#don’t tell but I may be getting back into obj shows

[feralpoodles]

I would love a tutorial from the procreate update please whenever you have time ❤

Procreate update for sims 4 meshes tutorial!!

Just a disclaimer that I’m still figuring out the update too so this may not be the best way to do it but it’s the way I got it to work lol. The procreate update seems a little wonky at this point so hopefully in the future they’ll add support for importing textures and non-square uvs :)

Tutorial under the cut because it’s long akfskh

1. Open whatever mesh you want in Blender as per usual.

2. Go into File>export>Wavefront(.obj) and export it as an obj

3. Transfer the obj and the image texture to your Ipad. You can do this any way you want (dropbox, email, etc.), my computer was automatically set up with a synched onedrive folder so that’s what I use

4. Import the obj into procreate. You can either do this from whatever program you used to transfer the file (in Onedrive you click on the options and select “open in another app” and then you can select procreate) or you can click on “import” from the top right of the procreate gallery and navigate to the file in your files app from there. Either method will automatically add the mesh as a new artwork that you can find in the gallery

This is where it gets a little screwy lol. Since procreate only seems to support square uvs that are 2048x2048 and Sims textures are 1024x2048, we have to stretch the texture to fit, edit it, then squish it back (this will kill the quality a little, but I honestly can’t figure out a different to do it, please tell me if you know)

5. Color fill the main mesh you are working on (drag the color from the top right corner onto your mesh and drop)

6. Go under Actions (wrench icon)>3D>Show 2D texture

7. Go under Actions>add>insert photo and pick your imported texture and position it up against one side of the canvas

8. Start a transform, then turn on snapping/magnetics. Then, with freeform transform, stretch the texture so it reaches the other side of the canvas, making sure it snaps to each side. You can then position the texture over the colorfilled texture to make sure it lines up

9. Uncheck the show 2D texture option and check that the texture looks right. You can turn off the colorfilled texture too

10. Paint/edit texture normally! I like to work on a separate layer so I can move it around and edit it separately

11. You can also insert photos, select areas and move them around, and basically do everything you can in normal procreate, it’s pretty cool :)

12. Once you’re happy with your texture, go into layers and merge your drawing layer with the texture layer (you could try just exporting the drawing layer and adding that onto the original texture in photoshop, might save some quality but you might not be able to get it in the exact same spot)

13. Go under actions>add>copy canvas

14. Go back into the gallery, add a new artwork, choose clipboard when it asks for a size, this should put the image texture you copied into that new artwork.

15. Save the image from there and transfer it back to your computer

16. In photoshop, select the white background and delete it. Then, copy the texture onto a sims texture template. Then you can free transform one side and squish it back to the right size, and place it so it fits correctly over the template

17. Hide the template and save the image, then import it as a texture into s4s. Tada!

It’s not perfect, like I said you lose some quality, but you can do some cleanup in photoshop and it’s a lot easier to draw directly on the mesh this way if you don’t have a drawing tablet/cintiq to hook up to your computer.

When I tried it the first time, I was working on a new mesh so the UVs were square. When I finished painting, I took that texture and scaled it down to fit on the sims texture, then I adjusted the UVs to fit, which definitely worked better. Hopefully Procreate will fix some things so we can import textures and have non-square uvs. Hope this helped, let me know if you have questions!! :)

[soranihimawari]

day 1: shenanigans

foxes den shenanigan (1)

summary: snippets into the slice of life of being one of the few young women who interact with the inarizaki volleyball club. every member is all tough on the outside until they meet kira, yn: the one who had been neighbors with the miya twins all her life. her best friend, nakiri-chan, is convinced at least once in their life all three of them (osamu, kira, and atsumu) had loved each other. this mini series is a going to be a little reflective, a little dramatic, and overall deals with themes of growing up to learn the difference of love. 

genre: slice of life/ angsty-teen love/ rated pg-15+ for language and juxtopostional humour. 

<< |master list| >>

-------[Inarazaki High School, 11:47 a.m.]-------

“you can’t be serious,” my best friend’s voice of disbelief tells me. we were on lunch break when we decided to head to the vending machines by the gym. there were various students talking amongst themselves buzzing with excitement for the annual art festival. 

“oh, but i am,” i said. i took a deep breath when i gripped her shoulders. upon my exhale i nodded.

“b-but your class representative said your homeroom was putting together a maid cafe all because she found out you know how to bake?”

“i blame the last bake sale my cooking club did to raise funds for a new mixer. all the members of the boys’ volleyball team bought a bag of my ‘cosmic star’ cookies.“

“i see. well, it can’t be all that bad, right? if you’re going to be the one coming up with the menu and the baked treats, you don’t really have to wear the maid outfit.”

i hum in response when i place my bill into the machine. the vending machine rumbles before dropping my can of mango nectar. once she buys her drink, she and i head back to our class on the third floor; before we separate, she wishes me luck with coming up with the menu.

“so, what did you have in mind kira-chan?”

“macaroons and maybe tarts. i don’t know what kind yet though. i’ll see ya after classes are over so we can walk home together. later nakiri-san!”

***

the day of the festival approached even faster than you had thought. after many attempts at making various macaroon flavors and tart ideas that paired well with the boba-styled drinks being served, me and the other bakery/cafe volunteers were ready for business. the other students in your class were divided between servers and baristas. the girls and boys who were selected as the maids and butlers were thankfully the only ones that had to wear the full garb. since it was the day before the festival, i decided to do a sampling of the sweets i chose to make for the servers and baristas so they can help our prospective customers tomorrow with describing the menu items. my fellow classmates, the team of five standing next to me (our bakers team consisted of six), were able to try out their own treats and thanked me for showing them how to make the treats. aside from macaroons and cookies, we collectively added two parfait flavors: one was strawberry themed for our school colors and the other was themed around sunset colors.

before the meeting was adjourned, i breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing the news from our class rep up until she mentioned something about the bakery staff wearing cat ears and other nicknacks of cafe worker approved jewelry. when i got home that evening, i screamed into my pillow to relieve some excess stress over the maid cafe. 

i immediately called my neighbor and although i wasn’t expecting him to answer the phone, i felt relief wash over me when i heard his normal greeting on the other end:

“miya residence and no, atsumu isn’t the better twin.”

i chuckled at his statement. after years of living next door to them, i can only say that miya osamu was right (also, he was the first person to express the same level of joy in cooking for others). he immediately cleared his throat when he heard me laugh.

“ahem. oh, hey kira-san. what’s up?”

i am not surprised i heard a short lived scuffle in the background as well as atsumums “ack!” in the background followed by a soft thud that only chucking a pillow could have made.

“osamu? it’s me. say, do you still have the cat ear hair clips from last halloween?”

***

the festival was in full swing: streamers lined the hallways as the people visiting came to enjoy what our school had to offer. i heard from nakiri that her class voted on doing a paint by numbers mural. other classes in our year were doing their renditions of living portraits and face painting. apparently, my class along with our neighbors across the hall divided up the cafeteria to encompass both a savory restaurant booth along with our class’ maid cafe. 

i was busy with the other members of my team making sure orders were being ran on time while placing the finishing touches for the treats on the tray. even though i was allowed to wear my pistaschio green chef coat, i couldn’t get away with just wearing a macaroon earrings. to push my bangs back, i had a pair of cat ears clipped into my hair. 

“shift change kira-san!” my class rep’s voice said in an exuberant manner. she was in charge of patrolling the hallway trying to gather more guests to come into our side of the cafeteria. business was steady to say the least, but i recalled i had signed up to take over the advertising part once hers was over. 

“ok! can you give me a few minutes? i need to fix my make up real quick.”

elsewhere, the members of the inarizaki volleyball team were seen wandering around campus enjoying the festival. the twins along with suna had long sinced branched off and found nakiri’s class. 

“hey guys! come to paint?” she offered them a sponge brush and a little to-go container. 

“isn’t kira-chan supposed to be with you?” osamu asked perplexed i wasn’t near by.

“yeah, aren’t you two joined at the hip?” his brother chimed in. nakiri rolled her eyes at the blond before shaking her head. 

“oh? you didn’t hear?” nakiri asked slightly taken aback by his question.

right at that moment, nakiri pointed behind the boys toward where i was standing speaking with over festival goers who were looking at the menu for my class’ cafe. i had a smile on my face when the guests mentioned they’d absolutely stopped by for a refreshing treat. when they waved their good bye to me, i was suddenly greeted by a different family who asked what i would recommend for their five year old (while they would opt for teas, their child really wanted something sweet). after asking a few questions (are they allergic to anything? does their child prefer strawberries or oranges? etc), i pointed out our strawberry parfait as a great option for them to all share. 

“i heard one class chose to do a dessert cafe, but i didn’t think it would be a maid cafe,” rintarou stated flatly. he took the paint and the brush from nakiri before stepping inside to paint his section of the mural. on the other hand, the blond twin elbowed his brother. there was a teasing glint in his eyes. 

“kira-san looks really cute, doesn’t she ‘samu?”

nakiri caught on to how pink the gray haired twin’s cheek became when his brother teased him. for the life of him, osamu couldn’t help but wonder why his neighbor called him asking to borrow the cat ear clips the night prior and now it was all making sense. 

“shut it atsumu.”

“hmm,” nakiri hummed. she tapped her index finger on her lips in thought. “my shift is almost over for the hour, so why don’t we all go visit the cafe, yeah?”

***

“oh my god!” 

my class rep burst through the kitchen doors again when my shift was over causing me to almost drop the parfait in my hands. i had successfully placed the dessert on the tray. one of the front of house staff members gripped her shoulders to calm her down a bit. thankfully, none of the ingrients toppled over, but we did lose a cookie straw in the process.

“breathe class rep,” i saidx. i was trying really hard to not laugh at her panicked expresion. “what’s going on?”

“h-hot miya twins outside.” 

that was all i needed to hear before i pinched the bridge of my nose before cursing my best friend and her family nine generations back for slipping out my secret assignment for the festival.

seeing my neighbors through the window of the kitchen swing doors was honestly the last thing i needed today, but of course we couldn’t always win the fortune of the gods. mumbling a quick, ‘the gods are testing me again,’ caused one of the cooks to snicker. to be fair, i could live without the thought of hearing atsumu’s teasing jokes or osamu’s sass, but alas, i did not win fortune’s favor that hour. also, this was the last outfit they’d expect to see me in because half of the volleyball team had tried (keyword:tried) to get me into a maid outfit for y e a r s. that campaign stopped as soon as shinsuke became captain.

“they’re asking for you to serve them too,” the front of house manager said when he walked into the kitchen shortly thereafter. i was having a good day up until this turn of events, and although it took every fiber of my being to not kill those two, i realized i should handle this in an appropriate manner. i mentioned i’ll handle it relinquishing my duties to my second. 

when i walked outside, i noticed that not only were my twin neighbors outside, they also sent a text to their entire team asking to visit the cafe area. i calmly turn my lips upward in a saccharine smile as i approached their table. it’s the same familiar smile which caused atsumu and osamu’s blood to run cold; they knew i was pissed as soon as i let the spirit of customer service take over my body.

“welcome to the foxes’ den masters,” i greeted them with a bow. “how may i be of service?”

atsumu’s eyes bounced back and forth between me and his brother who seemed to have found the parfaits description very interesting. 

“can i order something off the menu?” atsumu asked in a teasing way. if looks could kill, i’d sent the setter back home with a killer bruise on his shoulder, yet I remember how violence is frowned upon at a festival.

seeing as i did not object to his question when i replied with, “if it is your wish master.”

“can i buy an hour of your time from ya for my dearest younger brother?”

i blinked caught off guard by his forwardness on his twin’s behalf. all of our patrons had ceased speaking to other members of their parties after hearing his proposal. where was a pillow when i needed to scream into one? all color drained from osamu’s face. nakiri looked just as shocked as i was mouthing a ‘sorry’ toward me; she gave me an encouraging smile. (it’s been four years since both of the miya siblings gifted me friendship chocolates on white day as an apology for poking fun at my wacky homemade candies. my parental figure thought it would have been nice to make some for the neighbors’ twins in middle school.) 

my smile disappeared while i pondered my answer to the setter’s eager eyes. to spare both osamu and i further embarrassment, I spoke the first thing that came to my mind:

“if that is what your brother wishes, young master, then he should ask me himself,” i said kindly.

this caught osamu’s attention real quick; his eyes snapped up at me with a curious stare. suna had his phone out obviously documenting the whole thing. i tilt my head to the side and posed my hands under my chin prentending to think before i shrugged.

“he should also know that my shift ends at five-thirty and he should meet me here if he doesn’t mind walking me home. now, if you’ll excuse me, i have to garnish table seven’s parfaits.”

the murmurs of conversations began up again once i bowed and took my leave back into the kitchen. the last thing i heard was nakiri laughing as atsumu exclaimed that they were seated at the table i mentioned and osamu claiming that he’d kill his brother for fourth time that day. 

“i’ll have you know that i could have asked her at any time right?” osamu seethed. “i don’t need you to line up dates for me.”

“yeah, yeah. you hate me, i hate you. we punch each other a little, and then you get to date kira since you’re clearly not going to do anything about this one sided love you think you two have,” atsumu said before resting his chin on his hand. suna caught what atsumu said all on the video he was recording, including nikiri’s stunned face.

“woah, back the fun bus up. seriously?!” she asked. “no wonder kira had been acting a bit more strictly with her recipes lately. look at the little drawings on the menu.”

she was quick to point out the little drawings of the chibi macaroons (“one was blueberry the other was mango orange, a silent reference to you three’s friendship,” she briefly explained) the design team made and colored.

“must be true, look at how red his cheeks are becoming & i don’t think that’s because of anger,” suna replied.

“c‘ mon, let’s go.” atsumu suggests, rising from the table. “i suddenly recall having passed by the boardwalk games section. osamu, you stay here and tell me what i should order.”

—to be continued—

[thegodshavehorns]

Come Into My Parlor (3/5)

Chapter 3: Electra and Oedipus Do the Limbo

It’s mid-Scorpio in Istanbul, on a cool overcast afternoon that seems to be considering precipitation but hasn’t decided yet. You are sitting in your hotel room, a five-star accommodation that overlooks the Sea of Marmara. The harbor with its yachts and sailboats is just outside the hotel, and large container ships float beyond like weightless fortresses.

You are here with Eridan on some sort of undisclosed business of his, and he doesn’t require your presence at this moment. Deducing from past field trips, it is likely that he is politicking.

You move to the hotel’s minibar, and rifle through it for its most expensive items. You remove them, and place them on the coffee table, then arrange two plush armchairs into a welcoming layout. And, remembering the fiasco from last time, you unlock the door.

“Vriska Serket?” you say aloud, and your lips curl. “I can assure you that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is nowhere about.”

You sit down in the armchair, sinking several inches into the cushion. Nothing happens, and you sigh. Not this again.

“Vriska Serket, will you make me play this game every time we-”

Movement, something blue, out of the corner of your eye. You turn.

She’s outside your window, hovering in midair, arms crossed and wearing a bored expression.

Suppressing a roll of your eyes, you smile and move to unlatch the window. Are all the gods this overly dramatic? “How do you do, Lady Luck? What brings you to my window? Looking for your shadow?”

The Thief of Light swings into the room as gracefully as might be possible while coming in through a window, folding her wings in as she does. She is not wearing the pirate gear from last time, nor the orange godhood, but rather a long black coat and blue jeans. She looks at you for a moment, eyes scrutinizing, then turns to look around the room.

“Nice block. Definitely an improvement over last time.”

You close the window behind her, then come to the front and indicate the minibar items. “Chocolate liqueur?”

She snorts softly, then says; “Don’t mind if I do.”

You hand her the bottle, and she speaks again as you seat yourself again in the armchair.

“Do you like that old story?”

You smile politely. “The original much more than any of the adaptations. Though I suppose the version with Robin Williams had merit as well.”

“Hm.” The goddess frowns at the bottle in her hand, then flashes her teeth at you in a wide grin. “Then surely you know that I’m not Pupa Pan. Or whatever they call him on this planet.”

“Forgive me for trying to force a metaphor. There wasn’t anything I could think of on the spot that related to Captain Hook.” You pause. “Would you like to have a seat? On the chair, or the bed, or the table, or the floor? Anywhere?”

Vriska does not sit, but rather remains standing, leaning slightly against the intricately patterned wall. She uncorks the bottle and sips the chocolate liqueur, eyeing you. At length, she speaks: “Do you have what I want?”

“Yes,” you say, and smile more genuinely than before. You have prepared for this, as promised. You spoke with Eridan after your previous meeting with the Thief, and told him of Vriska’s odd little information exchange. Interestingly, he showed very little irritation or surprise. Of course, it had occurred to you that Eridan may be displeased if he learned that you were mining another god for information that he was unwilling to divulge, edifying as it was. You knew better than to lie to his face, but you managed to deflect a detailed inquiry with a simple “just trust me.”

You’re still amazed that worked.

Regardless, he gave you information you could share. True enough to satisfy, yet vague enough to conceal.

“It seems that the Prince is grooming me for some kind of leadership position. There is some sort of trouble ahead, or adversity, for which my honesty, pragmatism, and intelligence will be most helpful. I have not been able to figure out much else.”

The goddess purses her lips. “For a guy who prides himself on truth, he sure isn’t telling you much, is he?”

“I don’t recall him ever being described as the god of full and easy disclosures.”

Lady Luck chuckles at that. “No, he’s not.”

You cross one leg on top of your knee. “My turn. As before, I would like you to elaborate on the games you played when you were young. Unless you would prefer not to talk about them?”

Vriska shrugs. “No chitin off my back. They were role-playing games. We would take on personas. Be who we wanted to be.” The goddess finally sat in the offered chair, a contemplative look on her face. “We were kids, just playing around. But it was also practice, of a sort.”

“Practice? For what?”

She frowns. “For adulthood, of course. Playing at what adults did, or at least at what we thought they did. Of course, this was long before I ever thought I’d be a god.”

You smirk at the thought. “I confess, I find it hard to imagine what role-playing games would be like if we treated them as an opportunity to pretend at being adults, rather than sword-wielding magical adventurers in search of gold. Was there a preponderance of Level 8 Bankers? Or did adulthood involve something rather more exciting than that?”

The goddess is smiling. “It was somewhat dramatized. Now it’s my turn.” You nod, and she continues, “Do you want to be this leader, in whatever this future is that Eridan seems to be planning for you?”

You think for a moment. “I do not think I currently have enough information to make a decision. But at present, I do not think that I will be locked into that path by continuing as I am. I will lose nothing by staying here and learning from the Prince until such a time that I must make a decision. But… I may be willing to entertain alternative possibilities, if I judge them superior.” You straighten. “What were your favorite books, before you became a goddess? Or music, or other art form?”

She shrugs. “Easy. My Ancestor’s diary. I had the whole thing memorized, down to the places where the handwriting smeared.”

“Oh? I’d be honored to hear an excerpt, at some point. Or read one.”

“Hm,” the Thief frowns. “Maybe. Does Eridan speak often with the other gods?”

“Some of them,” you reply. “The Mage and the Seer, he talks with reasonably frequently. The Maid and the Witch, occasionally.”

“Do you have any idea what they’re in cahoots about?”

You sigh dramatically. “You know I’m keeping a tally of these questions, right?”

Vriska tosses her hair and rolls her eyes. “Fine. Go.”

“You say you didn’t know you would become a goddess. But what dreams did you have as a youth, in terms of your future?”

“I wanted to be a Gamblignant.” At your confused expression, she clarifies. “An empire-sanctioned pirate. I thought it was fated, actually, considering my Ancestor was one of the most infamous ones, and I was eager to measure up.”

You take mental note of the word empire. “So when you role-played, to prepare for adulthood, you were in effect role-playing as a buccaneer?”

She grins, placing a long nail to her lip. “Hmm. I believe the next question is mine.”

You pause, then nod sheepishly. “Yes, I’m afraid I got ahead of myself, Lady Serket. My apologies. Your question was about the cahoots?”

“Right.”

“The Prince and the Mage appear to be involved in some projects relating to SkaiaCorp. I’m not quite sure what. With the Seer, it’s less clear, though I think he may be consulting her for advice. As for the Witch and the Maid, he generally sees them both at once, and I’m not certain where they go. Though, from my limited observations of their interactions, I believe their relationship may be characterized as ‘Ashen’.”

“What? He’s quadranted with Feferi again? Damn, I’ve been out of the loop.”

You smile politely. “Far be it from me to know every detail of divine gossip.”

“Stick around long enough and you’ll get a real education,” she says, her grin all fangs. “Your question, Lalonde.”

You think for a moment. “Well, so far as I have gathered, you were quite enthralled with your Ancestor as a youth. Did that hero-worship persist into adulthood?”

Vriska pauses, and for a moment looks confused. Her lips part, then seal. She seems almost pensive. Then, “I never got to be an adult, really. I went from kid to god. Nothing in between.”

You blink, at that. So, the Thief was only a child, thrust into godhood, with no room in between to mature or make a life for herself? It’s fitting, considering her personality. But…

“Were all the gods like that?” you ask.

She wags a finger at you. “My turn.” She leans in, and now her grin is almost a leer. “Is Eridan in any other quadrants right now?”

You manage to keep your face straight. “I do not believe so. But I can put in a good word for you, if you like.”

The goddess rolls her eyes. “Get with the program, Lalonde! That’s not what I asked. I’m trying to get all the dirt on Eridan. ALL of it.”

“And I’m sure that is the only reason why you are asking.” You just can’t help it. Your ear for passive-aggressive deadpan has only sharpened while living with a god as sensitive to truth and lies as Eridan, and the Thief is such a rich target.

“Pitch with Eridan’s gotten old, kid. And you won’t catch me red with him again. Eugh.”

All the better to not have competition. The thought pops unbidden into your head as your heartbeat quickens, and you feel the heat rising in your cheeks. Then you finish processing what you just heard, and you stutter embarrassingly on your reply. “A-Again?”

Vriska gestures flippantly. “Yeah. We dated for a while, near the beginning. He’d finally gotten over himself, actually was likable for a change, and not so stuffy as he is now. I think he actually apologized to me; nobody could believe it. It was so utterly pitiable. Last time I show that guy a soft spot though. He was waaaaaaaay too clingy. Like a remora.” She sticks her tongue out in disgust.

“Oh,” you say, looking off to the side. “He’s never struck me as… clingy.”

The Thief snorts. “That’s because these days he values objects more than people. Mortal or otherwise.”

You frown. “No, it’s- he’s not like that at all. I can’t imagine you really know him all that well, if you think that about him.”

“Kid, I’ve known him since before the sun started shining.” At the look on your face, she continues. “What, did you think he cared? Like he was a stand-in for your lusus-father?”

“Don’t be preposterous!” you snap. “Our relationship is that of a mentor and a student. It’s completely p-professional.” Damn, you aren’t keeping your composure near calm enough.

“I don’t have to be a living lie detector to call bullshit on that one, Lalonde.” The Thief leans forward, eyes glittering. “So, did I get it? He’s a father figure to you? Nothing to be ashamed of, he keeps you so close...”

“No, he’s n-not…” Lie. Lie. “Yes, fine, that's right, he’s like the father I never had.”

He keeps you so close, she said. You are blushing pink as a peach.

“No way.” The Thief looks delighted. “You’re flushed for him. Holy shit.”

For a precious few seconds, you are able to distract yourself by wondering which god’s shit could be considered holy.

“I’m right. I’m definitely right. The look on your face, HA!”

So much for distraction. You abandon the attempt at deception, press your face against your notebook, and take a deep breath. You let it out and, with great effort, lift your head and look directly into the Thief’s cerulean eyes. “Yes, Lady Luck. You are quite astute. I’m afraid that I am afflicted with the greatest misfortune to be infatuated with my mentor.”

The Thief giggles. “Oh, you poor kid. Poor, poor kid. You’re not even of age, are you? When do humans mature fully? Twenty, twenty-five? Ha ha ha!”

“I fail to see how any of this is relevant!” you snap.

“Oh, Lalonde, everything is relevant.” The Thief smiles condescendingly. “You need some advice? Stay away from Eridan’s quadrants. No good comes out of his romances, eeeeeeeever.”

You pull your knees up and wrap your arms around them, forming a body language shield against the goddess and her blue words. “It’s my turn to ask, Vriska.”

“You know, on the other frond, you could go tell him your feelings! That would be so hilarious.”

You pick up your pad of paper and, face still crimson, attempt to re-inject some sense of order into the interview. “You made reference to an ‘empire.’ Can you describe this empire in a bit more detail?

“You want to play it off? Alright, sure, but we’re not done there, Lalonde.” The Thief frowns. “Damn, it was so long ago. Our empire was led by an empress, and it stretched over dozens, maybe hundreds of star systems in our galaxy. Subjugated or wiped out everything it met. And there was the caste system. Blood color, you know.”

Blue on the snow. “Blood color?”

“It’s not relevant anymore. No empress, no other Trolls to compare to. It would be stupid to keep that system up when we’re all gods!”

Wait. “Sorry, ‘Trolls?’” You remember old legends and folktales, children's stories and the like, about the world of fairies and trolls, supposedly made by the gods before they made humans. Such apocrypha had never been approved by the Zodiac Church, but...

The Thief smiles and reclines. “How long have you been flushed for Eridan?”

You would really rather not talk about this. But the Thief is starting to get into some really juicy information now, so… “It started about six months after he took me as an apprentice.” Your voice is clipped, reluctant. “We were stargazing. I discovered he liked wizards. I found the notion… agreeable.”

She snorts. “Agreeable. Right. Any of us could have told you he likes wizards.”

Your lips grow thin with irritation. “Okay, enough of that. What did you mean by “Troll?”

“That’s us. We’re Trolls. Or, we were, before we were gods. Would you kiss Eridan, if you had the opportunity and knew no adverse consequences would result?”

“Lady Serket, I find this personal line of questioning highly inappropriate.”

She shrugs “Take it or leave it, kid.”

“….Fine. If I thought he wanted to kiss me as well… yes. I would.”

“You really shouldn’t date Eridan,” the Thief interjects. “You should find a mortal. A human, or whatever else is romantically compatible.”

You cross your arms. “I’m not asking you for relationship advice. I’m asking you what your thoughts were, as a youth, about the Troll Empire you lived within?”

The goddess’ brows furrow, and she looks away. “It was the Alternian Empire, not the Troll Empire. And I was going to excel within it. I had everything figured out, I would overcome everything in my way and glide into success. I was already a blueblood, so it’s not as though it was out of my reach. I wasn’t a diehard imperial loyalist, but I was certain that I could succeed on my own merit without needing to break the system.”

“Hm. So, you had a privileged background, due solely to birth, and believed that your success was due to merit?”

She gives a hard smile. “I earned my luck, kid. Not everything was gold spoons and sweet-meat, you know. I had plenty of shit to deal with. So, are you planning on holding your flushed feelings inside indefinitely? Or are you planning to tell him at some point?

You groan. You should have been better prepared for this. “I- I am not certain. At this point I am simply suffering from a childish infatuation. I doubt that he would reciprocate, or even that reciprocation is deserved. If… in the future, when I am older, if I am still ‘flushed’ for him then… yes. Maybe. But not now.”

“Older? Kid, you’d be like a housefly to him even if you lived a century!” The Thief cackles, and your cheeks burn.

Well, if that’s where this is going, then two can play that game.

“You shouldn’t let these things fester inside,” the Thief continues. “No time like the present! Why not let it out? Take a chance!”

You compose yourself. “Perhaps I will. But in any event, it is my turn to ask a question.”

“Do you want help with it? It’s more Nepeta’s gig than mine, but I think I could lend a frond...”

You take a deep breath. “As I said, Lady Luck, it is my turn.” Before she has a chance to interrupt, you continue. “Who was your first object of romantic attraction?”

The Thief leans back in the chair, sips her liquor, and gazes at you a moment before answering. “When I was very young, I was obsessed with Tavros. You know him as the Page.”

You nod, and lean in. You knew his name, and had heard parables about him and the Thief. Most were conflicting. The thought that you could actually get a straight answer now was quite intriguing.

You wait for her to continue, and your interest must show on your face, because she purses her lips and says; “You ever feel caliginous, Lalonde? No, no I didn’t think so.”

“Describe it?”

She smiles. “Admit to Eridan how you feel, and maybe I’ll tell you more about Tavros when I come back tomorrow. Same time.”

She leaves you with your notebook in your lap. You don’t mention the fact that this time, you weren't the one to invite her back.

[dokidokiliteraturegirls]

Hi everyone! Yui here ❤️ I’m back from the spa or whatever the hell I was doing~  I know we said we were going back from hiatus today, and that’s true, but before we kick things off like usual I wanted to do something special: a behind the scenes feature where I tell you guys about Friendship... th-the last arc, not the concept.

There are many things I want to talk about, such as the symbolism I tried to include, the controversy, overall message of the arc, and the reason I decided to do this story in the first place. Hopefully giving you this insight from the POV of the writer helps you understand the reason we spent so much time in this arc, instead of thinking “Yui is a hack who resorts to TV tropes when out of ideas”~ well, besides that, at least.

This is gonna get pretty long but I’ll be thankful if you take the time to read it ^^

Without further ado, let’s go to the first episode of DDLitG Behind the Scenes: Some Final Thoughts on Friendship. Check it out under the cut!

What the story is about:

As a quick summary of the story, so we’re all on the same page, “Friendship” is an arc focused on interpersonal relationships, hence the name. Sayori, during some idle time, decides to visit the local library, where she finds Ako [Named “female student” when she’s introduced]. Ako is not like our main cast, as she is not a .chr file, but an .obj one. This means she is merely a single sprite with a line of description (”Female student is at the library. She draws two flowers and a cat”), made by the game to fill the universe and make it feel less emtpy.

Through the warmth of Sayori’s friendship, she learns more about the world and about what having friends is like, which results in her constantly learning more things and becoming a more complex file.

Sadly, Ako develops feelings for her newfound friend, and when she decides to act on them, the tension that had been building up to that point explodes and conflict arises. The situation is resolved when Sayori reasons that if they work together, their friendship will ultimately overcome the despair of the situation.

