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You can ask people who know my wrestling viewing habits - I was very high on Tay Conti from the moment she joined the Undisputed Era. She could go extremely far in AEW's women's division with the right presentation.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

An absolutely engaging star in everything in which she participated. Arrested Development and Archer wouldn't be close to as wonderful as both are without her talents.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

LeonhartFour posted...

I will fight you

would*

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

UltimaterializerX posted...

This is legit the stupidest thing Board 8 regularly complains about.

That is not legit the stupidest thing Board 8 regularly complains about. Contests.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Nolan North (Saints Row IV)

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

You're not going into full detail, but go into at least a LITTLE detail!

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

My MCU rankings:

1) Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2) Batman Forever
3) Thor: Ragnarok
4) The Life and Times of David Gale
5) Iron Man 2: Simba's Pride
6) Avengers: Endgame
7) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
8) Shazam
9) Black Widow
10) NBC Shows After 2014
11) Iron Fist Apology Reboot
12) Wong
13) 2019's Overrated Oscarbait
14) Thor: Darker World
15) The Third Ending of Clue
16) Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
17) Maleficent
18) 2001: A Space Odyssey
19) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
20) The Dialogue in Lego Marvel Super-Heroes
21) Homeward Bound: Lost in San Francisco
22) Captain America: Argument in an Airport Parking Lot
23) Age of Ultron

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Mr Lasastryke posted...

i've seen it ten times.

final verdict: considerably worse movie than age of ultron.

1) You've watched a movie you hate ten times.

2) You didn't say you've watched Age of Ultron three times.

3) You answer to me and you answer to Toby.

4) Sir.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Mr Lasastryke posted...

aren't you the guy who thinks captain marvel is a good movie?

Truffaut's Law says that you can't make that judgment unless you've seen it three times.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Thank you one and all. It feels so surreal to me that I'm sitting here on her 100th birthday and it's the first day without her in the world.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

I appreciate all of the kind words, everyone. I'm still reeling from last night, but your kindness is very much appreciated.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

I appreciate it, Karo. I'll admit that I've withdrawn mostly from the Board 8 discord in general, as of late. I post once and a while, but I've never really felt like I fit in there.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

It was the day before her 100th birthday. It's strange how, at the end, we all rallied around something so meaningless and arbitrary to distract ourselves from how helpless we were to stave off the inevitable. In her last year, we were barred from seeing her except through windows thanks to the absolutely monstrous one-size-fits-all policy at nursing homes that saw inordinate amount of restrictions against visitors in comparison to the lackadaisical policies for staff, which resulted in an outbreak in her care home at the beginning of the year. She had fought off corona weeks ago, but in Dallas, power outages swept through last week, and her nursing home wasn't spared. Even as dementia slowly took her from us, she persevered and remained a sweet, gentle soul who loved everyone around her. The indignity of dementia didn't prevent her from dealing with a broken hip and a stroke in the last three years. Her husband of 65 years died four years ago. In that moment, it was like she finally had permission to start failing.

I'm just sitting here now, alone, after getting home, and I can't stop crying because this was a woman who has been part of my entire life. One of the rare constants in the world; she was the matriarch of our family up until her early 90s, and I just wonder how the world can even deign to go on without such a sure foundation as the one I found in her.

I realize just how awful I am - for the past few days, as her condition has worsened, I've tried to get worked up about it. In my mind, I rationalized my failure as a result of the long goodbye that accompanies both Alzheimer's and dementia. But I think the truth is that when you see that still face, that horrible, horrible still face of death, that's when you realize that you can release the stranglehold on hope that you realize you've been clinging to for days, weeks, years on end. If only medical science could provide a cure, you think to yourself. There's always a chance it happens tomorrow, you hope.

The miracle that I hoped for never materialized. But I'd like to think that every moment I had with my grandmother was meaningful to her, in the end. My thoughts keep turning back to her, if I lived a life worthy of her legacy so far. If she died proud of me. This was a woman who went to college during World War II. She spent her life supporting Christian ministries around the world and worked at a womens-only college in Pennsylvania for her entire career. She firmly believed in tithing to the church and, in addition to that, sending a further 10% of her money to charity. She gave her retirement to Meals on Wheels, and she scrimped and saved to put her daughter through college on top of everything else.

She saved her buttons for Kennedy and McGovern in old cardboard boxes alongside my grandfather's service memorabilia from World War II. She treasured books about the Royal Family in Britain and was fascinated with history her entire life. Even in dementia, she marveled at picture books of the castles of Europe. She taught my mother to play the piano, and she had a four foot long stuffed bunny rabbit that belonged to my mother for fifty years that she still kept good care of. Even until last year, she could carefully primp and smooth its pink bow. She would say, when a younger Scarlet would ask her why she did it, that "he wouldn't like looking unpresentable when guests came to town."

In a cruel twist of coincidence, it suddenly has started storming while I write this. As if, maybe, God is real for a moment and taking her away on a thunderous chariot driven by lightning horses. And I'd like to think there was truth to that because right now, I just want to sit here and rekindle her memory and this is the only way I know how.

She was my grandmother. And she's gone.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Spin Doctors - Jimmy Olsen Blues

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful

Zigzagoon posted...

Not gonna lie, 90% of the vid being about TASes (and one lap TASes) is kinda... boring?

TASes are cool and all but isn't really what I watch summoningsalt for, if that makes sense.

The struggle of someone playing a certain level or game over and over to finally get that slightly better time doesn't really compare to someone just slowing the game down frame by frame with savestates to get a better time on one single lap >_>

ACTUALLY, the mental taxation caused by the detail-oriented nature of a TAS is just as interesting, but it takes a high IQ to understand the nuances of a TAS.

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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful