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For me, the glass is half-full of emptiness.

I call BS on the melted tail lights. Most tail lights are made out of polycarbonate, which has a melting point above 288°C. I'd expect the plastic used on the bumper cover to melt before the tail lights do. Short of parking near a Rafael Viñoly-designed building, it's unlikely to get melted tail lights. Meanwhile, we're expecting a high of 113°F (45°C) today in Vegas, which is actually about right for this time of year.

FAA? What does the Federal Aviation Administration have to do with streaming services?

Take them out and replace them with these, then: Endgame 2794M on a 400M budget Captain Marvel 1129M on a 175M budget

GotG3. 837M on 250M budget Quantumania 463M on 200M budget Wakanda Forever 853M on 250M budget Love and Thunder 760M on 250M budget Multiverse of Madness 952M on 200M budget No Way Home 1910M on 200M budget Externals 401M on 200M budget Shang-Chi 432M on 150M budget Black Widow 379M on 200M budget Far From Home 1132M on 160M budget Seems good to me.

The first three episodes of Twisted Metal on Peacock. It's enjoyable enough for me to finish the 10 episodes. Slowly working my way through the Moonlighting DVDs for a nostalgic watch.

Bets?

Looks familiar...

The Wrath of Ken?

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds dropped a "surprise episode", which involves a cross-over with Star Trek: Lower Decks. It's fun. (Paramount+)

It does come with alternate pieces so that you can customize to each movie's car, but there's no plans that I know of for a Hill Valley playset. The actual car would be a bit larger than the minifigure scale, it's closer to the size of their old Model Team sets. The flux capacitor is a light-up brick, and the wheels do tilt for hover mode, as well.

One of the items that I bought on Amazon Prime day was scheduled to arrive Sunday, but ended up on my doorstep today. It's a big and heavy box, with a 300 page instruction book and 1872 pieces, including some Lego plutonium and whitewall tires.

I've never heard of a Cotton Candy Burrito. Googling it leads me to an ice cream parlor on the opposite side of town from me. It doesn't look like something I'd want to try, however. It's been a very long time since I ate tomalley, it's basically the green stuff in the gut of a Maine lobster (the equivalent of a liver and pancreas). My parents were big fans of Grape-Nuts Ice Cream, which is usuallly made by stirring Grape-nuts into vanilla ice cream, and letting the mix sit until the Grape-Nuts soften. It's commonly found in Maine, and some of my Dad's cousins own an ice cream company, where it's one of their signature flavors.

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One: This one's in theaters. The IMF team has to track down a weapon that could destroy all humanity if it falls in the wrong hands. It's very good, and worth seeing in the theater. (In theaters now) Moonlighting: First episode of the classic 80s series about a former model who finds that her accountants took everything but some businesses used for tax write-offs. It's essentially a throwback to the screwball comedies of the 30s and 40s, and still enjoyable. It's not available in reruns or streaming because of the music rights, and I hadn't picked up the DVDs the first time around when they were available. I finally broke down and bought the first box set of Seasons 1 and 2, when Amazon had them for $64.99 (about 3 times the original price). There's three more sets covering seasons 3, 4, and 5, but I haven't picked them up yet. (DVD)

Catmouflage.

Ads for Sea Monkeys?

From Octopath Traveller II last night:

Friday, I decided to buy a Nintendo Switch OLED in the Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom livery, which has a vaguely Lovecraftian vibe to the graphics on the dock. Amazon delivered a micro-SD card before I got up on Saturday. I set it up to work with my TV, and then struggled with the awkward and small controller design (Joycons + grip adapter), and located a Nintendo Switch Controller Pro for sale at a local Wal-Mart (Gamestop apparently only had a used controller on the other side of town--probably why I've only spent about $50 total at Gamestops since 2020). I'm now about 15 hours into Octopath Traveler II*, and I've played a smattering of emulated games from older systems as part of a Nintendo subscription. I'm really enjoying the system. I need to do some adulting for a while, though, or I won't have anything to wear to work tomorrow. *I had really enjoyed the first one when it was on XBox Game Pass, but this one has some new mechanics that are interesting.

The last number I saw was about $16.7 million for legal fees. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/04/ron-desantis-lawsuits-cost-florida-taxpayers#:~:text=As a result of the,%2416.7m%2C have been soaring. I'm not sure if there's a tally of how much business has been lost, but you've got a canceled $1 Billion project from Disney (and related high-paying jobs not coming to the state) as well as a shortage of workers due to his immigration policies.

"Nothin" it is, then.

I've now watched the first two episodes of Marvel's Secret Invasion. It feels like the plot is developing glacially slow. I also had to fight nodding off while re-watching the first episode--all the more problematic since I started watching it at Noon.* The Warriors: Now considered something of a classic, it's the story of a group of gang members trying to get back to their home turf after a big meeting of all the gangs goes wrong. There's two versions floating around, and this one was the original theatrical cut (with upgraded 5.1 sound). The "Ultimate Director's Cut" inserts comic book-style segments between certain sections. I feel that the original theatrical cut runs better, but YMMV. (Paramount+) 48 Hrs.: Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy star as a cop and his prisoner who are trying to track down a violent criminal. Parts of it haven't aged particularly well. It's somewhat hard to find on Paramount+ on Roku, as a basic search doesn't turn it up (but does show Another 48 Hrs.) I had to find it by clicking on what initially appeared to be an empty Related Films section on The Warriors (both had the same director, Walter Hill). (Paramount+) *We used to think that there was some kind of subliminal sleep command embedded in the movie, Battle Beyond the Stars, as we'd generally fall asleep at about the same point, and wake up for the end credits. Mom and I fell asleep when attempting to watch it on a Sunday Movie of the Week, and a few years later, my friend, his brother, their mother, and I fell asleep while watching it on cable. We had to vigorously shake his brother to get him to wake up. I only managed to see the whole thing when we rented a VHS tape some years later.

The live show, Awakening at the Wynn. It was excellent.