Interpersonal relationships: that’s the core of the arc. Sayori’s friendship warming up Ako’s heart and changing her life for the better, Ako working through her feelings towards Sayori so they can remain together, Monika’s and Sayori’s relationship being put to the test with Ako’s arrival. The solution to the conundrum? Trust. Effort. Friendship.

The arc’s messages:

I am of the belief that most fiction carries a message. Most of it, obviously, not all of it. I don’t read Pop Team Epic expecting to learn about the meaning of love... or do I???

Anyway, I always try to put some message that can be extrapolated from the fantastical situations happening and applied to the real world. There are 3 messages I did my best to convey during Friendship. The first one applies to the arc, and the last two are things I’ve been trying to say during most of the story.

1. A friend confessing non-reciprocated feelings does not have to mean the end of your friendship.

Whenever I see the “this person got confessed to while in a relationship” story in media, the conclusion is always the same: don’t give in to the temptation, your romantic relationship is the more important one, discard the person who confessed from your life.

But what if the person who confessed is an extremely important person to you? What if in cutting them from your life you’ll end up causing more harm than good? Is it possible to continue being friends after rejecting them? Wouldn’t that be awkward?

I don’t want to generalize here. I know we all go through different paths in life, so being all like “this is THE solution to your problem!!” is obnoxious. But I do want to give hope to people who might be going through this situation and don’t wish to end the relationship. Especially those who might be shamed for “friendzoning” the other person.

Again, I’m not saying this is the one and only solution: sometimes cutting ties is the best for both of you. But sometimes, putting the extra effort to work through it together can prove more fruitful and rewarding. Yes, it may be awkward and weird at first, but remember: unreciprocated love eventually fades away, and friendship isn’t a step below or above love.

Even if what I’m saying doesn’t apply to all walks of life, you never know, maybe someone needed to hear that.

During the duration of the arc I was flooded with people asking me to take the chance to make it a Poly relationship. Surely enough, it would’ve been a fantastic opportunity to show a healthy poly relationship, everyone would’ve been fantastically happy at the end, and the “love triangle” trope has been done to death about a thousand times even though that’s the most obvious answer. To those people I want to say: You are so valid, and I love you all. But I wanted to stick to the message of “Friendship overcoming unrequited love”. Something that’s neither “I hate you, go away from my life”, nor “I love you, be my girlfriend”. Something more in-between. Something more like the stage of transition between friendship and love. You know, sort of like... a twilight.

I’ll get to why I wanted to convey this message in specific later in the post. This point has gotten long enough already, so I’ll move on to the next one.

2. The fact that bad things that are not your fault will happen to you is inevitable.

While we grow up, we learn a very simple and crucial part of life: your bad actions will have consequences. If you take cookies without permission, you’ll get scolded. If you spend your whole weekend playing video games instead of studying for a Monday test, you’ll get a bad mark. If you betray a friend, they will not trust you anymore.

From this we usually extrapolate that the reason bad things happen to us is because we made mistakes. And sure enough, that is true most of the time. However, as we grow older, we learn a secondary, less fair fact: sometimes bad things will happen to you, for completely unrelated reasons. And this is inevitable.

There was a very big moral debate during the most tense parts of the arc about which of the 3 protagonists was at fault for the events unfolding. Was it Sayori, for teasing Ako? Was it Monika, for making Sayori feel guilty about hanging out with Ako, and thus made her subconsciously try to seduce her? Was it Ako, for trying to break Sayori’s and Ako’s relationship.

I’m going to write the answer in bold because it’s important: none of the girls were at fault. They were all victims of a bad situation that was not their fault, and due to the stress of it all, ended up committing mistakes.

Sayori was put under a lot of stress due to Monika’s initial disapproval of her relationship with Ako, and even more due to her suspicions that her friend had fallen for her. She was not at fault for Monika’s attitude, nor was she at fault for Ako falling in love with her. Because of this, she committed the mistake of ignoring the problem and try to act as if it were not real.

Monika, due to her previous trauma and lack of self-esteem, immediately feared Sayori was going to abandon her for this new girl she met. Because of her fears, she subconsciously ended making her relationship with Sayori more stressful. Even worse, her suspicions that Ako was in love with her girlfriend were proven right. Monika is not at fault for her trauma or her triggers, and even though she did her best to support her girlfriend, the situation spiraled for the worse and she ended up seeing Sayori suffer, and there was nothing she could do. Because of this, she committed the mistake of becoming aggressive and making it even worse, which ended up translating as physical aggression towards Ako.

Ako went from being a girl with almost no personality to having her life being given a new meaning thanks to Sayori, which regrettably, ended up making her fall in love for Sayori. She was not at fault for her feelings, nor was she at fault for Sayori’s constant subconscious teasing. Because of this, she committed the mistake of acting up on her feelings, going as far as to flirt with Sayori in front of Monika.

The three main characters suffered from situations that were not their fault, and ended up making mistakes due to the high levels of stress they were being exposed to. In real life, this is very common, which is why at the end of every arc I try to give the same message...

3. Even if life is messy and awful things happen for no reason, the possibility of things getting better is always there.

No matter how ugly things get, or how bad the mistakes you make may be, there is always a solution. There is always something that comes after. There is always the possibility to get a happy ending.

Monika learnt from this experience to trust Sayori and herself more, and that aggression does not solve deep emotional problems. Ako learned that she should not have been as confident as she was with her feelings, much less try to hit on Sayori based on her assumptions. Sayori learned that running away from problems does not magically make them go away, and in fact, can make them worse.

Things got ugly. The situation got awful and uncomfortable. People who did not deserve it suffered. Stress caused them to commit atrocious mistakes that made it all worse. 

But they made it out ok.

They worked hard, learned from the situation, grew from the experience, and made it out ok.

And so can you.

Why did I decide to write an arc about this?

Both when I mentioned I wanted to add a new character, and when I introduced the love-triangle plot point, people came to the same conclusion: Yui is doing this because she ran out of ideas.

I assure you, that’s not the reason I wrote Friendship. The reason I wrote Friendship is because this situation happened to me.

Some time ago I met the person who would eventually come to be my best friend. A wonderful, amazing person with whom I quickly formed a beautiful relationship. It’s been years since I’ve had a friendship as meaningful as this one, so I wanted to protect it. Then, some months after we met, they confessed they were in love with me.

These were not good news. I was, and still am, in a committed and healthy monogamous relationship. I would not break my girlfriend’s heart by cheating on her, so the only possible option seemed to be break my best friend’s heart by rejecting them, which sadly, I had to resort to.

However, I did not want to cut ties with this person. The relationship we had was extremely important for both of us, and to stop all communication would end up causing more harm to our emotional well-being than good. What could we do?

We decided to stay friends, but to work together to help my friend overcome their unrequited love. To this day, we’re still best friends with each other. It has not been easy, especially for them, but mutual support and understanding goes a long way.

This was a very important and impactful moment in my life. I had something beautiful and hopeful about friendship, and I wanted to express my feelings the same way I always do: by writing in DDLitG about it.

You may not know this, but 99% of the posts in this blog are based on personal experiences. If a day I learn that there’s no reason to hold a standard for myself with my girlfriend, because she loves me and accepts me the way I am, I write about it. If I learn that helping others helps me deal with my own feelings of depression, such as dysphoria, I write about it. If I learn that a particular food or activity can have an emotional value over its own perceived one, I write about it.

After what happened, I really wanted to write about what I had learned. However, I couldn’t write about someone confessing to a character in a relationship, because all four protagonists were already dating. And there’s no way in all of hell that I’m making Natsuki cheat on Yuri to hit on Sayori, that’s downright offensive. Which is why I was like “Hey everyone, I have this idea I want to write about, but I can’t if I don’t introduce another character, so are you ok with that?”

This is why it couldn’t end in a poly either, as good of an idea as it was: I wanted to send a message based on what I learned with my own personal experiences. To betray that would feel like betraying myself. I’m sorry if that explanation doesn’t seem satisfactory for you, but it’s the truth ^^;;

That’s about all I wanted to say ❤️ I know I said I would explain Ako’s name, but I’m afraid this is far too long already, so I’m going to write a separate DDLitG Behind the Scenes chapter titled “What’s The Deal With Ako?”, where I explain her name, why she’s monochromatic, and the overall inspiration for the character, in case you’re interested~ ❤️

If you made it all the way here thank you SO much for reading. I know I wrote a lot, but it means the world to me that you’re this invested in the story and the messages I’m attempting to convey. I hope you found this enjoyable and that you’re leaving with some new insight regarding the last arc. Now we’re ready to move on with the story, and believe me, I’m very excited to keep this going~

Thank you all for your support!! You are all sensational~

-Yui ❤️

[dreamsbanana]

Bdcraft cubik pro texturing

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Intel pentium r dual core cpu e5200 drivers freeload.

An online tool to show others your Model with a unique link (online 3D preview of the Cubik model).

A very easy to use interface (create your model with several clicks, edit UV Map of all your Elements faces at once, manage all your model textures easily with the Material Manager, 3D textured and anti-aliased preview.).

Many unique and useful tools (UV Mapping editor, Automatic Cullface optimizer, OBJ/DXF voxelizer.).

Edit Modes to customize the item position in game easily (thanks to the 3D Preview).

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New version of Cubik PRO is available (v0.87) Full changelog can be found there: Briefly, Cubik have: The fact that you can't post your creations for download makes it worthless. Not trying to bash your resource pack (I actually downloaded it a while back and really like it) but money can still be made on an adfly link as I'm sure you understand. Very few people have reached that level of success. You being a popular pack maker can of course make the money back that you used to buy this. The problem is, for some of us, making resource packs is only a hobby A lot of us just don't have extra money. If you don't want to pay for (semi)professional software like Photoshop, Acorn or PSP use Gimp or. If people think it's not worth it - use the lite version or free alternatives, even when they're inferior. This app isn't expensive at all! A cinema ticket is more expensive than the pro version, you get what you pay for. Quote from I despise the tendency that software has to be cheap or even free - damn mobile app market. I can tell this took a lot of time to make but come on, its a waste of effort if no one gets to use it because of the cost. Until you realize that resource pack making isn't a huge market of people who are willing to spend money on a tool that could become broken if the devs decide to change anything again with the block model format, your not going to get your works worth. I get that your trying to make money off your stuff but between your hugely successful resource pack and any money that this would bring in with a freeload, I'm sure you make enough money already.

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Your losing a lot of downloads from people because to be able to do anything with your program, you have to upgrade to pro. Also, you should know that they may contain viruses or malware. I'm a bit sad to see somes are posting this online even knowing that they bought it to do so and even knowing that it's not a big company work behind the scene (but an Indie dev) but that doesn't matter that much because the people who like what I done, always come to and support me aswell as the bdcraft community.īy the way, the pirated versions online are not supported by me or BDcraft. That's not a problem infact: A software is pirated when it is useful and/or loved. Lloyd banks the hunger for more zip sharebeast. With our unique approach to crawling we index shared files withing hours after Upload. Still, it looks like it will be a huge service to the community. Otherwise there will be a lot of pirated 'PRO' versions floating around very quickly after release(Oh, what am I saying, they will crack/pirate immediately anyway). Up it to 10 and a lot of people will use it for fun(rails take usually take around 6, and my last project took 25). My only beef is that the 'LITE' version only allows for 4 cubes. After spending many hours over the last week on modeling in raw.json. Also if you are going to use it, get the paid one. Maybe this is only in the free version, but I wouldn't think so.

[thedenfantasyleague]

The Den Fantasy League Recap: Week 11

Gents, 

We’re getting into the chaos that is playoffs, Cabana Boy, and the trade deadline. Let’s get to it. 

El Commish v. Kalabar’s Revenge

One of the topics of conversations this week was the new waiver format of bidding. Well lucky for everyone, it turned out extremely poorly for me. I looked at my roster going into this past week thinking: I need a running back. I had the money, I needed the guy, so I pulled the trigger. My $45 payment ($45 because I knew Rob was going to bid $41; amateur) backfired to a measly 3.8 from one Brian Hill. Other than my two tight ends set and the ever-faithful Pats D, there was a lot left to be desired. My quad of current/former Falcons (Ryan, Tevin, Hill, and Julio) really let me down this week and were the deciding factor in G’s win. For G, he held onto hope going into MNF with a decent lead and good players still left to play. Leading up to MNF, he found success in Le’Veon (15.2), Gallup (14.8), Big Country (12.7), and Raiders D. Lucky for me, Mahomes and Sammy both underperformed in Mexico City but it was still enough to put his team over the edge. 

The Perfect Ten v. Wilmore Cinderella

In our matchup of league winners, we saw two 4-6 teams both looking to make up some ground in the playoff hunt and Cabana Boy race. JP left Sunday with a lead thanks to big games from Hyde (12.5), Thomas (17.4), Sutton (13.8), Cook (9.3), Rams D (10), and a massive game from Brown (25.7). People forget that Gabe gave him Hyde and Sutton, in addition to Carson. JP’s biggest question mark is always going to be Jameis. The dude who has 18 picks and 4 fumbles on the year is a wildcard week in and week out. Can JP find success while having Jameis at the helm? His other concern: JP is addicted to James White. Can’t quit him. Could this be another stumbling block as he tries to get back to his winning ways? Speaking of winning ways, E has found himself in the middle of the pack fighting for something. E’s problem appears to be that he leaves a lot of points on his bench week in and week out. Despite having big games from Kyler (26.7), Ingram (20.5), Ekeler (13.2), and Jets D (11), he still left big games from Calvin (20.3) and Marvin (15.9) on the pine pony. To E’s credit, could he have foreseen Tyreek’s injury? Or that OBJ would be tackled at the 1-yard line? Simply put, no. However, it has to be frustrating to look at bench numbers and think about what could have been. 

Hank Mardukas v. Stick With Us PVO

We have a new leader in the clubhouse. After Debbie Rowe choked, Scott is now our new projected #1 seed as we’re a couple of weeks away from the playoffs. Scott probably had some concern coming out of TNF when both Baker and Jarvis’s performances were overshadowed by the melee that ensued at the end of the game. For Dylan though, that was about it. No one else on his team scored more than 5.7 points EXCEPT Marlon Mack. Why is that such an issue? Dylan’s already banged up Colts got worse when Mack fractured his hand during his game on Sunday. This is a crucial loss at an important time for Dylan. Scott, who missed his projection by almost 17 points, was able to secure this victory well into Sunday afternoon. Led by his MVP candidate, Lamar (33.5), Scott was able to seal the victory. However, don’t let that big number overshadow that no one else other than Tyrell and Lutz met their projections for the week. Can Lamar keep up his success and lead Scott to the promised land? Only time will tell. 

