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I have three very large LEGO sets to put together, which should I do first?

Three options, I’d like to do them all on Twitch so you can watch my frustration:

LEGO Space Shuttle

LEGO Star Trek Enterprise 1701

LEGO Voltron (I may buy the light kit for this one)

I sold my poll site a while ago, so just comment on which one you think you want to eventually see.  Patreons obviously get like 10x vote power.

DisneyMustPay authors form task force to fight for missing payments

Coalition of author groups call for Disney to pay outstanding royalties owed to writers of novels and comics including Star Wars, Alien and Buffy the Vampire Slayer series it now owns

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Shadow and Bone Season 1

With Jessie Mei Li, Ben Barnes, Archie Renaux, Freddy Carter. Dark forces conspire against orphan mapmaker Alina Starkov when she unleashes an extraordinary power that could change the fate of her war-torn world.

very pretty series, but a fair bit too far into the fantasy realm for my personal tastes. There’s high drama and magical powers and a wall of darkness with mysterious origins all trying to take your attention from the real story: where do they all get those cool hats?

Also, there were two scenes in which i thought I had a stuck pixel on my tv, specifically s01e04 when they were below decks of a ship on the water.

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Biden to Call for Free Preschool in Address to Congress

“These investments will give American children a head start and pave the way for the best-educated generation in U.S. history,” the administration said

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I’m going to be on Twitch tonight talking about politics and playing The Division 2

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How the Internet Changed our Gaming Habits in Portugal?

Since the introduction of the internet, our lives have changed forever, and gaming is no exception. We’ll take a detailed look at technology in gaming and how things have improved over the years. 

One particular form of online gaming which has gained in popularity is online casinos. Players can find all sorts of slot games and classical casino games to enjoy from the comfort of their own home. Online platform casinoportugal.online has reviews for various casinos in Portugal to help you find the best place to play. 

Author Victoria Oliveira has extensive experience in casinos and gaming. She has written countless articles over the years and is considered an expert in the field. 

The Role of the Internet in Gaming

Video games were once something you played mainly by yourself. For the games that did have two-player modes, it would require hooking up a second controller and calling a friend over. The internet has changed all of that, though, and now gamers are more connected than ever. 

Multiplayer and online games have gained significantly in popularity. It’s not just the games that have changed, but also how people interact with each other. The internet has enabled an easy exchange of information. Players can share tips, strategies and even walkthroughs of games with others. Let’s look at all the ways the internet has impacted gaming.

Multiplayer Games 

There are hardly any games that come out anymore that only have a single-player campaign. In fact, there are even some games that are almost entirely multiplayer, like Rainbow Six Siege. 

It’s now incredibly easy to team up with other players and play games online against others. Some games like Gran Turismo, for example, are still single player but allow you to compete against others online.  

Cooperative gameplay is incredibly fun and brings a whole new dimension to things. It requires proper communication and strategy with your teammates. It’s not just you alone anymore. 

Then there are the massively multiplayer online games such as World of Warcraft, Star Wars the Old Republic and Never Winter. These games represent a whole new kind of gaming. Many of them have RPG elements as well. 

They typically take place in open worlds and can hold thousands of players on the servers at a time. Rather than interacting with NPCs as you would in a typical game, the characters are all controlled by real people somewhere in the world. 

Multiplayer games have proved to be incredibly popular, and new versions of them are constantly popping up. It’s almost mandatory now for any game released to have some form of online component. 

How Games are Purchased

Ever remember standing in a lineup on release day hoping to get your favourite new game? You were probably also hoping that copies don’t run out by the time you get inside. Well, those days are long gone. 

Games now come in both hardcopy (disk) and digital formats. Platforms like Steam have helped to popularise digital games on the PC. There’s no more chance of games being out of stock because you can just download a copy. 

Technology gaming has made things much more convenient for players. The Playstation and Xbox also have their own online stores where players can purchase and download games. The only real downside is the game has to be fully installed on the hard drive, and games can take up tremendous space. 

Mods and Player Created Games 

Mods have opened up a whole new world of gaming. Players are creating themselves what are essentially expansion packs or add ons for games. In some cases, they make new games entirely or use the existing engine of one game to upgrade the graphics and mechanics of an older game. 

You could call mods the gift that keeps on giving. It’s greatly helped to expand the lifespan of a game and retain popularity for years. By adding new levels, characters, items, or other features, the game never gets dull.

As we mentioned, in some cases, entirely new games are created. One notable example of this has been Super Mario World. The hugely popular title came out all the way back in 1990 and is still widely played. The Mario franchise is perhaps the most well known of all time. 

While many newer Mario games have come out with far better graphics and new gameplay, the old side scrolling 2D format is still quite captivating. Various players have created over a hundred totally new Mario games based on the SMW engine, with new ones still being published. Some of these new games even borrow sprites and elements from other Mario games on the SNES. 

Without the internet, none of these advancements would be possible. It’s allowed players to share their great creations with others all over the world. 

Online Game Guides

Guides for games are nothing new. It used to be that popular games would have guides that would appear in a magazine or had a stand alone version that could be purchased. The internet has changed all of that, though. 

Video walkthroughs have made figuring your way around difficult spots in a game far simpler. Youtube is full of playthroughs of all kinds of games. In some cases, you can already find them before the game is even officially released. 

While reading a written guide can certainly be helpful, nothing beats seeing things play out on video. For games with complex levels, puzzles or other challenges, these have proved to be invaluable. As video games technology has improved, the complexity of games has also gone up significantly. 

Conclusion

There is no doubt the internet has had a massive positive effect on gaming from all kinds of angles. It’s made many things possible which we couldn’t do before. Players can now team up or compete with others from around the world. You can share information, strategies and tips with others. Games often have entire online communities that develop around them. It’s a wonder what other innovations the future will hold.  

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Psi-Lords

4002 A.D., Earth has repelled the Malev Invasion, but now humanity must contend with an invasion of a different sort from the PSI-Lords! These 41st century successors to the modern day H.A.R.D. Corps, powered by nanotech implants that give them access to the full array of Harbinger abilities, have returned to Earth and nothing will be the same again!

I read about 3 pages of the book before I realized they were doing a gimmick, so I went to ebay and bought the “Valiant Vision” starter pack that came with a pair of these amazing glasses that pop colors into the forefront or rear of the page you’re looking at. Visually it’s an amazing experience, but unfortunately it requires extremely large fonts for words to be read. The starter pack has those larger fonts and the whole thing works extremely well…. In that one book.

In the Psi-Lords book though, they did not use the larger fonts and the words are impossibly distorted and completely illegible. The art still looks cools, so for the 3 issues of the series that had the Valiant Vision, I read the story first, then flipped back through it with these amazingly dorky looking glasses on.

As for the story, the series suffered from the same problem that many modern serialized comics do, in that the first three issues were self contained, then there’s a crossover with 15 issues that happens off screen, then the series picks right back up with little to no mention of the story that was happening before the universe altering storyline happened. I was actually pretty interested in the original story, the Psi-lords were building a Dyson Sphere around Sol System, all without the natural humans from knowing what was happening.

No resolution to that plot though, oh wel.

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Disney and Sony Set Massive Movie Deal Bringing Spider-Man Films to Disney Plus

Disney has set a massive movie licensing pact with Sony Pictures for the U.S. that promises to bring Spider-Man and other Marvel properties to Disney Plus starting with Sony’s 2022 release sl…

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I’m going to be on Twitch tonight getting high as fuck and playing The Division 2

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Actress who played Childlike Empress in ‘The NeverEnding Story’ recalls disturbing aftermath of film’s success

Add Tami Stronach, who played the Childlike Empress in ‘The NeverEnding Story,’ to the group of entertainers saying that childhood stardom isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

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Night at the Museum

Directed by Shawn Levy. With Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Ricky Gervais, Dick Van Dyke. A newly recruited night security guard at the Museum of Natural History discovers that an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on display to come to life and wreak havoc.

I somehow skipped this entire franchise and as I’m desperate to watch something ‘new’ on DisneyPlus, I figured I’d give it a go. I also adore Robin Williams and while he’s not the main role for this movie, he is at the heart of the film. Additionally, the “Robin’s Wish” documentary mentioned the third film was were he started to notice issues with his memory and temperament, and that his wife was fully involved in trying to figure out what was going on with him. I naturally had a morbid curiosity about seeing if there was anything noticeable about his acting in the three films, but ended up enjoying this first one more than I thought I was going to, it has real heart and made me feel emotions, always a hallmark of a well make film imho.

