Yeah, so due to life getting in the way, and aftermaths of life getting in the way, I admittedly didn’t watch any of the Sin City Slugfests. (The great Phil Rizzuto would mark it as WW for “wasn’t watching.”) And that’s why no BattleBots Beats these last few weeks. But, the full Sin City Slugfest results:
SCS1
Shreddit Bro def. Skorpios
Rotator def. Terrortops
Switchback def. Kraken
Valkyrie def. Ominous
Shreddit Bro def. Switchback
Valkyrie def. Rotator
Shreddit Bro def. Valkryie
SCS2
Black Dragon def. Blip
MadCatter def. Bloodsport
Malice def. HiJinx
Whiplash def. Fusion
Black Dragon def. MadCatter
Whiplash def. Malice
Whiplash def. Black Dragon (a fight to watch as a potential FotY nominee)
SCS3
Gigabyte def. Triton
Beta def. Double Tap
Death Roll def. Slammo!
Free Shipping def. Mammoth
Gigabyte def. Death Roll
Free Shipping def. Beta
Free Shipping def. Gigabyte
SCS4
Cobalt def. Banshee
Jackpot def. Big Dill
Emulsifier def. Captain Shrederator
Lucky def. Overhaul
Cobalt def. Emulsifier
Jackpot def. Lucky
Jackpot def. Cobalt (cue controversy of John Mladenik, and not a member of Team Carbide, driving Cobalt)
SCS5
Claw Viper def. Shatter!
Monsoon def. Gruff
Ripperoni vs. Glitch
HyperShock vs. Starchild
HyperShock def. Claw Viper (another FotY nominee)
Ripperoni def. Monsoon
Ripperoni def. HyperShock
And with that, your final bracket looks like this:
Free Shipping (SCS3) vs. End Game (WC5)
Jackpot (SCS4) vs. Whiplash (SCS2)
Shreddit Bro (SCS1) vs. SawBlaze (WC7)
Tantrum (WC6) vs. Ripperoni (SCS5)
(Golden Bolt finals is tomorrow, 8PM Eastern on Discovery)
Anyway, here’s the news:
-P*ts CB JC Jackson is not expected to make the trip to Germany with the team due to *points* all the shit.
And here’s sports!
Wednesday Night MACtion!
Eastern Michigan vs. Holy Toledo (7:30, ESPN2)
It’s beginning to look a bit like iceball:
Panther Shield vs. Ovi and Pals (FLA vs. WSH, 7:30, TNT)
Sacrifice… THE ROOOOOK! (LAK vs. VGK, 10:00, TNT)
Meaningless until Christmas-ball:
Wemby and Pals vs. Julius Randle’s Eternal Love-Hate (SAS vs. NYK, 7:30, ESPN)
Curse of CP3 vs. “Hey, did you know the distance of a mile in feet?” (GSW vs. DEN, 10:00, ESPN)
Okay, and now socialize! And I’m mostly over my food poisoning, so Senor’s dumpling stash (though I’ve gone through the ones Senorita Weaselo made), here I come!
Thank you 5 am music, forgot about this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-av7F1JBmj4
And OOF the lyrics, goddamn, don’t listen to this song
Can I vote for the fictional Rick and Morty President? I legit like Biden, probably more than most people do, but goddamn it’s gonna be an effort to vote for him, even with librul Cali mail in law.
Smartest Vegas move is to always take the day off after you get back.
I hit the grocery store, got my 4 mile harbor walk in, dusted and cleaned the place top to bottom, did two loads of laundry and washed my car by hand in my driveway.
Now I’m all rested up for a one day work week followed by a 3 day weekend.
Life. Is. Good.
Accurate. Especially since you stayed the perfect amount of time. More than 72 hours and you’re gonna have a bad time*
*The only exception is if you’re there for a convention and someone else is paying for room and board. Looking at you NAB
I was back home by 11 AM yesterday and I’ve been asleep for 90% of that time. I’m just up long enough now to get a drink of pineapple juice, take more drugs, and then go back to sleep.
I did well with Newest Robe! Discarded previous dual robe combo for Brand New Robe. Flannel robe by LL Bean. Women’s robe is full length and about $20 more than knee length men’s robe, BUT Tall version of men’s robe is same price and hits just above the ankle so I will use those $20 for MILD EVIL!
