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  1. This show is like watching paint dry so admittedly my attention drifts and I probably miss or forget details, but why is the idea that a half-Targ can ride a dragon suddenly a thing? Rhaenyra’s own 2 sons are only half-Targ and they ride dragons, so surely she would’ve known this a long time ago. What am I missing? Daemon’s story is awful. Let’s spend an entire season roaming around Harrenhal, having nightmares about your family, doing nothing productive, feeling sorry for yourself while your sister struggles to fight a war without you, and then I’m sure they will expect viewers to still think he is a badass who is of critical importance to winning. I’m tired of watching hour long episodes of talking about the same things. I think ChatGPT could easily churn out this repetitive script.
  2. Being DFW based and flying AA more than anything else, I’ve been pretty pleased with their customer service the last few years.
  3. As a Fort Worth resident, it’s hard to picture which restaurants could get an actual star. Perhaps Grace or Ellerbe? I would put them in the Michelin rated category, or perhaps a green star for Ellerbe, but they don’t seem on quite the level of any Michelin 1 stars I’ve had. I’ve been wanting to try Lucia in Dallas for some time now. I should probably try harder before it becomes impossible.
  4. Thread is relevant to my interests. Wife and I have lived in Texas our entire lives. Most of our family and friends are here. My career (physician) is here and that’s not an easy one to start over. We have made a comfortable life for ourselves and our kid, but we’re growing increasingly frustrated and concerned by the heat and the politics of this state and our country. Also, Texas is ugly. I like scenic coastlines and/or mountains, of which our state has neither. We talk extensively about the possibility of moving and have broken it down into 3 main options: 1. Stay where we are in Texas, at least until our daughter is off to college. Build a backyard oasis with a pool to mitigate the summers. Hopefully, in ~5 years, reach a point financially and professionally where we can take a month off each summer to escape the heat and rent a place in Europe, Colorado, Hawaii, etc. Once the kid moves on (17+ years from now), the world will be much different and we can figure out where to go or just follow her around. This option doesn’t solve our political frustrations with Texas, so we just have to hope that decent humans will somehow prevail and we won’t become victims of a mass shooting in the meantime. 2. Move within the U.S., primarily to escape the Texas heat, politics, and geography. Our leading choices would be Denver, California, or North Carolina. -Denver - we love Colorado for skiing and hiking but we hate the cold more than the heat. My wife looks good in sundresses. I like swimming and my favorite footwear are Havaianas. We both get seasonal affective disorder. I know that Denver is somewhat milder in the winter, but it still gets cold at night for at least half the year. I don’t like sweating at dinner in Texas but I also don’t want to wear a fleece jacket to dinner in June. -California has perfect weather and great geography, but it’s far from Europe and St. Barth, both of which we love to visit. It’s also terribly expensive but maybe we learn to be satisfied with less possessions in an otherwise great place. We’re going to San Diego next month to scope that area out. -North Carolina is possibly a middle ground. We visited Wilmington last year for a recon trip, and we liked it but possibly too far from a major airport. Asheville also interests us but a similar problem regarding the airport. 3. Move outside the U.S. This is a last resort if things in this country get too intense, which unfortunately doesn’t seem that far fetched lately. We have spent more time in St. Barth than anywhere else but probably wouldn’t move there due to cost of living, lack of job opportunities, island fever, hurricanes, etc. Some places are great to visit but not ideal to live in permanently. With very limited knowledge of these things, our leading options are probably New Zealand, Australia, Portugal, or Spain. They all sound crazy. I need a place I can work and English speaking is helpful. I know some French and could maybe study enough to pass the French language exams, but I’m not sure we’d be any better off in France because they have their own shit brewing. I received a job posting to locums in New Zealand for 6+ months in 2025, which sounds cool except that we’ve never even been to New Zealand and we would throw away everything we’ve built here. It was hard not to respond though. Maybe on Nov 6 my answer will change. Also, our parents are aging with health ailments, so it’s hard to move halfway around the world and be unavailable to them. So, option 1 remains the default option, but we’re working through the alternatives just to have some kind of a plan if we need it.
