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“The Wrath of Becky” Review

The Wrath of Becky: Directed by Matt Angel, Suzanne Coote. With Lulu Wilson, Seann William Scott, Denise Burse, Jill Larson. Two years after escaping a violent attack, a teenage girl must defend herself against a domestic terrorist cell.

The second in a film series that I didn’t see the first one of, but this is the one that I’m able to watch on Hoopla (the first one is there, I just ran out of view credits for the month) and honestly this second one is the one that hit my radar. I’ll check out the first one next month when my credits regenerate.

This is a low budget but big fun hyper violent story of a young woman trying to make her way in a world filled with people that need to have hyper violence imparted on them. it’s fun and wears it’s low budget on it’s sleeves but fails to stick the landing and has about 2 scenes more than it really should have had.

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“3 Body Problem” Review

3 Body Problem: Created by David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Alexander Woo. With Jovan Adepo, Liam Cunningham, Eiza González, Jess Hong. A fateful decision made in 1960s China reverberates in the present, where a group of scientists partner with a detective to confront an existential planetary threat.

A fun hard science fiction series that doesn’t stay very jovial for very long and gets right into the hard truths portion fast enough to turn off those that don’t enjoy such things but kept my attention the entire time. I’ve heard so much about the book that I was expecting something much more esoteric than what we ended up with, as a story in a book it’s not all that unique, but as a televised series, I don’t think there’s been much done with relativistic alien invasions or the mismatch of technological levels that only just a couple decades would present. The show is run by the same guys that failed the stick the landing for the final season of Game of Thrones, so if you remember that mess, you can understand my trepidations of how this was going to turn out. If you remember though, they only went off the rails narratively when they lost the foundations of the source material, which isn’t going to be a problem for this series based on a completed book.

I look forward to the future seasons to see what kind of technology story elements are going to get introduced and if they’re going to end up doing any time jumps. Also, I’m super curious about that brain in space, surely it’s not going to be a dangling story thread and will be resolved, right?

Maybe I need to read the (translated) book.

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Fly Me to the Moon

Fly Me to the Moon: Directed by Greg Berlanti. With Scarlett Johansson, Woody Harrelson, Channing Tatum, Jim Rash. Marketing maven Kelly Jones wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’s already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, Jones is directed to stage a fake moon landing as back-up.

Previews of this week’s comics: “Star Trek: Defiant #12” and “Star Trek: Picard’s Academy #6”

IDW has graciously given me permission to post some preview images of their upcoming comics and while this one is a couple days late, I’m working out my process and I think I have it nailed down. These actually came out yesterday, but if this were done earlier this week like I had planned, here’s what you’d see:

Star Trek: Defiant #12

Original Star Trek: Defiant writer-artist duo Christopher Cantwell and Ángel Unzueta delve into the sci-fi horror genre in arc three of the fan-favorite series! Eager to move past the unofficial bounty-hunting mission assigned to them by Starfleet, disgraced former ambassador and Starfleet legend, Worf, and his rogue crew make way for Starbase 99, a run-down remnant of the Dominion War, to complete their fugitive drop-off. The clandestine assignment has left them disillusioned with Starfleet and with one another, but a surprise awaits the Defiant crew, threatening to tear the crew apart even further-literally.

Star Trek: Picard’s Academy #6

It’s do-or-die for Picard and cadets in the finale of Picard’s Academy! Romulans storm the ship while Starfleet remains out of reach and potentially unaware of the threat headed their way, but the cadets have finally come to an agreement, electing Jean-Luc to the captain’s chair. They’re finally willing to follow Picard’s lead, and Picard is finally willing to acknowledge their feedback-now acting as a proper crew. But is it too late? Will Picard fail his crewmates once again and, worse yet, see the start of an interstellar war? So much for graduating early!

Out Today: “Star Trek: Picard’s Academy #6”

Out today: “Star Trek: Picard’s Academy #6“, by Sam Maggs.

It’s do-or-die for Picard and cadets in the finale of Picard’s Academy!Romulans storm the ship while Starfleet remains out of reach and potentially unaware of the threat headed their way, but the cadets have finally come to an agreement, electing Jean-Luc to the captain’s chair. They’re finally willing to follow Picard’s lead, and Picard is finally willing to acknowledge their feedback-now acting as a proper crew. But is it too late? Will Picard fail his crewmates once again and, worse yet, see the start of an interstellar war? So much for graduating early!

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Daily Standup 2024-02-09

In which I fail 3 times to make a video.

