I bought the Star Wars X-Wing/Tie Fighter games on GoG and a flight stick, and have been reminding myself of how bad I am at space combat games (I think the joystick actually made me WORSE at Wing Commander). I also bought the 2nd Ed D&D games bundle and played around with that a little bit, in anticipation of the 5E…

Right? I rewatched Game 7 last night (on replay, so they cut out timeouts and things like that) and it STILL didn't feel real. Plus the Indians are on a god damn tear!

I think this is probably true circa 2004 (which is your point), but given the events of the last dozen years, it's lost its sheen, and it's hard to separate now.

Listening to them talk about whether they'd been picked up for a fourth season on the extremely pre-taped Spontanenation and then having it be canceled shortly after they talked about being picked up was a weird bit of whiplash.

I'm really sorry.
I work full time and have two kids. If I can scrape together 90 minutes, that's a solid amount of time for me. When I watch movies, it's in 60 minute chunks.

SEE YOU NEVER AT THE POST OFFICE.

How do you have time to watch 3 hours of video a day?

Feels good, man.

That movie was just trash from top to bottom, but the Siskel/Ebert stuff is so weird and distracting.

Tom Brady is a dumb, incredibly handsome guy who is married to a supermodel. Manning is a dumb, surprisingly ugly guy who's married to a woman who is beautiful, but normally so. It's easier to hate the handsome guy with the gorgeous wife. Plus, fuck the Pats and their fans, you know?

Taking my daughter out to lunch yesterday, we passed up the Vietnamese place in favor of pizza. Someday she will have an adventurous palate.

To be fair, the third sentence does describe them as "Australia's biggest musical export."

I have been looking at the GoG sale and trying to avoid buying the D&D Classics bundle.

I deserve your scorn.

Tom ain't dead, homie.

Expect unfulfilled desires when Terriers is on the table. It does not wrap things up in a neat bow.

Oblivion. I'm still in the first story because it's DFW (Infinite Jest took me almost 2 months to read) and because I'm splitting time with The Big Short. I am really liking it, and I think maybe I am starting to do some metareading, where I pay attention to e.g. why sometimes he writes big rambling focus-challenging…

Without character growth, the jokes get stale. It still makes me laugh, but not like it did when the characters were new.

Watched It Follows at last. It was good, but not the most amazing thing I've ever seen (which reviews at the time of its release led me to believe it might be). Started reading a collection of David Foster Wallace short stories and Lewis' The Big Short - that makes for a fun switch between.

Stank Frallone?