Yes, that Owl House.
I thought disney caved and gave them a third season though?
Edit: Im wrong. Sorta. They announced there’d be a final season 3, but it’ll be 3 40-minute specials rather than a normal format season.
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Yes and no. Season 3 is three 44 minute long specials aimed at tying up loose ends. Terence hoped that it would be enough to get people to ask for a proper third season.
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Saw Derren Brown, illusionist mentalist, live. Pretty great show, some astounding tricks that make you wonder how exactly he did it.
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I just learned of this Batman shit here. Tasers built into gloves. 
I know they are trying to sell to cops and security guards but I don’t even think it’s useful for them. It’s almost gimmicky, but I know Batman would have them.
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He uses them in Arkham: Origins, he jerry-rigs them from The Electrocutioner’s gloves.
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So, I kinda fucked myself today.
My wife and I were pulling weeds in our front yard and because the ground is so tough there right now due to low temperatures and weeks without rain, I wanted to use a tool that’s specialized for prying weed roots out of the ground. I’ve used it before, but last time, I used the tool very roughly and punctured a lot of the sprinkler lines in the yard, and had to have a company come repair them. I said I should use it today and this time I would use it more gently so that it would not penetrate any of the lines this time because I would push it slowly into the ground instead of just jabbing it down like I’m stabbing the yard.
Guess you can see where this is going? In at least three places, where the people who repaired the lines said they’d even buried the lines deeper than they were, i punctured the lines; be damned if I know how. So now we have to have them repaired again.
That’s not the problem for me; we can afford the repair, although it’s annoying and we’ll have to push back some personal expenses we wanted to spend on, but no huge deal. My problem is, my wife told me that if I used the tool and punctured the lines, the price for doing so would be that I can’t play my games for a month per puncture.
Now, she’s the one always saying she’s not my mother whenever she wants me to do a basic task that I haven’t done yet, but am going to get to, and she gets impatient and does it herself. So by that logic, she’s got no authority to “ground” me from my games. I don’t have to listen her on this if I so choose, and she knows that. I didn’t agree to her terms when she said them and I got the tool, I just let her talk and make her expectations known, but I made no commitment to it. She can do nothing to enforce it if I decide to say fuck that noise.
The thing is, I do genuinely feel bad for causing this issue again, and more so, I feel like I personally failed myself because I specifically used so much care in digging those weeds, I can’t believe I broke the lines anywhere. And it is frustrating that I set back a few things we wanted to do. So, I think I am going to go ahead, for now, and honor this “punishment” she wants me to suffer. Except, whenever an ET shows up; even if they are reruns, I am not missing those. If she has a problem with that, I’ll make it clear that I’m allowing her to have her terms enforced, as a courtesy and because I let myself down, not because I agreed to what she said.
All the same, that means essentially no Hitman for three months. Anytime I’ve been off games I go through literal withdrawal symptoms like a recovering addict, which is essentially what I am; my gaming has all the hallmarks of substance addiction. These next twelve weeks are gonna suck!
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Are you living on Crocodile Isle? 
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And why it’s turning green?
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We do it every year for Paddy’s Day 
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Update: My wife’s better and out of isolation. So we went to our flat in the mountains and plan on hitting the slopes tomorrow. If she’s still too tired for it we’ll just go up the mountain and sit a bit in the sun there. Maybe have a drink or two…
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Speaking of St Patricks Day and other generally Irish things… is it just me or was the Elton John Dua Lipa video just a knock off of the Lucky Charms commercials?
Going to the airport in a few minutes, gotta spend a lot in the air today. It’s worth it as I’ll eventually visit Legoland Istanbul 
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I don’t want to go into detail but I’m no longer employed which sucks, but the job was killing me too so maybe it’ll be for the best in the long run.
On the happier side I’ve been commissioned for a one off paid article in a magazine in a couple months, that is nothing permanent but it makes me feel less useless, and it’ll look good on a future resume.
Hopefully the YouTube algorithm gods promote me and then I can make money off it.
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Are you flying out of Tehran? If so it should only be about 3 hours flight time.
Enjoy your trip!! Who are you flying? I know Turkish runs that route but so does Qeshm and maybe a few others.
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Great voiceover by David Bateson here…
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Finally got here around 9 hours ago, 3am local time.
The host’s son is a game developer here, and guess what he was playing when I came? Absolution 
He was randomly killing NPCs out of boredom (Although that’s what you do in Abso isn’t it 
). I also got to play with his Oculus headset; It was scary to be frank.
@Yacob I was not flying out of Tehran but I might cut this trip shorter and go to Tehran via Iran Airtour (and it is 3 hours, yes).
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Got a new idea for a novel. I’ve got a ton of them that I’ve made no progress on at all, but if anyone’s interested I’d be happy to share to get some ideas and insight that might help the muse. But anyway, got another one, inspired by Hitman and Hellboy.
I’ve got it under the working title God’s Hitman, but I’m almost certainly going to change it if I can think of a better title. The premise is, an entity, who I currently can’t decide if he used to be a normal human or is a disgraced angel that was cast out of Heaven long after Satan and his followers were, so he’s not with them; either way, this being wanders the earth, invisible and alone, observing the mortal world and it’s interactions with the immortal world. With supernatural occurrences on the rise over the decades, a group of paranormal investigators/defenders/exorcists are looking for occult ways to fight the occult. They discover that they can summon this being to kill other beings, be they human, demonic, or other, if they offer a high enough price. The price is usually some form of penance or sacrifice, and it must be great enough to match the power that will be necessary to kill the target. The entity is then permitted by God to interact with the mortal world by killing the target for them. Over time, fulfilling this function will bring the entity closer to being absolved, and the mortal world is slowly made safer as harmful entities are destroyed.
A bit cliché, but this is just a very early-stage idea. Any potential here, for those of the literary circles?
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Well publishers would take it but I would say they might want you to find a way to make the premise stand out since it is tired but if it was released you would get a pretty decent readership with YA readers and some more genre fiction loving males.
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Oh, certainly. I just thought of this two days ago and haven’t even had time to write down an outline. That’s just a basic pitch, I’m definitely gonna need a more exciting draw.
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