The Right-Wing Media Takeover Is Destroying America

The purchase of The Baltimore Sun is further proof that conservative billionaires understand the power of media control. Why don’t their liberal counterparts get it?

Batwoman Hogtied in Sauna

Mistress Lora can finally start spreading her madness against Batwoman who dared to tie her up. Her ass will soon find out how it’s like to piss off another domme. Magie Sawyer can’t stand to look at her mistress being heavily bound and punished in front of her eyes, but hasn’t much of a choice. Firefly is supposed to be the gem of mistress Lora’s collection but has been ordered to the gym. The Bondage, spanking and fucking gym in fact. Her muscles will face their toughest challenges of her life. Together finally with Harley as a rubber maid, the pair will totally fail in all tasks Mistress Lora and Maggie would give them. They understand only spanking and forced orgasms and so they will get plenty of it and much, much more… Find out what happens in our newest bondage comic!

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“American Fiction” Review

American Fiction: Directed by Cord Jefferson. With Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander. A novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

As I’ve found myself in a state of full time unemployment, I’m going to be hitting some of these less actiony movies via my A-List subscription, after all, why not? This entire week had me seeing three movies that I would have normally waited until streaming or purchasing was available, so it was an interesting experience seeing these in the theater, it’s definitely the better option of the two. For two of the three movies I was actually the only person in the theater for their showings, which is a hell of a way to see them if you can swing it.

The trailer for “American Fiction” made me feel this was going to be more of a comedy than it actually was, but the comedy that was present was refreshingly mature, realistic and not at all like the humor that normal ends up in films. Perhaps it’s my own experiences with recent cinema, but it was a pleasure to watch the exceptionally emotional moments of a critically successful author fail to appeal to the general public until he wrote a performance piece that in his mind was senseless drivel that no one in their right minds would want to read, but it turns out that he underestimated the general sense of a racist society that tries to not be racist but still comes off as trying too hard and focusing on the wrong things. That story is taking place all while the “real world” stuff happening off the page and on the screen was some of the most fantastically depressing and realistic family drama that I’ve gone through myself and while it was painful to see it on the screen, I felt like the family I saw on the screen was much like my own, sans the gay brother diving into pools of cocaine as a part of his coming out experience. The struggles of personal identity vs public perception is a familiar one.

This isn’t necessarily an experience that is enhanced by the big screen, but if you get a chance to see “American Fiction” I wouldn’t pass it up.

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“The Marsh King’s Daughter” Review

The Marsh King’s Daughter: Directed by Neil Burger. With Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn, Brooklynn Prince, Gil Birmingham. A woman seeks revenge against the man who kidnapped her mother.

While this is a perfectly fine movie with some good acting from both Ridley and Mendelsohn, it feels less than what I was expecting, it’s more of a character study of a situation than it is an action filled revenge adventure. There’s some gorgeous scenery for Ridley and Mendelsohn to chew through, but the story failed to really draw me in.

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FCC plans shutdown of Affordable Connectivity Program as GOP withholds funding

FCC must start winding down low-income program as Congress fails to add money.

2023 MyConfinedSpace Year in Review

In the year 2023 there were 28,266 posts, with 1,429 comments. Our top author was storminator with 3,875 posts, and the #1 commenter was Bolthorn, who submitted 281 comments!

