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I forgot, OJ died "I’m not saying Hamas should have attacked Israel……but I understand" 🤣

This girl (age 23, 5'11'', 175 lbs) poorly filmed bikini videos got viral on youtube. 718K views.. She is beautiful, looks like she could be Brandy Gordon's sister.

Iiam hemsworth as the Witcher

This food looks so good

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@Jade Bahr The much maligned 'Obi Wan' show had an addition to the Obi-Wan & Anakin relationship- basically Obi Wan reveals that he is very sorry for raising Anakin wrong (implying that he did not educate him properly in morality and philosophy) and he blames himself for everything. It's pretty good scene imho. ending spoilers:

He left his role as the Witcher because the showrunners weren't following the books and Geralt wasn't the 'amateur philosopher' he envisioned him to be. The actual character in the books/games has a lot of insight to human/social/political nature, sarcasm and dry humor, and talks a lot. He also 'gets the ladies'- and not just yennefer. In the games they chose to get David Cockle talk like Batman/Clint Eastwood and it worked- in the books I doubt that Sapkowski necessarily had that in mind. : This is the redesigned Geralt from the W3 which is the most familar version worldwide. Henry Cavil was a big fan of the game but didn't read the books before he sought out the role. So it is evident to me that he was trying to talk like David Cockle and play fight as such and expected the character to be like the one from the game. imho Henry Cavill was still miscast. Besides the personality mismatch (and the showrunners not following the books/games anyway)- Geralt isn't a bodybuilder either..!

+ based on what I remember from the books & the Simarillion, I think they really screwed up Galadriel in Rings of Power They made her a sword-wielding girlboss in the show with anger issues. I don't think that's how Tolkien wrote her. She was more like a high official among the elves, like a Ducchess. When the party meets Galadriel in LOTR she is essentially a world-weary ancient woman who had experienced so much, and is set to retire and disappear from the realm, to follow the massive decline of the Elf race. Kate Blanchett played this perfectly imho. The Simarillion etc. are mainly notes about her in her more active years. Tolkein, who fought in WW1 as a comms officer and in the Somme, - was deeply shattered in her heart by seeing the ecological ruin of industrialization, capitalism, and also the decimation of entire generation of British men. They would experience the collapse of the British empire and see how it destroyed the spirit of Britain and a belief of a great future. I suspect that his treatment of the Elves is a bit taken from that. The poetry of TS Eliot, his contemporary, is filled also with this pathos. Basically what has happened to Britain after WW1 is happening now with the USA!

The Eataly in NYC has far more stuff than the others outside of the city. The prices are also terrible lol.

5/15 the Russian advance has slowed as Ukrainian infantry battalions from their reserves and the Donbass have saturated the area. 2. The town of Lipsty, north of Kharkiv is now being contested and is likely to fall. The city of Vovchansk looks to be a focal point as it is being contested. The Ukrainians claim that there are 4 Russian infantry battalions attacking with tanks in support. If the battle for this city takes a long time, it will be turned into ruins. 3. Ukraine seems to maintain that the attack is 'limited in scope' & 'for a buffer zone' but do not provide evidence that it will be. Overall it appears that the Russians only committed a few thousand troops or so of 31,000 in total for this direction. 4. They are now approx. 4 KM away from the first line of Ukrainian defense. The front line towns were easily taken, using infiltration tactics of individual infantry squads scattered across the front like the German Ardennes Offensive of 1944. Given the ease of taking this towns it appears that the Russians have been planning & training for this operation for a long time. The units that executed the attack are largely reservist-staffed infantry formations. 5. A possibility is that the Russians will expand the zone of control, just in front of the first line of Ukrainian trench systems and forts in their western effort. Their eastern effort could move slowly towards outflanking the Kupiansk front. 6. Putin announced that the 'new direction' is to increase military spending to 8.7% by the end of 2024, while maintaining social spending at the same level. Meanwhile the new economist-Minister of Defense will be tasked to increase efficiency of the defense expenditures. They also refuse to do a 2nd round of partial mobilization, intending to fight the war with an expeditionary force rather than a large army. 7. Putin then brought his new 'Albert Speer' to meet Emperor Xi Jinping.

@Jade Bahr Have you seen the Witcher show? I think they completely screwed it up, it is my favorite mainstream fantasy franchise with imho the most interesting masculine hero in fiction with a very good romance. I am almost done reading the books twice and know the game continuation by CDPR very well. I like it a lot more than Lord of the Rings and I think it's overall a lot better.

IIRC (I am not a Star wars reader either) Anakin's main character flaws was that he was extraordinarily arrogant and self-entitled, and also placed an infinite value on Padme, which meant that he was immensely possessive. He would rather kill 1000 innocent strangers than to lose her. He also believe that he deserved high position despite being very young and was massively angered when he was denied such an honor due to the Jedi recognizing that he was immature. The Sith Lord Palapatine knew Anakin well and manipulated his weaknesses to push him into the dark side. If Anakin was a traditional hero and did not have such serious personal issues he would have been immune to such external manipulation. A lot of this has to do with how Anakin was raised and repeatedly told by his teachers that he was the 'chosen one' , 'ultra-special', etc. This plus his very real gifts just reinforced it. So naturally he would grow up to have a distorted view of reality.

Indian food is kind of a mess to me.