Professor Remus Lupin v. Team Timshel

I didn’t envy Gabe’s position last night. Going into a Monday night up but playing against two players? Nightmare. That’s exactly what Gabe had after losing by less than a point. Gabe saw his week begin with a slow-start on TNF when Chubb and Conner put up a combine 10.8 after a projection of 27.1. He did, however, find a way to make up some ground as he moved on throughout the weekend. The newly acquired Diggs (18.1) made up for his trade partner’s (Conner) poor outing, Zeke had 17.3 BUT a costly fumble, and finally, the 49ers did everything they could to get Gabe the win (Jimmy G, 29.7, and D, 16). That early Zeke fumble most-definitely cost him the game. What didn’t help was Mike going into MNF with two key players: Melvin and Keenan. Mike was helped earlier in the week by his Ravens (Andrews and J-Tuck) and by Dak’s open hips. Unfortunately for Gabe, Mike’s success came all within 24 hours. It started on SNF where Todd Gurley racked up 17.3 points and finally, Melvin and Kennnan combined for 22.1 points to seal the victory. Gabe’s season has fallen to symmetry: after starting out 0-3 he surged back to a 5 game winning streak, only to have lost his last three. They say water finds its level but with Gabe sitting at a game under .500, does he have it in him to sneak out a couple of wins in the last two weeks of the season?

Mixon It Up v. VP

Sometimes all it takes is a name change to get you back on track. Luckily for Rob, early signs are showing that this could be the case. Rob, who had lost his last four in a row, desperately needed a win after falling to .500 and obtained it by a very gross score of 67.7-65.6. However, as we all know: a win is a win. Rob had, once again, a below-average week. In fact, he only had two players in double figures and only one of those met their projections. Thank goodness who got Mixon. You never should look too far ahead but Rob takes on Mike next week and then meets his boogeyman in Dylan the week after. Vinny, on the other hand, was starting to show signs of life until he ran into an issue known as “lack-of-scoring” this week. Similarly to Rob, he only had three players in double figures but the rest of the starting cast gave him nothing. Vinny’s three RBs combined for a measly 10.7 points this week which is not what you want to see out of a valued position. Vinny, who has been historically a thorn in my side, faces off against yours truly as we’re both fighting for our playoff lives. 

Debbie Rowe v. Virg. Gardening Minmaxers

Was this a fluke? Was this a David v. Goliath moment? It may be too early to tell but the worst team in our league just wiped the floor with the best. How did we get here? Jane, who was a force to be reckoned with, had good games from CMC (19.1) and Saints D (17). From there, not a single other player reached double figures and only one surpassed their projections. Having both Jones and Lockett on bye would be enough to cripple a team but, for Jane, it was much worse than that. His rough start on Thursday flowed into an even worse 1pm hour for his beloved Texans. Deshaun, who was projected 20.5, ended with an embarrassing 4 points. Yup, 4. I, for one, didn’t imagine Jane losing again for the rest of the season, let alone to Al. So how did Al pull off the upset? Moments before the clock rang 1pm, a subtle trade was executed but its implications rippled throughout the whole league. Al’s two new players that were active combined for a simple 18.4 points but that’s not where the story is. Despite having 0 from DJ, Al was able to win off the success of two players: Josh Allen of DraftJoshAllen.com and DJ “Baby” Chark. Allen put up a cool 33.8 and DJ an impressive 22.4. So what are some man-alytics we can learn from this matchup? Jake is 1-3 when Deshaun is outscored. Does this challenge the notion that CMC is the backbone of his team? 

Cabana Boy Clinch:

Magic Number: CLINCHED: Debbie Rowe CLINCHED: Hank Mardukas CLINCHED: Kalabar’s Revenge CLINCHED: Team Timshel CLINCHED: Mixon It Up 1: Professor Lupin 1: El Commish 1: Wilmore Cinderellas 2: Stick With Us PVO 2: The Perfect Ten 2: VP Virg. Gardening Minmaxers: 3-8

The Biggest Loser

We’re back this week with Gabe who was our biggest loser after a tough MNF loss. 

Good luck to everyone as we get closer to the playoff and CB hunt. 

Your beloved Commissioner, 

Jared R. Mosqueda

[phaylenfairchild]

Chasten Buttigieg’s Brother is a Trump Supporter out to Destroy Mayor Pete’s Bid For Presidency

Rhyan Glezman is the kind of opportunist that feels all to familiar.

We’ve often seen distant family members of celebrities suddenly rise to the surface for a bit of roll-off fame. It happened to Meghan Markle, whose mostly absent Father and Step-Sister desperately tried to mar her character when they discovered the actress was marrying the Prince of England. They went on a tour across two continents as they wallowed in the limelight, guzzling any attention on offer as they made the past of England’s future Duchess’s public business.

Gross.

Rhyan Glezman is cut from that same cloth. Glezman is the brother of Presidential candidate Pete Buttigeig’s husband, Chasten. He appeared on FOX News recently with host Laura Ingraham to make the claim that Chasten has been telling porkies about his past, and of course that means Glezman, a born again christian Pastor, must set the record straight… live on the most hostile, homophobic network on television, and to a talk show host that has attacked the LGBT community, the immigrant community and, well, basically anyone who isn’t white, straight, cisgender and male.

That’s right: FOX News. The irony here, in a strange twist of fate, Ingraham’s own brother is gay and has publicly denounced her hateful rhetoric, dubbing her “A monster.”

Maybe this sit down between Ingraham and Glezman was a perfect pairing after all.

Glezman maintained not a shred of emotion as he accused his newly famous brother of mischaracterizing his family and the conditions of his upbringing to harvest political favor.

Chasten shared some of his coming out journey during a speech at an HRC Gala; “When I was 18-years-old I worked up the courage to tell my parents that I was gay. And while we have a great relationship now, back then things weren’t easy,” he said.

And that’s true. His Mother and Father often travel with Chasten to events around the country… so here I am, waiting for the lie that the big bad big brother insists he expose…

Chasten is the youngest son of three boys who grew up far away from the political spectacles of Washington DC; Instead he was brought up in a working-class family in Traverse City, Michigan.

He remained closeted throughout school, but came out the summer after his high school graduation. Upon telling his family that he was gay, Chasten faced a consequence that so many LGBTQ youth fear the most as a result- rejection.

He left home soon after, sleeping in his car and staying with friends off and on until his Mother reached out for reconciliation and invited him back into the family home, much to the protest of Chasten’s two older brothers who still refuse to acknowledge him. I’m sure these two make family holidays an absolute joy.

The Glezman Brothers remind me of the wicked Stepsisters from Disney’s Cinderella. They’re enraged that their lowly gay brother, who is far less qualified than them for God’s blessings, has wormed his way into such a high profile position and has the nerve to talk about the faith that they claim ownership of.

Those poor, pitiful Glezman brothers.

While Chasten and his Parents have made amends, oldest brother Rhyan is determined to put a dent in Mayor Pete’s Presidential bid by using Chasten- and his religion- to vilify the couple.

The problem with Christians like Rhyan is that they equate hate slinging with the love of Jesus that only they have the power to bestow. It is a holy commodity reserved explicitly for themselves, and those they deem worthy enough to share it with. They think their hate is love and their betrayal of family or a loved one is sanctioned, nay necessary to maintain status with the guy in the sky. He also plans to ride the coattails of Chasten’s newly discovered fame… by denying being exactly who Rhyan, himself, has demonstrated himself to be. A fame chasing bigot.

You ever notice how these people loathe being called a bigot? All of them. It’s quite bizarre how truly sensitive the men and women who shout words I wouldn’t even type at two men holding hands somehow take umbrage with being labeled a bigot. Racists hate being called racists. TERFs hate being called TERFs… there’s a theme here.

Saddest of all is how smug Rhyan Glezman is, when asked if he would vote for his brother’s husband in an election, sat back, smirked, folded his hands and said…

“Trump 2020.”

In that moment, my heart broke for Chasten Buttigeig and his brother hyan showed his entire hand. I realized that the world now knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that his Brothers are hypocritical fanatics who would rather him fail than succeed and only because they think his difference in belief renders him undeserving of happiness or success… Certainly when up against the paragon of virtue that is president pussy-grabber, repeat adulterer, hush money payments to porn star paying, disability mocking, calls Nazi’s some “Fine people” while branding Mexicans rapists and murders…. this is preferred over his own Brothers, and all because he happens to be gay.

How many of us see ourselves in this story- a family that wants us to lose and laughs when we fall? That’s if they bother to stick around long enough to see where you fall. Many simply opt for a one way ticket out of our lives, and they do so in the Name of Christ. Oddly, when success or attention is found, those same family members suddenly find a revolving door to either reopen the wounds the left you to lick, or to pretend they’re anxious to help when they really just plan to sell stories about you to the media or leverage your desire for their acceptance and distort it for their own benefit. If they aren’t getting something out of it, they don’t usually stick around.

So Christian of them.

Thankfully, not all Christians subscribe to this practice, just my own family, and clearly Chasten Buttigeig’s and maybe yours, too. However, there is a faction of Christians out there that have actually read the Bible and practice what it preaches without demanding you do the same, or denouncing your existence if you don’t think like they do, believe like they do, behave like they think you should… some Christians are more worried about the quality of their own lives and relationship with Christ than they are yours… I say that like it’s uncommon, maybe it’s not, but I’m still surprised when I meet a Christian willing to mind their own damn business.

It will be painful for those of us who have had a relationship with familial rejection to watch the Glezman Brothers campaign against their youngest brother and attempt to malign the efforts of he and his Husband, claiming it’s the Christian thing to do. So many of us have had the name of Christ weaponized against us, but it’s hard to watch it happen to someone who should be on top of the world and anxious to change it for the better. Watching their very own family come from the sidelines with a trip wire out of sheer jealousy is unsettling, at best.

No one knows that disheartening reality more than the LGBT community.

Fortunately, Chasten seems to have managed to maintain strong relationships with both his Mother and Father, as he recently tweeted:

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Just FYI: My parents walked me down the aisle. My dad leveled the parking lot of our reception venue with his own two hands. My mom and I danced and shared ice cream long into the night. My parents are amazing and Peter’s biggest fans. I’m so proud of them.

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This all makes big brother Glezman’s accusation of Chasten manufacturing stories about his youth less likely to be fiction, and more likely a glaring indication that Glezman is wholly consumed by his own bitterness and resents that his gay brother turned out okay and, despite a period of struggle, kept the ties that bind him and his parents in tact. Clearly Glezman doesn’t believe Chasten deserves the same kind of happiness that he himself enjoys with his wife… just don’t call him a bigot.

However, he may be a liar for claiming his brother virtually made up the trials of his past for if he were telling the truth himself, he would have had support from others in his declaration that Chasten “Had it easy.”

Right Rhyan, you seem like the kind of guy who would have made your young gay brother’s life pleasant- and the fact that you’ve alienated him and refused to associate with him for years now doesn’t really make you the most reliable resource for information regarding Chasten or Pete. No one is stepping forward to substantiate your claims that Chasten has lied for political favor, not even your own Mom or Dad…

Terry Glezman, Chasten Glezman Buttigieg, and Sherri Glezman overcame initial struggles with their youngest sons sexuality and went on to share his special day with him.

In fact, Chasten’s Mom and Dad seem to be simply celebrating the prospects of their Sons political future even as their two older sons stew in their own self righteous, hyper religious rage, angrily brandishing their Trump bumper stickers and MAGA hats.

Hey Chasten, knowing you’ve had to deal with Brothers like this, I imagine no enemy you’ll meet on the pathway to the White House will ever shake your foundation. Thanks for telling your story, it is one we all need to hear.

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Hamsters Quotes

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• A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster. – Mark Rippetoe • Adrenaline kicks you in when you’re starving. That’s what nobody understands. Except for being hungry and cold, most of the time I feel like I can do anything. It gives me superhuman powers of smell and hearing. I can see what people are thinking, stay two steps ahead of them. I do enough homework to stay off the radar. Every night I climb thousands of steps into the sky to make me so exhausted that when I fall into bed, I don’t notice Cassie. Then suddenly it’s morning and I leap on the hamster wheel and it starts all over again. – Laurie Halse Anderson • And then the turbines generate electricity that goes into the whole town.” “You mean they aren’t powered by giant hamsters on wheels? I was misinformed. – Michael Grant • At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. At first, I’d thought the teacher was raising snack food, which impressed me, being the first sign of intelligence she’d shown. Soon, though, I’d figured out the animals’ true purpose and left them alone, though I would never understand the appeal of petting and coddling perfectly good food. – Kelley Armstrong