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Group turns stolen Alabama Confederate monument into toilet after ransom demand not met

As promised, a group calling itself White Lies Matter turned a stolen Confederate monument into a toilet after its ransom demand wasn’t met. The strange saga started last month when the Jefferson Davis Memorial chair was stolen fromOld Live Oak Cemetery in Selma. RELATED: Confederate monument stolen from Alabama cemetery being held for ransom, email says. A man dressed in Union civil war uniform costume uses Jefferson Davis chair memorial as a toilet (Contributed by White Lies Matter)

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I’m going to be on Twitch tonight talking about my Jury Duty from yesterday and playing a WH40k game

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Chaos Walking

Directed by Doug Liman. With Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Demián Bichir, David Oyelowo. A dystopian world where there are no women and all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise.

Much more enjoyable than I thought it was going to be, after all, we started to hear about the movie nearly 3 years ago, then it was pushed back, reshoots were done, the script was fiddled with, it was pushed back again, more reshoots, then covid-19 hit and it was pushed back yet again.

At the end of the day, I liked it and it will likely end up being a movie in my physical disk collection.

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My Days of Mercy

Directed by Tali Shalom-Ezer. With Elliot Page, Kate Mara, Amy Seimetz, Charlie Shotwell. The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family’s political cause.

The second show in a couple weeks where Kate Mara plays a harlot that ruins someone else’s life through the power of her sexuality, previously a younger man, this time as someone on the opposing side of a protest line. I’m pretty sure that ‘My Days of Mercy’ came out first, but I got to it second. There was also several years between the two, so it’s just happenstance that I happened to watch them in such proximity.

Regardless, both Kate Mara and Ellen Page were fantastic and there’s some real good discussion starters here.

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The Princess Diarist

 

When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved – plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Now her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her co-star, Harrison Ford.
With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks, The Princess Diarist is Fisher’s intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time – and what developed behind the scenes. Fisher also ponders the joys and insanity of celebrity, and the absurdity of a life spawned by Hollywood royalty, only to be surpassed by her own outer-space royalty. Laugh-out-loud hilarious and endlessly quotable, The Princess Diarist brims with the candour and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into the type of stardom that few will ever experience.

 

One of the worst best kept secrets of the Star Wars behind the scenes world is that Carrie Fisher and and Harrison Ford has a fling during the filming of the first movie. This book is a public admission of the affair, with the genesis of the story being a box of dairies that Fisher kept during that time period. The entire point of the book is this affair, as seen through the eyes of a 19 year old’s dairies, then reflected on by the 60 year old experienced woman that she grew to be. It was released just a few months before her sudden death in 2016 from a suspected drug overdose. There’s other material in the book to pad out the confession, some of the more interesting bits are about her interactions with fans and how even the most crazed fan gets her admiration.

It’s a shame she died how she did, when she did, I think she had more to say about the world she lived in and if she had the time to say it we would have been better for it.

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Space Jam A New Legacy

Directed by Malcolm D. Lee. With LeBron James, Sonequa Martin-Green, Don Cheadle, Gabriel Iglesias. NBA superstar LeBron James teams up with Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes for this long-awaited sequel.

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Things to Do If Want To Become a Standup Comedian 

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Standup comedians around the world are famous for inducing fits of laughter and skits that entertain viewers. It is also very healthy for people looking for a retreat to attend standup comedy sessions and have a good time after work and stressful life. 

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X-Men Grand Design – X-Tinction

The series that has critics and fans raving returns for its final installment! The ruination of the X-Men revisited! Re-live the now-classic storylines like Mutant Massacre and The Fall of the Mutants. With appearances by Longshot, Cable, and The Marauders! Created soup to nuts by comic book superstar Ed Piskor in the Mighty Marvel Manner!

I think I had purchased this before I even read the first one, assuming that it was going to be right up my alley, but alas, it was not up my alley at all and I did not enjoy my time with the books. I’m not a fan of the art style and I’m not a fan of the way they condensed the story down, I really felt like there was a ton left out and the end result was barely followable.

I did like the gimmick with the paper color being yellow and using white ink like you see in the cover.

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Regal Cinemas To Reopen In April Parent Cineworld & Warner Bros Reach Multi-Year Deal To Show WB Films In US & UK

EXCLUSIVE: Cineworld has set plans to reopen its Regal cinemas in the U.S. for the first time in six months. The phased process will start with a limited number of cinemas opening for WB/Legendary’…

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Secret Wars Armor Wars 2015

Browse the Marvel Comics issue Armor Wars (2015) #1. Learn where to read it, and check out the comic’s cover art, variants, writers, & more!

I grabbed this complete mini series several years ago at a comic convention, I think it was only $2 for the entire thing. I was hoping that it was a continuation or a variation of the original Armor Wars story line from the 80’s that I greatly enjoyed, but it’s not, it’s a completely different thing that drops you into the middle of a story that started in another mini series (or maybe the mainline Secret Wars mini?) and doesn’t give much information on what happened other than “everything is gone, but here we are!” kind of synopsis that only let to more confusion.

