#only to then go off-aggro and patiently wait for me to kill everyone

[noro-noro-noro]

it actually had different parts

great pretender type shenanigans

dream that I was makoto joining a similar to great pretender group except we were mercenaries. i offered to hook up the boss (either Nick fury or Soryuin Shion) with guns from a connection I had but they got furious at me & said we did hand to hand only. no weapons. go cool off in the gym. Idiot. I pretended to be shooting a gun in the elevator. kushida rin was there and we had our own building with a gym but I didn't have a card key that was enough so I borrowed hers. anyway we got busted into by a rival???? gang. or something. nina maternova was there & I was talking to her & she was starting to tell me her tragic past and motivations and about the bombs the govt dropped on her house killing her husband and son. unfortunately everyone else was aggro before I could finish. I was also telling her about my last - there was something that happened, my house was raided by the govt or something. my mom took my brother and escaped. she took me too but I fell behind. my dad....vanished off the face of the earth that day. anyway my house was burnt down and I assume my dad was on there when it burnt. 

the rival mercs, they escaped and our place was wrecked but minor casualties. just lots and lots and lots of broken glass. me & kiryu setsuna were both glassed up. Kiryu had more glass in him & was lying face down on the floor. One of my friends was there briefly & a dude with tweezers was pulling the glass out. I wanted to be patient & wait my turn, but the entire back of my body was like a porcupine of glass so i was like “hey man.” 

awake/asleep. the room was fixed up and became something like a classroom setting. kiryu and that friend fused into a random guy who was pretty nice and he sat on my left. a girl I was friends with sat on my right. i got along well with both of them. delivery for us! and it was Nina dropping off a cardboard box. in a previous dream opening a box all the way pulled the pin from a grenade and killed us, so I threw the box onto the floor instead after hearing it beeping. instead inside was a weird code radio thing? i was afraid it would explode still & so was the guy next to me so we were squeezing each other’s hands every time someone brought the grenade box near us. the solution was something like slider A on 0, slider B on 55, Slider C on 86. It said 95HZ on the side of the box. Solving this revealed a projector that said I was actually not who I said I was - I needed to rip fake skin off my face and then I'd be able to be spirited away to a random address in the Czech Republic to start a new life there. i went to the bathroom and did so..my left side face was COVERED in burn scars . i was my dad the whole time and my brother was my son and Nina was my wife. my face hurt. nobody in the classroom cared about my discovery much when i was like HEY I JUST PEELED ALL THE SKIN OFF MY FACE I’M BLEEDING AND IT’S ON FIRE AND I’M ALSO NOT WHO I THOUGHT I WAS & everyone was like “whatever”, but nick fury halfheartedly helped me meet up with my pickup by sneaking 

wake up & back to sleep briefly . still en route somewhere pretending to be someone I'm not, but no longer married with a son. don't remember the details. i went from being dragged behind a truck on a rope to hiding in it to faking being the driver. our final destination was Alex M (yeah from middle school -_-) 's old house for some reason but it had been converted into a small wooden stadium with two floors around the center ring. 

i saw itto sitting on a trailer somewhat confused about everything going on around him. i was me again but I also knew his parents - Nina was his mom still and she was now also an oni & I knew the dad was alive somewhere. his horns were broken and blackened at the end & this served to like..pacify him enough. he didn't know where he was or what was going on but you could talk to him & he'd respond with like 70% of his usual energy. obviously because I love hm I was very touchy and clingy & sat on his lap & cupped his face & gently touched his broken horns like "I can't believe they did this to you..." & he just looked at me like ?...do I know you? & he was supposed to know me, a little, so this hurt. i asked his mom & her horns were broken too but she said it affected her less because she didn't express Oni traits as strongly so it clouded her less to have them like that. 

anyway I helped escort him up to the house & told him I knew his parents & he was like "wow!! yay!!" & I thought about lying & saying I was his girlfriend but decided to not do that. he was starting to reciprocate all the affection i slathered on him though. i had to break off from him as he went backstage or whatever, and now I was with a little Asian boy & also qiqi & my sister. a lot of the spectators were asian. the theme was year of the tiger so they were handing out free little tiger ear headwear. i wanted to sit upstairs first directly over the ring so I could see better, but it got changed so that it was a tiny window instead of a big gap, so I dragged the gang back downstairs to get as close a view as possible. the first fight was between a Swiffer sweeper & a ???? that got sucked into a vacuum immediately. everyone chuckled. i didn't care too much for the 2nd fight so I looked through the fight list & explained to the little kids with me "this red guy in round 3 is my ex boyfriend & this green guy is a gut I really like, so I hope he beats the red guy!!!" then I looked over and the little kids had been replaced by Joey who waslike "why can't you root for both of us?" & i was lik "I don't like you & I don't want you to win. I can be civil if we encounter each other but I don't like you bro." then he reached into my shirt to start touching my back & I was like ???!!??1!1??1?!??? & texted my sister over discord. she came over & glared at him & he stopped doing that but he was still next to me. i asked jaylene if she wanted to trade. it was like 1234 qiqi jaylene joey me & if I swapped with her at least I could still dote on my little baby. while checking discord wfp mods were talking about a game similar to the original rogue & I looked at them playing it for 5 min & missed the entire Joey/itto fight. i read like a quick summary where Joey bowed out in round 10 & waslike DAMN he didn't get killed </3 & I went to go backstage to talk to itto & woke up

