. Some initial quick thoughts in no particular order.

     

    It's about as good as a live action TV adaptation could be absent dumping just buckets of money on the thing, so no objections there.

     

    I've still not gotten around to the audio version (shame on me) so the two main disconnects between my headcanon of Dream and what's on this show are:

     

    1) I always assumed his voice was higher and a bit more ephemeral

    2) I don't know that the text supports this per se, but in my head Dream was a bit more Geralt like in that he very obviously looked different, not just "goth," and that people always kind of bounced off him unless they looked right at him. It's still a bit weird that he's... a pretty normal looking guy, especially since he gets MORE "normal" looking once he gets his gear back

     

    Neither of those are complaints at all, just thoughts.

     

    The camera lens / perspective is weird and I can't always tell if it's used to good effect.

     

    Some stuff (his day with Death, relationship with Hob) I think was really very well done. Some stuff didn't have a chance to land... I've no issue with Patton Oswalt as Matthew in general but him "interrupting" the fight with Lucifer felt like they mishandled the moment, as did letting some scrub ass demon pick fucking Lucifer to fight his battle. They've got ten episodes so they can't linger on every thing, but the modern day Constantine stuff felt rushed. So did the resolution with John Dee. Again if you're not going to let those moments breathe I think they did okay... those moments are just so impactful in my mind having read the comic a bajillion times during my formative years.

     

    The casting is excellent although I'd have preferred an older Constantine. Lady Constantine, yes, all for it, but I think any incarnation of that character is missing something when he/she isn't grizzled.

     

    Anyway, more to come but I'm pleased!

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  4. 1 hour ago, SaysWho? said:

    Slight pushback: I pass for Hispanic; most people think I'm Mexican. I regularly get racist shit tossed at me, both online and in my face at the grocery store, told to go to the other side of the [non-existent] wall, and sometimes said to me in front of my partner. I consider myself "lucky" I'm not actually Hispanic because it's easy to get away from that when you're literally not Hispanic. But even when I've said I'm Italian, I've been told I should be "ashamed" of myself for not supporting Trump. So... yeah.

     

    We're doomed.

     

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