So, I'm a filthy casual (this was the first game I've watched the entirety of on tv) so while I was happy about the win, I kept grinning when I thought about how stoked you must be.

Anyway, hope you're still enjoying that "we won!" Post glow!

Well, hopefully that'll make it that much more awesome when they win the whole thing?

That was a terrifying inning!

Not great for the heart but damn, this is such a tense and exciting game!

A bit late to the party but I have a handful that might work.

For spooky and eerie vibes, Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. (Turned into a movie that really doesn't capture the feeling.) Just a great sense of creepy dread throughout. I read it alone in a large house in the dark and loved feeling the hair on the back of my neck rise.

Real life horror, The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston. About Ebola, freaking terrifying gross and real.

And if you're looking for classics, he's a bad person but a solid gothic writer, HP Lovecraft. Not all the stories work but a lot are pretty good at evoking dread. Almost any of his collections of short stories works!

I really should keep an eye out for those comms and just avoid. At least any of the vaguely political ones!

(Just Manufacturing Consent feels like a trap designed for me as Chomsky's thoughts on this are super relevant and interesting so, like a fool, I fell into the trap.)

To each their own! I just wanted an analogy where I was pretty sure they would want to take the other side.

(It just seems wild to me that geneva's arguing that the kidnapped people shouldn't count in the totals.)

Reality, my arch nemesis!

Those were killed by Israel themselves on an entirely different date.

This is an absolutely bananas rationalization!

Say ICE kidnaps a pair of kids in the morning. In the afternoon, the distraught parents see them in a detention van and try to get them back. In the commotion, one of the kids dies.

Now, in your opinion, that kid didn't die because of the ICE raid that morning?

Really just seems like you're trying to downplay October 7 to push your narrative, which is more than a little funny given the community.

I think it's Heroes of Might and Magic 2?

Ironically, I'd imagine this is his best movie. Certainly the most grown up one. As far as I know, no explosions, almost certainly no cars flying off/through buildings etc. Just a drama for adults aka the kind of movie that hasn't done well at the box office for the last quarter century or so.

I organize a few co-ed soccer teams. My Tuesday team all said whether they would or wouldn't play without me having to nag anyone, which is always nice.

At work, a project I've been leading for what feels like an eternity just crossed the second last hump and most of my efforts towards it are done (for now until something explodes.)

Apparently the fediverse enjoyed a silly meme I made, which is always nice as I like to try to contribute to this place.

Unpopular opinion here I imagine but I'll stand by South Park.

Have they said a lot with which I vehemently disagree? Absolutely! But I think there's little to no value in only watching or reading things with which you agree.

And their perspective, while different than mine, seems to have helped them nail things in a much better and often more interesting/sophisticated way than anyone else. Or before others really get it.

And goddamn, they've had me howling with laughter more than a few times each season. Thinking on their highlights over a damn near 30 year run and despite marginal dips in quality, I'm in.

Edit: An example of one trend/issue etc they nailed way before anyone else (as far as I know) was PC Principal. Using frat bros to represent social justice culture was absolutely brilliant and I didn't even realize how accurate it seemed to others until I talked with a Conservative friend about it (to anyone outside of the progressive bubble, the early 2010s felt like a bunch of elites/rich kids using the plight of others to finally be the bullies, albeit online.) And I think that pretty accurately predicted the blue collar/non college grad backlash to all of it, which is the tide that trump rolled in on.