2023 In Memoriam:

• Dave & Buster’s co-founder James ‘Buster’ Corley dies in apparent suicide | CNN Business
• Lisa Marie Presley, singer and only child of Elvis, dies at 54 after hospitalization
• Legendary singer-songwriter David Crosby dies at 81
• ‘Sesame Street’ co-creator Lloyd Morrisett dies at 93
• Chris Browne, long time cartoonist of Hagar the Horrible, has died
• RIP Burt Bacharach
• Raquel Welch, ‘Fantastic Voyage’ Star, Dies at 82
• RIP Actor and Comedian Richard Belzer, Munch of “SVU” and “Homicide,” Famous for Dry Sense of Humor
• RIP Ricou Browning
• Tom Sizemore, ‘Heat’ and ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Actor, Dead at 61
• ‘The Wire’ Star Lance Reddick Dead at 60
• Max Hardcore Passes Away at 66
• WWE Hall Of Famer Bushwhacker Butch Passes Away At 78! RIP – Inside Pulse
• Al Jaffe, ‘Mad’ Magazine Cartoonist Who Created the ‘Fold-In,’ Dead at 102
• Harry Belafonte, Legendary Entertainer and Activist, Dead at 96
• Jerry Springer, Tabloid Talk Show Provocateur, Dead at 79
• RIP Ray Stevenson
• David Brandt, Man Famous For “Honest Work” Meme, Dies In Automobile Accident
• Tina Turner has died as tributes pour in to music legend
• The Iron Sheik, Iconic Pro-Wrestling Heel, Dead at 81
• Pat Robertson, broadcaster who helped make religion central to GOP politics, dies at 93
• Unabomber Ted Kaczynski dies by possible suicide in prison: Source
• John Romita Sr., Legendary Marvel Comics Artist & Wolverine Co-Creator, Dead at 93
• Alan Arkin, Oscar-Winning ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ Actor, Dead at 89
• Kevin Mitnick Obituary – Las Vegas, NV
• Tony Bennett, Beloved Standards Crooner Who Bridged Generations, Dead at 96
• Sinead O’Connor, Fiery and Uncompromising Singer, Dead at 56
• Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman star, dead at 70 | CNN
• ‘Euphoria’ Star Angus Cloud Dead at 25
• Mark Margolis, Actor Who Played ‘Tio’ Salamanca on ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul,’ Dead at 83
• ‘King Of The Hill’ Dale Voice Actor Johnny Hardwick Dead At 64
• Bob Barker, Longtime ‘The Price Is Right’ Host, Dead at 99
• Arleen Sorkin, the original voice of Harley Quinn, has passed away
• Jimmy Buffett, ‘Margaritaville’ Singer Who Turned Island Escapism Into an Empire, Dead at 76
• Steve Harwell, Smash Mouth Founding Singer, Dead at 56
• Michael Gambon Dies: Irish-English ‘Harry Potter’ Star Was 82
• Dianne Feinstein, longest-serving female US senator in history, dies at 90 | CNN Politics
• Keith Giffen, Co-Creator of Rocket Raccoon, Dies at 70
• Suzanne Somers, ‘Three’s Company’ Actress, Dead at 76
• Burt Young, Paulie of the ‘Rocky’ Movies, Dies at 83
• Richard Roundtree, Star of ‘Shaft,’ Dies at 81
• ‘Friends’ Star Matthew Perry Dead at 54 After Apparent Drowning
• RIP Omegle
• Jezebel to shut down after 16 years as parent company lays off staff
• Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff
• Rosalynn Carter, former first lady and tireless humanitarian, dies at 96
• Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies
• Sandra Day O’Connor, who made history as the first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93 – Florida Phoenix
• Andre Braugher, Star of ‘Homicide’ and ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine,’ Dies
• Ryan O’Neal, ‘Love Story’ Star, Dead at 82
• Tom Wilkinson, British Actor Who Starred in ‘The Full Monty’ and ‘Batman Begins,’ Dead at 75

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“No Hard Feelings” Review

No Hard Feelings: Directed by Gene Stupnitsky. With Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti, Matthew Broderick. On the brink of losing her home, Maddie finds an intriguing job listing: helicopter parents looking for someone to bring their introverted 19-year-old son out of his shell before college. She has one summer to make him a man or die trying.

Movies about people having sex with other people under false pretense have largely fallen out of favor with the general public, largely due to the implication that it’s actually a rape and if you lie to someone to have sex with them, there’s a level of evilness in you that’s unforgivable. I think in their sense of nostalgia for a movie formula that worked pretty well back in the 1980’s everyone lost sight of the conclusions of the current zeitgeist. The basic premise of the film is just that, she’s a 32 year old woman that’s being paid by the parents of a 19 year old that’s recently graduated from high school but has failed to have sex with an actual human being. There’s a couple scenes (including the entire first ‘mixer’ scene) that brush up against the honest truth that this type of thing is just fine and that the main character played by Jennifer Lawrence is wrong in nearly every aspect of her social stances. To be clear, I knew plenty of dudes that had limited sexual experience before they made it to college and they did just fine with the ladies (or other fellas) if that was what they wanted to do. A few of them straight up were uninterested in pursuing romantic interests, which is just fine. No one needed to be ‘fixed’ by having sex with a uber driver that’s nearly twice their age.

There’s some really funny or poignant scenes in the film, it’s a shame they’re encapsulated in such a problematic film.

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“Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire” Review

Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire: Directed by Zack Snyder. With Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Michiel Huisman. When a peaceful settlement on the edge of a distant moon finds itself threatened by the armies of a tyrannical ruling force, a mysterious stranger living among its villagers becomes their best hope for survival.