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• But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to. – Woody Harrelson • DNS is kind of the hamster under the hood that drives the Internet. – David Ulevitch • Even as a child I was fascinated by death, not in a spiritual sense, but in an aesthetic one. A hamster or guinea pig would pass away, and, after burying the body, I’d dig it back up: over and over, until all that remained was a shoddy pelt. It earned me a certain reputation, especially when I moved on to other people’s pets. “Igor,” they called me. “Wicked, spooky.” But I think my interest was actually fairly common, at least among adolescent boys. At that age, death is something that happens only to animals and grandparents, and studying it is like a science project. – David Sedaris • Girls were nice to me in the same way that they would be nice to a hamster. I fantasized about wild encounters with females but knew they’d never happen unless my own involvement could somehow go undetected. – Joel Achenbach • Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we. – Robert Fulghum • Have you noticed how the Republicans and Democrats try to copy each other at their conventions. Like at the Democratic convention John Kerry’s daughter told a story about how he once gave CPR to her hamster. At the Republican convention the Bush girls are going to tell a story about how when their hamster was bad, their dad built them a little electric chair. – Jay Leno • Haven’t had your fill of interesting events?” “Never. They are the spice of life.” She held up her half-finished hat. “How do you like it?” “It’s nice. The blue is pretty. But what do the runes say?” “Raxacori-Oh, never mind. It wouldn’t mean a thing to you anyway. Safe travels to you and Saphira, Eragon. And remember to watch out for earwigs and wild hamsters. Ferocious things, wild hamsters.” – Christopher Paolini • He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning. – Angie Sage • I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy. – Luke Evans • I always see to the dogs first and leave the cats and the occasional birds and rabbits and hamsters for later. It isn’t that I play favorites, it’s just that dogs are needier than other pets. Leave a dog alone for very long and it’ll start going a little nuts. Cats, on the other hand, try to give you the impression that they didn’t even notice you were gone. Oh, were you out? they’ll say, I didn’t notice. Then they’ll raise their tails to show you their little puckered anuses and walk away.- Blaize Clement • I can’t shut my brain off. It’s like a hamster wheel.” ~ Justin – Richelle Mead • I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it’s going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel. – Vince Vaughn • I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the “bare bones” of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring. – Dave Barry • I don’t believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils and those frightful things – what are they called? – hamsters: all die like flies. So there’s no point avoiding it. – Raymond Briggs • I don’t believe in reincarnation, and I didn’t believe in it when I was a hamster. – Shane Richie • I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. – Graham Chapman • I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel. – Carrie Fisher • I got ham but I’m not a Hamster – Bill Bailey • I know what the intimidation level of high school is. You’re on a hamster wheel, running, running, running, trying so hard to fit in. It’s all about how you deal with what you’re given, feeling OK with being the odd man out before you’re finally successful. – Drew Barrymore • I love running cross-country…You come up a hill and see two deer going, ‘What the hell is he doing?’ On a track I feel like a hamster. – Robin Williams • I love watching him think,” Maeve told Lily. “You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel. – Jim Butcher • I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected. – Jeremy Paxman • If anybody felt worse than I did, it was Amos. I had just enough magic to turn myself into a falcon and him into a hamster (hey, I was rushed!) – Rick Riordan • If the sun were made of hamsters, the earth would be incinerated. – Michael Schumacher • I’m done with men. I have a hamster. That’s all I need. – Janet Evanovich • It’s fine to be on the hamster wheel, running and running, trying to grab the brass ring or whatever you define as success, but your relationships, that’s really all that matters when it’s all said and done. – Katie Couric • It’s for the hamster that I’m gonna buy! This is so perfect! (after opening a hamster wheel at Christmas) – Gerard Way • I’ve lived here … my whole life. It’s where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they’ll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident. – Jennifer McMahon • Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn’t surprised, since she’d always had a thing for animals. She’d lectured me for days after I’d instigated the infamous hamster-and-hermit-crab fight. I’d viewed the fight as a testing of worthy opponents. She’d seen it as animal cruelty. – Richelle Mead • Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally – the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra – but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person. – Nicole Hollander • New Rule: Gay marriage won’t lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to vote, it didn’t lead to hamsters voting. No court has extended the equal protection clause to salmon. And for the record, all marriages are “same sex” marriages. You get married, and every night, it’s the same sex. – Bill Maher • No matter if you’re a man, woman, cat, hamster, you will get lost in Matt Bomer’s eyes. I don’t know what they are made of outside of dreams and rainbows and amazingness but it truly doesn’t matter. And when he sings. It’s like God gave with both hands and then grew a third hand and graced him with more. – Channing Tatum • One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you’ve got another show to do – whatever moment of success or happiness you have you’ve got to keep grinding it out for the next day. – Sean Hannity • Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting to know what happened to her hamster, you develop an instant belief in anything that dissolves some of the heartbreak off her face. – Tana French • Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let’s face it, a hamster with Alzheimer’s could make those kind of numbers. It’s great work if you can get it. – Scott Adams • Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side – Robert M. Sapolsky • Sung to the tune of O Christmas Tree O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree, But it was eaten by a newt, And now I have no cuddly fruit, O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree! – Clive Barker • The hamster called. He wants his home back. – James Patterson • The Hamsters really kick ass – Slim is one of your greatest guitar players – Walter Trout • The kid makes you sick. He looks the part, he walks the part, he is the part. He’s six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking – he’s got to have something wrong with him….Hopefully he’s hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better! – Cristiano Ronaldo • The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I’ve seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts – squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. Dad would march you straight to the basement with a hairbrush in his hand if he caught you keeping your hamster cage like this. – P. J. O’Rourke • The thing is, we have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging, to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want. Until we do, we are hamsters in a cage chasing our own tails and wondering why we aren’t getting the results we seek. – Joe Vitale • The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it. – George Bernard Shaw • The world’s tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters. – Joanna Trollope • We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago. – Bent Saether • Well, I’m an uncle now … don’t know if I’m a good one. My nephew asked me the difference between a hamster and a gerbil and I told him I thought there was more dark meat on a gerbil. – Bobcat Goldthwait • What if hamsters fought in the American Revolution? – Colin Mochrie • While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail. – Augusten Burroughs • Why shouldn’t it be that way for the rest of us? Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn’t know it could be that easy. I didn’t know that until just now. That sounds good to me. – Joshua Ferris • With boys you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It’s all there. The fruit flies hovering over their waste can, the hamster trying to escape to cleaner air, the bedrooms decorated in Early Bus Station Restroom. – Erma Bombeck • Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn’t he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my hamster’s cage was clean, I’d be happy to oblige. – Janet Evanovich • Yeah, well, don’t worry about it. I’ve never met a Daimon yet I couldn’t take. (Wulf) Guess again, little brother. You just met one, and trust me, he’s not like any you’ve ever met before. He makes Desiderius look like a pet hamster. (Acheron) – Sherrilyn Kenyon • You ignorant little slug!” the Trunchbull bellowed. “You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue! – Roald Dahl • Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries. – John Cleese

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Hamsters Quotes

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• A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine any more than it can be performed in a small closet with a hamster. – Mark Rippetoe • Adrenaline kicks you in when you’re starving. That’s what nobody understands. Except for being hungry and cold, most of the time I feel like I can do anything. It gives me superhuman powers of smell and hearing. I can see what people are thinking, stay two steps ahead of them. I do enough homework to stay off the radar. Every night I climb thousands of steps into the sky to make me so exhausted that when I fall into bed, I don’t notice Cassie. Then suddenly it’s morning and I leap on the hamster wheel and it starts all over again. – Laurie Halse Anderson • And then the turbines generate electricity that goes into the whole town.” “You mean they aren’t powered by giant hamsters on wheels? I was misinformed. – Michael Grant • At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. At first, I’d thought the teacher was raising snack food, which impressed me, being the first sign of intelligence she’d shown. Soon, though, I’d figured out the animals’ true purpose and left them alone, though I would never understand the appeal of petting and coddling perfectly good food. – Kelley Armstrong

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• But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to. – Woody Harrelson • DNS is kind of the hamster under the hood that drives the Internet. – David Ulevitch • Even as a child I was fascinated by death, not in a spiritual sense, but in an aesthetic one. A hamster or guinea pig would pass away, and, after burying the body, I’d dig it back up: over and over, until all that remained was a shoddy pelt. It earned me a certain reputation, especially when I moved on to other people’s pets. “Igor,” they called me. “Wicked, spooky.” But I think my interest was actually fairly common, at least among adolescent boys. At that age, death is something that happens only to animals and grandparents, and studying it is like a science project. – David Sedaris • Girls were nice to me in the same way that they would be nice to a hamster. I fantasized about wild encounters with females but knew they’d never happen unless my own involvement could somehow go undetected. – Joel Achenbach • Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we. – Robert Fulghum • Have you noticed how the Republicans and Democrats try to copy each other at their conventions. Like at the Democratic convention John Kerry’s daughter told a story about how he once gave CPR to her hamster. At the Republican convention the Bush girls are going to tell a story about how when their hamster was bad, their dad built them a little electric chair. – Jay Leno • Haven’t had your fill of interesting events?” “Never. They are the spice of life.” She held up her half-finished hat. “How do you like it?” “It’s nice. The blue is pretty. But what do the runes say?” “Raxacori-Oh, never mind. It wouldn’t mean a thing to you anyway. Safe travels to you and Saphira, Eragon. And remember to watch out for earwigs and wild hamsters. Ferocious things, wild hamsters.” – Christopher Paolini • He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning. – Angie Sage • I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy. – Luke Evans • I always see to the dogs first and leave the cats and the occasional birds and rabbits and hamsters for later. It isn’t that I play favorites, it’s just that dogs are needier than other pets. Leave a dog alone for very long and it’ll start going a little nuts. Cats, on the other hand, try to give you the impression that they didn’t even notice you were gone. Oh, were you out? they’ll say, I didn’t notice. Then they’ll raise their tails to show you their little puckered anuses and walk away.- Blaize Clement • I can’t shut my brain off. It’s like a hamster wheel.” ~ Justin – Richelle Mead • I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it’s going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel. – Vince Vaughn • I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the “bare bones” of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring. – Dave Barry • I don’t believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils and those frightful things – what are they called? – hamsters: all die like flies. So there’s no point avoiding it. – Raymond Briggs • I don’t believe in reincarnation, and I didn’t believe in it when I was a hamster. – Shane Richie • I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. – Graham Chapman • I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel. – Carrie Fisher • I got ham but I’m not a Hamster – Bill Bailey • I know what the intimidation level of high school is. You’re on a hamster wheel, running, running, running, trying so hard to fit in. It’s all about how you deal with what you’re given, feeling OK with being the odd man out before you’re finally successful. – Drew Barrymore • I love running cross-country…You come up a hill and see two deer going, ‘What the hell is he doing?’ On a track I feel like a hamster. – Robin Williams • I love watching him think,” Maeve told Lily. “You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel. – Jim Butcher • I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachioed hamster, it would have been elected. – Jeremy Paxman • If anybody felt worse than I did, it was Amos. I had just enough magic to turn myself into a falcon and him into a hamster (hey, I was rushed!) – Rick Riordan • If the sun were made of hamsters, the earth would be incinerated. – Michael Schumacher • I’m done with men. I have a hamster. That’s all I need. – Janet Evanovich • It’s fine to be on the hamster wheel, running and running, trying to grab the brass ring or whatever you define as success, but your relationships, that’s really all that matters when it’s all said and done. – Katie Couric • It’s for the hamster that I’m gonna buy! This is so perfect! (after opening a hamster wheel at Christmas) – Gerard Way • I’ve lived here … my whole life. It’s where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they’ll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident. – Jennifer McMahon • Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn’t surprised, since she’d always had a thing for animals. She’d lectured me for days after I’d instigated the infamous hamster-and-hermit-crab fight. I’d viewed the fight as a testing of worthy opponents. She’d seen it as animal cruelty. – Richelle Mead • Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally – the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra – but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person. – Nicole Hollander • New Rule: Gay marriage won’t lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to vote, it didn’t lead to hamsters voting. No court has extended the equal protection clause to salmon. And for the record, all marriages are “same sex” marriages. You get married, and every night, it’s the same sex. – Bill Maher • No matter if you’re a man, woman, cat, hamster, you will get lost in Matt Bomer’s eyes. I don’t know what they are made of outside of dreams and rainbows and amazingness but it truly doesn’t matter. And when he sings. It’s like God gave with both hands and then grew a third hand and graced him with more. – Channing Tatum • One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you’ve got another show to do – whatever moment of success or happiness you have you’ve got to keep grinding it out for the next day. – Sean Hannity • Privately, I consider religion to be a load of bollocks, but when you have a sobbing five year old wanting to know what happened to her hamster, you develop an instant belief in anything that dissolves some of the heartbreak off her face. – Tana French • Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let’s face it, a hamster with Alzheimer’s could make those kind of numbers. It’s great work if you can get it. – Scott Adams • Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side – Robert M. Sapolsky • Sung to the tune of O Christmas Tree O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree, But it was eaten by a newt, And now I have no cuddly fruit, O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree! – Clive Barker • The hamster called. He wants his home back. – James Patterson • The Hamsters really kick ass – Slim is one of your greatest guitar players – Walter Trout • The kid makes you sick. He looks the part, he walks the part, he is the part. He’s six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking – he’s got to have something wrong with him….Hopefully he’s hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better! – Cristiano Ronaldo • The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I’ve seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts – squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. 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Week 2 Preview

The draft excitement is gone. Week one butterflies are over. The nervous Mondays, heartbreaks, second guessing, and frustrations are in full effect. Week two is about to begin and for some of you, it could mean your whole season. It’s time to see who is going to be a contender and who’s still sleeping at 3am Wednesday mornings.

But first, let’s talk about the elephant in the room... A blow out? A tough stubborn quarterback, a star wide receiver ready to make the team his, a stud workhorse running back, traded away the guy who didn’t want to be on the team, poised for a big statement, ready to take back the AFC North, and this is what happens? Punched in the mouth and blown out by 30 with the world watching?! I mean, how embarrassing for Shawn. It must really suck being a Steelers fan.

With that out of the way, let’s take a look at this week’s matchups. You’re either 1-0 or 0-1 so it’s still anyone’s year, but if you want the throne. You gotta come take it.  

#10 She Diggs My Cobb vs. #12 The Injured Reserve

First up, is Bennett vs Casey. I think I speak for all of us when I say, welcome home Bennett! Glad to have you around more, although sure seems it’s came with more snow fall? Weather and nose bleeds aside, happy to have you. Casey, you have a home I think, I know you have a puppy, and possibly are dating your brother? Not sure how it works, but we don’t judge here in 2019.

As far as the matchup, both these guys always have strong drafts and stacked teams. Casey could have a secret weapon in action L Jackson and I’d have to imagine OBJ has a big game on Monday night. Bennett should expect the normal big numbers from Kamara who we all know pained him to draft and a bounce back game out of the bad man Rodgers. This one will come down to if Mixon can give it a go, without him and losing T Coleman, Casey maybe be left shorthanded. If he plays, I think Cholly has the edge. Based off current line ups, which these two guys combined have seen a lot of, Casey takes it.

The Injured Reserve > She Diggs My Cobb

#9 Christian McCuri’s vs. #8 Rooney Tunes

Moving on to Sam and Shawn. Not much Christian about team Mecuri besides his RB, lord knows his weekends aren’t. But gotta give credit where credit is due. Sam is never an easy win and always on his game throughout the season. Every week, along with his Freshly deliveries, he gives himself a chance to win.  Shawn has put together a strong squad this year. He either breaks into the playoffs or into his home after losing his keys again.

Sam turns to his new waiver wire adds instead of David Montgomery, and hopes CMC can repeat another monster week. Hard to tell which players are weekly studs or if he’s going to be shooting off trade proposals next week. Shawn, lead by his beloved Steelers and Kelce, should put up numbers every week and I don’t think this one is any different. I like Sam’s players matchups a little better but I think Shawn puts him into an 0-2 hole..

Rooney Tunes > Christian McCuri’s

#1 Butker in the Cooper vs. #4 Tony Time

Next up is Dom vs Tony. I’ve already received a trade offer from Dom typing this, and assume by the time I’m done there will be another. But this is fantasy season and that’s what he does. He’s also leaving us here to rot but that’s fine. West cost Browns games are going to be so fun when we come stay for each one. Tony’s team has already been bitten by the injury bug. Hopefully he can fight diversity and sneak out another championship (consolation) but its going to take some savvy roster moves.

Dom might have the most well-rounded team and I would love to see them go at it when TJ was full strength, and then play fantasy football because I really like his team too. If Tony’s RBs can have big performances again he may have a shot but I can’t help to think Dom takes his bye week and moves to 2-0. Tony’s fight against SJWs wages on as he moves to 1-1 because everyone is equal.

Butker in the Cooper > Tony Time

#11 Kickers & Defense vs. #3 Mahomies Chubbie

For this next match up between Chad and Solden, picture this scenario. It’s Thursday at Park Place Tech. For Chad, it just hits different. Filling his snooter tube, prepping the DMs, and confirming his weekend plans, which he’s had since Monday after checking the weather report. For Solden, it means family parties, double dates, and baby clothes shopping, he can never be too prepared nor can he wait.  

They are destined to meet in the fantasy world, their paths ever so different in the real. There is no friendship when playing each other. As they approach the breakfast line at work, Chad pushes by Solden with a “watch it bro bro”, he’s not bigger than me Solden tells himself. He tries to stay calm but only ends up sweating through his shirt. Solden knows who the better team is, but his drive to best Chad in what he loves most only fuels his fire. They ride the same elevator up, both leave their headphones in. Solden turns his music up, Chad goes even louder. They each take turns trying to drown out the other. The girl stuck in there with them grows uncomfortable, although the lil Yachty/Chase Rice mash up is surprisingly not bad, she gets out as fast as she can. Chad thinks about going after her, after all she wasn’t bad, but stands his ground. Now is no time to give up alpha status. The doors close and up they go.

