#Panthers vs Knights

[lickmylundqvist]

What a…graphic

[marvelingjules]

“Ryan Lomberg using his speed and tenacity”

Aka: Annoying the fuck out of the other team until they do something stupid (and then probably laughing at them for it, knowing Lomberg as I do).

Listen, as a fan from his AHL days… I can say that 1. I absolutely am thrilled with the appreciation the Panthers have for both his skill and his Fucking Little Pest energy, and 2. My immediate reaction to hearing about that play via the radio broadcast was “as he does! Good for him.”

[sundriedmilano]

stop i wish nolan was playing rn because vegas is doing so well😭

[i-am-church-the-cat]

So games are this long bc there’s essentially two half times

[father-stlouis]

checked the score and 🎶i think i’ve seen this film before…and i didn’t like the ending🎶

[eyes-above--the-waves]

It’s very funny to me that hockey players will literally give up their chances for a powerplay because they simply cannot resist the urge to punch each other in the face. 

[graphicpolicy]

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week! 10 comics to check out this week! #comics

Wednesdays are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in Each week our contributors choose what they can’t wait to read this week or just sounds interesting. In other words, this is what we’re looking forward to and think you should be taking a look at! Find out what folks think…

[fadingtimetravelqueen]

Stanley Cup Final Game 2: Panthers vs. Golden Knights - A Dominant Victory for Vegas

Welcome to our comprehensive coverage of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final between the Florida Panthers and the Vegas Golden Knights. In this exciting matchup, the(more)

[tkachuktkaching]

Matthew Tkachuk returns to Edmonton as Public Enemy No. 1

Tkachuk spent the first six seasons of this NHL career with the Calgary Flames, combating in the Battle of Alberta, the decades-spanning rivalry in which the Flames and the Edmonton Oilers would bludgeon each other to the delight of neighboring fan bases. It's a feud that stands next to any geographic rivalry in sports based on its championship prestige, Hall of Fame talent and unwavering vitriol.

Tkachuk remembers those rivalry games well.

"I guess I know them more than probably most guys by playing in Calgary," Tkachuk said. "But we just had the one playoff series against them that they won, and played a bunch in the regular season. There's a lot of different guys over there now."

Calgary traded Tkachuk to the Panthers two years ago. He has returned to Edmonton twice since.

"I know last year I was booed every time I touched the puck. This year there was nothing, so I have no idea this time," he said.

How close did Tkachuk come to becoming an Oiler? Four years ago, he told TSN Radio that they appeared ready to draft him before Dubois went to Columbus.

"During the draft, on the draft floor, it was kind of a weird moment where some people at the Edmonton table -- you could ask them, they would probably deny it -- but they're kind of staring me down and kind of giving me some smiles. The only people that saw it were me and my mom. So we're like, 'All right, we're going to Edmonton,'" he said. "Then Pierre-Luc Dubois went third overall, and the phone started to ring like crazy at the Edmonton table. They threw the jersey under the table and it looked like they stripped off a name and gave it to Puljujarvi with the next pick."

Tkachuk was drafted sixth overall by the Flames. The rest is (alternate) history.

TKACHUK SAID HE HAD "kind of like a Christmas Eve feeling" before the Stanley Cup Final, giddy with anticipation for trying to win the Cup after the Panthers lost in the championship round last season to the Vegas Golden Knights.

When asked about the Oilers, there was no trash talk, no bulletin board material.

"They're a great team. Finally got to watch some of their games against Dallas, since we were playing every other night. It was good to watch their games," he said. "They played really well and ultimately deserved to win the West. It should make for a great final."

After Florida went up 2-0 in the series with its Game 2 victory, Tkachuk was asked if the Oilers were rattled.

Again, he deferred.

"No, I don't think so. It's just sometimes the way it goes," he said, before leaving the media scrum.

The story of Matthew Tkachuk vs. the Edmonton Oilers is also a story of a young, brash superstar at the apex of his brashness who says he's a much different player today. Tkachuk speaks with pride about what he perceives to be the Panthers' maturity as a team and his own discipline on the ice, in contrast with how he'd played in the Battle of Alberta, for example.

"I'd say that used to be a part of my game. Now it's pretty nonexistent," he said. "I've kind of learned what works, and what works is playing as hard as I can for 30 to 45 seconds -- well, sometimes I take the long shift, so 30 seconds to a minute. There's no need to waste your time doing extra stuff."

Panthers coach Paul Maurice has cited the 26-year-old Tkachuk's maturity throughout the season, starting with how he approached this campaign after Florida's stunning run to the Stanley Cup Final last season.