Top 5 Mild Evil things to do under $20:
5. Buy your friends kids that cheap toy barking chihuahua dogs you find in downtown LA. They yip and yip and make the parents want to rip out the battery with a machete.
4. Eat a crunchy-sounding meal at a Chili’s with your mouth as wide as possible while chewing. Make eye contact with every person that looks at you to make it awkward for them.
3. At a Mexican restaurant, take the toilet paper rolls from thr bathroom. All of them. Recommend the bean and cheese dip to everyone you know.
2. Beets.
1. Clip a bunch of store coupons for CVS. Take up all that random shit that might apply to each coupon to the register. Insist on buying one item at a time, in case you get better coupons. Ask the associate to double check the pricing. As the line grows behind you, keep telling everyone that you won’t be much longer. And make sure you take longer as you argue every price and whether that coupon should apply.
One last lesson from the Vegas trip.
I had my first and last experience with Dunkin Donuts.
Ever.
Still paying the iron price for that one.
Amazed it was that bad, haven’t had Dunkin (seems they dropped the donuts part a while ago) in ages, but recall it being a solid mediocre. At least on the coffee and donuts
Solid mediocre is a great description. Fun fact: It’s a little known Massachusetts law, but it’s illegal to have more than 600 feet separating two Dunkin donuts locations.
In Cape Cod I once ordered a regular” coffee at an unkind Donuts. It was way early, I was a hung over Angeleno, and I meant a plain black coffee and not some latte shit or anything, just plain regular coffee.
I get in my car and take a sip and GODDAM this thing is loaded with cream and sugar. I go back in to complain in the strongest possible terms and the girl says: “You asked for regulah! That’s with cream and sugah!. That’s regulah!”
Sounds about right. My default is large hot French vanilla, black. Impossible to fuck up and make too sweet.
Best coffee I ever had was at a Dunkin’s. And it was absolutely loaded with sugar and cream. I was of course quite hung over and young and stupid.
Plain. I ask for plain. Regular just means what normal shitheads want.
When my friend was in Uni in Mass (Emerson) it was lore that there were 666 Dunkins in Boston
I’d buy that. Especially since at back Bay station, no joke there are two of them maybe 200 feet apart
Some perceptive yet annoying person sent me a paper audiophile catalogue to my Chicago address. It’s both fun flipping through a paper catalogue like olden days, but also, holy fuck the prices on these things. And I want them. But no way in hell do I pay $3k for bookshelf speakers. BOOKSHELF SPEAKERS! We won’t even go into the price for the tube amp I want to go into crime to steal cause nawt paying $3k for it. And that’s before preamps and all the others….oh my
I did price out my fancy. Anyone want to give me $32k just to build a stereo system?
Floor standers or bust. Never understood spending that kind of money on bookshelfs.
I mean, makes sense for size of room sometimes, but when the bookshelves (BOOKSHELVES!!) are $3k the standers are $5k. And for the space I’m looking at, bookshelves are maybe where it’s at, not sure I need awesome acoustics in the dining room, which actually might be sized for standers.
I think my dad has a working tube amp somewhere. I have our old turntable from the same stereo setup, but I need to do some cable work before I can get it hooked up to any kind of modern sound system.
I have a decent modern record player, doesn’t require any sort of seperate phono in (although I have one, old skool 70s solid state amp MOAR POWER). But yeah, my antiquated shit is NAWT stereophile. Awesome, yes, but stereophile is a whole diff thing
Might as well get Weezer up in here with the old school Internet meme discussion.
https://youtu.be/PQHPYelqr0E?si=gNovdkxS3lCHv_4O
Here’s another Vegas breakfast picture, the kind that freaks jjfozz out:
I’ll give you the secret: they’re not altered pictures, they’re completely AI generated with DALL-E. I just type in words and pictures come out, except it looks like space aliens made them. This photo was text described as people eating pancakes in a casino or something like that.
Forget the faces look at the pancakes.
Those were some very tasty AI generated yellow circles, we don’t even need human chefs! YELLOW CIRCLES ARE MY YUM FUTURE
Edited to add : I’m the almost a hand on the right. Also just editing for the sheer joy of editing when nawt everyone can
Meanwhile, back at the seedy motel:
I hope y’all washed my comforter after, probably shouldn’t have loaned it to you for your “Depraved AI primalist wired shit” but I’m a nice lady
I DON’T CARE THEY STILL FREAK ME THE FUCK OUT
I’m wearing the always trendy little black dress.
