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Sooo, when I went to play this last night, game kept crashing right away. Apparently I had a corrupted cart? Anyone ever experienced this? @chakoo? Husband ran the cart on some verification app on his 3DS and it ran into issues immediately. I just said fuck it and downloaded a ROM because I wasn't paying $30 for another cart. He ran the cart on some program this morning and apparently got it fixed because it'll verify now. But it makes me paranoid of my other 3DS carts.

Just booked a flight to Atlanta in April and it’s a 737-900. I should be safe.

I don't think I liked the sequel quite as much as the first, but it was still good. Really excited for the finale this Spring, though.

Got my Rangers @ Braves tickets ordered for April 21. Excited!

Think I'm gonna start Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia on 3DS tonight.

I'll see if I can find a stream of it sometime.

Sure will.

Oh, for real. The score was a 10/10. Hey, I recently...acquired...that one. One of those I haven't seen, but plan on soon.

I've certainly had disagreements with @Greatoneshere in the past, but the guy is thoughtful and one of the more respected users here. Anyhoo, Overseer + Plex is the best. However, I do keep a Netflix sub because there's quite a lot of shows I watch or want to watch on it.

First completion on the year is in the books. Beat Super Mario World for the first time ever on my own. I did the GBA game on my Analogue Pocket. 10/10, I mean what bad can you say about Super Mario World? 2024 games: Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World - GBA

Last of the Mohicans - 8/10 Yeah, way lttp here, never seen it before. Definitely plays into those Native stereotypes with the whole white savior thing at play, but a well done movie.

Been playing Super Mario World on my Pocket. Wanna beat it for the first time on my own. I need to get back to Spider-Man 2. Haven't played it since before Christmas, but I've largely been out of town or working. And I'm miserably sick this weekend and haven't felt like doing much of anything for long.

You just said they're not old enough to make a decision like this. This is literally a decision between the patient and their doctor. Politicians should have no say. And that goes for ALL medical care.

Having finished up Sons of Anarchy the other day, I've had some time to reflect on it. I give the series as a whole 8/10. Really strong the first 5 seasons, the last couple were something of a roller coaster, but it ended on a damn near perfect note. I don't watch a ton of TV, but I think I can safely put this one in my Top Ten.

Currently reading And There was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham for nonfiction. I read The Killing Hills by Chris Offutt over a couple days and my next fiction is The Raven and the Nine by Peter Gibbons. Also still working on Trinity by Leon Uris. And yeah, I'm excited for King's SS collection this year, @EternallDarkness.

Cut out my husband's biological dad and half-sister from that side and pretty much every else on his dad's side. Though his sister did it for us, at least initially. Neither of us have had any real qualms about it. They're shit people. His dad is an alcoholic and all around asshole who left his mom when he was a toddler and never made much of an effort at being a dad and just kept making less of an effort over time. His mom remarried when he was young and that's who I call my father-in-law and who was an actual dad to my husband. His sister is my age and they had a pretty good relationship up until 2018, which was when we last spoke to her. I didn't care for her much, because she loves to stir up drama and she's a pathological liar who multiple times tried to instigate shit with me over the pettiest lies. But my husband got along with her and enjoyed seeing his nephews, so he'd visit her when I'd be working weekends a few times a year(they all live in Oklahoma a few hours away). Last visit seemed perfectly normal, I'd seen the texts she sent him saying she's glad he made it home safe and bring me out sometime, yada yada. Then she just stopped responding to him. Radio silence. A couple months later, I get a message from her husband on FB saying my husband isn't allowed at their house anymore due to some "sick things he said to my wife" on his last visit. First, I don't know her husband, I was not friends with him on FB and I'd met him once for all of 30 minutes before. He declines to say what this "sick thing" supposedly is, just telling me that I need to be careful and he's a bad person then blocks me. I message his sister asking wtf is going on and she basically does the same, saying I'm apparently depraved and need psychological help for being his wife. Again, neither of them even says wtf they're talking about. Then she blocks me. Neither of us have spoken to her since. Don't know anything about any of them out there and don't really care to. The oldest brother(who still lives by their mom in Arkansas) had cut off contact with her even before that and her older brother(from her mom) apparently had quit talking to her too, sometime before all this. So she jettisoned her relationship with the only brother who would have anything to do with her at that point. I think it's sad he can't see his nephews and they're probably gonna grow up thinking bad about their uncle, who they loved, but what can you do? She clearly has issues and we're better off without the drama. His stepmom is the only person to reach out and that was just once, during the tornadoes last year here. He responded we were fine and that was it. She's similar to her daughter with the drama stirring and has stayed with his dad, though he was abusive, so don't have much use for her either.

WTF are the Braves thinking, doing a new contract with Sale, @Biggie? My buddy, who is a Braves fan is pissed, lol.

Husband put Mario Galaxy 2 on his Steam Deck and it looks gorgeous. He was in a mood to play it since he only played it for a handful of stars back when it released. Had it on WiiU VC but apparently there’s issues with Wii games on the U, something about dark spots popping up. Weird. I got further along in the game, but still never beat it, so I think I’m gonna have him put it on my Deck, too. Really pissed me off when Nintendo didn’t put Galaxy 2 on that Mario collection on Switch.

Well, it was still damn good by both actors!

That's always a tough one, but for nonfiction, I'd probably say Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe and fiction Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane or All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby. And yeah, those dark and dreary winter months after the holidays are a great time for reading. My gaming also really picked back up this year and I'm happy for that.

Not optimistic regarding politics and the direction of the country. Personally, should be a good year. I have plans I’m looking forward to.

I am so confused on this new gen stuff saying sex is bad. This is literally the first time I’ve heard of it. wtf

Funny enough, it’s my work these days that allows even more time for reading. Most nights the patients go to bed early and if they’re quiet, I just sit down with a book once I’m done charting and just do my hourly rounds until time for them to get up.

Done. Phew, what a ride. Honestly, that was about as perfect an ending as you could get. There was really no other option for Jax and it was poetic how he finally understood his father. I’d like to think his sons avoided that life. Nero and Wendy were great and I’m glad they got their happy(ish) ending. Last couple of seasons did get convoluted, but I think it wrapped up nicely(albeit tragically). Like Jax promised Patterson, “the bad guys lose.” Wonder if SAMCRO continues down a more legit path under Chibs or if that’s addressed in Mayans at all.