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DETOUR: Vaccinate or Ventilate In Vaccinate, teams must get a COVID vaccine and then wait 15 minutes to monitor for side effects before receiving their next clue. In Ventilate, one team member will be required to intubate their partner, then after having their work checked by a pulmonologist, they will be allowed to extubate their partner and receive their next clue.
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I started to wonder if some of the teams would not survive the COVID hiatus and that is clearly the case. Not very surprising for Caro and Ray because they were newly dating long distance and already had some drama. I’m curious about the other 3 dropouts though, especially Anthony and Spencer who seem like they would make it back. Reddit lists these reasons, fwiw… Caro and Ray - split up (shocker) Connie and Sam - new baby at home Anthony and Spencer - one of them is injured? Isaiah and Taylor - no info I’m looking forward to figuring out who the replacements will be. I thought from Phil’s teaser that it would be prior TAR contestants, but it could also simply be the 2 eliminated teams from this season. I personally think teams from a previous season would be more interesting than seeing 2 fairly weak teams get reinstated.
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Binged the first 9 episodes over the weekend. Didn’t know anything about it going in but I really love everything about this show. Very strong The Leftovers vibes, which is a top 3 show for me. When Kirsten was on her poison trip through the past, I half expected her younger self to make her sing Homeward Bound to get back. Kidding, but it really reminded me of that. I don’t know Mackenzie Davis but I think she is great for this role. For me at least, her facial expressions and mannerisms convey a very real mixture of emotions.
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Saw this last night. I enjoyed it but I really need to watch it again once it is streaming with subtitles. Fairly hard to understand a lot of the speech, and if I didn't already know the story, I would've been pretty lost. Very well done though. Denzel and McDormand killed it.
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Holden is a selfish dumbass prick. He had a chance to kill Marco Inaros, destroy the lead ship of the Free Navy, and possibly end the war. He threw that away because of Naomi and her terrorist son and feelings. Every person that Marco kills moving forward will have their blood on Holden’s hands. Amos should’ve spaced him.
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This show suffers from the problem of a present-day ranch in Wyoming not having enough actual conflict to carry a TV drama for multiple seasons. There's only so much stuff you can make up that seems somewhat plausible and somewhat interesting, and they've burned through that content in earlier seasons. Sheridan has tried to create a western version of The Sopranos but every new antagonist or threat against the ranch has become a recycled version of a previous problem, and the fighting within the family is beyond tired. There is also an extreme lack of consistency between the various plots they have created. The biggest stories this season were: -Market Equities taking over part of the ranch (essentially a repeat of the Jenkins threat and Beck Brothers threat) -Jamie being caught between his murdering father and John/Beth -Kayce breaking off from the family and then having an existential crisis -Piper protesting various things -Beth doing stupid Beth shit -Jimmy leaving for Texas and being torn between 2 women The only 2 stories that were consistently part of each episode were the Beth and Jimmy plots, which were also the most boring and frustrating. People eventually get tired of watching a bitchy woman act bitchy, and very few people cared about Jimmy in the first place, at least not enough for his Texas trip to maintain the show. The other plots about actual Yellowstone Ranch shit would get attention for 1 episode and then get ignored for 1-2 episodes. Perhaps that's because they are such weak plots in the first place and there wasn't much to say on a weekly basis, but it's hard to build interest when the show is skipping around all the time.
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We went last April and stayed at Ma'xanab which we thought was great. It had a good location on the beach and was walkable to a lot of other nearby hotels, beach clubs, and restaurants. Thinking about a return trip this spring. We had dinner at Arca which we both loved and Kitchen Table which we thought was good but not great. Also had late night drinks at a place called Meze that we really liked.
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This season and the finale were terrible. Beth is an emotional train wreck and somehow John and Rip seem incapable of reeling her in. I’m sure somehow the writing will spin things such that she wins out over Market Equities in the end, making her look as though she was in control the entire time, which will be equally terrible writing and a fitting direction for this show. I could rant about everything else that sucked but it’s not really worth the time. Not sure I’ll watch season 5 unless I’m desperately bored when it airs. I think probably The Bachelor is better written and more realistic so maybe I’ll switch to that if I have too much free time to kill. I can check in on this thread to appreciate the absurdity without having to actually watch it.