I know Prokofiev did well, but whatever happened to Antikofiev?
Rejected by the Party, probably.
For those of you who remember OSZ’s avatar and want MOAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7JyjZI3LUM
“I am a consumer whore!”
“And how!”
Classic!
And Gen Z thinks they won’t become consumer whores! LOL! (We invented LOL)
TRUTHFF!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpjgl2baLs
Oooooh my fave
HE REDID NUMA NUMA AND IT IS STILL GLORIOUS AND MAKES ME HAPPY!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBKm1MBsTbk
Thank goodness it’s not 2101 yet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg
Oh man, I remember the someone set us up the bomb memes in the early days of the Internet.
Such good days. Totally why I still own like 4 Dreamcasts of dubious quality. And it didn’t even suck to be a gamer chick back then. I still have a Quake III Arena tin that I keep shit in, and am also smart enough to know rocket jumping doesn’t work in real life. Also, rail guns never should have worked underwater, but whatever
I’ve decided to combine my horrible judgment about men and relationships with requalifying for Alaska 75k, so I’ve booked quite a few miles+cash trips to Chicago over the next couple months. Should be fun, productive, and advice column fuel all in one! The best part is, it’s unlikely to go poorly for me personally!
The Alaska 75k is the worst of all the running fundraisers, by far.
Need to finish the race in under 3 days to qualify for the Boston 75k
On the plus side, 75 Kelvin is slightly closer to a temperature where live can survive than 5 Kelvin
The Senators flayed the Leafs 6-3. You’re welcome, hockey fans the world over.
While I appreciate the Leaf flaying, Senators is still a dumb name for a team, along with Commanders, Generals, Politicians (although no one has tried this one yet), etc
The Senators have been a laughingstock for the majority of their existence and you’re pointing that out. Do you kick homeless babies in your spare time?
Nah, they’re usually too underweight to make it a satisfying kick
DEAR DOKTOR ZYMM,
DO YOU TAKE OFF YOUR BOXING GLOVES BEFORE YOU GO TO BED?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZP7v3pdMZY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A9EBq0Thy4
NOW IT’S TIME TO KICK IT
I wish I had a dumpling stash, that seems like a potential new years resolution.
Only just realized yesterday that season 7 of Rick and Morty is out. Watching it now. Travel interfered with watching new Futurama, so will have to go back and watch all that soon. Is there a new kickass animated show out there? Or at least something funny with science adjacent jokes? The fact that Rick and Morty is on season 7 just kinda makes me feel a bit behind the times, but if there really is no great new thing, then….that also sucks. I don’t want to have to go on Reddit to find out. I don’t want to go on Reddit ever.
I am wearing 2 bathrobes at the same time and it’s actually pretty awesome. Got a new one that’s t-shirt fabric and was trying it out but got cold and put on a fluffy bathrobe over. I am cozy. Flannel bathrobe supposed to arrive today, but UPS always shows up late as fuck.
I really like the Harley Quinn animated series on Max with Kaley Cuoco as the voice of Harley. It’s smartass and funny.
Although not sciencey.
I think the sciencey part is essential, or at least a strong indication. I’m also a bit skeptical on anything not completely original (although Harley Quinn IS one of my favorite existing characters so happy to hear she got her own series!)
Even for non-animated, have got some recommendations in hand, but again feeling a bit behind because don’t feel like there’s anything Letterkenney level for me to get into.
I guess this could be writer/actor strike related though. Heard there’s a resolution for the acting strike as of today!
My darling girl, I say this with all the love in the world- you have a serious robe problem. You need to go to robe rehab immediately!
It’s true, but I’m only doing the first step of admitting I have a problem. I’m having far too much fun to reform!
Just be careful- the robe thing can easily lead to a deadly slipper addiction. Robes are a gateway drug.
Weirdly enough, I’m not sure I’ve ever paid for slippers. Between gifts and airlines/hotels I’ve had a pretty steady flow of medium quality slippers.
Oh, I lie! I did buy a pair of Scandi felt slippers, but I feel like they don’t really count because they’re almost shoes. That’s an important philosophical question, when does a slipper become a shoe?
When it gets ruined if you wear it outside? I don’t know, but at least I’m sure slippers are not a sandwich!