Maurice said Tkachuk was part of the leadership group that got the Panthers locked in to their defensive game this season, which was a byproduct of missing Aaron Ekblad and Brandon Montour at the start of 2023-24 after surgeries. He said Tkachuk's attitude from the start of training camp help set the efficient, business-like tone of Florida's approach.

"Last year, I think we were just kind of riding the wave," Tkachuk said before the conference finals. "Going into this, we know what it's going to take to ultimately come out on top."

Tkachuk is tied with Aleksander Barkov with 19 points to lead all Panthers scorers. He hasn't had the soaring moments as regularly as he did last playoff run.

But Maurice is confident that Tkachuk is still capable of them.

"His game is better. He's more disciplined. He's matured with this group over two years. I think he's ... primed," the coach said. "I would never bet against him coming up with some heroics, but it's certainly not the only thing we have to expect now when we come to the rink from him."

Article taken from espn.com I Photos : Getty Images

[anim-ttrpgs]

Songs for Eureka Sessions: Sessions Intros

(in case you wanna open each session with a musical theme like an episode of a tv show)

Masterpost of Eureka song lists & how to choose good music for any TTRPG session.

Gabriel Knight Theme

Superstition - Stevie Wonder

Behemoth - Gost

Eclipse - Perturbator

Mystery Inc. Intro

Suspiria Theme

The Woods and the Goddes - Deadly Premonition

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Theme

Red Right Hand - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Pink Panther Theme

Prologue Music – Resident Evil 2

Saudade – Resident Evil 2 Remake

Main Theme – Max Payne

The Hunt – River City Girls

Max Payne Theme – Max Payne 2

Main Theme – Gabriel Knight (Original)

The Church - Perturbator

Max’s Choice: Duty vs. Passion – Max Payne 2

Infuscomus – Blood

Haunted When the Minutes Drag – The Guest

Elegantly designed and thoroughly playtested, Eureka represents the culmination of three years of near-daily work from our team, as well as a lot of our own money. If you’re just now reading this and learning about Eureka for the first time, you missed the crowdfunding window unfortunately, but you can still check out the public beta on itch.io to learn more about what Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy actually is, as that is where we have all the fancy art assets, the animated trailer, links to video reviews by podcasts and youtubers, etc.!

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We hope to see you there, and that you will help our dreams come true and launch our careers as indie TTRPG developers with a bang by getting us to our base goal and blowing those stretch goals out of the water, and fight back against WotC's monopoly on the entire hobby. Wish us luck.

[sasheneskywalker]

politics, philosophy and superheroes - video essays

Marvel's (Deceptively) Empty Politics, Explained | A Video Essay

The Ideology Of The MCU

How Superhero Films Misunderstand Revolutionaries

The Revolution Was NOT Televised | Falcon & The Winter Soldier

Why the Cynical Superhero Isn't That Interesting

WATCHMEN & JOKER: A tale of two comic adaptations

How Invincible Deconstructs Power Fantasy

Interpreting Superheroes as Monsters | Monster Men

This video is not about The Batman | Renegade Cut

A Class Analysis of Joker and The Dark Knight

Bad Superman - Postmodernism in Superhero Movies | Renegade Cut

Superman Isn't Jesus.

Satirizing Superman - Detail Diatribe

Superman: Collateral Damage – Detail Diatribe

The Divisive Politics of Bisexual Superman Backlash

No Way Home Was Kind of Sexist

Spider-Man, Class and Militarization in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Saving MJ: The Feminism of the Spider-Man Films

WandaVision: Addiction, Abuse & The Fear of God

How WandaVision Avoided The "Crazy Woman" Trope

The Avengers - How Do We Know What's Right and Wrong? | Renegade Cut

Marvel Defenders of The Status Quo

Captain America: Civil War - Renegade Cut

Team America World Police: MCU | Copaganda Episode 6

Black Panther - Africa Without Colonization | Renegade Cut

Loki and How Conservatives Become Fascists

The Queer History of Loki (It’s Weirder Than You Think)

Commodifying Bi Validation: Loki vs Russell T Davies

The Politics of The Boys

QueerCoding The Joker: An Analysis

Lego Batman's Subversive Qu33rcoding

Detail Diatribe: Superheroes in Empty Worlds

[i-am-church-the-cat]

The entire game needs to be replayed in slow motion like that im still learning

[rocknroll7575]

MK Intro- Rusted Knight Vs Panther Queen. Some knightshade please. Whether romantic or flirty or sexual it is all good.

RK!Jaune: *Jumps off Juniper and lands on stage* Have I ever told you what we use to call your ass back in Beacon

PQ!Blake: *Swings and lands on stage* No, but now I'm Interested

RK!Jaune: The Bellabooty

XXX

PQ!Blake: *Duel wields Gambol Shroud* Are you gonna show me you're sword, Dear knight?