my brain gave me a dream that itto beat up my ex in a 12 round boxing match. what a great valentine's gift!!

the entire dream was very long I'll see if I can bring it in

[helloworlddemo1122-yahoopar-blog]

Billy Magnussen Is on Fire and He's Only Getting Hotter (Exclusive)

Billy Magnussen's career is on fire. The actor, 32, was already Tony-nominated before he got his breakthrough role as Rapunzel's Prince in Into the Woods. (In fact, it was because of his work on Broadway that Meryl Streep herself recommended him for the role.) He's since appeared in two Best Picture contenders (The Big Short and Bridge of Spies) and Emmy-winning TV series such as American Crime Story (playing Kato Kaelin in The People v. O.J. Simpson) and Black Mirror. (He's Valdack in the Star Trek-riffing "USS Callister.")

Turns out, last week, his last hotel caught fire, too. "I was in Montreal, someplace called Mont-Tremblant, I think? Whatever," he recalls. "The first night we were there, the alarm went off at, like, seven in the morning and our hotel caught fire. So, we had to go into the snow, and it was aggressive." The Canadian inferno proved not so much a matter of life and death as an inconvenience, one remedied with a spa trip. "It was someone else's hotel room. It was 420 -- which is my birthday -- that apparently caught fire."

This week, the New Yorker is safe here in L.A., visiting to go on auditions and promote his new movie, Game Night. The madcap comedy, starring Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams, is about what happens when the couple's regular game night stops being polite and gets way too real, after a staged kidnapping mystery party inadvertently becomes the real thing and the suburbanites are left to solve it while outrunning Bulgarian mafia, underground fight clubs and sociopathic police officers. These days, gambling on yet another R-rated action comedy requires, at best, hesitant optimism, so perhaps the biggest surprise of Game Night is that it's actually good.

"I think that's awesome when people are like, 'I...really thought it was good?'" Magnussen exclaims with a whoop. "Like, that means a lot. It's better than someone saying, 'That was good.'" In conversation with ET, Magnussen reveals how to be a respectful s**t talker and teases his upcoming projects, including Disney's live-action Aladdin, a comedy with Tiffany Haddish and a Netflix series opposite Emma Stone and Jonah Hill.

ET: Let's start with some easy game-related questions.

Billy Magnussen: LET'S DO THIS!

Are you a board game guy or drinking game guy?

Can you combine the two?

Sure. What's your favorite board game played as a drinking game?

Have you ever played Betrayal at House on [the] House?

It's one of my all-time favorite games.

Dude! Best game! Is it not the best game?

When do you drink in it, though?

Oh, you know, if you roll under the omen number, you should drink. And if you roll the omen, you drink. You just add it to many things. Cranium, also, if you lose a round, you have to take a drink.

I played Betrayal last weekend and there definitely was not enough drinking, so I'm going to start implanting your rules.

It's so fun. It's a game where you're rolling dice all the time. Or you could even do, like, every time there's a blank space, because it's only zero, one or two. Every time there's a blank, you have to consume something.

I need to stop us before we get very involved with Betrayal.

[Laughs] Well, it is the best game in the world.

How competitive are you on a scale of 1-to-quit in the middle of the game because you're losing, then leave and take the game home with you so no one else can play?

No, never will quit in a game! I'll ride it out to the end, man. I will ride it out to the end. Because you don't know! It's like playing Fortnite. You could keep going in Fortnite and have one percent of health, but if you take the other guy down, you're still in it.

Do you find you are a competitive person, though?

Yeah, of course, man! Of course. I think it's fun. I think it really shows character in people, how they deal with a game, funnily enough.

Does that competitiveness manifest in, like, a simmering rage? Or are you a big s**t talker?

