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played about an hour thus far- this is totally scratching an itch. the combos are super satisfying!

also it seems pretty generous- you can reset turns and even get a limited-use do-over button. looking forward to going deep with this one!

...and without further ado ladies and gentlemen i present to you, The Internet: A Play in One Act. you might have caught my previous black box production, What's the Deal with Vocal Fry?

to be followed shortly thereafter with the expansion, "The Breach is That Way: Welcome to the Gunpla Show."

WE WILL BE WATCHING (soon, thank god).

cheers @vinny and @ybbaaabby for the hard work!

yeah- i'm pretty jazzed on this thing. will be a day 1 purchase for sure- esp. given ben prunty came back to do soundtrack work.

god, FTL was so good, and there's Hot Buzz on the street for this new one. can't wait.

a lot of podcasts i listen to have timestamps purely because community members volunteer to do the work. maybe that's the answer, since this isn't the first time this issue has been raised (and i seem to recall staff saying they're not interested in doing the work, but i can't quote you an episode number).

the whole live-to-tape setup of the podcast seems like a conscious effort to reduce post-production to near zero- so i doubt this is something the crew is willing to take on.

everyone has their verbal crutches- as a recipient your only realistic option is to deal with it. it's not likethey're going to keep a speech therapist on retainer. and drawing attention to the way someone speaks (especially when it comes to matters of style vs. comprehension) is a guaranteed way to annoy the fuck out of them.

repetition in language is occasionally bothersome for me too- but i'm not going to start a forum post declaring a moratorium on the phrase "bounce off of [game]."

handsome boy!

ugh, that's incredibly rough duder. from one human to another (who has had the sincere privilege of sharing time with several family pets), i'm feeling for ya. it's not much, and it won't take your mind off things- but i'll tell you what i told my sister when she recently had to put down her 16 year old mutt whose health was failing-

we should all be so lucky to have someone who cares as much as you do close to us at the end.

it's clear from what you've written that you take good care of him, so try not to beat yourself up about it. i'm sure in his own doggo way he doesn't want that, and appreciates everything you're doing.

this is basically where i land. if i'm being honest- i think a combination of press hype, personal expectations and diminishing returns have left me ever-so-slightly crestfallen with black panther. it's still very much a MCU movie, albeit among the best.

in the run-up i had heard people throw around terms like 'shakespearean,' 'mature,' and nothing but effusive praise for michael b. jordan's killmonger. and i don't deny that all of those accolades are fitting to movie...just not to the extent i was hoping for.

i really, really wanted the same level of development and screentime given to killmonger as ledger's joker...and IMHO he just didn't get that. i would have loved to see killmonger as an adult in oakland, living his reality (we get it as a youth, but i wanted to see how that shaped him as an adult in his 'home' setting).

i think what it boils down to for me personally is that i just need to reset expectations for MCU and maybe skip a few. these are still movies that are designed to be consumed in a single serving, with character development that's squeezed between requisite CG action sequences.

all of that said- the aesthetic, ensemble cast and cool-factor of this thing is off the charts. the afrofuturist elements are such a god damn breath of fresh air. and i'm fucking pysched that there is now strong data point that suggests, 'no- you 100% can make a disney-funded movie that doesn't need an outwardly white-american cast.'

oh, i'm on to you bub. *winks terribly*

if this is performance art 9/10 would art again.