It’s best if you consider this an alternate dimensional take on characters that you know and love. This is an ok story, but I’m not a fan of the lack of context that’s going on here, it wasn’t until the final issue that I remembered that the “Secret Wars” storyline featured multiple dimensions of the same characters in cities or teams or something like that. In this case it was the “Thor League” that showed up in the final book to take the bad guys off to some unknown prison.

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As an afterthought, I’ll bet you this is where the Secret Wars MCU series is going to take itself, with multidimensional character lines that will ultimately result in Iron Man and Captain America coming back from the ‘dead’.

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Comic Pulls for the week of March 10 2021

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Ancillary Sword

Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of Radchai soldiers, in the sequel to Ann Leckie’s NYT bestselling, award-winning Ancillary Justice. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey.

“There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could.” — John Scalzi

Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor.
With a new ship and a troublesome crew, Breq is ordered to go to the only place in the galaxy she would agree to go: to Athoek Station to protect the family of a lieutenant she once knew — a lieutenant she murdered in cold blood.

Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy has become one of the new classics of science fiction. Beautifully written and forward thinking, it does what good science fiction does best, taking readers to bold new worlds with plenty explosions along the way.

I believe this is the author’s second book, and as a sophomore effort, she absolutely knocked it out of the park. This is a much more limited adventure with the story taking place in a single star system and only limited spaceship work, but there is a new concept to me that is being played with here, if you were an AI of a spaceship, and your entire crew was hotwired to give you their emotional states, their physical status, and even letting you see and hear through their eyes, how useful would that be in a wider universe in which a tyrannical ruler has that same ability on a nearly galaxy wide scale?

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The Avengers – Iron Man Mark VII Statue by Queen Studios

Queen Studios has revealed a new statue based on Iron Man’s suit from the first Avengers film. In the film, Tony Stark’s Mark VI armor is heavily damaged. when Stark realizes Loki is using the Stark Tower in NY as his base of operations, he heads there and distracts Loki long enough to have his new

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Cosmic Sin

Directed by Edward Drake. With Frank Grillo, Bruce Willis, Brandon Thomas Lee, Corey Large. Seven rogue soldiers launch a preemptive strike against a newly discovered alien civilization in the hopes of ending an interstellar war before it starts.

I had higher hopes for this than I did for Bruce Willis’ last low budget science fiction adventure, but alas, it’s just another low budget science fiction adventure that wasn’t written very well. I dug the suits they wore, but did not dig the story, nor did I enjoy the over enthusiastic digital lens flairs that were in absolutely every scene.

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Ancillary Justice

 

The record-breaking debut novel that won every major science fiction award in 2014, Ancillary Justice is the story of a warship trapped in a human body and her search for revenge.
Ann Leckie is the first author to win the Arthur C. Clarke, the Nebula and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in the same year.

They made me kill thousands, but I only have one target now.

The Radch are conquerors to be feared – resist and they’ll turn you into a ‘corpse soldier’ – one of an army of dead prisoners animated by a warship’s AI mind. Whole planets are conquered by their own people.
The colossal warship called The Justice of Toren has been destroyed – but one ship-possessed soldier has escaped the devastation. Used to controlling thousands of hands, thousands of mouths, The Justice now has only two hands, and one mouth with which to tell her tale.
But one fragile, human body might just be enough to take revenge against those who destroyed her.

‘ENGAGING AND PROVOCATIVE’
SFX Magazine

‘UNEXPECTED, COMPELLING AND VERY COOL’
John Scalzi

‘HIGHLY RECOMMENDED’
Independent on Sunday

‘MIND-BLOWING’
io9.com

‘THRILLING, MOVING AND AWE-INSPIRING’
Guardian

‘UTTER PERFECTION, 10/10’
The Book Smugglers

‘ASTOUNDINGLY ASSURED AND GRACEFUL’
Strange Horizons

‘ESTABLISHES LECKIE AS AN HEIR TO BANKS’
Elizabeth Bear

The Imperial Radch trilogy begins with Ancillary Justice, continues in Ancillary Sword and concludes with Ancillary Mercy.
Also available now: Provenance is a stunning standalone adventure set in the same world as Ancillary Justice. NPR calls it ‘A fitting addition to the Ancillary world’.

