Old Man

1 hour ago, Lord Liaden said:

The SCOTUS can't make a ruling on a case they're not presented with.

Didn't stop them this time around. 

14 minutes ago, DShomshak said:

According to the ABC News article on my newsfeed, the 9 justices were unanimous in ruling that states can't decide who can appear on ballots for federal office because allowing it would lead to chaos.

As opposed to the current chaos which the decision does nothing to solve.  All the SCOTUS needed to do was define insurrection.  Anything else, especially this "decision", is a punt at best and a gift to Trump at worst.

Wonderland

He says he won't tell us until a couple hours beforehand. 

I'm in.

6 hours ago, L. Marcus said:

I'll have to figure out how to watch this. Sanada played the lead in one of my favourite movies: Tasogare Seibei (The Twilight Samurai), a jidai geki about the life and tribulations of a low-ranking samurai in the tail end of the Edo period.

That was his best film IMO. 

Shogun also has Tadanobu Asano, if anyone was wondering what he'd been up to since Hela killed him in Ragnarok.

First episode of Shogun, the FX remake of the '80s miniseries based on the book by James Clavell.  I never read the book, and I only dimly remember the Richard Chamberlain miniseries, but so far this iteration is really good.  From what I recall, the last miniseries was almost entirely from Blackthorne's POV.  This one shows a lot more of what's going on among the nobles, which is perfect for Game of Thrones fans who are literate enough for subtitles.  Also I remember that in the first miniseries, Toranaga was basically a bad guy, whereas in this version his story is much more nuanced.  It's a nice change for Hiroyuki Sanada, who in most U.S. productions has been cast as a bad guy.

I'm able to get to FX on demand through my Spectrum cable subscription, but it might also be available on Hulu or something.

Quick, throw L. Marcus in!

4 hours ago, Chris Goodwin said:

 

If you were to combine my "How to Play HERO System" with it...

 

Except "How to Play" is for 6e.  Knowing that they're the peanut butter and chocolate of a HERO System near-free game has me feeling a little uncomfortable about saying that.  Because for $5 you'd have the game.  Which is good if you're buying, but not so much if you're Hero Games.

Agreed.  Although in general the better business model would be to give away the rules for next to nothing and make money on splatbooks and modules.  If you're Hasbro or GW, then you have a gradual power creep with each successive splatbook so people have to keep buying them to remain competitive.  But I'd like to think we wouldn't have to go that far.

3 hours ago, unclevlad said:

But, the Raiders can sign Wilson to a 1-year deal for *league minimum.*  And 

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/las-vegas-raiders

 

Cutting Jimmy G after 1 June saves $24M in cap space, and Wilson costs nothing.  IF!!! you think Wilson can still play a mediocre level of QB, then spend the draft to get pieces, perhaps.  They have 2 pretty good picks, 13 and 44, then #77 (third round)...and the rest are pretty much junk.  (4 picks are between 210 and 227.)

It's funny, I completely missed that the Derps hired a new OC a month ago.  Wilson might well do better under the legendary Luke Getsy than he did with the intricate Payton offense.  The Bears' offense the last couple seasons didn't strike me as complex at all, and Wilson clearly wants to just play sandlot football anyway.

2 hours ago, Starlord said:

Go...ummm...Raiders???

One! Of! Us!  One! Of! Us!

3 minutes ago, Pariah said:

One writer at CBS Sports is projecting Russell Wilson to the Raiders after his release from Denver in a few days:

 

2024 NFL QB matchmaker: Kirk Cousins to Falcons, Jacoby Brissett to Vikings, 17 other logical veteran moves

 

Another writer has also proposed releasing Jarrett Stidham. picking up an affordable veteran QB, and selecting a rookie QB in the middle rounds of the upcoming draft:

 

5-step quarterback plan for the Broncos in 2024

 

I also saw an article suggesting that Zach Wilson might end up in Denver, but I'm not going to dignify that with a link. 

I would be most amused if we wound up effectively trading Garoppolo for Wilson in a perfect example of deck chair rearrangement.

5 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

Anyone posts Carrie Fisher built like She-Hulk, I'm leaving!

The only reason I didn't post the one I found is that it's the Slave Leia outfit and I didn't want a visit from the Catsuit Enforcement Brute Squad.

Quick, throw the ring in!

"Small you are.  Lift you must."

3 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

I think Trump is the only one who still considers that a great accomplishment. He might have grasped what it was at the time, but after years of boasting he seems to have convinced himself it was an act of genius.

So what you're saying is, he needs a cognitive test?

1 hour ago, BoloOfEarth said:

I read the following:

 

 

So, what he's saying is that 98% of his supporters are cognitively impaired. (nods) I can agree with that.  Pretty bold of him to come right out and say it, however.

Conveniently overlooked is why they felt Donald needed a cognitive test in the first place.

19 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said:

Republicans used to be much better at this sort of thing than Democrats. Recent Republicans look more like the legal and political equivalent of the Keystone Cops.

Yes, but this is a dangerous attitude to take when those Keystone Cops barely failed on 1/6/2021.  And I mean barely.  

And nearly all the people who were in charge of the insurrection attempt are still free.  Many are still in power, such as House Speaker Mike Johnson.

58 minutes ago, tkdguy said:

 

It's up to us voters then. Vote and get out the vote.

I just hope that’s all it takes. 

15 minutes ago, Dr. MID-Nite said:

And now the Supreme Court is going to hear Trump's "presidential immunity" appeal. Doing so gives it legitimacy. They should have shut that @#$% down immediately. I apologize for the frustration in my posts, but I get sick and tired of stupidity and ignorance seemingly always winning....

It's corruption, not stupidity or ignorance.

Which is not better.

54 minutes ago, tkdguy said:

 

It doesn't have to be factual to make good adventure.

Which is what I said.  But it ought to be factual if it's being posted on youtube as factual.

On 2/27/2024 at 12:13 PM, tkdguy said:

Some ideas for a pulp or fantasy adventure

 

 

Everything in this video is both annoying and completely fictional.  Some decent ideas for pulp though.

Apple orders TV series based on Neuromancer by William Gibson

Meanwhile, people are finally starting to report on possible methods of overthrowing this fall's elections. One method goes like this:
 

1. Speaker Johnson refuses to swear in some number of Democratic winners of House elections on 3 Jan 2025, citing 'election irregularities'
2. Republicans therefore maintain control of the House
3. On 6 Jan 2025, the skewed House refuses to certify some number of electoral votes, citing 'election irregularities'
4. As a result neither candidate reaches 270 electoral votes and the Presidency defaults to a vote in... the House of Representatives
5. Trump wins.

Logically, therefore, we can expect some 'election irregularities' on Nov 6. This could be anything--complicit state SoSes making stuff up, Fox News making stuff up, actual attempts to sabotage or corrupt an election, or plain old terrorism with guns and bombs.

Other coup methods are also outlined, such as the House Speaker taking over as "acting president" in the event of a contested election outcome, or any number of Constitutional legal challenges that would go straight to the SCOTUS.

The article does mention a handful of potential solutions, but ultimately Americans are going to have to be ready. At minimum people need to get the word out so we all know what to watch for. Should the worst occur, it might take a general strike to get the usurpers to step down. Winning is the only way Trump stays out of jail. He will cheat. Again.

My favorite part of that entire s___show is that the original suit was brought by IVF customers whose embryos were destroyed by some trespasser.  They wanted to throw the book at the parties responsible so they used all the personhood language to try and equate the crime to murder.  Now they have effectively murdered IVF in the state of Alabama; people can't even get their embryos shipped to another state because no one will take the risk of transporting such a fragile "person".