unclevlad

Yeah, I saw that too. Jennings is the natural transition figure to honor the history and tradition of the show. Whether he's the best choice long-term, well, we'll have to see. I expect Brad Rutter will host for a bit too. He has the media experience and historical significance. After that, who knows. Pat Sajak is plausible for a short run, as a personal tribute. Update on final shows: plan is now to air "10 of his best episodes" in the 21 and 28 December weeks, then his final week starting January 4th.

Mmmm...I think Russell Westbrook fits that description a bit better. I'd call Cam's Rebel Without A Clue.

Because it isn't. Herd immunity doesn't occur with only 1/3 of the people showing antibodies.

Yeah, I noted the same thing; one can readily enough argue that this looks like one of the news department people, not one of the talking heads. So on a personal level he probably deserves some slack...and even perhaps sympathy. But it was still all pure steer manure. And some of it is so incredibly whacked out. Venezuela ties? Really? What's next, they'll find V. M. Smith and assert Martian influence?

The Fox News guy is throwing out so much *insane* BS throughout.... I only watched the first 3 minutes, but big kudos to the Dominion spokesman for not losing it. The allegations tossed out by the Fox News guy don't even approach laughable.

Probably not; it's Cam being Cam.

That was Booger, and part of his point is the recovery time for the *multiple* ligament damage is 9 to 12 months...if it's 12, then you're right back in week 10 or 11 next year. What...wait...what just happened???? TOMMY BRADY threw an overthrow pick, down a FG with 2 minutes left?????????? CHECK THE WEATHER IN THE NETHER REALMS!!! A good NFL QB failed to make the comeback. YEEEEEHAWWWW!!!!! (Pats fans constantly calling him the GLA in every other sentence got REAL old.) EDIT: does Tom still have a real arm? Longest completion was 18 yards. The game-sealing pick was an overthrow on a longer route; IIRC both were. Some of it might not be enough time but the deep game absolute wasn't there tonight. Something to watch moving forward.

huh....duplicated somehow, never mind...

Ok...I see it. Honestly, I don't trust HSEG to be completely consistent. How does the Glock 20 net out as 2d6-1? The Glock 21 is net 2d6; +1 STUN mult is a 1/4 advantage...so yeah, 37 active. The HK P7K3 is 1d6+1 with the PR, +1 OCV which is 2 points...and 22 active. So if the pricing in HSEG, or the damage, doesn't make sense...throw it out, that's my recommendation. Treat PR as adding a DC and use YOUR preferences for the translations on DCs to fractional dice. EDIT: Ugh...I hesitate to suggest this. But, if you have HD, you might want to pay for the HS EG Character Pack, which has all the items as templates. The items should be editable and you can see for yourself how they're doing things. The char pack is pricey tho, just for this.

So I don't normally do it til after Thanksgiving, but...tonight...my Christmas lights are all on.

Now if they also start pushing McConnell, Graham, etc.... STOP THE PRESSES!!!!!! https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/23/us/joe-biden-trump?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not worried about a fascist-like takeover because Trump doesn't have the support of the top military leaders...rather the opposite. But you did say "try to"...I'm not gonna say I think it's impossible, but it's unlikely. And that level of tyrannic action would generate massive pushback from the states as well.

Yeah, that always bites. Might wish a team to do badly, but I almost never want to see someone injured. (I reserve the right to do so, should a player show himself to be a loathsome toad.) But it's the same freaking song and dance. Seems like every franchise does it. Draft the Next Great QB when there's no one around him, and all you ever do is wreck him.

I was making a tiny joke...this season was already gone. This'll set him back a ways, so it already puts next season in jeopardy.... Oh well, they don't all work....

Tim Hasselbeck talking to SVP, about Mahomes' last-minute drive...made the point that the defenses are generally pretty vanilla. It's up-tempo, few stoppages, so it's hard to get adjustments in, get them communicated, and execute them. Makes sense...we've certainly seen a bushelful of last-minute scores this year, it seems.

Actually, it might be in Trump's longer-term strategic interests to challenge in *any* county, if the numbers weren't cooked to begin with. It doesn't matter if it'd cost him votes; it continues, and if he wins, amplifies, the narrative that elections are rampant with fraud. That'll be the takeaway...not that the fraud helped him. The point alone...not the beneficiary...can be used in the state houses to pass more voting restrictions. You can bet that's going to be a high priority at the state levels...along, of course, with gerrymandering once the census is declared official.

Another reason why the Ravens' loss today really hurt...altho KC pulling the rabbit out helped some. The problem is, they have Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh...Thanksgiving night. So prep time is minimal. They aren't out; for example, the Titans play the Colts. Worst case for the Ravens would be a tie, if they can't pull off the win. But there won't be much time left, and they likely will be no better than 9th. Dolphins have a freebie (Jets); Raiders have the Falcons. Not a gimme, quite, but they should win. The upside...their last 5 is Cowboys, Browns, Jags, Giants, Bengals. So there likely will be drama even if they lose...but they've used up their margin for error.

Maybe. I get the point; they never have a good notion of where you are. They can guesstimate from the thugs you hit or disarm, but you can move erratically. But a problem with that approach is you'd be *burning* through END; it's 2 per phase for this, plus the END for running, plus the END for STR in any case. And with a higher-SPD character, which means REALLY burning through END fast. And it could *easily* still be worthwhile to drop a 4m or 8m AoE or explosion, even if you guess where the speedster is. Speedster can completely ignore the cap, IMO, depending on the build. If it's normally 4-6, then I might cap at 10 for a speedster. Some of this is, moving that fast the speedster will be a big time stage hog. Running up walls and across water is ELITE speedster stuff, IMO. Flash's vibrational tricks, I'd put at Speedster Paragon. Mind...it could be *cheaper* to buy it as Flight, only in contact with a surface, and buy back some or all of the base Running. Flight 40m, 1/2 END, only in contact...you shave 10 points there, plus another 12 if you buy back ALL the running. (NOTE: that means you're always flying when you move...and therefore knockback is much more obvious.) If you don't buy back the Running, the 1/4 limit on its own won't save you enough until...50m of movement and 1/2 END, if my mental math is right. It's a wash there. The rules of the system simply don't match the dramatic presentation.