 

A very good first book by Ann Leckie, there’s a LOT to take in, it’s obvious this isn’t a universe that she created on the fly, and if you read this, it will serve you well to take your time with it. I have some extremely minor complaints about the logistics of how an AI goes from one size to another, but I can overlook those for now.

it’s the first book in a trilogy and I’ve already started the second book.

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Minuscule Valley of the Lost Ants

Directed by Hélène Giraud, Thomas Szabo. Somewhere in the forest, a stranded ladybug joins forces with a squad of black ants to retrieve a tin box of delicious sugar cubes to the hive. A battalion of fierce red ants has already set their sights on the loot. Who shall prevail?

Starts off strong, then quickly turns into a CGI battle with mindless explosions.

Kids enjoy it though, it has bugs and fireworks!

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A Teacher

Created by Hannah Fidell. With Kate Mara, Nick Robinson, Ashley Zukerman, Rya Kihlstedt. A Teacher explores the complexities and consequences of a predatory relationship between Claire Wilson, a young teacher at a suburban Texas high school and her student, Eric Walker.

A super heavy mini series that I honestly believe would be best consumed all at once. It all starts out hot and heavy, but then reality quickly kicks it’s way into the story and everything goes about as well as you would expect it to.

Good, but god damn emotional.

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Chrysanthemum

 

Chrysanthemum is a funny and honest school story about teasing, self-esteem, and acceptance to share all year round.

Written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes, the nationally bestselling and celebrated creator of Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, Owen, and Kitten’s First Full Moon, Chrysanthemum is a don’t-miss classic, especially for back to school.

Chrysanthemum thinks her name is absolutely perfect-until her first day of school. “You’re named after a flower!” teases Victoria. “Let’s smell her,” says Jo. Chrysanthemum wilts. What will it take to make her blossom again?

This popular picture book has sold more than a million copies and was named a Notable Book for Children by the American Library Association. “Perfectly executed in words and illustration, Chrysanthemum exemplifies Henkes’s talent for creating true picture stories for young audiences.”-The Horn Book

This is an ideal break-the-ice book for the first week of school. It get children thinking about and bonding with their own names and the names of everyone else in the class, and it’s the perfect vehicle for starting a discussion about treating classmates with tolerance, kindness, and compassion.

 

I spent a week at a family member’s house and they had a young child that really enjoys reading and being read to. This week’s book is “Chrysanthemum” which is a great book for 4-5 year olds who need an introduction to bullying and how to deal with it.

It’s also a great book for introducing counting letters in names. Chrysanthemum has 13 letters by the way, it doesn’t even fit on her name badge.

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EV startup Workhorse loses out to Oshkosh.

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Breaking News in Yuba County

Directed by Tate Taylor. With Allison Janney, Mila Kunis, Regina Hall, Awkwafina. A woman takes advantage of her growing celebrity status when the police and the public think her dead husband is just missing.

Hilarious hijinx and murder! The cast is fluffed full of stars giving their quirky best performances, you’ll recognized nearly everyone here, and will likely enjoy this story of how they caught the bad guy.

Or did they?

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An Apology

I owe my 45-supporting friends an apology (?). I’ve been critical of the trump presidency these last four years, and am still exhausted from the experience.