No, no! I'm all about the game, and I comment on specifics. I'm a good loser. If I lose, I'm respectful and whatnot. If I'm a winner, I'm respectful and whatnot. I have to thank my dad for teaching me that growing up, win or lose, still have a little honor. That said, am I s**t talking? Yeah. Of course, I'm s**t talking. I've been s**t talking all my life.

Speaking of competitiveness, with such a deep bench of talent on this [Game Night also stars Jesse Plemons, Kyle Chandler, Lamorne Morris and Catastrophe's Sharon Horgan], do you find that you're competing on set to make people crack?

That whole film, these people I'm working with, they're hysterical. It was difficult making this movie, because we couldn't stop laughing. I guess there's a hidden undertone of that, like, Oh who's going to crush it today? But also working with talented actors and you find that the true person you're trying to crack is the audience. So, if you guys can work together-- Like, working with Sharon Horgan, the best part was the relationship being funny, not a line specifically. You know? I think good humor is situational, not just like saying a witty-- Yeah, there are witty lines and whatnot which are hysterical, but I love kind of situational such.

Sharon Horgan is, I'm convinced, a full-on genius.

She absolutely is. And-- Yes, dude. President 2020.

I don't know if she can be president...

No, I know. Because she's Irish. Or U.K.? Whatever!

Thinking about Game Night and one of my favorite movies you were in, Ingrid Goes West--

Oh, you saw that?!

Ingrid Goes West was one of my top 10 favorite movies of last year. But you get called on to play the aggro, sort of clueless, straight guy himbo quite often. Why do you think that is?

I don't know. I guess it's my face? That's it. I think that probably a lot of people were similar to that character growing up in high school and when they look at me they see that. I don't think I'm that guy, but, you know.

Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images

You don't seem like it. I want to talk about some of your upcoming projects, because you are killing it lately--

Dude, man! I've been so fortunate, I can't tell you. I'm hustlin', dude. I'm trying to hustle. You know, every opportunity I've gotten has been an absolute dream, and I couldn't be more grateful for it. I'm like every other actor out there, just auditioning. Trying to do it.

You have Aladdin. How closely does that hew to Disney's animated movie?

How closely? Well, the Disney animated movie was what? An hour-and-something long. This is a two-hour film, I would guess. I don't know. I don't know the running time. But it's definitely, I would say, developed and you really see these characters live and breathe, which-- It was awesome, man. I'm telling you, it was such a magical-- It's a whole new world, man. [Laughs]

People are pretty excited to see Will Smith as the Genie. How do you think they will react to that?

I think they're going to be so excited and surprised and loving it! Look at the story of Aladdin. It's about knowing your own self-worth -- or finding out your own self-worth is good enough -- and I think a lot of these characters go through that journey. And as long as we share that and share our hearts with it, I think it's going to be fantastic. And being on set, that's what I felt.

Do you get to sing?

They didn't script me to sing. I might have sang just to sing. But, yeah. No. There was definitely not a song for me in that.

Disney hired a Tony nominee and didn't give you a song?!

Dude, I don't know, man. But it is my second Disney prince. So, we're going for a hat trick. I have to figure out how to get one more.

Then you have [Ike Barinholtz's directorial debut] The Oath, which, like Game Night, has a stacked cast.

Duuude! Ike Barinholtz, Tiffany Haddish-- F**k! They are awesome. They are unbelievable people. And the rest of the cast too. Carrie [Brownstein]. Who else was in it with us? John Cho! Dude! Awesome dude! Meredith Hagner!

I need to hear your Tiffany Haddish party anecdote. Have you gotten one yet?

You know what? That woman has the most beautiful heart. That was the best part of her, sharing her heart with everyone. That girl is special, man. She really is. I don't have a party thing.

On the TV side, you have Maniac. [A Netflix limited series directed by Cary Fukunaga that stars Stone and Hill as patients in a mental institution.] How was working on that?

Ahhh! I don't even know, but I can't wait to see it! Dude, it is so unbelievable and so wild. Every day going to that one was just, like, Didn't know this was coming. It's a trip. It's an absolute trip. You can't explain it-- It's so insane. It's so insane. I just want you to be excited about it, because it is such a journey and a trip and it's going to be so fun.

It seems like we're going to see a pretty different side of Emma and Jonah in this. Did you find that was the case?

Yeah! They were delightful. It's really funny, like, years ago when they were coming out with Superbad and stuff like that, I was just admiring them from a distance and now getting the opportunity to work with them, it's shocking. Because you have an idea of these people and then you meet them and you're like, Oh, you're just so much better than I imagined you are! You're awesome!

Lastly, you were just in "USS Callister," which was the breakout episode of this season of Black Mirror. Whenever an episode hits like that, people start clamoring for a sequel episode or a spinoff. Have you heard any whispers of more "Callister"?

