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On a random internet speculation, I saw someone say that the unnamed person Rambo was talking about could be Reed Richards of Fantastic Four fame. This could be a show that helps to bridge the gap and bring in some other great Marvel characters from Fox.

I decided to fire up an episode that I was partially finished with, and ended up watching that one, and two more! Sheesh! So good! There are also good "pauses" where the commercials would go. Just really well written, even for the commercial structure!

I searched before I started my thread =P But regardless, I was hooked hard in the first five minutes of black screen exposition. I love this kind of near future sci-fi. I am at episode 6 of season 2 right now. I'm doing the best I can with my family lol =P I love how it's not preachy, it's just people dealing with an overall bad situation.

I know, I'm slow on the uptake here! But I just started watching this show, and I am completely engrossed. I'm at the end of season 1, and holy cow! I've heard season 2 and up get better. Well written, directed, and done over all. I love the visuals. Everything looks very real in a sense that it could totally work that way. I can't wait to tear through the rest of this show!

This has been a thing for a LONG time, prior to the pandemic. Also, keep in mind that most teachers don't have a choice about remaining virtual compared to in-person. One thing that sticks out to me in this debate has been how the proponents of returning to in-person always talk about the grades, failure, getting behind and a litany of other things which do no matter. I'm in my 17th year of teaching, and I've realized that the most important lessons aren't learned from direct instruction. It's all of the socializing, dealing with crap from peers and teachers, learning to function, and how to learn a skill. They won't use 90% of what they learn, but they will be taught things the rest of their life. That why content based testing is such a poor metric for success. In 17 years, I've seen my fair share of kids who had perfect attendance who did not learn how to function. They might have great grades, but fail out of college. Academics don't matter if the kids don't learn how to function at home. When we talk about the funding gap between inner city schools and suburban schools, it has much more to do with the type of experiences and general attitude of the school more so than having the newest textbooks or computers running out the ying-yang. Kids remember experiences. They develop skills over time (several school years). Those things are being missed. But it comes down to if the kids really mattered, then COVID would have been handled better from the get go. School funding wouldn't be an issue, and teacher training wouldn't be concentrating so hard on the TESTING.

I talked about this in a TB post, but I've also been thinking a lot about it (I dunno, my job I guess) as we get ready to return to in person instruction at my school. COVID has shown how fragile our country is. Most of us depend on jobs that have been severely impacted by shutdowns. Many people are dealing with the physical, emotional, and financial disasters that COVID inflicts and leaves on the survivors. We are truly interdependent upon each other, despite the most furious responses from bootstrappers! At this point, in person school should be a goal. A reward, if you will, for people getting their communities in order over the vaccine. People should also know that in person school right now is not real school. No hands on assignments, no small group work, no relating to your peers. It's kind of like prison. Or more generously, it's a place where your kids go to be supervised doing online work. Fun? Right? Teachers and school staff should have been way up the list of people who needed to get vaccinated. Right now, schools are having real trouble keeping teachers in their classrooms due to the rampant community spread and the need to quarantine. Healthy schools are vital to the success of the community. They need to be treated as such. That doesn't let parents off the hook because they need to be engaged with their kids. When I was in my methods class, a speaker from a local school system came and and talked about the social contract that exists between schools and communities. The gist was that they needed to work hand in hand. Right now, there is such an adversarial relationship between communities and schools. It needs to come back together. People need to realize that schools are here to help.

I always thought that was the way to go. My parents were OK with it, but my GF's parents never were. To me, it helped me realize I didn't need to marry one girl! A year lease is a LOT cheaper than a marriage!

Man, this show is so well crafted! So I pay attention to things like the aspect ratios, the video specs (like 30 frames video versus 24 FPS for film), and the color grading. When episode four fired up I was like "wait, they've gone all cinematic??" Which then makes sense because we returned to the MCU after all. Super fascinating! I can't wait to see what happens as Wanda continues to grieve for Vision. Though we are starting to see Vision become more aware of things in Wanda's world. I wonder how all of that will play out.

It's going to be quite interesting come draft night. I can absolutely see the Panthers picking Jones at 8. Or trading down to like 12 to pick him and get another pick. Or drafting the best OT on the board. Or best skill player. Or....well anyone else. There are a lot of scenarios being played out, and one thing we all can recognize about the draft is that it never goes to plan. There are crazy trades up and down, teams drafting 2nd rounders in the top 10, and the rise and fall of draft picks on the day of the draft...

Everyone has a price in the NFL, but you'd have to really be sure you are as good a team builder as you think you are. 2 1sts, 2 2nds, Brown, Chinn and Burns for a 25 year old QB with a $40 million cap hit after the season. While the Panthers do have some good talent, and Watson would be a fantastic addition; there's isn't too much else there. Sure, we have a really good set of WRs, but Samuel is probably gone leaving Robby and DJ and....a bunch of JAGs. OL pretty spotty, even with resigning Moton. CMC is fantastic, but he's going to be dependent on who gets him the ball and who can block for him. On defense, giving up those three leaves us with mostly nothing. Shaq's a great guy, but he's not a world changing LB. Then we have a bunch of rookies or untested guys. So while I'd love to have Watson, losing him for that amount would set us back 3-4 years. I'm not a fan at all of leaving the cupboard that bare. If Houston wants value, they need to get this done before the draft. If they try to sit on Watson until training camp, they aren't going to get anything near what they would over the next two to three months.