But to be fair, president trump wasn’t that bad, other than when he incited an insurrection against the government, mismanaged a pandemic that killed nearly half a million Americans, separated children from their families, lost those children in the bureaucracy, tear-gassed peaceful protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church, tried to block all Muslims from entering the country, got impeached, got impeached again, had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history, pressured Ukraine to dig dirt on Joe Biden, fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia, bragged about firing the FBI director on TV, took Vladimir Putin’s word over the US intelligence community, diverted military funding to build his wall, caused the longest government shutdown in US history, called Black Lives Matter a “symbol of hate,” lied nearly 30,000 times, banned transgender people from serving in the military, ejected reporters from the White House briefing room who asked tough questions, vetoed the defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers, refused to release his tax returns, increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion, had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history, called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers, coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based journalist, refused to concede the 2020 election, hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House, walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl, called neo-Nazis “very fine people,” suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID, abandoned our allies the Kurds to Turkey, pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest but balked at helping working Americans, incited anti-lockdown protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic, withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords, withdrew the US from the Iranian nuclear deal, withdrew the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership which was designed to block China’s advances, insulted his own Cabinet members on Twitter, pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op, failed to reiterate US commitment to defending NATO allies, called Haiti and African nations “shithole” countries, called the city of Baltimore the “worst in the nation,” claimed that he single handedly brought back the phrase “Merry Christmas” even though it hadn’t gone anywhere, forced his Cabinet members to praise him publicly like some cult leader, believed he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, berated and belittled his hand-picked Attorney General when he recused himself from the Russia probe, suggested the US should buy Greenland, colluded with Mitch McConnell to push through federal judges and two Supreme Court justices after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from appointing judges, repeatedly called the media “enemies of the people,” claimed that if we tested fewer people for COVID we’d have fewer cases, violated the emoluments clause, thought that Nambia was a country, told Bob Woodward in private that the coronavirus was a big deal but then downplayed it in public, called his exceedingly faithful vice president a “p—y” for following the Constitution, nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet, nominated a corrupt head of the EPA, nominated a corrupt head of HHS, nominated a corrupt head of the Interior Department, nominated a corrupt head of the USDA, praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticizing allies, refused to allow the presidential transition to begin, insulted war hero John McCain – even after his death, spent an obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing Former President Barack Obama for playing (far less) golf while president, falsely claimed that he won the 2016 popular vote, called the Muslim mayor of London a “stone cold loser,” falsely claimed that he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year, considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions, mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting COVID, locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials by hiring acting ones, used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the “China virus,” hired and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and national security adviser, pardoned several of his shady associates, gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressman who amplified his batshit crazy conspiracy theories, got into telephone fight with the leader of Australia(!), had a Secretary of State who called him a moron, forced his press secretary to claim without merit that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history, botched the COVID vaccine rollout, tweeted so much dangerous propaganda that Twitter eventually banned him, charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties, constantly interrupted Joe Biden in their first presidential debate, claimed that COVID would “magically” disappear, called a U.S. Senator “Pocahontas,” used his Twitter account to blast Nordstrom when it stopped selling Ivanka’s merchandise, opened up millions of pristine federal lands to development and drilling, got into a losing tariff war with China that forced US taxpayers to bail out farmers, claimed that his losing tariff war was a win for the US, ignored or didn’t even take part in daily intelligence briefings, blew off honoring American war dead in France because it was raining, redesigned Air Force One to look like the trump Shuttle, got played by Kim Jung Un and his “love letters,” threatened to go after social media companies in clear violation of the Constitution, botched the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans when he finally visited them, pressured the governor and secretary of state of Georgia to “find” him votes, thought that the Virgin islands had a President, drew on a map with a Sharpie to justify his inaccurate tweet that Alabama was threatened by a hurricane, allowed White House staff to use personal email accounts for official businesses after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same thing, rolled back regulations that protected the public from mercury and asbestos, pushed regulators to waste time studying snake-oil remedies for COVID, rolled back regulations that stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers, held blatant campaign rallies at the White House, tried to take away millions of Americans’ health insurance because the law was named for a Black man, refused to attend his successors’ inauguration, nominated the worst Education Secretary in history, threatened judges who didn’t do what he wanted, attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci, promised that Mexico would pay for the wall (it didn’t), allowed political hacks to overrule government scientists on major reports on climate change and other issues, struggled navigating a ramp after claiming his opponent was feeble, called an African-American Congresswoman “low IQ,” threatened to withhold federal aid from states and cities with Democratic leaders, went ahead with rallies filled with maskless supporters in the middle of a pandemic, claimed that legitimate investigations of his wrongdoing were “witch hunts,” seemed to demonstrate a belief that there were airports during the American Revolution, demanded “total loyalty” from the FBI director, praised a conspiracy theory that Democrats are Satanic pedophiles, completely gutted the Voice of America, placed a political hack in charge of the Postal Service, claimed without evidence that the Obama administration bugged trump Tower, suggested that the US should allow more people from places like Norway into the country, suggested that COVID wasn’t that bad because he recovered with the help of top government doctors and treatments not available to the public, overturned energy conservation standards that even industry supported, reduced