Top Gun

So many days home from school sick watching The Price is Right in the morning. Cheers.

I finally beat it this past week, and according to my Switch profile I was somewhere north of 220 hours. Maybe a bit of that was leaving the game paused, but still. I had pretty much everything I wanted to finish taken care of beforehand: all shrines, all lightroots, all main quests, pretty much every side quest I'd found, almost 500 Korok seeds, the gear I wanted fully 4-starred, you name it. The entire final sequence is the coolest thing I've ever seen in any Zelda game, full-on jaw-agape wonder. I may have shed a tear or two during the ending. What an absolutely stunning game. The crazy part is that after the fact, when it shows you the percentage completion for the map and quest numbers, I learned that there was one single solitary side quest that I haven't found yet. And I have absolutely no idea where it could be.

Because they have massive tanks full of millions and millions of gallons of treated water, and they're running out of room to add any more. The only radionuclide remaining in the water is tritium (which apparently is nigh-impossible to filter out at this point), and TEPCO has stated that the levels in the diluted water they're releasing are well below the international standards for safe levels. Granted, TEPCO hasn't always been the most forthcoming in every aspect of the disaster and cleanup, but for something as high-profile as this there are a lot of eyeballs monitoring the relevant levels. I get that radiation is a scary topic for a lot of people, but there's so much FUD that flies around whenever it comes up that you sometimes have to slice through the bullshit. And yeah, I don't doubt for a second that China was just looking for any excuse to screw over Japan's fishing industry, because China gonna China.

I just want to get the damn franchise over with already, and I know it'll take me ages to do it on my own, so I want it on the block so that I'm forced to suffer through it.

I genuinely love how they've seemingly leaned hard into a creepy circus vibe for Buggy.

Again, you have literally no idea what other series Toonami has or hasn't pursued over the past few years.

My guy, distributors chucked free shows at the block over 15 years ago. The current industry is absolutely nothing like what it was then. And I believe that they're constantly talking with people, but it's not as easy as just saying "Hey we want this/Okay sure." Shit happens.

Or maybe the prices for any of these series are more than [as] can afford for licensed shows anymore. Or maybe streaming services snap up the TV broadcast rights even knowing they're not going to use them in an attempt to stamp out competition. Or maybe most of the rights-holders are no longer concerned about having their series air on a late-night American linear TV block and don't even bother offering TV broadcast rights anymore. Or at least a half-dozen other far more sensible options than "zomg Demarco made some tweets and probably pissed off someone so that's why we don't get shows anymore he's the wooooorst."

I like how you guys still make all of these absurd exaggerated assumptions about what Demarco does or has done or his relationships with other people as if you have this grandiose inside information. It's hilarious to me.

Now you're just talking crazy.

Man, phones used to be so much cooler.

Ooh, RICO. Spicy!

It's crazy seeing this super-modern drone warfare so thoroughly mixed with century-old trench warfare tactics.

A recursive link is pretty sciencey.

"Two nights that absolutely no one will be watching for $400, Alex!"

Well the catch is that this paper is claiming superconductivity at room temperature AND normal atmospheric pressure. That's what has so many eyebrows raised. Again, this would be massive news if true, but that's a very big if.

The main issue is that the paper hasn't been peer-reviewed yet, so no one's taken a good hard look at their data to see if it stands up to scrutiny. Room-temperature superconductors are kind of a Holy Grail, and there have been many claims and promising leads in the past that have all fizzled out to nothing, so I think it's natural to be skeptical until this team's results can be repeated by others. I mean it would be amazing if it was true, and I genuinely hope it is.

Expressions say it all, don't they?

Spicy!

This indictment list is swiftly working towards "Gotta catch 'em all!" status.

Alabama does have the Marshall Space Flight Center, which is a major NASA site, but I've always felt extremely sorry for all of its employees for having to exist in Alabama.

If robots can start doing laundry I'll become robosexual in a heartbeat.

I can't remember the last time I've eaten anything from McDonald's that wasn't a Shamrock Shake. I plan to keep it that way. ...that being said our Wendy's managed to serve me a chicken sandwich that was still raw in the middle last week.

The fuck kind of combo are you buying?

TWO YEARS' WORTH.