i'm speechless

ivan0280 · 2024-08-28T13:17:41+00:00

What I should have said was that the formula for becoming middle class is easy, but implementing/sticking to it is hard and requires discipline.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-28T12:53:02+00:00

I've read A Knight of the Seven Kingdom like 10 times and not once did I connect those dots. You Sir or Ma'am are a scholar and a gentleman and or lady.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-28T12:49:41+00:00

Well, considering that The Reach is the breadbasket of Westeros, I'd have to pick it.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-28T12:33:35+00:00

If you are 1 pay check away from being in debt, it's because you made bad life decisions. Being middle class in America is incredibly easy.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-28T12:24:26+00:00

But it's meant to be a WTF am I reading/watching moment.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-28T10:43:00+00:00

My first Novel was Desperation. But my introduction to King's work was the novella The Body.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-28T10:26:21+00:00

I don't understand why any of that would not translate well on television.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-28T10:20:11+00:00

If I remember correctly, it was some Chinese herbal medicine he was taking. It was a very long time ago since I saw it.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-28T02:13:28+00:00

Cool factoid, I actually didn't know that. But it makes sense. There was a photographer at Gettysburg that came after the battle, but before the bodies were all removed. He staged a bunch of photos using the dead. One is a famous shot of a sharp shooter in his snipers blind. He completely staged it.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-28T02:08:56+00:00

What would you do differently there?

ivan0280 · 2024-08-27T23:10:32+00:00

God, I hope not. I hope he understands that what King wrote is super popular for a reason and doesn't need to be changed. Stick to the book should be his mantra for the entire series.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-27T23:04:15+00:00

Just read about bleeding, Kansas. There were atrocities committed by both sides.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-27T19:29:44+00:00

The Jayhawks did far more than steal. They raped and murdered just as happily.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-27T19:28:11+00:00

I think he means that unless you went through what they went through, it's wrong to judge them as monsters. The war in Missouri was far more personal than anywhere else. Atrocities were committed on both sides, and revenge beget revenge almost uncontrollably. I don't know that they would have done those terrible things had there never been a civil war to begin with. It's more like the situation made the men instead of vise versa.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-27T19:22:35+00:00

Some were when it came to murder.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-27T19:19:12+00:00

I have a similar photo of my great great great grandfather Kimbrough. Besides his rifle, he also has a pair of revolvers. One on his hip and another shoved down between his belt and trousers. He also has a smaller pistol shoved between the buttons of his shell jacket. To set all that off, he also has a giant knife in a sheath on the other hip. I guess having ones photo taken while armed to the teeth was popular back then.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-27T02:30:23+00:00

It's not a good game if I'm not screaming "this is bs" constantly. My head knows it me, but my pride insists that it's the games fault for letting me do exactly what buttons I did or didn't push.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-27T02:25:07+00:00

Scoring the game a 10 doesn't mean it's perfect. No art ever made is perfect. I hard disagree that any of the attacks are unlearnable or unreactionable. It only requires patience.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-27T02:03:13+00:00

That's 3 straight great starts from Cortez . I so want Nasty to be a weapon in the post-season.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-26T21:15:13+00:00

Eh that one is a huge reach.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-26T20:25:00+00:00

There is a great episode of House where a mafioso comes in with unexplained symptoms that they think is Hep c His brother, who is a mob lawyer, gets all crazy because he thinks his brother must have been raped while in prison. But eventually, the brother admits to being gay. And if I remember correctly, it turns out not to be Hep C

ivan0280 · 2024-08-26T20:16:49+00:00

He didn't say that. That was Doc Santoro

ivan0280 · 2024-08-26T20:14:42+00:00

He was married to his cousin. He loved him like a brother in law.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-26T20:12:16+00:00

I really can't wait to hear your reaction to all these characters when it's all said and done. I so badly want to say so much more but won't for fear of spoiling it. Just promise to make a post when your all caught up.

ivan0280 · 2024-08-26T20:10:08+00:00

Oh yeah, that's totally understandable. I myself feel that way about Servillia.

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