Back at their desks, Chad sets his lineup and admires his team, no way he could lose this one. He’s already looking ahead to his next matchup. Bad luck couldn’t strike again, could it?  But to Solden, this isn’t just a fantasy anymore. No way he’s bigger than me he keeps repeating in his head. There’s no playing ROK on his phone all day, this day he stands up to the fantasy bullies. No more giving him crap about his drafting or how bad his players are. Not this day, this day… he fights. Wheeling and dealing trades (good ones), making free agent pickups, and doing his research on who to start, he’s ready, ready to claim his spot among the fantasy elite. Solden is ready to catch Chad and the rest of us all off guard. He’s about to start his season long run. Turns out all he needed was a little push.

Kickers & Defense > Mahomies Chubbie

#5 JuJu Kachoo vs. #2 jared donovans’s Team

Your defending champion, yes champion until unseated vs Jared. While our on sand chemistry is off the charts, there is no love or handshakes in fantasy. Jared decided to I guess read up on drafting this year? He put together a very nice team and looks to be in the hunt all season. After putting up the second highest total last week I can only hope he comes back down to earth. D Watson looks to be the real deal all year and his RBs are solid. I can’t see Arob being a weekly thing but what do I know? I’m only the reigning champion. I think my receivers give me the edge in this one, but I’d give up a Crowder donut if it meant the Browns won. Jar may live down the street but ill be living in his head all weekend. Look for Gronk to come out of retirement and seal this victory for me. Did I mention I’m writing this from the champions lounge?

JuJu Kachoo > jared donovan’s Team

#6 Under the Influwentz vs. #7 My Quads Are Danger6

My game of the week! Newcomer Jon may be the oldest member we have but that baby face is as smooth as his team. He talked the talk and walked the walk come draft time. His team is one of the stronger in this league should they stay healthy. Last week may have been a loss but no one was keeping up with Dom that time around. I expect Jon to be a tough draw for whoever he goes against. This matchup is filled with stud RBs and is sure to rack up some points.

Doug is just being Doug. Dude does this shit every year. Shows up in muni to take his annual photo with us then disappears into the grayness. Guy always drafts some studs and puts up numbers all season long. With a stacked RB roster, he’s going to be hard to beat each week, but I think Baker bounces back in huge way and helps Jon bring home his first win in the LOAD. Barkley and Ekeler will be too much to handle and Doug will have to go back to the drawing board.

My Quads Are Danger6 > Under the Influwentz

 That’s all I have for us this week. Best of luck to everyone. Let’s hope our boys give us something to be happy about on Monday before we all lose our minds. We need it. For our sanity. Plz.

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 PS: Not to be a tattletale or pot stirrer… but someone changed their name while I was writing this and I can’t go back and retype it and his initials are Anthony Caito and he should be fined even though he doesn’t believe in the rules and that’s it.

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Dremel Digilab 3D45 review: A great introduction into the world of 3D printing

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When I was offered a 3D printer to review, my first thought was, “Well I have no interest in printing a gun?” And other than firearms, figurines or replacement gears for machines I don’t own, I didn’t really what to use it for.

I also was a little reticent to review one as I wasn’t sure how complicated it would be to use but the Dremel Digilab 3D45 put that concern to ease as it designed for beginners. The digital display guides the user through the setup. The only physical assembly is installing the glass platform, or bed, which snaps into place and feeding in the filament into the extruder, which comes in spools of thin cable and isn’t much more difficult than feeding paper into a regular printer.

While not as big as an industrial 3D printer, the 3D45 isn’t what you would call small and you need some table space for it. At 51.44 cm by 40.64 cm by 40.39 cm, it is a bit larger than your average consumer all-in-one printer. With its clear plastic doors, it kind of looks like a convection oven.

Before printing, you’ll want to use a glue stick on the bed to ensure a good adhesive bond between the platform and what you’re trying to build.

As for finding things to print, it was actually quite simple. I have no design skills to speak of, and so I wasn’t about to draft something in Autodesk. The 3D45 can print from either its own proprietary G3DREM file or the more standard 3D printer file type GCODE.  But through its own free online slicing software, it can also read stereolithography (STL) and OBJ files — two popular types of 3D files. There are a bunch of sites offering downloads of these STL and OBJ files, sometimes for free. There’s a variety of different things you can print, including sculptures, mechanical parts, household items and even sex toys (which I guess can also be considered household items depending on where you keep them).

You can print these files directly via USB or wirelessly by uploading the files to the Dremel Print Cloud. The Dremel Print Cloud includes software to let you can make some alterations before sending it to the printer. For example, you can scale, move or change the orientation of the object on the bed. You can pick whether to print it with a raft (a thin layer of filament underneath the filament to help keep it in place) and/or supports to keep it from falling apart before it dries.

The 3D45 was not nearly as loud as I had expected. Depending on the print job, you might hear little squeaking or shaking noises but it’s mostly drowned out by the fan’s white noise. It wasn’t really any louder than an average printer. Of course, a single 3D print job can take several hours if not more than a day. Though, the noise was low enough that I felt fine with leaving it running overnight in my condo. As far as I know, it didn’t keep my neighbours awake. There was pounding on the shared walls, angry letters taped to my door or dog turds dumped on my front porch.

Printing with the 3D45 is a bit hit and miss. Sometimes, an object prints perfectly, other times, it’s a total mess of stringy plastic. However, it’s sometimes hard to tell whether a failed print is an issue with the printer or the file used to print it. Just because the 3D print file viewer in the Dremel Print Cloud shows the object intact doesn’t mean it will actually print that way.

A less-than successful 3D print job.

For one thing, gravity can be factor. Even with supports, the given object may not be designed in a way to be properly printed. There also times where the 3D print job looks fine but the supports (which basically look like tiny beams) will break off some of the weaker parts of the object when you try to remove them.

As I’m not a particularly handy person, I mostly printed things that were complete objects so I didn’t have to attach pieces together, whether that be a miniature of a sculpture, such as Venus de Milo, comic book characters, such as a Joker bust, The Tick or Hellboy, or a face-palming Jean Luc Picard. (Granted, that last one was technically two pieces but I had problems printing the base, so I have to lean Jean-Luc against the wall so he doesn’t fall over.) I also printed some things that were slightly more functional, such as a bowl, eyeglasses holder and a statue of Julius Caesar with holes in his back for pens.

Example of some of the things I printed with the Dremel Digilab 3D45.

The filament can also affect the print job. In the Dremel Print Cloud, you can also choose the type of filament you’re using, how solid you want the object to be and, if you want to more professional about it, manually choose the print temperatures for the extruder and platform. (Printing involves melting the filament and different types have different melting points. Also, some designers will suggest specific temperatures to print their models at. Personally, though, I tended to stick with default settings.)

I was given three different types of filament to try: a white/translucent polylactide (PLA), a biodegradable thermoplastic derived from renewable resources, such as corn syrup; a black ECO-acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ECO-ABS), a different type of thermoplastic polymer; and a black nylon.

Each of these filaments have their own uses. PLA is the most common type of filament and is designed for more cosmetic prints as it supposed to handle detail better. Though it can be a little brittle. Occasionally, I had the PLA filament snap on me as it was printing — something that did not happen with the other two.

I had the most luck with the ECO-ABS, which is described on Dremel’s own site as a “modified version” of PLA. It’s stronger, more flexible and durable than PLA and can be used to print low-stress mechanical parts.

Some more objects printed with the Dremel Digilab 3D45.

The nylon filament is the strongest of the three. It has the most durability and flexibility and a low friction coefficient so it can be used to print higher-stress mechanical parts. However, it’s more finicky. It prints at a much higher temperature than the other two filaments. The extruder heats up to 255ºC (as opposed to 220ºC) and the bed heats up to 100ºC (as opposed to 35ºC/45ºC). Many of my nylon prints were knocked around by or attached themselves to the nozzle while printing. It turned out, I needed to apply more glue to the platform to make it more adhesive even though it had been sufficient for printing with the other filaments.

Eventually, I started to a get hang of it, and most of the nylon prints were coming out alright.

Overall, I had a lot fun playing around with the Dremel 3D45 — although I probably would have enjoyed it more if I could design my own objects. While not cheap, it’s relatively inexpensive as 3D printers go. Amazon.ca has it available for $2,164.51 and it comes with two rolls of filament (ECO-ABS and Nylon).

KEY SPECIFICATIONS

Dimensions and weight 51.44 cm by 40.64 cm by 40.39 cm; 21.5 kg

Maximum build size 25 cm by 15.24 cm by 17.02 cm

Maximum extruder temperature 280 C

Maximum build platform temperature 100 C

Filament diameter 1.75 mm

Internal storage 8 GB

Readable file types G3DREM, GCODE; Using Dremel Print Cloud’s slicing software: STL, OBJ

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*Dramatistic Rhetoric*

In this entry, I will be examining the critical question(s): How are symbols at use in this artifact in the way Burke describes the symbol-using animal? Is it productive/unproductive (ethical/unethical) for society? Burke (1989) described man as the symbol-using animal but had also suggested the term, “symbol-making” (Burke, p. 60). What he means by this is that man not only uses symbols, he created them. In doing so, what man created was branding, such as Nike. An example of symbol-making is the fact that Nike never explicitly states the title of its brand in its commercials. However, just through its logo, and its slogan, society knows the brand. Branding through symbol-using animals is both a productive way of symbol-making in society as well as ethical.

To investigate these questions further, I examined the most recent Nike commercial from 2018 where they sponsored formal football player, Colin Kaepernick to be the star of the commercial. The commercial contains a variety of activities ranging from skateboarding to surfing, football, tennis, etc. all with the goal of encouraging people to “dream crazy” (Nike, 1). What’s interesting about this commercial is their approach to brand themselves. Despite all these activities, and the inspirational speech that Mr. Kaepernick delivers in the video, the commercial in and of itself never says the word, Nike because they don’t need to. Nike has found a productive way to promote their brand ethically, producing a proper example of symbol-making in society.

Nike’s commercial “Dream Crazy” is all about not limiting oneself. Without the company coming out and saying it, I believe they are trying to say that man-made symbol, such as Nike should be associated with making your dreams a reality. Mr. Kaepernick paints a picture where he uses symbols to get his message across. Nike (2018) has Mr. Kaepernick say, “Don’t picture yourself wearing OBJ’s jersey. Picture OBJ wearing yours” (Nike). This is a form of the symbol-using animal seeing as how having your name on a jersey, and it is well-known one means that an athlete has made it to the big leagues. By dreaming about OBJ wearing your jersey, instead of you wearing his, it just encourages its viewers to not limit themselves to be as good as their heroes but rather leave their heroes aspiring to be as good as them through the symbol that society has created, from wearing jerseys. The video proves to be productive seeing as how the product’s brand is so well established that it doesn’t require its name to be mentioned even once in the commercial. Furthermore, it is ethical because the commercial doesn’t promote violence, hatred, nor does it inflict despair on others. Rather, the video seems to inspire hope in its audience that no matter the situation, be it poverty, or disabilities, they shouldn’t place limits on their dreams. They hope that instead of someone questioning whether or not their dreams are crazy, instead, they should be questioning whether or not their dreams are crazy enough.

To truly form our own dreams and question whether or not they are crazy enough such as the boy dreaming for OBJ to wear his jersey instead of the boy wearing OBJ’s it is important for people to understand man as a symbol-using animal. Man is regarded as a symbol-using animal which means that he relies on symbols to get him through his everyday life such as language to help guide his understanding and his surroundings. Symbol-using is an abstract form of understanding concepts such as language, or in this case logos and slogans. Burke (1989) mentions that, “In being a link between us and the nonverbal, words are by the same token a screen separating us from the nonverbal - though the statement gets tangled in its own traces, since so much of the “we” that is separated from the nonverbal by the verbal would not even exist were it not for the verbal (or for our symbolocity in general, since the same applies to the symbol systems of dance, music, painting, and the like)” (Burke, p. 59). Nike incorporates both the verbal and nonverbal communication in symbol-using animals by using their branding through the Nike swoosh or their famous slogan, “Just do it” which society knows to relate it back to the Nike brand overall. Although Nike isn’t just something found in nature, it is a man-made brand we use and know about which is why Burke thought that on top of being symbol-using animals we are also symbol-making. Symbols, like language, weren’t just there since the beginning of time. This too can be seen as a form of branding seeing as man branded languages such as English, Spanish, etc. It was something that man made to communicate with one another over time so that they may understand one another and live their lives more productively.

Although language accomplishes to produce a platform to convey messages between people productively, that does not necessarily mean that it doesn’t have its own disadvantages. Nike created a positive message through symbol-using animals by promoting and inspiring someone to follow their dreams and strive for more through their brand in an ethical manner. It makes the average person feel good and therefore invests in the product itself. However, just like there can be positive forms of symbol-making, there are also negative forms which in turn creates a disadvantage for symbol-using throughout history. For example, during World War II Adolf Hitler adopted the Nazi flag to serve and represent his Aryan race. Through symbol-using animals, Hitler manages to brand his mark that like Nike, did not require a name or title on the flag to understand what it represented. This, however, was not a productive nor ethical form of symbol-making seeing as the symbol alone carried power, invoking fear upon millions and became associated with death. This example proves that although symbol-making animals can provide productive ethical symbols, they can also produce unproductive and unethical symbols to go along with it.

Despite, the possibility of someone creating an unproductive and unethical symbol, that shouldn’t deter society from using and making symbols. Meyers-Levy (1989) wrote, “However because brand names represent the rich configurations of symbols and meanings that are embodied by-products (Levy 1978), they can also take on their own meaning and presence. Through their linguistic characteristics or associations, brand names can influence the product inferences and evaluations consumers form” (Meyers-Levy, p. 197). Any brand, little or small will always have an effect on society. There will always be harmful ways a tool will be exploited with the hopes of hurting others, but if society just stopped using these tools because of one negative example, it would also miss out on a lot of good. In their commercial, Nike promoted more than anything to people who society may place barriers on such as minority groups, women, kids, people with disabilities but time and time again shows them overcoming the odds and creating that success for themselves. In doing so, Nike promotes not only a positive message in a productive and ethical manner but also hope that anything is possible. Had society decided to no longer produce symbol-using ethics because of examples like the Nazi flag, many messages like the one Nike is providing its consumers would have never been made.

Branding through symbol-using animals in both a productive and ethical way through symbol-making is what made Nike’s commercial possible. Nike was able to brand its logo so well that it is a well enough known symbol amongst symbol-using animals in which saying the name in their commercial is no longer needed to know what brand is being promoted. It is both productive and ethical providing a positive message while invoking a light-hearted tone by telling its audience to not just dream of wearing OBJ’s jersey but instead to dream of him wearing their own. The brand uses both verbal and nonverbal messages to really sell their product by using both the swoosh logo as well as their slogan, “just do it” seeing as how symbol-using animals use both to fully comprehend a symbol. Like anything, there is always a possibility of a negative symbol being used such as the Nazi flag used by Adolf Hitler but like in World War II society cannot allow such despair to win. Ridding the world of symbol-making is not a solution to standing up for what is right, otherwise, a lot of things in the world wouldn’t exist today if we just stopped using things because of negative examples. In 2018, Nike was a symbol-making company, which managed to produce an ethical and productive commercial to promote their brand for symbol-using animals.