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Watched it last night. Thought it was okay. I'm surprised at the majority of people seeming to like it so much on here. I found the story itself rather interesting, especially after reading more about it on Wikipedia afterwards. I didn't like the way they told the story with multiple versions in succession. Not that I mind that version of storytelling, but I didn't think there was enough variety in the 3 different versions of the story to make the viewer watch it 3 times. The second version from the Jacques le Gris POV still made him look pretty rapey so there really wasn't any ambiguity in the eyes of a 21st century viewer. By the time we got to the 3rd version from Marguerite's POV, it just felt like a repeat of the previous 2 versions and didn't add anything except to make the runtime longer. The duel at the end was the best part of the movie and very well done IMO.
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Saw someone wearing a shirt today that said: “I’m somewhere between Proverbs 31 and Beth Dutton.”
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This show is getting progressively worse. I think its quality is currently somewhere between Dexter season 6 and The Walking Dead season 4. Which is to say I look forward to complaining about the show more than actually watching the show. Watching it has become a chore. John Dutton needs to be on oxygen. Every time he speaks more than a few words, he has to pause to catch his breath and then he’s completely winded. I think he had cancer at some point at the horse vet fixed it. Might want to get that rechecked. Beth is beyond terrible. Her character is a miserable bitch who argues with everyone, including her father who she is so incredibly fond of. Her tantrums don’t even have a purpose anymore and she doesn’t appear clever or strong, just weak and angry. I guess they are selectively ignoring Market Equities again. It’s been the biggest overarching plot going back to last season, but they will have entire episodes that fail to even mention it. This show sucks at telling a cohesive story.
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Really liked it. Pretty depressing though because there is so much truth to it.
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Crested Butte got 41” the past 48 hours.
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I thought this was supposed to be the last season of Yellowstone and I was sticking with it knowing it was almost over. Unfortunately, I may have been mistaken. This episode was horrible. The show has become a mashup of all of Taylor Sheridan’s projects mixed in with commercials. I’m surprised we didn’t get a little Mayor of Kingstown clip just because. Tate is a cringeworthy actor. Kayce is one of the better characters and his plot has hit a complete dead end. Good for him for escaping the Dutton family insanity though. Can anyone explain why there was an FBI raid of the protesters camp? Why are protestors a major part of the plot anyways? Did Taylor Sheridan get his feelings hurt over the spinning horse criticism and actively look for something less entertaining to make us think the spinning horses were actually fun by comparison? Beth’s little outburst at the dinner table was a Beth outburst just for the sake of having a Beth outburst. Maybe instead of the horse tricks and 6666/1883 scenes, they should spend a little time setting up the reasons for John to turn against Jamie and for Jamie to be a respectable villain. As it is, he’s just a spineless and cowardly character who will ultimately give in to the wishes of his murderer father who was himself a complete failure in life. It’s almost hard to root against someone that pathetic.
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I’m with you. I think the actor severely overacts and it makes it hard to take Marco seriously.
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I forgot the reason for that as well. At one point he suspected Jamie of being involved in the attacks on the Dutton family but I thought they settled that. Was there some other major grievance between John and Jamie that I’m forgetting? I’m not buying Jamie as the final villain in all of this. He’s just a limp dicked character that gets continually shat on and makes bad decisions, so to have him turn into a villain for lack of better options is a pretty lame excuse for a villain.
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I forgot the reason for that as well. At one point he suspected Jamie of being involved in the attacks on the Dutton family but I thought they settled that. Was there some other major grievance between John and Jamie that I’m forgetting? I’m not buying Jamie as the final villain in all of this. He’s just a limp dicked character that gets continually shat on and makes bad decisions, so to have him turn into a villain for lack of better options is a pretty lame excuse for a villain.
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Ahhh yes, the real America with rampant murder, Heat-style shootouts in small town streets, murder-for hire plots, corporate greed, corrupt politicians, poor treatment of Native Americans, and just a general sense of people being cunty towards one another.
