checks ...no they aren't.

I'm a massive Stephen King fan, but The Institute was awful. Stephen openly admitted literally at the start of the book I believe, that he was experimenting with being topical. All the dialog was extremely rough and he was really angry with politics at the time. Just a bad book period. I think he's seen the feedback. That said he's in the sunset of his career, there's a million examples of great dialog throughout his works. It's sort of like pooping on the 50 or 60th book in a world class authors library.

They ever fix their thermal paste issue?

Microcenter is selling Ryzen 3600 & B450 combos for $100 which in any other world would be a smoking deal you'd be insane not to jump on considering the 3600 is a great budget gaming & compute cpu, but weirdly unless you really need it there's not much point. CPU & motherboards are about to plummet in price for anything not absolute current gen.

que Desantis passing a law that schools only serve milk chocolate now

Having just watched "Fall (2022)" this brings me intense anxiety.

It started out pretty strong, but idk. I literally lost interest maybe 6 episodes in. The ideas were cool and I liked most of the cast but the writing, especially the dialog was so bad at times it was like bad dubbing. Like theyd forget how people talk or what planets are.

I remember one line that made me laugh outloud where two vulcans are talking together and one says to the other "youre the only one who can pull this off!". I guess the writer that day didnt think like maybe thats both a human expression and not how vulcans even talk.

Dumb dialog aside it just..."didn't compel me"? To watch anymore. Too much on tv these days and I just forgot it exists after a while. It deserves to be on though. It wasnt terrible.

I feel like at 30-6 they shoulda swapped a couple players.

And he did it just to teach Lisa Simpson a lesson about morality.