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Location:Austin, Texas
Biography:Undergrad from UT / Grad degree from LSU
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Registered on:1/26/2006
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Barbarian was excellent. Excited for this one


The movie had a great premise, but once you got to the big reveal, it fell flat for me.
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They can never help themselves


Yep. The woke character is always the smartest.
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Decent team but don’t have the pitching to hang with the big girls.


It truly is the same shite, different year with Beth. Start out hot and fade down the stretch. If the pitching is good, the hitting is bad. Now that we're hitting the ball better, pitching has fallen off a cliff. She can't put a complete team together.
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considerably less sick and vacation leave working from home


Isn't this good for productivity though.....less absenteeism? That's something that I think gets overlooked. If you can work from home, or at least work a home/office hybrid schedule, you might not need to take leave to handle things like the electrician or plumber showing up, your kid being home sick from school, etc. That's possibly the biggest thing that TPEA (organization that represents state employees in Texas) is trying to get Governor Abbott to realize, but he doesn't seem to be listening.
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just to make feel-good political statements?


This is a big part of it. It’s like virtue signaling. I believe that state employees in Texas have started returning to the office and all state agencies are expected to be 100% in-office by the fall. I’ve heard that they are trying to avoid a mass exodus of employees by offering increased opportunities for OT, alternative work schedules, etc. It will be interesting to see how this plays out and if it ends up blowing up in Governor Abbott’s face.
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I saw where Josh Allen is taking some heat for Hailee's sex scenes. Are the scenes "steamy" enough to justify Josh taking heat on?


If I recall correctly, she was drooling because she was hungry. Remmick did the same thing before he attacked Mary.

re: Companion 2025

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 4/23/25 at 9:16 am
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It's best if you know nothing going into the movie. The trailer gives away way too much. Even the main marketing image gives away too much.


I agree. The trailer makes it very obvious that Iris is not human. I think one of the trailers even goes so far as to reveal that she's a robot.

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The second twist, that they brought her along so they could commit murder and frame her for it, was pretty damn good. I did think the gay terminator at the end was a bit much though.
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I think the husband was just the first he was around more because when she fell into that pit in the barn there was more bodies


I thought those were the bodies of the maids, but you may be right. Maybe he meant that she was the only one since Helene's husband.
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not exactly sure what's left to tell of the story since that whole family died besides Samara Weaving's character


This, unless it's about another family that struck a similar deal with the devil for wealth and power. Wouldn't it have made more sense to do a prequel instead? I hope they don't throw the whole backstory out the window just to keep the franchise going. If you recall, Alex told Grace that she was only the 2nd person ever to draw the hide and seek card, the first was Aunt Helene's husband, so it's not like they've been murdering dozens of people over the years.
So this is a sequel to the original sequel, and not a complete reboot?

There was a new version on Amazon Prime not too long ago. It looked terrible.
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Jack o Connel is a good actor.


I wish they would've expounded on Remmick's backstory a bit. How did an Irish vampire come to end up in rural Mississippi, being chased by Native American vampire hunters? He just showed up on that couple's doorstep. Did he follow the brothers down from Chicago? He mentioned that he was drawn to Sammie's music, but that was pretty much all we got.
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Berzon needs to sit, she cannot be relied upon.


I agree. If given the chance, she will choke away the lead 9/10 times. Such a shame and a terrible way to lose the series.
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blaring music over loudspeaker while we are batting


How is this legal? If the SEC won't allow it during a football game, how can they do it during a softball game?

re: HIM Trailer #1

Posted by LouisianaLonghorn on 4/18/25 at 5:29 pm
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Saw someone say it looks like The Substance for men. Agree with that


It looks like a satanic cult of some kind (note the pentagram on the ground).
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This team is in TROUBLE. The hell are they doing?


I think the truth is that this team just isn't as good as we originally thought.
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3 questions

Will Berzon be "hurt" again for the rest of the weekend?
Will the Freshman throw strikes tomorrow?
Will Beth be able to luck out one win in the remaining regular schedule?


Berzon tightens up when the game gets close and chokes. Heavener shows promise, but she's currently a free pass machine. Beth doesn't seem to know how to manage her pitchers, which is a real head scratcher considering she was a pitcher herself when at Florida. The wheels are coming off and I'm not sure there's a quick and easy fix.
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Mid-season report card: B+


I don't see how you can rate them any higher than a C. The hitting has improved, but the pitching has struggled more as the season goes on. We could very well get swept in our next two series. It's pretty much same song, different verse. Start out really strong then fizzle out down the stretch. That's been the MO for Beth's teams over the past several years.
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Is this the kid that they put the one picture of him dressed nicely in a suit as the fundraiser photo, when every social media pic of him is a photo of him holding pistols and rifles and throwing up gang signs while dressed like a ghetto kang?


Didn't the media do the same thing with Trayvon Martin?
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Except now they are 100% going to care about race.


That's my concern. They will find a way to interject race into the story line.
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Fictional book characters race literally doesn’t matter to me at all unless race was a character trait that mattered

Race was completely inconsequential in the harry potter universe


In the Harry Potter books, Severus Snape is described as a thin man with sallow skin, a hooked nose, and greasy, shoulder-length black hair.

Kinda sounds like a pale white dude to me. It's tough for a dark-complected person to be described as having sallow skin.

Hermione being black is expected, as she's been played by a black actress ever since the stage show began.