  5. This country and the world at large are a tinderbox. I’m not looking forward to the next 4-6 months.
  6. Suppose parts 3 and 4 never get released and or made. Would part 1 still be worth watching?
  7. Wife and I went to see A Quiet Place: Day One on Friday on a whim. We hadn't seen any of them, somehow just never popped up on our radar until now. Day One stood pretty well on its own with no knowledge of the first two movies, and we both enjoyed it way more than we expected, considering we aren't big on horror or most monster flicks. We then watched the first 2 movies the last couple of nights and also found them very well done. Krasinski did good work and I would watch Emily Blunt in just about anything. Cillian Murphy was also very good and the deaf daughter was a badass in both movies. Just from a survival standpoint, it does seem like there are some obvious solutions or protections that could be done. Build a shelter near a natural source of white noise like a waterfall. Build a shelter directly on the water with a boat or raft that could push off when an incoming attack is happening. Create an underground bunker that is lined with sound barriers like you would find in a recording studio. The family should have random loudspeakers or noise generators in the woods all around their house that could blare noise so that when an attack is incoming, fire those speakers up to lure the creatures away from the house and at least buy them time in a crisis. Even in scenes when a character was in a standoff with a creature, at least pick up an object and throw it across the room to draw them away. Seems pretty obvious there will be at least one more. They've told the middle of the story, and then the beginning, but they could easily write an ending where humans eventually triumph.
  8. The dragon fight was fun to watch but it was entirely predictable that Aemond and Vhagar would be waiting for Rhaenys and Meleys, and I think that’s a little bit problematic from a storytelling standpoint. At some point, the power of Vhagar needs to be ineffective or vulnerable to attack, otherwise that gets monotonous as a viewer. I was pretty sure Rhaenys would die from the moment she volunteered to go, which sucks because we just lost one of the few likable characters. The show doesn’t have much depth in that department.
  9. Yeah, the weather apps are wrong. It’s sprinkling and the breeze is cool. Amazing start to the weekend.
  10. It’s 75F on my way home from work in Fort Worth. I’ll take it for however long we get it.
  11. My wife got pretty concerned about PFAS last year so we did some internet research and decided to install Hydroviv water filters in our house. We got the package for the kitchen sink and showerheads. We also looked at Aquasana but their system requires you to install a separate faucet on the counter. Here’s some info Hydroviv publishes about PFAS on their site: https://www.hydroviv.com/blogs/water-smarts/duke-nc-state-pfas-water-filter-study If anyone wants a referral code, PM me and I think we both save $35.
  12. Put me in the camp that’s enjoying it but wishing it had better characters. If this is what the source material provided, then I hope they deviate from that or else the series will have limited potential. Also, lol @ Ser Criston getting a haircut between the 10 minute mark and 25 minute mark. “I have this super important mission but I need to visit the barber first.”
  13. Your opinion is at best case an unpopular one and worst case flat out wrong. I can’t even remember the last time I ordered cheese enchiladas but they are certainly good and very popular, not just with 5 year olds and grandmas. There is a thread a few posts down dedicated to cheese enchiladas with 1,379 posts and it’s been the subject of intense debate on these boards for 20+ years. If you don’t like them, fine, but it’s laughable to start throwing shade at someone for ordering something that is a staple in Tex-Mex restaurants, while you’re ordering a chili rellenos or whatever and thinking that makes you a sophisticated foodie. It’s Tex-Mex.
  14. It seems like there is an insurance bubble ready to pop. I wouldn’t be surprised if many families either can’t find coverage period or can’t afford the coverage they are offered, leaving them with no choice but to be uninsured, a situation that would’ve been unthinkable 5 years ago. That’s a crisis waiting to happen. If enough people are forced to go that route in a high risk area, and then a major natural disaster strikes, there could be a lot of homeless families. Perhaps the cost of insurance will become a bigger factor in the decision making of buying a home, how big of a home to buy, or what region to live in. Perhaps the cost of owning and insuring a home in certain areas like the gulf coast will skyrocket, making people less willing to live there. Sadly, maybe that’s how it has to be. The Daily did a podcast on this topic not long ago: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000655653194
  15. You need to know more people. Cheese enchiladas are great and any Tex-Mex joint that can’t pull that off is in bad shape. It’s like a bbq joint with bad brisket.
