WoT Dan -- CR: Reaper's Gale

I would say “Good game, New England.”

But it wasn’t.

It really, really wasn’t.

I always give my wife a chance at the beginning of the game to pick her team, and I’ll take the other. She took Seattle, so I took five points.

I think they might just cover…

Sigh.

I don’t even like the Pats. At all. But this is embarrassing.

I very much enjoyed that. And I look forward to watching it again on YouTube where someone has captioned it because my Duolingo Spanish has failed me.

The most perfect casting in a show full of perfect and near-perfect castings. She did better than jump off the page — she retroactively made book-Faile better, while somehow instantly embodying the best qualities of the existing character.

But they pinkie-promised to consider it!
🤯

Hakeem Jeffries calls for a law against murdering people.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country.

As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.

Finally getting around to playing Clair Obscur. Finished Act 1 last night. Cryptic spoilers:
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I did not expect that death. At all.

New guy is SUS AF.

There is absolutely Something Else Going On here. "Some people randomly survive" is just not credible.

Still getting strong FFX vibes.

No, I can't get you an ultrawide monitor for your workstation, but I can help you rearrange your desk so you're close enough that it FEELS like one...

Egad this chapter was brutal.

Min on the ground, unconscious, Rand (using the True Power) shooting Balefire at a stunned Semirhage. The afterimage of Elza (just Balefired) next to her.

Todd Draws The Wheel of Time, Book 12
The Gathering Storm - Chapter 22 - The Last That Could Be Done
#ToddDrawsWoT #TheWheelofTime #WheelOfTime
#WoTSkies #WoTSky #WoTBookSpoilers

Faile: “I bet he’s thinking about other women.”
Perrin: “How many times a day DO I think about Ancient Manetheren?”

"So they don't do well... on ice."

No wait, I can do better.

"I guess jackboots don't come with traction control."

Still not quite right.

"This wasn't the slippery slope I was talking about, but here we are."

Bottle Episodes were great. Just pure character work. As with many things, restraints force creativity, and the budget restraints on those "filler" episodes gave us some really great moments that wouldn't have been allowed to breathe otherwise.

Diminish a band:

Plastica

Slightly diminish a game:

Neighborhood Hearts

Politico article screenshot on mobile browser. Headline: “Highly problematic: Trump admin faces internal doubts over ICE shooting response.” Subheadline: “Even supporters of the president fear that the administration’s approach risks undermining public confidence in the ongoing investigation.” Image: Street with snow on the ground. Yellow police tape around a dark SUV. Several officers stand behind the tape, ome wearing wear jackets labeled “FBI.” Image caption: “Members of law enforcement work the scene following a suspected shooting by an ICE agent during federal law enforcement operations on January 07, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo by Stephen Maturen, Getty Images.” Author listed as Myah Ward on January 9, 2026, 5:59 PM Eastern. Article text: “The Trump administration’s rapid and aggressive response to the Minnesota shooting has prompted quiet concern among some administration allies, as well as former and current Immigration and Customs—” And then the article text is cut off

The line that bothers me in this @politico.com article is the one where they say the issue is prompting quiet concern.
That his sycophants are still keeping their concerns QUIET tells me there is no bridge too far. He really could shoot someone in Times Square.

www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Taking three weeks of bedrest to recover from a sneeze...

Tagline says "DHS, local officials give conflicting accounts of deadly ICE shooting."

Really feels more like "DHS account contradicted by objective reality displayed in video record" but what do I know, I don't write headlines...

No, YOU’RE listening to Yumi and the Nightmare Painter again because it’s your #ComfortRead and the world is awful and heartbreaking and you need to hear something good or you’ll just break down again and not sleep.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Quote’s been on my mind today. Can’t imagine why.

"You don't think we should be kidnapping foreign heads of state who we're not at war with. So you love oppressive dictators?"

No. That's a whole new sentence.

I don't know if the legalization of online sports betting is the most harmful thing to happen in America in the last ten years... but it has to be in the conversation. The ads are literally everywhere. Purely predatory.

Just off-screen: the TV showing Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet.” The expression on both of their faces just reads as “I don’t get this at all, but I absolutely will not be the first one to say so.”

So, those “No Kings” protests were super effective…

Finally getting around to #Expedition33 and I gotta say… giving off strong FFX vibes, and I mean that in the best of ways.

And then it had me fight a mime for a an outfit that called a Baguette. So… swings and roundabouts.

Still having a blast, though.

@expedition33.bsky.social

Make a Bond movie casual.

Casino Royale with Cheese.

Just finished the #MightyNein and THAT is where you end the season??

Football referee signaling a penalty. Caption reads: “Attempted proof by intimidation. Player failed to understand difference between refuting a point and shouting it down.”

Send them this: