Please elaborate. (I know nothing about this player, so I'm looking for some insight.)

Because we always assumed that the people who would drag us there were clever masterminds playing 5D chess.

That one's on us, I suppose.

Hook it to my fucking veins. Sorry that I didn't get to help out on this.

A Lord of the Rings cover band called The Beren and Lúthien Chain.

Me: Oh, I've heard some good covers of that song in different styles. I bet she might enjoy some of them.

Also me: Spends twenty minutes listening to different versions of a Disney song from the '90s until I can't remember why I started.

Testify!

*sigh*
Thanks for the follow-up.

Any idea who got the yellow in the tunnel?

Hopefully it means that they work him easy and evaluate his fit with the group more than his skill on the ball. He wouldn't be there if they hadn't seen that already.

I know you've got thoughts on this, Tom, so let us have 'em. Why did Seattle pull all nine points in this stage and no one else? What did they do differently? There's an inherent advantage in playing every game at home, but is that and depth really the explanation?

So, if I'm reading this right, and I like to think I am, that graph shows transactions doubling from 20/21 to 22/23 and again from 22/23 to 24/25. (Short by less than $20 mil, which is still 33% of the TOTAL spent in 20/21.) Indeed, it nearly doubled over last year alone. That is insane growth.

I thought I had missed the cub because I'd cleared out the region where you're supposed to find it. Then it approached me during the night. I accidentally scared it off, but I suspect it will return. What the hell it's doing in the Underdark alone, I've no idea.

Only time (and, possibly, a slightly less...adventurous flavor profile) can heal those wounds. Thoughts and prayers.