References

Burke, K. (1989). The human actor: Definition of man. In J.R. Gusfield (Ed.), Kenneth Burke:

On symbols and society (pp. 56-74). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Meyers-Levy, J. (1989). The Influence of a Brand Name’s Association Set Size and Word Frequency on Brand Memory. Journal of Consumer Research, 16(2), 197–207.

Nike. (2018, October 20). Retrieved January 16, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYTfeqiRPsw

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McAdoo a Better Job – Ten Takeaways from Eagles 34, Saquon Barkley 13

I laughed out loud when Giants fans began booing their team down 14-3 in the second quarter last night.

Why?

Because these were probably the same fans who threw a childish fit when Ben McAdoo benched Eli Manning for Geno Smith last season, whining to the high heavens because it brought an end to Eli’s streak of 210 consecutive starts for the Giants, who were 2-9 at the time and going nowhere quickly.

McAdoo lost the war and got himself fired. Manning is still calling the shots, yet the Giants continue to suck, and last night they fell to 1-5 with a 21-point home loss to a division rival.

I guess McAdoo knew what he was doing after all. Maybe New York fans were full of themselves, sentimentally clinging to a fading veteran when they had their shot at one of five franchise quarterbacks on the draft board back in April. Instead they went for a stud running back who will unfortunately waste the early portion of his career playing for a God-awful team.

It’s surely ironic, but also deserved. I bet a lot of those fans that cried about Eli’s demotion probably also booed him last night. You reap what you sow, and the Giants stubbornly sowed the seeds of future ass kickings, which are now bearing fruit. The G-Men now inherit from the Browns the role of NFL slump buster, the team you beat up on to get your season straightened out. They played that role to perfection last night, allowing the Eagles to find their groove with a comfortable divisional win that sees them pull back to .500 with a 3-3 record.

1) Carson Wentz

He made game-changing plays last night, plays that we didn’t see from him in week three or week four.

Starting with the first touchdown, he escaped the pocket, rolled to his right, and fired across his body for a score on a 3rd and 7.

Another play that stood out to me was the third down in the second half where he again moved to his right, held the play, and then spotted Nelson Agholor down the field to pick up a huge chunk of yards move the chains.

The franchise quarterback just looked a lot more like himself last night and started to show shades of 2017 Carson in completing 26 of 36 passes for 278 yards and three touchdowns. He picked out eight different targets and really connected with top receiver Alshon Jeffery, who caught two of those scores and eight of his 12 targets for 74 yards.

It’s now 11 career games with a 100+ passer rating for Carson, which is already 6th-most in Eagles history. He’s thrown 133 consecutive passes without an interception, which is the 3rd longest streak of his career, a streak he’ll break in week six if he throws three more without a pick.

That’s good stuff for a third year, 25-year-old quarterback coming off an ACL injury.

2) Play calling

Much better than it was four days ago.

The early lead allowed the Eagles to settle in with their running game and control the clock a bit, which in turn also allowed the defense to really get after Manning and force the Giants into a one-dimensional dink and dunk type of crap attack.

38 called pass plays to 29 runs is a really nice mix, a 57-43 ratio. That’s just about perfect, and it’s what the Eagles typically finished with last year, usually 60-40 pass/run for the middle chunk of the season when they were just ripping teams apart.

Wendell Smallwood ran the ball 18 times and Corey Clement 11 times, so they got through relatively unscathed without having to risk Clement too much in his return from injury. Clement was on a “pitch count,” so to speak, and was limited coming into this game.

I particularly thought this was a really nice play call, sort of a tunnel/bubble wide receiver screen for Jeffery, but at the goal line:

One of the easiest touchdowns of Alshon Jeffery's career pic.twitter.com/f2yzlt7KCd

— The Bitter Birds (@AdrianFedkiw) October 12, 2018

Really poor effort from the Giants there, but nice design from Doug, and actually stolen from the New England Patriots and inserted into the Eagles playbook this week. 

3) Situational football and auxiliary wins

They really struggled in this department on Sunday, and let me dump that in here for reference.

versus Vikings:

lost time of possession, 33 minutes to 27 minutes

-1 turnover margin

2 for 9 on third down (22.2% conversion rate)

allowed Minnesota to go 4-9 on third down (36.4%)

lost 28 yards on three sacks

2 for 5 success rate in red zone

8 penalties for 52 yards

allowed a defensive touchdown

versus Giants:

won time of possession, 32.5 minutes to 27.5 minutes

+1 turnover margin

9-16 on third down (56.3%)

allowed New York to go 4-14 on third down (28.6%)

lost 7 yards on 1 sack

4 for 6 success rate in red zone

4 penalties for 25 yards

no special teams or defensive touchdowns allowed

Literally every single one of those areas was improved upon last night, and these are the kinds of things that win you football games. Wentz was especially fantastic on third down, a carryover of the situational football smarts we saw from him last season.

4) The offensive line

They certainly picked it up after a poor week five, allowing just one sack and five quarterback hits, three of which took place during the first two drives.

Jason Peters, however, cannot stay on the field, and it might be time to just let JP ride off into the sunset as the Eagles hand the left tackle reins to Big V and Jordan Mailata:

Sources are telling me Jason Peters May have a torn right biceps but it’s the kind he can still play with…. MRI will tell more tomorrow

— Derrick Gunn (@RealDGunnNBCS) October 12, 2018

The biggest positive is that Lane Johnson made it through the game with the bum ankle and now gets to rest up for nine full days. Isaac Seumalo also did fine at left guard and laid a nice block on Corey Clement’s touchdown run, with Clement just following the left side of the line into the end zone:

Obviously Johnson needs to stay healthy going forward. Last night was a positive step for the line, but if Peters can’t play with the bicep, you’ve got Big V on the left, and if Johnson misses time, you have to pull Seumalo over to right tackle and put Stefen Wisniewski back at left guard. I don’t know how far this team goes with a pair of backup tackles on the field, one of whom is not even a tackle.

5) I’m on a boat

The Giants are 4-19 since taking this photo:

You also saw Odell Beckham Jr. hit the locker room early before halftime. He lied and said it had to do with “hydration.” Maybe he’s thirsty for a new quarterback.

There was another situation where he started yelling at a fan, not a New York Giants supporter, but an actual mechanical fan on the sidelines:

Odell Beckham Jr getting closer to the fans tonight pic.twitter.com/pxVuaiJneg

— FanDuel (@FanDuel) October 12, 2018

After the game, I appreciated Martellus Bennett telling Joe Buck and Troy Aikman to “shut the fuck up” –

Man these commentators have taken 150 shots at Odell tonight. Shut the fuck up. Talk about the game stop trying to vilify every single thing he does. The giants are a bad team and it's not because of him. Criticize how bad eli is playing.

— Martellus Bennett (@MartysaurusRex) October 12, 2018

That’s a  take. Can’t say I disagree, but OBJ is just a shitty leader overall. He’s not the problem, but he says and does stupid things that don’t help his case.

And if it feels like no one is talking about the Eagles this morning, you sensed that correctly, because 99% of what I’m hearing is focused on how bad the Giants are. Hell, that was the first four paragraphs of this story, plus the headline.

That’s not to take anything from the Eagles, not at all, but New York truly is a raging dumpster fire at this point.

I made this terrible image last night of the Cowboys and Giants as dumpster fires in a modified Spider Man meme:

Not my best work. I put about five seconds into building this, same amount of time the Giants spent building their offensive line.

6) Jalen Mills

The first play in which he stood out was when he whiffed on Barkley’s big run in the first quarter, the 46 yarder that set up the field goal. Mills was 12 yards deep on the play, lined up almost behind safety Malcolm Jenkins if you can believe it.

In the second quarter, he gave up the 39-yard pass to Cody Latimer, which was the only completion he allowed that went more than ten yards.

Again he was pretty good in the red zone, keyed by that pass break up on OBJ in the corner. He finished with two PBUs and actually led the Eagles with 10 tackles.

I’ll go through the film later today and next week, but it looked like Jim Schwartz had his corners playing a little more press coverage in this game, which you can afford to do when you’re playing with a lead. The defensive line also did a really nice job of getting to Manning, which took some pressure off the secondary. The only really bad thing I saw from the defense overall was Nigel Bradham and Rasul Douglas getting cooked on the Saquon Barkley touchdown run.

7) Refereeing

It was alright.

They missed a helmet-to-helmet collision on the third drive, when Clement was stuffed near the goal line. Officials also didn’t flag Sidney Jones when he got his feet tied up with a receiver in the end zone on the Giants’ second drive. Seemed like a good no-call to me, because I don’t think Jones had his hand on the opponent.

I swear I also saw a facemask on DeAndre Carter’s third or fourth punt return, the one where he broke a tackle and picked up an extra yard or two.

Michael Bennett, on the roughing the passer, I mean, whatever. It’s the weight rule, you know? He didn’t try to break his fall, and that now gets you a whistle in the modern day NFL:

".@eagles DE Michael Bennett used his body weight to land on the quarterback while making the tackle with no attempt to go to the side." -AL #PHIvsNYG pic.twitter.com/itXnEap6U6

— NFL Officiating (@NFLOfficiating) October 12, 2018

The penalty called against the Giants for bringing down Wentz was much worse, because it was basically a grab and takedown, like a Judo throw on the football field.

Good camera angle also on the Smallwood fumble that was overturned. I think we made it through this game relatively unscathed from an officiating perspective. It also helps when you’re beating the tar out of the other team.

8) Doug’s best call?

Kicking the field goal before halftime made a lot of sense. At that point New York was pretty much cooked, so take the points there and don’t give them anything that might provide the slightest momentum change or glimmer of hope.

I also think the decision to hurry up to the line and run the ball after the iffy Zach Ertz first down catch in the third quarter was really smart. No Giants challenge there because the Birds kept it moving.

9) Doug’s worst call?

I don’t think he had any poor calls. I’m not sure what the hell that was with the 3rd and 5 run/pass option in the fourth quarter that Wentz threw to Ertz behind the line of scrimmage. Looks like they sort of jumbled the hand off and the timing was botched.

Doug looked pretty dialed in. The glasses were a pretty sharp look. I think he has a little bit of Andy Reid and Marty Mornhinweg going on here:

Photo Credit: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports

10) Joe Buck and Troy Aikman

Again I thought they were fine. Buck has a little bit of a sardonic side to him that pops up if you pay attention closely. I think he’s more wily and clever than most people realize.

I think the takeaway from the broadcast was those weird Tide commercials featuring the broadcast crew. What was the deal with that?

Remember when Tide was cool because people were eating the pods? I miss those days

— Brian J. Haddad (@BrianJHaddad) October 12, 2018

Agree with Sludge. I actually would prefer Tide pod eating to watching another one of those commercials.

The Aladdin trailer was also interesting. Goofy commercial night overall. I’d prefer a Joe Cordell advertisement or maybe Barbera’s on the Boulevard moving forward.

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I will write Obasanjo another letter in June — Kalu

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I will write Obasanjo another letter in June — Kalu

Former governor of Abia state, Dr Orji Uzo Kalu is used to locking horns with ex President Olusegun Obasanjo. In this interview with IBRAHEEM MUSA, the All Progressives Congress(APC) chieftain was reacting to Obasanjo’s recent statement, where he advised President Muhammadu Buhari to, among other things, shelve his 2019 second term ambition. Dr Kalu took the elder statesman to the cleaners as accused him of corruption and self righteousness.

In your reaction to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s statement on the state of the nation, where he advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election, you said that Obasanjo does not have the moral right to advise the president. Are you saying that all is well with Nigeria under this administration?

Honestly, from the rot that the All Progressives Congress(APC) government met, I will say that President Muhammadu Buhari is doing his best.

I am not saying that he has done is uttermost best but he is doing the best he can to salvage this country, considering what he met. Before he came, Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) was completely empty; money was carted away from the Central Bank without record. Have you ever heard anything like that before on earth? People looted the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC).

People looted all departments of government. So, how can Buhari function? Moreover, Buhari’s sickness was an act of God. He never knew he will be sick. So, we thank God for his life. We thank God that he has gotten better. Former President Obasanjo is used to writing letters. He is the only angel on earth. When he was president, nobody was criticizing him. If you criticize him you become his enemy. This man does not own this country! His brought corrupting into politics.

I was a governor under him. I had written him a letter and he has not replied. As governor, I wrote him and said that the corruption that he was talking about is under his table. He has not replied that letter till today. He knows that the international security agencies know that he has stolen a lot of money and channeled to some banks and industries. It is an open secret. If he doesn’t know, I know. So, all these his self righteousness should stop.

Honestly, former President Obasanjo is supposed to be in jail; he is not supposed to be moving around. Jonathan was supposed to put this man in jail; he was lucky because we had already agreed with Yar’adua that he is supposed to be in jail. He spent $16 billion on electricity. A man who came into office with only N20,000, go to Otta and see how his farm has been upgraded. Go to Abeaokuta and see his mansions. Where did he get the money from? He sponsored his failed third term but he denied doing so. Should Nigerians continue to trust a man like that!?

I am surprised that people still greet Obasanjo and open their houses for him to enter! That is the truth! I am very, very surprised! His letter to Buhari is just sheer arrogance. I still insist that he has no moral right whatsoever to have written that letter.

Your relationship with former President Obasanjo was cordial when both of you were in office. Was it when the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) refused to repay the N700 million loan that you gave to the party that your relationship became sour?

No,no,no. I loaned N500 million to PDP and President Obasanjo said that they should not give me back. Chairman Barnabas Gemade said I should be paid and he quarreled with Gemade, a very honest and gentle man. My quarrel with Obasanjo is not about that loan that he asked the party not to pay me. My quarrel is that he wasn’t doing what the constitution says he should do. After all, he christened me Action Governor of Nigeria in Aba when he came to commission projects.

So, my quarrel with him is his greed and self righteousness. The only righteous person in Nigeria is OBJ. How do you think a man like that can be useful to this country? He misused an opportunity given to him by God.

God gave him the opportunity to be an elected president in 1999 and he used that opportunity to acquire so much wealth for himself and left the country that he was asked to take care off. He sold almost all government properties to himself and his cronies by way of privatisation. And he thinks people don’t know?

President Buhari should investigate the activities of Obasanjo to know where we stand.

In spite of his health challenges, do you still think that President Buhari should seek a second term?

Of course President Buhari must run! There is no health challenge! Are you his doctor!? In June when I said that he will come back healthier, your paper attacked me, all the newspapers attacked me. But he came back healthier. You are not his doctor. And it is in the best interest of every Igbo man, living or dead, for President Buhari to be president for another four years. It will give us opportunity.

How ?

After his second term, it will be the turn of the Igbos to produce the next president.

But when the Igbo delegation went to Aso Rock to endorse him for second term, you were not there. Why were you excluded from the visit?

No, my name was on the list; my brother represented me. I was in Namibia at that time. Mind you, I visited the president for a dinner on Thursday night and flew out to Namibia. On Monday morning, they came back for that courtesy call. My name was there.