You know what'd be cool, man? You know we're online now, the Callister crew? What if they were online and going to different games, different types of games. Like, you could think of a combat game or Fortnite game. Wouldn't that be cool? And maybe I did get contacted about something. I don't know! You'll have to find out!

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[jen--ne--sais--quoi]

So it’s 12:29am...

and I just woke up from a nap I decided to take from 10:45-12:15. 

Because I got shit to do tonight but today at work was so fucking exhausting. 

A List From the Shit Show: 

-I walked in to work to see that the manager that spent the week in jail for cooking meth in his basement (a month after being arrested for the very same offense) is...somehow free and employed??? And I have to listen to what he says???? (This was actually a highlight cause it kept making me giggle)

-Mindy, my fellow hostess, called off today, which we thought wasn’t a big deal until the dinner rush came. It’s the middle of September--we are supposed to be in the off-season. So why the FUCK did we have a half hour wait???? That’s 15 parties waiting, and more coming in, with zero explanation why ANY of them are in town. Me, More Experienced Lauren, ....and the trainee. 

-One of my acquaintances from high school and her family came in, needing a table for 7 people. I said, “I’ll go get a table ready and be back.” The Mom said, “That’s alright, take your time.” Turns out a perfect table just needs bussed off, so I start doing that at like a moderate pace because why wear myself ragged when it’s not busy? (yet, like I said it came for us hard). By the time I got the table ready, maybe 3-5 minutes have passed, with servers stopping me to ask questions, stopping by the lobby to tell the party that it’ll take a couple extra minutes and Mom replying “Like I said, take your time”  and the ever elusive spray bottles doin their best to hide, etc. I go to the lobby and open my mouth to talk and Mom goes, “Do you need ME to wipe the table?! I’ll wipe it down for you if it helps make things go faster?!” So I just say, “Party of 7 your table is ready, right this way” and pretend she wasn’t just aggro AF to me after pretending to be patient. 

-Side quest: As I was getting that table cleared, the servers mention that the current floor plan is wrong, and that an entire section actually has no server assigned to it. A section I just sat. Again. But not to worry, the floor plan changed! But...where the fuck is it?! In the 15 minutes it took Meth Manager to make a floor plan, five tables got sat and needed to be picked up by random servers, making the first hour of the dinner shift confusing as hell.

-Back to Mom and Acquaintance: As I seat the table, I notice that Acquaintance wearing an All That Remains t-shirt, and I jokingly said, “look at you being all emo today” in a friendly voice. She said, “You know it.” Ten minutes later my manager (the one who ISN’T cooking meth) goes, “What the fuck did you say to 66?! They’re PISSED! Something about being emo?” And I had to explain that Katie is a friend acquaintance from high school and that I was just making a friendly joke, and why the fuck would she tell on my to my boss instead of, I dunno, sending me a message or coming to talk to me by herself??? WHY IS THIS SUDDENLY A PROBLEM FOR MY WORK AND NOT A PROBLEM BETWEEN FRIENDS. So then I had to go over in the middle of their meal and be like, “I’m sorry I hurt your feelings I’m a giant boner of emoness myself so I thought it was cool, your shirt’s neat” like a fifth grader on the playground. 

-Power in the enter restaurant went out for a solid minute....and then came back on which was the biggest disappointment of my life. 

-The power outage fucked our computer system SO HARD. For the rest of the night, it went through 4 error screens, two reboots, a freeze, and stopped letting credit cards go through. We had to use the old ass carbon-copy receipts to take down the card info, get a signature, and then not close out the checks so by the end of the night the “Take Payment” screen was getting crowded AF

-Our friendly neighborhood liberty-spiked punk line cook pushed the doors open mighty hard on his way out. I didn’t see anything--I only knew it was him because I heard the chains on his pants rattling on his way. Apparently he walked the fuck out. He’s literally one of the best cooks, and if you thought the host stand was short staffed...ha. The kitchen got FUCKED. The server doing expo had to jump on the cook line, a server from the deck had to jump on expo, and suddenly everyone wants to sit outside to watch the sunset, and there’s only ONE server covering 10 tables--which no one thinks to tell the people who control seating, why should WE know something like that?! I hear about it because the lone deck server is bitching in the kitchen when I go to grab some soups. 

-One of the servers was thisclose to a panic attack all night, and no one had any free time to help her at all, and she could barely get shit done :( 

-I told someone one of our pizzas can be vegan if she asked for no cheese. Apparently, it’s not. You can’t remove the cheese from the crust (On the bright side: She didn’t call to have me killed). 

-I sold over $500 of food by myself within an hour. Our tips? Shit.