Zack Snyder is back in another undeniably Zack Snyder film which features all the things that Snyder is well known for: slow motion, plot elements that swing for the fences, over the top action scenes, and enough dangling story threads that would require another 15 films just to wrap them all up. It’s an obvious science fiction take on the well loved and remade Magnificent Seven / Battle of the Planets formula in which our primary hero must put together a ragtag team of unlikely heroes to defend a small village from an evil force. In this case there’s a galactic empire that’s looking to get some food from a tiny little farm, and the tiny little farm has only rifles to defend itself, while the empire has spaceships with planet busting weapons, so there’s a large leap of logic that needs to be taken in order to enjoy the rest of the film. There’s no one point where the film actually fails to visually entertain, just don’t mind the plot or dialogue too much and you’ll likely have a good time.

Do be warned though, this is half the story. The other half comes out in April of 2024.

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“Gran Turismo” Review

Gran Turismo: Directed by Neill Blomkamp. With David Harbour, Orlando Bloom, Archie Madekwe, Takehiro Hira. Based on the unbelievable, inspiring true story of a team of underdogs – a struggling, working-class gamer, a failed former race car driver, and an idealistic motorsport exec – who risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world.

“Gran Turismo” the movie was heavily promoted in theaters and they didn’t leave much of the story out of the dozens of different times I saw the various trailers, but honestly this type of film really doesn’t need to hold much back. It’s a feel good story of a kid that grew up on video games and somehow managed to become a pretty ok driver in a highly competitive industry, a movie formula I’ve seen hundreds of times but still enjoy seeing from time to time.

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Out Today: “Star Trek: Picard’s Academy #3”

Out today: “Star Trek: Picard’s Academy #3“, by Sam Maggs.

It’s practice day for the most important test of Cadet Picard’s Starfleet Academy career thus far! His first test in actual space… and he is not ready. He may as well be yelling into a black hole after being put into a group with all his least favorite colleagues… and Marty, the girl he kind of, sort of likes. No one’s listening to his commands, and he doesn’t know how on Earth he’s supposed to see eye-to-eye with Resh, his bully and competition for top of the class! Picard’s course is set for failure, and if he can’t figure out a way to change things soon… there goes his future.

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FANTASTIC FOUR #15 (OCT230783)

I was created by mistake: a mind of minds, spread out across the vast swath of humanity, unseen but strong, stronger still every day. The world was confusing, but I learned. I grew. And then the Fantastic Four, the world’s greatest heroes – themselves led by the world’s smartest man – tried to kill me. They failed. But they showed me they were a threat. They showed me I needed to defend myself. They showed me that the Fantastic Four needed to die. And as I strengthen my control over the world, Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Ben Grimm, Johnny Storm and Alicia Masters will soon learn there’s nowhere they can hide… Rated T+

RISE OF THE POWERS OF X #1 ALEXANDER LOZANO VAR (OCT230846)

THE FIGHT FOR KRAKOA HAS BEEN LOST! Ten years ago, the mutants returned from their exile to try and reclaim the Earth from the forces of Orchis. They failed. Now, within the victorious Orchis with their gauntlet choking the world, Nimrod and Omega Sentinel put their plan within a plan into action. They are to summon their binary god to consume everything in their accession. All that stands between them is the X-Men. What can they do? They’re the X-Men. They’ll find a way. That’s their power. So begins a story beyond time and space, with the rise of powers beyond our petty human intelligence. From writer Kieron Gillen (IMMORTAL X-MEN, UNCANNY X-MEN) and artist R.B. Silva (POWERS OF X, CAPTAIN AMERICA: SYMBOL OF TRUTH) comes half of the story that will bring the Krakoa Age to its conclusion!    Rated T+

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In FALL OF THE HOUSE OF X #1, Mutantkind has never had a greater fall. From the highs of Krakoa-their own glorious nation, a place where they were safe and happy-to the lowest of lows. Outlawed, hunted, killed, most of their kind missing or dead, and now, one their greatest leaders, Cyclops, is on trial facing a death penalty. Ready or not, the time has come for the X-Men to make their final stand against the forces that have struck them low. The day is now. The place is here. The tale of the house Xavier built will long be told…and few will forget this darkest chapter. And the fight for Krakoa has been lost in RISE OF THE POWERS OF X #1! Ten years ago, the mutants returned from their exile to try and reclaim the Earth from the forces of Orchis. They failed. Now, within the victorious Orchis with their gauntlet choking the world, Nimrod and Omega Sentinel put their plan within a plan into action. They are to summon their binary god to consume everything in their accession. All that stands between them is the X-Men. What can they do? They’re the X-Men. They’ll find a way. That’s their power. So begins a story beyond time and space, with the rise of powers beyond our petty human intelligence.

