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I'm very happy for Jegat, he deserved a bit of luck after trying so hard for that Top 10 all Tour. Those lesser GC guys often don't get much attention but I respect that they go through a similar grind as the top guys on every climb to minimise time gaps when a lot of other riders around them are taking it easier. I didn't think O'Connor would care about a Top 10 considering his goal was a Top 5 and he'd already won a stage, but the fact he chased by himself at the front of the peloton suggests it meant something to him. Hopefully he gets a proper GC support team next year. I know Jayco were down one and Schmid crashed while leading the peloton, but it's really quite poor that their team was so weak O'Connor had to defend by himself.

I guess part of the reason I think about it quite a bit these days is because almost all of my friends who are my age and older have mostly stopped. The guys who haven't are the ones who are still single, living by themselves with no responsibilities to anyone beyond their employer.

One guy I know has vlogged and blogged quite a lot about his experiences "quitting" video games. The realisation he came to was that gaming was holding him back in many other areas of his life, and that he had been reluctant to acknowledge this earlier in his life because he was scared about what that said about all the time he had sunk into video games instead of solving his problems. It's not that severe for me, but I do wonder whether it's a hobby I maintain out of laziness/fear of trying something new, rather than because I still love it.

Don't worry Oscar, Primož has your back!

Also, I can't remember if I mentioned this previously, but I bought a secondhand 2DS a couple of months ago so I've finally got around to starting Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask. The DS Layton games were some of my favourites but because I never owned a 2DS/3DS, or a portable device that could emulate them well, I have held off on playing them until now. Layton games are best played in a cosy space, like in bed or an armchair with a rug, with headphones on and the weather has been colder and wetter here recently which is perfect for this type of game!

Other than that, I haven't had too much free time for gaming lately, and to be honest I haven't really had the drive for it either. I am approaching my mid-30s now and sometimes wonder if I'm going to "grow out of" gaming as a main hobby at some point in the near future.

I'll be interested to read your future updates about AI: The Somnium Files. I really like Kotaro Uchikoshi's work, he has written some of my favourite visual novels previously including Ever 17 and 999. I'll wait until you're further in before I talk about The Somnium Files (I don't want to spoil or influence anything for you).

Everything gets canceled eventually.

This isn't even remotely close to being true. There are plenty of series that complete their planned runs and have the time to tell an entire story.

This episode basically commented on that phenomenon. Cartman loses the joy of living because there are no more "woke" people left for him to laugh at. I wish more people on the left understood that by constantly trying to control what everyone else is doing they are just creating things for the right to "resist" against. If people want to use a word in a context completely divorced from its original intent, just let them do it.

when it actually mattered

It never mattered. It's a comedy show, no one was going to change their vote based on it. How can you still not get it after two election wins and political influence spanning a decade?

You're obviously a big fan of the books so I guess that makes a difference as well (I have only read the first one). To me, this was just another generic 6/10 fantasy show with nothing particularly special or exciting about it so without a complete story and the promise of a potential big payoff the third season has nothing to offer. I will, of course, miss Rosamund Pike!

They had the chance to show how ridiculous trump was back then

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Trump has always been obviously ridiculous. You guys need to get over this idea that the people voting for him are going to have some magical come-to-Jesus moment and join the rest of us in reality after watching an episode of South Park or reading a non-"sanewashed" news article.

Retard is a "slur" that should definitely be normalised, and indeed it was until a group of virtual-signalling losers decided it was very offensive again and tried to cancel anyone who used it. It stopped being used in relation to the intellectually disabled a long, long time ago and was just another generic insult for decades. Ironically, it is the people who complain about it today who are actually the ones giving the word power - if they had just shut the fuck up it would have continued to fade into irrelevance.

I started the second season of 'Gannibal' but the drop in quality from the first season has been so significant that I'm questioning whether I want to continue. It went from small town thriller to this comically violent shlock thing where the point of every scene and conversation seems to be to create yet another confrontation so yet another fight can be shoehorned in. It's an adaptation of a manga and it really shows in this second season.