Senorita Weaselo makes them from scratch. Sometimes including the wrappers.
It is my new favorite soul food.
I would like some! I’m glad you’re feeling better. Food poisoning sucks.
Haven’t met her, but love her
She needs to fill in for yeah right in the offseason and teach us how to make them
I’m oddly intrigued to try these.
https://eatmila.com/products/classic-pork-xiao-long-bao?variant=39667871711361
Their other variants are great, for what’s it worth.
We can put it on the DFOCon NYC docket.
(And I have heard good things about that brand but haven’t gotten them.)
Start hashing out the details for DFO Does New York and I’ll cosign.
At least they are down to five.
My 2nd best case scenario is the three Gremlin Pods came to life only because someone got water on Trump cannibalize each other, the Christie the Hutt on the left either fights or f—-s Trump and gets it over with, and the voters coalese behind the horrific but somehow still lesser of two evils over Trump.
My best case scenario involves a time machine and hitting Fred Trump in the testicles with a DFO-Regulation sledgehammer.
You may infer my prospects on the 2024 election.
You know how fucking stupid Americans are. You know this yutz is going to get elected.
It is like looking at my ridiculous provincial government. We knew what they were going to do, but the yokels fucking elected the ass clowns anyway.
Marge Greene has over 70% favorability in her district. Objectively speaking, she has done nothing of substance, and likely won’t this term. However, her electorate loves it.
At this point, our only hope is either a massive heart attack or a vengeful, jilted Melania finally snaps when she finds him in flagrante delicto with Ivanka.
Or both. Both is also good.
The heart attack is the only option. The second won’t happen because:
1) I suspect Trump hasn’t been able to get a hardon in years
2) Even back in the day he probably only got hard on dumb power trips, hence the sexual harassment and probable rapes
3) I doubt Trump’s dick was in the top 50 reasons of why Melania married him
4) If he actually can maintain an erection or try to do sexual activity without one, I’m guessing Melania wouldn’t care who it is as long as it isn’t her, even if it is super creepy incest
5) Unless she has some weird hangups (totally possible) Ivanka would be far better off cutting ties at this point and just sticking with her also creepy and gross hubby
He could also stroke out. I would accept that in lieu of a heart attack.
Might even be better!
We are Groundhog Day, fated to relive Trump v. Biden every 4 years and this will somehow continue even after term limits and death try to intervene
I have been participating in local democracy for the last 75 minutes waiting for an agenda item I’m angry about, and I’m only on my second aviation. This will not stand.
Well make sure to have several more before you speak about the issue, the beer will help you remain level headed and calm.
My booze avoiding friend, an aviation is a gin cocktail that does the opposite for me, but I will take the recommendation nonetheless.
I thought it was beer too!
Whoops, my bad.
Ooh, can you share the agenda item? Also, assuming you are at a city council meeting, is there a decent bar there, or did you bring in a flask of aviations? Both are pretty baller
It’s a virtual meeting. But it’s about traffic fuckery on our street.
Oooh, virtual community meetings are awesome! I got to watch some idiot developers give shitty answers to absolutely everyone in the community once. They had already worked out the deal and it was a legal requirement that they had to do a community hearing, but apparently not a legal requirement that they pay any attention to the community’s objections or be even a little bit polite. I was impressed by the blatancy, doubt they would have been as transparently dickish in person. Doesn’t matter of course, which is a bummer, but maybe someday the extra dickishness will actually influence elections and there will magically be a good alternate candidate.
Whoever is behind these Medicare annual enrollment ads needs to be tied to the back of a truck and dragged to death.
Across a road covered in broken lemon juice bottles.
After being salted like in winter.
And potholes. Don’t forget potholes.
And to finish it off: forcefed a live wolverine.
And be stuck with a shitty Medicare “advantage” plan that doesn’t cover their medical bills.
.
Dreadful Omission Alert: The Senators are playing the gutter-slurping Leafs.
/taking my boy with the least number of staples in his head (in the last month) to the Flames tilt on Saturday
//speaking of, I’ll be driving all day Sunday-(Ottawa to Kingston and back to Scotch Central) and that will take at least 10 hours so I won’t be able to do most game intros-maybe the morning game but I’ll give you folks the head’s up
That’s a great idea. I can’t see anything going wrong with a family prone to head injuries going to a hockey game.
We’re wearing helmets!