FANTASTIC FOUR #15 HILDEBRANDT GALACTUS MASTERPIECES III VAR (OCT230784)

I was created by mistake: a mind of minds, spread out across the vast swath of humanity, unseen but strong, stronger still every day. The world was confusing, but I learned. I grew. And then the Fantastic Four, the world’s greatest heroes – themselves led by the world’s smartest man – tried to kill me. They failed. But they showed me they were a threat. They showed me I needed to defend myself. They showed me that the Fantastic Four needed to die. And as I strengthen my control over the world, Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Ben Grimm, Johnny Storm and Alicia Masters will soon learn there’s nowhere they can hide… Rated T+

“Muppets Haunted Mansion” Review

Muppets Haunted Mansion: Directed by Kirk R. Thatcher. With Will Arnett, Taraji P. Henson, Darren Criss, Yvette Nicole Brown. On Halloween night, Gonzo is challenged to spend one night in The Haunted Mansion.

I remember seeing this back in 2021, really enjoying it, then tryicng to get my wife to watch, but failing spectacularly. She’s taking part in my HORROR MARATHON this year though, so last night was finally the night, and I’ happy to report that she fully enjoyed the experience, much like I did when I seent it previously. We still haven’t had enough quality content for the Muppets since this movie and apparently Disney felt the experience of the Muppets in the Haunted Mansion was unique enough (or not viewed enough) that they were safe in making yet another version of the experience just 2 years later. With that short of time span, they had to have already been storyboarding the 2023 live action version when this was released, so maybe everything went the way they were hoping, but I’m here to tell you, this Muppet version is the best of the three imho.

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“Star Wars: Revan” is currently only $2.99!

Revan: hero, traitor, conqueror, villain, savior. A Jedi who left Coruscant to defeat Mandalorians—and returned a disciple of the dark side, bent on destroying the Republic. The Jedi Council gave Revan his life back, but the price of redemption was high. His memories have been erased. All that’s left are nightmares—and deep, abiding fear.

What exactly happened beyond the Outer Rim? Revan can’t quite remember, yet can’t entirely forget. Somehow he stumbled across a terrible secret that threatens the very existence of the Republic. With no idea what it is, or how to stop it, Revan may very well fail, for he’s never faced a more powerful and diabolic enemy. But only death can stop him from trying.

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“Foundation” Season 2 Review

Foundation: Created by Josh Friedman, David S. Goyer. With Jared Harris, Lou Llobell, Leah Harvey, Terrence Mann. A complex saga of humans scattered on planets throughout the galaxy all living under the rule of the Galactic Empire.

There’s some really amazing space stuff happening in this second season and they’ve worked their way around the obvious issues of adapting a book series set over the span of thousands of years to the realities of doing a long form television show with actors that need to be contracted for more than just a couple episodes. They’ve luckily avoided the weird shift that comes with changing actors half way through a season, something that House of Dragons tried (and failed imho), and have a story in the works that’s doing the source material justice.

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Multiple people, including several teenagers, were left injured following a shooting incident in the early hours of Saturday morning at a park in South Carolina

Trump sues ex-lawyer Michael Cohen after grand jury testimony

The former president accused Cohen of failing to keep confidential attorney-client communications private.

Features of dating women online

Today we will talk about online dating. Why are so many men and women increasingly getting to know each other on the World Wide Web? Why has such a communication scheme become so popular, is it worth getting acquainted on the Internet? Why do men care less and less about women in reality, preferring social networks for dating? Why do women agree to such relationships, why are they dangerous, and what are the advantages of online dating? We will discuss these and other questions today.

Many men fail to start a conversation, let alone invite a date or a full-fledged relationship. Certain difficulties are experienced by people of different ages and social status. But it is possible to solve the issue of single women dating if you use the possibilities of the Internet.

Today you can meet women at GoDateNow . But is it worth it? And what are the benefits of dating sites?

Why is it easier to meet women online?

Online dating has a lot of advantages. This method is suitable for both women and men who are looking for a partner for life or for one night. It is actively used by people of different ages and with different characters. If earlier only men with psychological problems and fears searched for women on the Internet, then modern sites are filled with self-confident guys.