RK!Jaune: *walks on the stage with his broken sword* Only if you're a good girl

PQ!Blake: Wouldn't you prefer me to be bad~?

[corsairesix]

Fallout TV show thoughts

Spoilers ahead because I'm like, talking about the show and what happens in it.

The first two episodes are the strongest definitely. The vault dwellers being culty trad weirdos and the brotherhood being technofascists is a great return to form. But after that, the aspects of both of those tend to get subsumed into "Lucy and Max are naive"

Lucy and Max kinda stop having ideologies pretty quick. It's easier to accept with Max because he's shown from the beginning to be less interested into the technocult aspects of the Brotherhood but Lucy has fully drunk the vault kool-aid and that kinda becomes secondary to "she's from a vault so she's used to good people"

The central tension of "if it's life or death, you'll abandon your morals" vs "but we have to keep being better anyway" is a really popular one for post-apocalypse stories to tell, but it's kind of a boring Fallout story for me.

The early Brotherhood stuff really hits the sweet spot between the creepy ritualistic aspects and the fact that a lot of them are just shitty bullies. Titus going from the helmet voice to his normal voice was a really good scene.

Tangentially, I don't particularly care for Ghoulgins. I thought the pre-war plot with Walton Goggins was great, but with Ghoulgins it felt like every scene he was in he walks up to someone, snarls a bit, kills everyone present, and walks away with no variation.

The best part of episode 3 onwards was all of the stuff with young Steve Buscemi solving mysteries

I laughed at the fact that they did Kid in a Fridge 2, but after the fifth time or so that they played that clip it was increasingly obvious that it was the only backstory that Maximus had. We know exactly five-ish seconds of his life outside the story. And sure, part of that was that he's like, raised in a high-control cult, but so is Lucy and we learn a half-dozen hobbies that she has in the first minute.

Also is it just me or did they put one black guy in every scene where Max was getting his ass beat? So like, invoking a certain imagery for sure but not textually saying anything about racism, which seems like the worst of both worlds

There's a running textual and subtextual dichotomy between "innocence/naivete/ignorance" and "willingness to do violence" but it's undercut a little by how often characters screw up by doing violence because they were ignorant or naive

Lee Moldaver call me

(side note, I'm not a "wouldve been way better if at the end the Black Panther turned to the camera & said "i am communist now" & then specified hes the exact kind of communist i am" person, but honestly Fallout is allergic to ever depicting American communists. McCarthyism can only be bad if it's aimed at the wrong target.)

I just realized Sarita Choudhury was in Gawain and the Green Knight and she was really hot there too

I *really* liked the plot device of "Vault-Tec has a fiduciary responsibility to the end of the world" but I thought every company we know the name of sitting around a table and going "we're going to do the end of the world" was corny. I'm surprised Slocum Joe wasn't there to pitch an iced regulah and strawberry frahsted vault.

Slight tweak that could be more compelling--vault tec wants things to be bad/drive up paranoia to sell reservations, but they don't actually want the world to end. It's like an insurance company that wants you to be scared of disasters, but doesn't actually want to pay out. That's the exact type of corporate hubris I could see them trying to thread. And it still works with stuff like suppressing Moldaver's cold fusion.

Wait why was the cold fusion in that guy's head? They injected a similar thing into the dog, so I assumed at first he could like, psychically communicate with the dog and that's why the dog could track his head. But the dog was injected before the guy so like, did the dog just have general cold-fusion tracking software injected? Like I know it was an excuse to have Dogmeat IV, but I genuinely want to know if anyone knows the deal with that.

A good amount of stuff that turns me off of the show is that I genuinely find the post-post-apocalypse of some Fallout games more interesting than just post-apoc.

This show seemed less built up than even Fallout 4. All the locations seemed kinda disconnected from any sense of space. I cackled when the snake oil guy showed up to treat the guy's foot. He's not anywhere near the other two places we've seen him. Is this even his building?

"The Governmint" being two guys and their boss who looks like every wasteland mayor ever was really good. Good enough to wipe out Shady Sands? Jury's still out.

I'm not particularly mad about "they destroyed the NCR!" but I wish they did something interesting. I do like how Moldaver flies NCR flags. That was probably the most interesting element of it

[jiminy-crickets]

round two is shaping up to be

baby girls vs baby girls (canucks oilers)

rats vs rats (bruins panthers)

bad facial hair vs bad facial hair (canes vs rangers)

im still workshopping stars avs, and avs knights.....