the number of refugees the US accepts, insulted various members of Congress and the media with infantile nicknames, gave Rush Limbaugh a Presidential medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address, named as head of federal personnel a 29-year old who’d previously been fired from the White House for allegations of financial improprieties, eliminated the White House office of pandemic response, used soldiers as campaign props, fired any advisor who made the mistake of disagreeing with him, demanded the Pentagon throw him a Soviet-style military parade, hired a shit ton of white nationalists, politicized the civil service, did absolutely nothing after Russia hacked the U.S. government, falsely said the Boy Scouts called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts, claimed that Black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won, insulted reporters of color, insulted women reporters, insulted women reporters of color, suggested he was fine with China’s oppression of the Uighurs, attacked the Supreme Court when it ruled against him, summoned Pennsylvania state legislative leaders to the White House to pressure them to overturn the election, spent countless hours every day watching Fox News, refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas, hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer, tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him, acted as if the Attorney General of the United States was his personal attorney, attempted to get the federal government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a women who accused him of sexual assault, held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present, didn’t disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so that the US had to find out via Russian media, stopped holding press briefings for months at a time, “ordered” US companies to leave China even though he has no such power, led a political party that couldn’t even be bothered to draft a policy platform, claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers, tried to pressure the U.K. to hold the British Open at his golf course, suggested that the government nuke hurricanes, suggested that wind turbines cause cancer, said that he had a special aptitude for science, fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure, blurted out classified information to Russian officials, tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida, fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim travel ban, hired Stephen Miller, openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Lago where everyone could hear them, interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel, abandoned Iraqi refugees who’d helped the U.S. during the war, tried to get Russia back into the G7, held a COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden, seemed to believe that Frederick Douglass is still alive, lost 60 election fraud cases in court including before judges he had nominated, falsely claimed that factories were reopening when they weren’t, shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies, still hasn’t come up with a healthcare plan, still hasn’t come up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated “Infrastructure Weeks,” forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID, told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,” fucked up the Census, withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic, did so few of his duties that his press staff were forced to state on his daily schedule “president trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings,” allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act, seemed not to know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, stood before sacred CIA wall of heroes and bragged about his election win, constantly claimed he was treated worse than any president which presumably includes four that were assassinated and his predecessor whose legitimacy and birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV show star named donald trump, claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened, said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake, claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him, claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President, created a commission to whitewash American history, retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain, claimed ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldn’t have happened if someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security guard there, hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims, had a press secretary who claimed that Nazi Germany never used chemical weapons even though every sane human being knows they used gas to kill millions of Jews and others, bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at trump properties, apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House, stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians, falsely claimed Biden wanted to defund the police, said that the head of the CDC didn’t know what he was talking about, tried to rescind protection from DREAMers, gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic, tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax, said U.S. rates of COVID would be lower if you didn’t count blue states, deported U.S. veterans who served their country but were undocumented, claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln, touted a “super-duper” secret “hydrosonic” missile which may or may not be a new “hypersonic” missile or may not exist at all, retweeted a gif calling Biden a pedophile, forced through security clearances for his family, suggested that police officers should rough up suspects, suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs, tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender, suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher, nominated a climate change sceptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy, retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden had played a song called “Fuck tha Police” at a campaign event, hugged a disturbingly large number of U.S. flags, accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address, claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter because they were “spending too much time” on Russia, mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, obsessed over low-flow toilets, ordered the release of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release, called for the construction of a bizarre garden of heroes with statutes of famous dead Americans as well as at least one Canadian (Alex Trebek), hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech, took advice from the MyPillow guy, claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists, said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure, never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign, falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraudulent, announced a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria which not only handed Russia and ISIS a win but also prompted his defense secretary to resign in protest, insulted the leader of Canada, insulted the leader of France, insulted the leader of Britain, insulted the leader of Germany, insulted the leader of Sweden (Sweden!!), falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues, blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually, continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders, said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their “Sony televisions” if the US were ever attacked, left a NATO summit early in a huff, stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that, called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary, refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise, and a whole bunch of other things I can’t remember at the moment.But other than that. . .

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“The New York Times Presents” Framing Britney Spears

Directed by Samantha Stark. With Britney Spears, Liz Day, Felicia Culotta, Hayley Hill. Her rise was a global phenomenon. Her downfall was a cruel national sport. People close to Britney Spears and lawyers tied to her conservatorship now reassess her career as she battles her father in court over who should control her life.

A story designed to do nothing other than make you feel bad about laughing at a millionaire’s mental breakdown and physical assault on a photographer’s car. I’m sure that one day we’ll find out more on the specifics of what’s going on behind closed doors in her life, but this documentary didn’t make me feel any better about her situation.

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Sphere

From the author of Jurassic Park,Timeline, andCongocomes a psychological thriller about a group of scientists who investigate a spaceship discovered on the ocean floor.In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface, a huge vessel is unearthed. Rushed to the scene is a team of American scientists who descend together into the depths to investigate the astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship, but apparently it is undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old, containing a terrifying and destructive force that must be controlled at all costs.

I have no clue what’s up with that cover, but it’s sold directly from Amazon that way, so it’s got to be legit right? This is the story that the 1998 movie of the same name was based on. For some reason I was under the impression that the ending of the book was different than the book, but it wasn’t, it was exactly the same thing. There’s some minor differences in the story, but that’s to be expected for an adaptation, but there’s nothing different enough here for me to suggest reading it if you’ve already seen the film. That being said, this is a book by Michael Crichton, so it’s a great read.

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Freaky

Directed by Christopher Landon. With Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, Celeste O’Connor, Misha Osherovich. After swapping bodies with a deranged serial killer, a young girl in high school discovers she has less than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent.

Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton do a delightfully horrifying body swap slasher that starts with bloody murderous action, keeps the gore going, then ends exactly how you’d think it would. I enjoyed the ride though, so that’s definitely no knock against the film.

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Batman Black & White

The world is simple. There’s good. There’s evil. And there’s still…BATMAN BLACK & WHITE!
This Eisner Award-winning anthology series returns with all-new tales of mystery, mayhem, and madness from some of the finest and most innovative storytellers to explore the Batman mythos in stark black and white!

James Tynion IV and Tradd Moore explore the world of Ra’s al Ghul and the League of Assassins.

Featuring the return of J.H. Williams III to DC for a trip through the Dark Knight’s history.

Paul Dini and Andy Kubert pit Batman against an infestation of ninja Man-Bats in the Batcave.

G. Willow Wilson and Greg Smallwood portray Batman in his strangest standoff ever with Killer Croc.

Tom King and Mitch Gerads tell a tale of Batman administering a form of last rites to a dying priest. Or is it the other way around?

Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko find the Dark Knight facing certain death, with The Joker as his last lifeline.

With several more stories and a lineup this strong, witness a brand-new collection of this iconic anthology!

Collects Batman Black & White #1-6.

A collection of short stories that range from good to fantastic, there were really no bad ones. I’ve had this in single issue form for a couple years and i’m just now getting around to reading it, so I’m happy it turned out to be as good as it is.

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Kim’s Convenience

With Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jean Yoon, Andrea Bang, Simu Liu. The misadventures of a Korean-Canadian family running a convenience store.

Four seasons in a single weekend, I started watching it to have something on in the background, but then something funny happened, I got pulled into the show and started caring about the characters, all of which had significant character development, more than I think I’ve ever seen in a show like this. First impressions is that it’s another situational comedy, but it’s a much deeper and dramatic series than I initially thought it was going to be. There was a point in season three that I even put down the laptop and just watched the show. When I was done with the fourth season I was sad that I had no more to watch, but then found out that they’re already half way done with season 5, so now I have those to watch, just as soon as I find where they’re streaming.

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Prosecuting Evil

Directed by Barry Avrich. With Benjamin Ferencz, Christian Wenaweser, David Scheffer, Alan Dershowitz. A portrait of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg Trial prosecutor, who continues to wage his lifelong crusade in the fight for law and peace.

The film starts with the story of the trails of the nazi war criminals that took place immediately after world war 2, then progresses into the fact that America continues to refuse to be answerable to the rest of the world for it’s own activities since the war.

It’s well done, but I wasn’t expecting it to take that sudden turn.

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“Born with Teeth A Memoir” for 2

Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew “how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil,” Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies, young Kate saw the consequences of a dream deferred.

Determined to pursue her own no matter the cost, at 18 she left her small Midwestern town for New York, where, studying with the legendary Stella Adler, she learned the lesson that would define her as an actress: “Use it,” Adler told her. Whatever disappointment, pain, or anger life throws in your path, channel it into the work.

It was a lesson she would need. At twenty-two, just as her career was taking off, she became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter. Having already signed the adoption papers, she was allowed only a fleeting glimpse of her child. As her star continued to rise, her life became increasingly demanding and fulfilling, a whirlwind of passionate love affairs, life-saving friendships, and bone-crunching work. Through it all, Mulgrew remained haunted by the loss of her daughter, until, two decades later, she found the courage to face the past and step into the most challenging role of her life, both on and off screen.

We know Kate Mulgrew for the strong women she’s played — Captain Janeway on Star Trek ; the tough-as-nails “Red” on Orange is the New Black. Now, we meet the most inspiring and memorable character of all: herself. By turns irreverent and soulful, laugh-out-loud funny and heart-piercingly sad, Born with Teeth is the breathtaking memoir of a woman who dares to live life to the fullest, on her own terms.

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