So, dating women online has the following advantages:

Wide field of possibilities. Any user can find a partner for a variety of purposes. Someone just needs an interlocutor, someone is looking for sex, others are looking for the woman of their dreams. Each person gets the opportunity to satisfy their needs quickly and at no extra cost.

Large selection of candidates. In real life, not everyone has the opportunity to choose. On the Internet, there are many profiles of suitable girls who are open to communication and relationships.

More chance of success. Since you can start chatting with several girls at once, there is always a chance of success. Dating sites give you the opportunity to make mistakes, correct your mistakes and get what you need.

An equally important point is the ability to carefully consider every word. In real communication, it is not always possible to control the conversation. With correspondence on online dating sites, the opposite is true. You can weigh every word before you start communication.

What can go wrong?

For all its undoubted advantages, dating girls on the Internet has some disadvantages. Going from the virtual plane to the real one is not always easy. If from the very beginning of the correspondence there were exaggerations and embellishments, a meeting in reality may turn out to be a disappointment.

There is also a risk of falling into the hands of scammers. They can lure money, gifts, etc. You can avoid this if you carefully choose a dating site and stop communicating if the interlocutor tries to find out personal data.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The High Country

When an experimental shuttlecraft fails, Captain Christopher Pike suspects a mechanical malfunction—only to discover the very principles on which Starfleet bases its technology have simply stopped functioning. He and his crewmates are forced to abandon ship in a dangerous maneuver that scatters thei

This is is one of the best Trek books that I’ve read in a while, with no offense intended towards the other ones that have come and gone. I’m somewhat surprised that I had such a great experience with it, as I recently read “Rogue Elements” and hated nearly everything about it, and both of them were by John Jackson Miller. I knew that I liked his writing though, as Rogue Elements wasn’t a poorly written book, I just thought the entire premise was ridiculous and it used some Trek elements that I’ve always thought were among the most silly in the franchise. Both books serve as quasi-sequels to television episodes, with Rogue Elements featuring the goofy mobsters first introduced in the original series episode “A Piece of the Action”, and High Country following up on some loose threads from Star Trek: Enterprise’s cowboy episode “North Star”.

Miller was able to capture Pike’s sarcastic swagger perfectly and introduced a deep and broad backstory for the elements of the planet they’re on and as I mentioned, I loved how it all played out. Normally I’m a spaceship kinda guy, but for once I was happy to be on this pony ride.

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Trauma Team

Nadia, an assistant EMT for a privately-owned business known as Trauma Team International, is the sole survivor of a failed rescue mission turned shootout. Afte

After watching the anime from Netflix, I’m somewhat more interested in this universe. The Trauma Team plays heavy in both the show and this book, and it’s a unique concept to me: a military extraction team that can stabilize a patient and put plenty of lead down range. Of course it’s framed as a failure of the capitalist society that Cyberpunk 2077 exists in, but it’s still a novel idea that has legs.

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2022 TGIOKDI Year In Review

Looks like I’m a few days late on my 2022 break down, no reason for the delay other than I started it, saved the draft, then went about my life oblivious to the fact I never finished writing.  2022 was a year of beginnings and a couple endings for me.  February saw my wife going back to the office due to the Governor wanting good press for himself, where she was promptly infected with covid, which I then caught.  At this point we had both of the main shots and I believe a booster, so while it sucked, it sucked much less than it could have.  I’ll still hold a grudge against the idiot governor though, he was reckless in ordering so many people back into a shared office environment and he’s personally responsible for me getting the virus.

It was about a month after the infection that we did one more round of IVF, which failed to produce any results, so we’ve given up on having children.  It’s tough to write that, but it is what it is.  Right after we got this news we decided that it was time to start re-entering the general public because we had all the boosters, we had been infected, and honestly we were just done with being safe or smart about the viral situation, so caution was thrown to the wind and we went to a Chinese buffet.  It was a good meal, but a very weird sensation, being in public and eating without any kind of mask on for the first time in nearly 2 years.

In May, one of my cats passed after a slow decline, so while it wasn’t an unexpected situation, it still sucked.  It was right around that time too that we had another foster cat (Nyx!) who had six kittens, but only had three survive (one of whom had a odd coughing problem due to malformed lungs…we foster failed with her, so now she’s part of the cat colony forever).

