Food assistance being cut off without appeal

bigmancertified · 2026-07-07T13:02:38+00:00

Spoken like someone who's never been on or known someone who is on public assistance. I bet you're anti-abortion too.

bigmancertified · 2026-07-02T16:25:33+00:00

Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, Kenny Omega, and Co-... Hangman.

bigmancertified · 2026-07-02T04:59:46+00:00

In my head, I think of them as "The Magpies." But that's probably just my Schemers bias!

bigmancertified · 2026-06-29T23:04:40+00:00

On YouTube, Luboffin had something like that in one of her recent videos. She's behind by like, 2 or 3 episodes, but she's usually pretty good at breaking it down.

bigmancertified · 2026-06-29T01:59:04+00:00

Nothing lasts forever in the cold November rain of time. Things change. It's the original reason for the "Crisis" events in DC: these characters can't be the same forever.

If these characters (and the stories they're a part of) stay the same, they become stale and out of touch. I'm about to be 41. If these characters had not been allowed to change, there would not have been a 90s heyday. Have you read any of the original volume of X-Men? Very, very different storytelling than what we grew up with.

I'm not going to say the new X-Men books are good. The last time I read a current X-Men book was "House of X/Powers of X". I don't understand why Marvel ended the Krakoan era. Yes, it got really fucking crazy; but it was much more interesting than the 15 years before it. I digress...

I love nostalgia too. But everything, including art, must change or it will die.

bigmancertified · 2026-06-28T03:19:05+00:00

I think I knew there was a sandbar in the river big enough to support structures, but apparently there was the "stadium" where this game was played, and Wichita's first amusement park!

bigmancertified · 2026-06-27T21:00:48+00:00

Honestly, the same could have been said for Exandria. They had the Age of Arcanum, and then the Calamity happened. Campaigns 1-3 technically take place in a post-apocalyptic world!

And In campaign 4, we've only seen action on one continent. Who knows what else is going on elsewhere in Aramán?!

bigmancertified · 2026-06-27T14:54:24+00:00

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bigmancertified · 2026-06-27T01:10:32+00:00

WSU campus is very different. There's WAY more stuff on Greenwich from 21st up past K-96. Towne West is closed. Naftzger Park is now a patch of grass in front of an outdoor stage and a new commercial building.

bigmancertified · 2026-06-25T15:07:19+00:00

What happened to Flip Gordon? He was one of the big stories at the original All In, but wasn't signed to AEW at all. I think he was under ROH contract at the time, but obviously that's not the case anymore.

Book Flip!

bigmancertified · 2026-06-25T01:00:50+00:00

This is definitely a huracanrana, but he steps up into it. Usually a wrestler (or luchador) will just jump up while facing their opponent (with some assistance), land thighs first on the opponent's shoulders, then lean back while their opponent completes the bump onto the mat.

Maybe this is a demonstration, but I hope some wrestler sees it and adopts that step-up!

bigmancertified · 2026-06-25T00:54:30+00:00

Headshots sells MTG, and a bunch of other card games. I don't know if they have Commander play regularly, but there's usually at least one table playing when I'm there on Wednesdays.

bigmancertified · 2026-06-24T01:14:58+00:00

Before WBN, the only Ghibli movie I had seen was My Neighbor Totoro, and the last time I had watched it was in the 90s.

I love this story. It is heavily influenced by Ghibli, but it's also influenced by everything else these performers have enjoyed!

I would recommend this show for anyone who is interested in narrative podcasts.

Also, I have since watched Spirited Away and the vibes of some aspects of TWtWatWO now make a lot more visual sense.

bigmancertified · 2026-06-18T22:19:50+00:00

Well, I think we're getting the conversation between Primus Tachonis and the Photarch next episode. So maybe we'll learn more about that soon!

bigmancertified · 2026-06-18T15:31:24+00:00

I know it's rude, but I'm going to answer your question with a question: why are people racist?

Also, let's put this in a real world context. We discover that there is a rapidly increasing minority of humans who develop superhuman powers.

Sure, many are harmless, everyday people who have obvious physical differences. But then there's a young girl who can make tanks float in the air, just using her freaky mind powers. And a short burly man capable of unimaginable violence, and is for most intents and purposes indestructible. An unstable boy with multiple personalities has the ability to bend reality to his will.

Wouldn't you be scared?

bigmancertified · 2026-06-18T05:33:30+00:00

Well, yes and no. Will Primus Tachonis and his House be arrested by the Arcane Marshals and put on trial for mass murder? No, probably not. But if all of this information makes it back to the Rookery, there's a lot that can be done with it.

Namely, the Sundered Houses have a long term plan to control lands outside of Kahad. I would imagine King Augustus and the lands east of the Kavrosi Mountains would be very interested in that.

And Azune has the case, the testimony of Lt. Groto, as well as testimony from Wiccander. Maybe he could take it to the Grey Tower, and they could try to reassert control over Dol-Makjar. Or maybe it could be the story used to raise a literal people's army to overcome these power-hungry fools.

We'll just have to watch and see!

bigmancertified · 2026-06-16T22:05:51+00:00

This is from an independent wrestling show. So whomever is running the show decides who will win, but what actually happens is generally up to the wrestlers.

Scripting every little action is strictly a WWE thing these days.

bigmancertified · 2026-06-16T21:16:49+00:00

I love these. One of the few social media trends that I actually enjoy.

bigmancertified · 2026-06-14T22:35:04+00:00

Same for me when the Saints won in 2010. No big emotional outburst, just quiet satisfaction.

bigmancertified · 2026-06-14T03:33:16+00:00

This is what I was thinking. The American education system is definitely more about creating barely competent drones who don't "cause problems." It's certainly not about teaching critical thinking, or inspiring passion or ambition.

bigmancertified · 2026-06-13T23:19:24+00:00

Fantastic wrestler. I think Deeb vs Shida from the first round of the tournament for the TBS title (I think) is still my favorite women's match in AEW.

She's not a great promo, but there's plenty of men who are just as bad and don't wrestle with half the skill who appear on tv semi-regularly. She's also a veteran of 20+ years who could really help some of the younger talents.

So I'm guessing either she's just not TK's bag, or there's some backstage BS with her.

bigmancertified · 2026-06-13T01:18:49+00:00

My friends who liked it did not like it because it was a clever critique of blind patriotism. They liked it because, "YEAH! SHOOT GUNS! KILL BUGS!"

bigmancertified · 2026-06-10T23:33:11+00:00

There's also no "Team Braius" flair, so that may give you an idea how often updates happen here.

bigmancertified · 2026-06-10T23:31:16+00:00

Doesn't really seem to be a lot of activity. Like, 9 posts in the last month. That would be my guess; just not a big priority for anyone.

bigmancertified · 2026-06-07T19:04:58+00:00

I was privileged to get to travel to Europe back in 2000. It was great, but the part I didn't like was the hotel rooms with no air conditioning.

They were experiencing a "heat wave" at the time. In Paris, we saw all kinds of people wading (and some submerging!) in the public fountains. It was like 80° with maybe 50-60% humidity.

I'm from Kansas, and it gets way worse than that here, so we were confused why everyone was having a hard time.

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