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The plot in this show is mostly terrible. Agree that it is a soap opera disguised as a modern western. Market Equities taking control of part of the ranch seems to be the biggest plot going but it disappears for episodes at a time. I can’t even remember the current status because the plot is so intermittent, but they are building a ski resort and a casino and an airport with 52 gates! That’s bigger than AUS for a ski town. And apparently Beth is going to derail that from the inside but it’s absurd that ME allowed her into their extended organization in the first place. Beth being an over the top bitch repeatedly and giving a rant of her wisdom to a random character is incredibly tired. Maybe there are some middle aged female viewers who are into this. Kinda feel bad for them. She had potential to be a great character but they’ve made her a caricature of a powerful woman. That poor bastard kid should go back to foster care. Jayme keeps getting shit on. He sucks as a character and I realize Beth hated him, but I didn’t think John actually hated him. Yet John and the same governor who was about to endorse him decided to totally blindside him because I guess Taylor Sheridan thought that dramatic twist with no rational purpose would entertain viewers. Speaking of Taylor Sheridan, his presence has been kept to a minimum the last 2 eps which helps a little because his auto-fellatio brings the show down, but it is bad for my Yellowstone bingo card which has a square for “Taylor Sheridan spinning horse” and another for “Taylor Sheridan states the cost of something”. And I thought John Dutton hired Sheridan and a bunch of expert cowboys to develop show horses or cutting horses as a way to financially save the ranch? Is that even a plot anymore? Not that I really miss it because multiple scenes of guys stopping a horse in the dirt was not entertaining. Kayce helping get the wild horses back with a secret method (more horses!) and then he has marital drama because an attractive Native American girl thinks she had love at first sight for him. Okay? I think 1883 has potential to be a better show, hopefully closer to a Lonesome Dove without the modern day plot bullshit. That said, every preview with Faith Hill narrating sounds awfully similar to Dolores from Westworld.
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I really wanted to like it but it kinda sucked. Didn’t care for any of the characters which is the quickest way for me to lose interest in a show. By comparison, I watched The Expanse season 6 premiere tonight, and although I think the plot is a bit ridiculous at times, I like the show primarily because they created good characters.
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Good news! Windows Spotlight randomly came back today. I didn't change any settings so not sure what prompted this. Maybe they just wanted me to live without it for a couple of weeks to learn to appreciate it more.
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This cell phone debate is ridiculous and full of straw man arguments from both sides. Phone access is practically a necessity in our country and a cell phone is the most cost efficient way to do that. Unless perhaps you work mowing grass or cleaning houses, but even then you need some way to get in touch with your boss or clients. Ag with kids doesn’t need a cell phone for his job. Hobbes works for a company that doesn’t accept applications without a phone. Congrats to both of you. Get a room. Having a phone does not require an iPhone 13 Pro with unlimited data. There are shitty phones that are practically free but they serve the basic function of communication and there are plans that start around $15/month with a small amount of data. So truly poor people who are struggling to buy food still have options. Surely there are poor people with misplaced priorities who overspend on a better cell phone for XYZ reasons, so I think that point is a little bit valid, but there are also middle class or upper class people that overspend on all kinds of bullshit too while ignoring basic needs. And neither of those seem likely to be a significant contributor to whether or not the U.S. crumbles. … I think on a long enough time period, the U.S. will eventually cease to exist, just like every other great empire in the history of the world. If that happens in the next ~100 years, it seems the most likely scenario is that our internal social/political conflict interferes with our ability to maintain first class technology, manufacturing, and military power, allowing China or Russia to take advantage and overpower us. It seems inevitable that the U.S. and the world at large are headed for a reckoning with at least China. If we survive beyond ~100 years, who knows?
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Anyone using Windows 11 yet? I didn't even realize it had been released until I recently bought a new laptop that came with it installed. I have a lot of Apple products (iPhone, iPad, Airpods, AppleTV) but I've resisted getting a Macbook because I've always liked the Windows OS experience better than Mac OS. Now they've changed some stuff that seems not for the better, or maybe I just need to figure out how to adjust it to my liking. 1. Windows Spotlight doesn't work for me so far. I like seeing the rotating images on my startup screen. Need to fix that. 2. Taskbar buttons were centered like on Mac, which I was able to easily revert to the bottom left configuration. However, the taskbar buttons automatically combine multiple windows of the same app. There is no way to uncombine them, which is highly annoying to me. 3. Taskbar size is huge. There is an option in Settings to change the scale of everything, but if I reduce the scale to a suitable taskbar size, the scale of everything else becomes tiny. I found a Regedit to use as a workaround, but it screwed up the spacing of the Widgets on the bottom right side. 4. Spacing of things seems more spread apart. For instance, looking at files in a folder in List View, there is more space between each file, which means less files can be seen on the screen at once. I remember griping about this in an old shaggybevo update because I couldn't see as many threads on a page. Maybe that's a minority opinion to want things tighter together. I'm curious what others' experiences have been with Windows 11 so far. I'm not seeing much upside, and unfortunately, since this laptop came with it pre-installed, I don't think I have an option to revert to Windows 10.
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We have Telluride booked for mid January. Happy to see they got 18” the last 2 days. Need a few more storms like that.
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