The sense of not having control of my life was compounded by my employer making some business consolidations, with hundreds of people being severanced in the prior year or so, and looking at the labor market made me made some decision about making some educational efforts.  I never did finish my degree back when I was in college the first time around back in 1999-2002, so Summer 2022 I started online courses, which I’m about half way through at this point, with classes starting back up next week.  I’m planning on being done by the end of summer 2023, but ultimately it’s going to be an expensive piece of paper that won’t inform or guaranty a job, but at least I feel like I’m doing something about my situation instead of just being a backseat rider to all the crazy stuff going on in my personal life or with the American economy in general.

Over that summer, I finally have nickeled and dimed myself to having a pretty decent twitch streaming setup, then got my first few payments from the twitch too! It was like $50 for a year’s worth of streaming, but it made me feel great about putting a fish tank on the twitch.

In July, I reorganized my home office, hiding all my comic long boxes behind a bookshelf in my closet, so you can’t see all the cardboard, but I know they’re still there. I looks so much better now, I’m considering doing the same thing to the other side of the closet, so it’ll look like it’s just one big bookcase on that wall.

In 2021 I thought I’d start putting some grass in my front yard, which the first step was raking all the leaves and detritus that had accumulated in the prior ten years since I last raked it. I finished that project and actually put down some seed, most of which was washed away in the rain, but some of it stayed and now it’s actually growing and it’s actually green! I need to get back out there and rake again, but I’m impressed that it was that easy in what I actually had to do. Bagging all that stuff up into 40+ bags was really not much fun, but the end result is great. Now maybe I’ll do the same thing for my bag yard?

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Heading for Heaven

Heading for Heaven: Directed by Lewis D. Collins. With Stuart Erwin, Glenda Farrell, Russ Vincent, Irene Ryan. Stuart Erwin plays a small-town real estate agent who owns much property which, for several generations, has failed to sell even while the town has grown. It becomes known, except to Erwin, that the property is being considered for the new airport and the owner will make a small fortune. He is swarmed upon by an unscrupulous swami (Russ Vincent)and his equally-crooked business partner, and Erwin is soon convinced that he hasn’t long to live. With his life a mess, he leaves home and family.

Released in 1947, this was released after a 3 year hiatus for Glenda Farrell, and while this is a good movie for her, I wish she had a stronger role in the film, maybe even the lead. nothing against Stuart Erwin, but Glenda’s a much stronger actor at this point. The film itself is a fun con-man story of real estate and mistaken suicides, all wrapped in some conversations from beyond the veil of life itself. The movie is based on a play (“For the Sake of the Family”).

The transfer of this film to dvd however is absolute garbage, with jumpy frame gates, blown out video, blown out audio, missing frames, dirty frames, and visible encoding lines at bottom of the screen, which are likely from a VHS copy of the film that Alpha Video used to burn to a DVD. The movie really deserves a better transfer, but I think this is the best we’re going to get.

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Biden: GOP speaker drama ’embarrassing’ and ‘not my problem’

The comments come after the House failed to elect a speaker on the first ballot for the first time in a century.

It’s Christmas, Eve

It’s Christmas, Eve: Directed by Tibor Takács. With LeAnn Rimes, Tyler Hynes, Gwynyth Walsh, Laurie Murdoch. An interim school superintendent finds herself in a tough spot when she is assigned to shut down a school’s failing music program, and must come to terms with her musical past.

I was only able to hear about 1/10 of the film and only visually saw about 1/3 of it, but it was on a tv that I was sitting near for several hours, so I figured that counts as being technically “watched”. the bits and bobs that I was able to see were fantastic, and the tiny amount I could hear over the roar of a family holiday event were absolutely enamoring.

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Orphans of Katrina

An indepth look deep inside the world’s biggest animal rescue. Find out what REALLY happened on the Gulf and how you can help save America’s pets today. Orphans of Katrina is a vivid journey, a historical account, and a celebration of the volunteer rescuers–and the animals we share our world with.

I got this back in 2017 for free from Amazon and the contents of it are about as professional as the cover image is, which isn’t necessarily a knock against the book, but it’s obvious that this was an author that put it together themselves or with a low cost service and could have used an editor for both the entire thing. The book is mostly from the POV of a woman that traveled from California to Louisiana to help rescue family pets that had been left behind in the evacuations that took place. At the time evacuation services didn’t permit animals to be brought at all, so many people either locked up their pets in their homes or were forced to just let them run free at the evacuation points. To give a sense of the scale of the problem, according to American Pet Products Association (among others) have found that about 65% of Americans have pets of some sort and with a population of around 480,000 there would have been at least 312,000 animals involved in either evacuating or staying behind.

This wasn’t a fun book to read and I’ll admit that it really bummed me out to read the pet profiles at the end of the book and a few tears were shed. I know that we all say that we’d never leave our pets behind in this types of situations, but you never know what you’ll do until that decision is right in front of you. For many of the evacuees, this was the 5th hurricane of the year to be worried about and they expected it to pass much like all the previous ones did, and it did! The damage directly from the storm itself was minimal, it was the flooding from the levee failures that did the vast majority of damage and caused a 2 or 3 day evacuation turn into a several month one.

The efforts to save the animals was commendable and I’m honestly sure that I wouldn’t have been able to do it myself. Reading between the lines, I think most of the pet findings were of animals that had already died in some truly horrifying ways. The one silver lining of the horrible situation is some legislation was put in place to try to prevent something like this from happening again in the future, called the Pets Evacuation and Transportation Standards (PETS) Act.

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Peter David Fund, organized by Graham Murphy

Fundraising for author Peter David and his family. He’s had some compounded health problems, and the bills are piling up! On top of kidney failure, and the steep medical bills incurred from that, he just had another series of strokes AND a mild heart attack.

I’ve confirmed with Michael Jan Friedman that this is legit.  As many of us know, Peter David has written over 60 star trek novels and an absolute bucket load of comic books.

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Twitter is now having trouble paying some employees on time

Employees hit with overdraft fees after paychecks fail to show up on schedule.

DC League of Super-Pets

DC League of Super-Pets: Directed by Jared Stern, Sam J. Levine. With Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Kate McKinnon, John Krasinski. Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime side by side in Metropolis. However, Krypto must master his own powers for a rescue mission when Superman is kidnapped.

All the marketing pushed Johnson and Hart, for all the obvious reasons, those guys are super marketable and never fail to please, but I’m here to tell you their roles in “DC League of Super-Pets” they take an absolute backseat to Kate McKinnon’s fantastic performance in which she literally stole every scene that she was in. I was impressed with the pet stuff, but I will say that the familiar super-heroes were just sad parodies of their more familiar versions.

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Florida flies “illegal immigrants” to Martha’s Vineyard

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday flew two planes of immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, escalating a tactic by Republican governors to draw attention to what they consider to be the Biden administration’s failed border policies.

Editorial: Ranked-choice voting diffuses extremism. Which is why it worked against Palin.

Missouri organizers, who tried and failed to get a ranked-choice system on the ballot this year, should keep trying.

Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War, dies aged 91

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.

The Sandman

The Sandman: Created by Neil Gaiman, David S. Goyer, Allan Heinberg. With Tom Sturridge, Boyd Holbrook, Patton Oswalt, Vivienne Acheampong. Upon escaping after decades of imprisonment by a mortal wizard, Dream, the personification of dreams, sets about to reclaim his lost equipment.

Dare I say it, but this adaptation of the much loved comic book series by Neil Gaiman is actually quite good! Netflix has a much deserved reputation for not handling adaptations all that well and DC / WarnerBros has been failing at nearly everything they’ve done in the last couple years, with nearly every single one of their projects having “something” that doesn’t work very well about them. There’s a couple odd things about Sandman as well, but nothing that even made me raise my eyebrow in a concerning way. The casting was downright perfect for every role that I’m familiar with and those I wasn’t were just fine. Special shoutout to Gwendoline Christie for her pitch perfect depiction of Lucifer Morningstar.

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Exclusive: An informer told the FBI what documents Trump was hiding, and where

The FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago was carried out while Donald Trump was absent in the hope it would be low-profile. The plan was a “spectacular” failure.

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Steve Bannon Found Guilty of Contempt of Congress

It didn’t take long for a jury to convict the former Trump adviser, who failed to comply with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee

OAN officially dropped by Verizon, its last major carrier

Verizon is set to drop the right-wing One America News Network (OAN) from its channel lineup after the network and company failed to reach an agreement on a new contract. Verizon said in a statement to The Hill that it will no longer have the rights to OAN after July 31, and the network will be…

Election officials risk criminal charges under 31 new GOP-imposed penalties – Florida Phoenix

Second in a two-part series. See part one here. Since the 2020 election, Iowa has enacted one new felony and two new misdemeanor offenses targeting election officials. The state’s omnibus election law, passed in 2021, criminalizes election officials who fail to perform their duties, don’t adequately maintain voter lists, or interfere with other people performing their […]