Wow..... Hahahaha..... hahahaha... I can't believe that happened the way it did... Wow....

I agree that there are a lot of things that go into a 4th quarter comeback. But at the end of the day, the QB is the most important position on a football team. It is up the the marriage of the coach, OC, and the QB to make these plays happen. There is so much that goes into that final 4-2 minute offense when the game is on the line. But the coach can't suit up. It's up to the QB. If they can't pull the trigger when needed to make the plays, then what can you do? Like how many times at the end of games did Teddy throw a 2 yard route on a 8 yards to go? At the end of the day, as a fan and keyboard warrior, I feel like we need someone who has the moxie and the playmaking ability to get the ball where it needs to go. If Brady was the cause of Teddy's issues, then fire him and find someone else who can do a better job.

Oh boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can't coach player confidence. You can give them a system, teach them the reads, drill those situations, etc. But at the end of the day, you can't play for them. As much as I like Teddy B the person, he doesn't have the IT a NFL QB needs. Teddy is a perfectly serviceable QB who can win you some games. But when you need the QB to make some plays, he's shown that he's too risk adverse. Think about KC. They are literally never out of it because we've seen for the past three season Patrick Mahomes do some bat-poo crazy things to score a boatload of points. Or Brady? Or even Brees? What about Jake? Or even Cam? You need a QB who you can get behind. Not a QB who will keep you behind.

https://gizmodo.com/reddit-s-anarchic-investors-to-hedge-funds-i-hope-the-1846135080 I was just about to post this. One of the top comments points out of ridiculous the entirety of the stock market is and how we're all dumb for giving our money to companies to invest on our behalf. But finding out that it's putting leverage on a billionaire makes me smile. My hope though is for the actual employees of GameStop. Not sure what good can come for them, but I just hope for their betterment.

I just got caught up with all three episodes...Holy poop! What an incredible series thus far! Yes, it's better than The Mandalorian, but it shouldn't take away from that show. Mando is very much a Space Western, which has it's charm. I LOVE the different themed episodes. I'm very curious how Wanda was able to expel the "friend" who helped her birth her babies, and how "real" that world is. Are we going to 80s, Wonder Years vibe this Friday? I wonder if Wanda is in the center of this "storm" she created as she processes her grief with Vision's death? Or since we've seen some segments of Vision alone, if she somehow brought him back from the dead since he is an AI. I can't wait to see more!

I think that you have to absolutely try. Franchise QBs don't grow on trees. If there's a way to make it happen, you have to see. Houston is a dumpster fire right now. They traded their best WR last year, they have alienated their franchise QB, and they don't have a lot of team to build Watson. They need to maximized their assets moving forward to rebuild the team.

I love catching light rays! Did you edit your photos at all? The sky's appear just a little BLUE to my eyes =P

I love big dogs! I wish my dogs traveled well, they don't at all. One gets car sick, the other wants to sit on the driver and barks the whole time...

I'm super stoked! The concept in the trailer is pretty amazing. I can't wait to see what it ends up being!

I did to. I love all the promotional materials for the film. It looked like it could have been, and there was so much good. Call it bad direction, bad editing, whatever, but WB ruined that movie. It could have been a lot of fun, but they missed the point of the film themselves about short cuts...

Their problem is that they are trying to outdo Marvel. Instead, they need to work on telling good and interesting stories. With new Batman - deal with his psychology through his years as batman as he has to deal with a supervillian. Superman - put him in the middle of the cold war. That's something that would make for an interesting story. Wonder Woman - I wanted more out of her relationship with Steve. Again, I think 84 could have been a fantastic movie because the story bones with her and Steve were so good. Overall, I'd say DC has a lot more "grim-dark" than Marvel does. They should play into that without painting everything with a heavy brush. Contrast is good, both visual and storytelling. People love when characters have to make terrible choices and deal with the consequences. Marvel hasn't done too much of that, but they hit the nail on the head with great casting, storytelling, effects.

I enjoyed it. I mean, I have no intention of watching it again, but it was fun once. I wish they had spent more time with Steve and Diana, because that relationship was the crux of the first one. There were lots of good individual performances, and they would occasionally intersect for a cool scene. Either some studio hack ruined the script, or the editor muffed it all up. There was a good and fun movie there, but it got lost in some real stupid BS.

You should be fine. I get in the 30-60fps with my CrapBox PC (In rooms, it's great! Driving...ewww). I'm playing at 1080p and solid Medium settings. It's really a beautiful game. I've only put a couple of hours into it so far, but I can't wait to jump back in.

I have an i7-4790 / 16gb of RAM / RX 580. Got my idiot-engineered power system for my GPU set up. I should be OK. Epic is offering a $10 coupon that I can add on any purchase. I'll be jumping in soon.