There is one teeny, tiny, interesting bit of positive news. From WorldOMeters...there were fewer new cases today than there were last Sunday. By a decent amount...about a 7% decline. This might not sound like a big deal, but it is actually the first time that has happened...a reduction in the week-over-week numbers for any day of the week...in about 5 weeks. It'll likely happen Thursday too, but that's a data point I'll ignore. Obviously this Thursday is a very atypical Thursday; and even to a decent degree, this week is a tad on the odd side. But not so much today. Now of course, big home gatherings might erase this...but we can hope perhaps we've hit the top of a crest for at least a little bit. Yes, I'm grasping at straws. It's Thanksgiving Week, might as well.

Which season? Can you believe the Bears, with that inept offense, are in sole possession of the 7th playoff berth? Vikes, Lions, and Niners are all sitting at 4-6. The Niners probably have the tougher road, but it's gonna basically be about the division games. Yes, but it doesn't help when your starting QB is...not very good...and he's out. Pittsburgh's eaten inexperienced QBs for lunch for a long time. And I haven't seen em so I could be wrong, but I suspect they're just playing out the string.

Had Tenn-Balt on so I didn't see it, but Hill's stats are fine. Accuracy can be more than completion percentage, tho, to be sure. Saints ran the ball down the Falcons' throat; that always helps. Looks like Cam had a decent game; Pats were killed by their secondary, from the stats. 12 yards per completion and 75% completion rate is a bad mix. Baltimore is looking shaky. The defense might be getting tired, but Tennessee is just getting way too many yards on these last several drives, and the offense isn't clicking *that* well. It's very much looking like they're going to lose this game, and it's a very damaging loss...home game in the conference against another team in the Playoff Pack. If so, they slip behind the Titans and the Browns, and you can basically forget catching Pittsburgh for the division. YEP. It's over. Henry ran through em. Ravens fall to 6-4 and might be on the outside of a playoff berth.

I'm less worried about a civil war...violence, yes, but I don't anticipate anything sufficiently organized or scaled for me to call it a civil war. Armed insurrection, yes. I'm more worried about the ever-increasing, splintering polarization, in this new Disinformation Era where middle ground seems non-existent.

Snow days were overrated, far as I was concerned. Not like you could sleep in...because you didn't know for sure if your school was open until you heard over the radio. So we were still up much too early and getting ready. And in my case: neighbors? What neighbors? At that time, we were in a mountain subdivision where the minimum lot size (out of necessity) was 2 acres; we were, IIRC, the 6th home in the entire subdivision (a couple hundred lots total) and there were VERY few kids close by.

In some ways, this is similar to the Tea Party's disruptions some years back. The question then becomes, how extensive is this...in Georgia for now, but more broadly in any of the divided states. (Ohio and Michigan come to mind.) Unlike the Tea Party, here there seems to be (at least potentially) a much stronger cohesion...a more dynamic symbol and leader, a tighter social structure, their own media outlets almost completely committed to their efforts, it seems. It remains to be seen whether they can continue to draw those who are less than comfortable with Trump...but buy most of the negatives about the Democrats...or whether this will fracture the Republicans, driving out those who aren't willing to adhere to such a rigid ideology. (Or, in fact, show that the Trump narrative has penetrated THAT deeply, and they form the majority among the Republicans. This is probably the scariest thought of them all.) But it's implicitly worrisome, IMO. That group is radicalized. If they succeed in their threats, that's bad. If they don't, well, now you've got a radicalized group that will feel marginalized too. THAT is Not Pretty.

For me, yeah, the classic speedster in combat is closest to a martial artist...not necessarily a wide variety of fancy moves, but a lot of the damage is tied into the move. (Passing Strike doesn't do damage to the speedster...but it's also 5 points. Anyone can do a move-by for free.) Other tricks: couple dice HA, simply defined as your fists move so fast...or define these as martial arts DCs autofire more dice HA, defined as "I jackhammer several blows into the same spot" which might well take a maneuver limitation lots and lots and lots of both combat move and non-combat move. You might need to get a little tricky: Running I -- running 12m Running II -- running 38m, half end (affects base characteristic) Naked Advantage: Megascale, 1m = 1 km, applied to Running I. The reason for high SPD is that speedsters are another form of glass cannon...they usually can't take much punishment at all. But they're in the combat zone. Speedsters are perhaps the most impacted by the discrete-time, stepped approach, as well as the need to make things concrete. Quicksilver and Flash are still moving at blur-level speeds...non-combat, by Hero...even in combat. But you get hosed by that in Hero. So what you really don't want is to be caught out with no action remaining, as much as you can...so you want a higher SPD. Oh...if you're going to buy this much combat velo, you need to use Multiple Attack quite a bit to get the most out of this. And that's one of the trademarks, too...the speedster clears out swaths of minions. So Rapid Attack, and Defensive Attack from APG if you can. If you go with better defenses, then another form might be called the speed burst type. Good but not extreme combat and non-combat movement; the jackhammer strike's bigger; the passing strike less so (lower velocity). It doesn't imply crossing a continent in a few minutes either, at least to me.