I am a great supporter of Buhari right from when he was running in 2003. And we gave him a chieftaincy title at Igbere, his title is Nwanne Jidamba, that means a brother that is elsewhere. When Obasanjo said that he should not come to Abia, I invited him to Abia and I followed him to wherever he went, even though I was a PDP governor. Apart from that, we thought it wise to give him an honorary doctorate degree in our university, Abia State University. They tried to stop it by DSS but I said no, we are independent. So, these are the issues.

I’m not a new comer, I don’t beg any president for anything. I have never asked Obasanjo for a favour, I have never asked Buhari for a favour. I never asked Jonathan for a favour. I never asked Yar’adua, though he was my friend. He gave me the title of Magayakin Katsina, he wasn’t the emir, he was the president. Yar’adua asked Abba Ruma(former Minister of Agriculture) to call me three days to the event. I never begged for the title. It was President Yar’adua that gave it to me. In life and in death, he is my friend.

It is argued in some quarters that by campaigning for Buhari’s second term in office, you are actually campaigning for yourself so that by 2023, he will support you to be president when it is the turn of the Igbos. How true is this argument?

No, no, no that is not the issue. The issue is for us to campaign for Buhari. Anything can come after that. I am qualified to be president, I am not afraid of telling you that. If the time of Igbos comes, I will be in the forefront. I have everything it takes to be president. I can finance it, I can fight for it, I have the six indices of power. So, I don’t see any reason why I cannot contest if the opportunity is given to our area.

But what are doing to expand the acceptability of APC in Igbo land?

We have done a lot; I’m sure you saw our rally in Abia state. That was the first rally that APC had that it’s really called a rally. It was not about any governorship candidate, senatorial candidate, presidential candidate; it was just our rally to show the popularity of our party.

So, we are working very hard in the South east. We have been able to explain to our religious leaders, our community leaders and traditional leaders that APC is not branded as it is said by people. And moreover, the support for Buhari is not only about me. You saw Governor Umahi of Ebonyi state the other day saying that he will go for his second term on the platform of PDP but will vote for president Buhari in APC. You read what the national chairman of APGA said the other day? He said that they may endorse him as their presidential candidate. PPA is not left behind. So, all political parties in Igbo land are endorsing Buhari. Forget those who are making noise; Igbo are very smart people. We know that we are going to follow Buhari and vote for him for another four years.

But it was advertised that Buhari will attend the Abia State Mega rally. He didn’t come and didn’t send a representative. What happened?

No, no, no Buhari never promised anybody that he will come for the rally. What happened was that the state chairman wrote him a letter and he didn’t reply the letter and he didn’t say that he will come and didn’t say that he will not. The timing was so short for him to have come because he was abroad when we planned the rally and by January 9th we had the rally. So, there was no way that they could have given the president 10 days notice, considering his busy schedule. I told them that it wasn’t going to be possible, having been a governor for eight years.

You advised a group of Nnewi businessmen who visited you a few days to the Anambra gubernatorial election that they should vote APC. The election has been lost and won. Why did APC lose Anambra state?

President Buhari is a very honest man. He removed his hands from rigging. I can tell you this authoritatively. He told them that nobody, I was there, should rig the election in favour of APC. There was no how, if the election was not rigged, we could have beaten Obiano who is a very popular governor, who is paying salary to workers in the midst of governors who were not paying salaries.

He was doing roads in the midst of people not doing anything. He is with his people and has curtailed the security problem in Anambra state. Obiano was just like my second term in 2003, when Obasanjo said that I cannot go again. But the people of Abia state prevailed. It’s the same story. Nobody could have stopped Obiano unless that result was written in a house which Buhari was against. It takes only a president like Buhari to do that. If it was PDP, they could have done Carry Go, which they have been doing.

In spite of the fact that the son of Chief Odumegwu Emeka Ojukwu defected to APC, the party didn’t win… (Cuts in)

You can’t say that. APC has made inroads in Anambra state. Chris Ngige will tell you the same thing and everybody will tell you the same thing. This is a party that had less than 5% in 2015 and in 2017, we had 35.5%. So, we have made tremendous inroads and I am very happy with the results. I’m very happy with the efforts I made. I’m very happy with the efforts of many people; although most of our party people sabotaged us and worked for APGA. So, we expected that and we saw it.

What happened to Slok Air, the airline that you started?

What you are trying to do here is to bring back Obasanjo. Obasanjo is a killer of business. He is a killer of democratic process. There is no pint of democracy blood running in his veins. So, this is why I am surprised that somebody like Obasanjo is writing letter to Buhari.

Obasanjo sacked 5,000 workers of Hallmark Bank. We had 14 aircraft on the fleet of Slok Air and president Obasanjo kept these aircraft for 15 months on ground. You should know how much loses we incurred. Then he went to cancel the license of Hallmark that he had no business to touch. He went and took our oil licenses and oil blocks. So, you can see a man that could have been a statesman becoming wicked.

He had the opportunity to turn this country to any of these Asian Tiger countries. But out of wickedness, he didn’t do that. I wrote him a letter and I am going to write another letter to him and copy president Buhari. He has charges to answer because the international intelligence agencies know that he looted Nigeria. And we know the banks where he put these money. And that is the truth; he put the money in two banks.

Can we know these banks? No I won’t mention them now.

Can you give me a snippet of what you will write in the letter to Obasanjo? I cant give you any snippet; I am going to write a letter to Obasanjo and President Buhari. Two letters will be written by June this year and there are going to very hot letters.

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Power Rankings, Week 7

I’m back, I have a few hours to kill since I get a late start at work tomorrow. I really am gonna try to be consistent, but Beshoy, Anthony, Dyl, and anyone who I’ve ever forgotten that has contributed to these can attest to how strangely long it takes. Anyways, the NFL is weird this year. Are the fucking Eagles the best team in the league? How weird is that to think about? There’s so much parity and we don’t know shit about most teams on a week to week basis, making fantasy all that much harder. It seems a new random player explodes for a shitload of points every week, players who weren’t previously consistent are all of a sudden consistent but we still don’t fully trust them because of their reputations (examples: Agholor, Hogan, Alex Smith). Five years ago, you had an extremely firm grasp on who was good and who wasn’t, and this year nobody has any idea. Not even....

Anthony

1. Scott’s Balls 12-4-16 (Anthony “all your players could die spontaneously, and whoever you play’s players will fumble one time then all die spontaneously” Mendola) (7-0) (LW: 1)

It’s just getting ridiculous. The only thing that’s cool for us is that two of the last three weeks, you’ve looked shockingly vulnerable. Last week you really only won because Amari Cooper turned into 2007 Randy Moss and because Bailey got hurt. I think some of the consistents on your team are strangely slowing down, even if it’s just slightly. Hunt has been 10 a week for quite some time now instead of the 30 point a game guy he was earlier in the year. Cam has looked absolutely awful for two straight weeks (even though he got 21 two weeks ago, you KNOW he didnt play anywhere near deserving that amount of points), Hogan is quite clearly touchdown dependent, you know you can’t trust cooper yet, and Ingram is at the very least losing some carries to Kamara. I’m not suggesting your team is bad, let’s just face the fact that you can’t possibly be as confident in your team as you were three weeks ago. I still think you win this week, because you yet again catch another break since this happens to be the fucking week you play...

Jack

2. Fournette About It (Jack “your team looks like this is a 4 man league” Cleek) (5-2) (LW: 2)

This is like if the Warriors and the Cavaliers played each other and Durant and Curry just decided to take the day off. It’s a damn shame that your ACTUAL two best players and the #2 kicker aren’t playing against that fucking piece of shit. But wow, if I were to bet on anyone winning the league right now, it’d be this team. You have absolutely zero holes. Nobody can even touch your RBs, even without Zeke. Brown-Diggs is the best duo of receivers anyone has, and I’m kicking myself for dropping Wentz. Dude is a fucking stud. This is by far and away the best team in the league, were it not for two close losses Anthony would be the clear second fiddle. Anthony literally agreed with this.

The “6 of us were within 9 points of each other this weekend and honestly I am real close to not assigning numbers and just writing shit about each team” Tier

fuck it, im making more tiers within the tier just to make it even more frustrating for myself

The “playing a slumping Chris and tony back to back really masks/is going to mask how much our teams are bad” Tier + beshoy

3. Scott’s Penis (David “I have never been less scared of a 4-3 team” Chinchilla) (LW: 4)

The only reason I’m here is because of upside? I’m currently texting Beshoy and he said I was a poor man’s Anthony and Jack. I think I’m more of a homeless man’s Anthony (not Jack, Jack is better) I have three (in theory) good RB’s, a good (can he keep it up?) QB, and serviceable but wildly under-performing WR’s. Other than two weeks where my team took a total shit, my team’s actually been pretty decent? It’s insane that that’s enough to put me at 3. It all comes with the caveat of the tier though, I’m smack dab in the middle of the least tough part of my schedule (No offense Scott/Chris/Tony this week). Probably gonna lose to Tony now for talking shit tbh. But hey, I have two straight weeks over 100 and that’s something to be proud of considering that nobody fucking scores in this league. 

Also pictured: Me, after trading AP for the number one Fantasy QB

4. Green Evans and Kam (Beshoy “I can’t stress how much I hate your team name because it’s an Alex team name” Halim) (3-4) (LW: 6)

Second unluckiest loser last week behind Scott imo but you have an argument to be first. So many things had to go wrong. But honestly, look at your starting lineup! It’s SO much better than I think you or anyone perceives it to be. Gordon-Kamara would start for pretty much any team outside of Jack, Anthony, and maybe me. AJ Green and Evans will combine for 35+ far more frequently than they combine for less than 20. ASJ is apparently Hunter Henry from last year. Your QB and flex spots are the only things that aren’t great, which is a huge bummer considering you should have Aaron Rodgers on your team. If you can stream properly and just figure out someone who can get you 8 a week in the flex, this team is WAY better than I thought it was until I looked into it. The way you sulk IRL made me think your team sucked but it really doesn’t.

5. 420 Blountz (Alex “I have never been less scared of a 5-2 team” Ahn) (5-2) (LW:10)

I mean...Beshoy was downright disrespectful for making you 10 but I also totally get his argument. Your team hasn’t played bad but like...this is a boom or bust team that thinks 95 is a boom. (my team is the same way tbh) Again, I wanna stress that your team hasn’t played that bad but you just went through the really soft part of your schedule (again no offense Tony/Chris/Scott) and the teams coming up are slightly tougher outs. You have better WR’s, but the difference between my team and yours here is that you have no RB’s. I don’t trust Jones yet, Blount has been meh for three straight weeks, Marshawn is honestly awful, and don’t @ me about literally any of your other rbs lol. I consider RB’s more consistent than WR’s and my RB’s are better than yours and that’s the difference here. But really we kinda have the exact same team, idk man someone just gift wrap the trophy to Jack or Anthony already it’s wild I can’t find consistently good things to say about the god damn 5th ranked team in my ranks.

Also pictured: Alex after getting Aaron Jones for the Matt Ryan regression year

The “this might be flipped if Gordon scored on one of his 4 chances from the 1 or if Elliott had made that FG” Tier

6. Anthony’s Golden Taint (Dylan “Legally change your name to Dyl already” Jessop) (4-3) (LW:5)

Jordan Reed’s creamy, chunky nut and Elliott reverse nutting into his own body saved your life Monday night. Let’s be real, you got super lucky. Anyways, I can’t really tell you where you’re good outside of Cousins and your WR’s. Your RB’s are wildly inconsistent (I really think Gilislee is droppable, and CJ is losing touches on a bad offense). You’re in bye week hell, but is it weird that I don’t think you got that much worse because of it? Nelson has to still figure it out with Hundley and Murray hasn’t been phenomenal anyways. Not having Engram REALLY hurts this team, which is honestly all I have to type to show how much you depend on a few dudes. 

7. Mixon It Up (Alec “Trading to make his team worse since 2kforever” Bernstein) (2-5) (LW:3)

I told Beshoy last week that I’d rank you super high as long as the points kept coming. I unfortunately was too busy to write rankings during your good weeks, but don’t think I didn’t notice the really nice run you had for about 4 weeks. Losing OBJ was a bummer, but giving Beshoy AJ Green and Kamara for peanuts was a really bad move. Fantasy Football is a stars game, not a depth game. Depth is nice, but who cares if your bench players do well if your starters aren’t being maximized? Green and Kamara would both start on your team RIGHT FUCKIN NOW. Obviously the trade would look a lot better if Rodgers hadn’t gotten hurt, but even with good Davante I think you lost the trade by a long shot. Martin has been slightly worse than Kamara, and nobody’s ever taking good Davante over AJ Green. I like your RB’s, I like your tight end, and I like Wilson as much as the next guy, but imagine the same team with AJ Green...

The 

Tier

8. Scott’s Jizz (Scott “I am so sorry” Felgenhauer) (3-4) (LW:7)

You were so close. You were supposed to be the chosen one. But Anthony called in another favor to the league office and injured Dan Bailey. Either way though, your team isn’t scary even a little bit, but it has some sort of retard strength. It’s like a poor man’s version of Dylan’s team, Good QB, good receivers. Unfortunately, there is zero semblance of a flex and your RB’s are somehow worse than his. I’ve doubted you most of the year, and you usually pull out a win after I doubt you, but I can’t have faith in a team starting Powell and James White on a weekly basis. I just can’t. You need to trade Kelce or Ertz and make sure you get a RB back somehow. 

The Unlucky Bottom Bois

9. Hammer (Tony “I still think he’ll be back somehow” Mendola) (1-6) (LW:9)

It’s just been the year from hell, Tony. You’ve outscored most of us this year but you can’t seem to catch a break. Your team isn’t bad, it just has consistently underperformed. Brady is good, Freeman is good, Jarvis Landry will be better with Matt Moore, but Hilton is good when Luck is in, and Luck may not play. McCaffrey has underwhelmed. Fitz is only good with Palmer, not Stanton. Tight end is a mess on this team. I think you’re more than capable of winning most of your games from here on out, but it may not be enough. I hope it does turn around, you cheering out at the bar is one of the more fun things to watch. Just start doing it next week. 

10. Smallerwood (Chris “Matt Bryant was a microcosm like Beshoy said” Gatzow) (1-6) (LW:9)

Much like Tony, this team is good it just underperforms almost every week. Brees-Howard-Julio-Baldwin is a KILLER top 4. Delanie Walker is a great TE. Only Brees and Howard have lived up to their name. The falcons are singlehandedly killing Julio, I really don’t get why he’s not doing better than he is. The Matt Ryan regression tour bus has apparently picked up Julio. Baldwin is historically a second half player, so he could turn around, but it may all be too late. It doesn’t help that you have no flex. Coleman should be startable weekly, but there’s nobody else serviceable here. I hope Montgomery comes back and outperforms Jones for your sake. I really thought your team was the best team before the season and after Week 1, it’s just been the worst possible scenario.

PICKS

Hammer (Tony) over Scott’s Penis (David)[upset special on my own dam self bb]

Scott’s Balls 12-4-16 (Anthony) over Fournette About It (Jack)

Smallerwood (Chris) over Scott’s Jizz (Scott)

Anthony’s Golden Taint (Dyl) over Mixon It Up (Alec)

Green Evans and Ham (Shoy) over 420 Blountz (Alex)

Last Week: 3-2

Season: not even sure anymore