  16. Finished this one recently. I’m a huge Cormac fan and I enjoyed The Passenger, but Stella Maris didn’t do much for me.
  17. I listened to this after seeing it posted here. Half of the book is essentially a factual reporting of the nuclear status and capabilities of the U.S. and the other countries with nukes. I found that part interesting and thought she did a good job reporting. The other half is the hypothetical worst-case scenario involving nuclear war between North Korea, the U.S., and Russia. I liked it for a bit, but by the end I felt it was a little too focused on describing death in gritty detail and it left me wanting more information about the aftermath. It felt incomplete. What happens to the other countries with nuclear weapons in that scenario? Did Israel, India, and Pakistan somehow get involved? What about other countries with no nuclear weapons? I know there would be nuclear winter and that affects the entire planet, so what does she think would happen in the southern hemisphere and third world countries? Basically, I was curious to know the overall future of humanity and if places like New Zealand would stand any chance of coming out the other side with a functional civilization.
  18. I liked this episode. This show is good and makes your brain work a little bit. Jason2 should’ve headed straight back to his box and peaced out to a new world after he murdered Jason? In the library bathroom. He’s made such a mess of things that it’s hard to imagine a happy ending for him here, plus he doesn’t even seem to like Daniela and Charlie that much. From his standpoint, cut your losses and try again. Jason1 should consider the same. Go to the storage unit and get some ampules, then take his family to the box and try to find the world that Amanda stayed in. Once there, destroy the box in that world. It sucks starting over, but at least his family would be together and be in a world without all the other competing Jasons.
  19. https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/19/health/microplastics-human-penises-study-scli-intl-scn-wellness/index.html
  20. Just to be clear, you “read between the lines” and you “believe” that Erin Moriarty had cosmetic surgery because of criticism from incel idiots on the internet, and then you reported it here as a hard truth? I still don’t see any evidence to support that claim. I agree that internet bullying is a problem, and there’s a reasonable discussion to be had about that somewhere, but we don’t need to create false narratives in this thread to achieve that.
  21. Read between the lines. Erin Moriarty Says The Boys Trolls Made Her Feel 'Dehumanized' and 'Paralyzed' Read between what lines? You said her cosmetic surgery was the direct result of internet bullying in response to people saying she doesn’t look sexy enough, but the article you posted doesn’t come anywhere close to saying that. The article says she has been a victim of bullying and that she left Instagram in January 2024 as a result. I looked it up and read the post she made when that happened, which also makes no mention of her being pressured by bullies into getting cosmetic surgery. There is no causal relationship even remotely implied in any of this. At least some of her physical changes were done prior to filming season 4, which according to the internet, was finished by April 2023. Then she leaves Instagram 9 months later for bullying. That is not the correct order to support your claim, nor can I find anything else online that supports it. Internet bullying sucks, but let’s not make up facts here.
  22. Please tell me that is not true. How does an attractive lead female on a critically acclaimed TV show give in to pressure from internet bullies to the point of having bad cosmetic surgery to appease said internet bullies? Is there evidence that this was a factor in her decision to have surgery? Has she spoken about it? Celebrities are constantly being shit talked on the internet. It’s an unfortunate side effect of the job. They don’t get surgery because of it.
  23. I just caught up and I’m not enjoying it as much as I used to. I think shows with a never ending cat-and-mouse plot get stale after a while. It also feels like their attempts to mock certain segments of the population have become much more heavy handed. I enjoy a little mockery of a particular political group, but I don’t want them to beat me over the head with it. Maybe it’s just too close to real life. I’ll keep watching, but S1-2 were much more enjoyable for me.
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