Ray Coover

@ghilarion02 @uscfan981 What? No. I’m a northern Illinoisan, my daughter will be going to SIU, and that’s a solid six hours

Say something nice about Illinois.

@justtheone_1 Brie has never been on Bayley’s level.

Who stands up for Bayley to sit?

@AENBitch @0FedKin It’s also used by a white supremacist gang, I forget the name offhand

@0FedKin Ok but isn’t the second down to the right from city of bones or whatever? Like it’s a sigil they use (I forget what for) or is it different and I’m remembering wrong?? They did like one movie and like two seasons of a show but I cannot remember what it was actually called

So 88 is HH and 18 is AH what does 92 (IB) stand for? Irritable bowels?

@k_seguun13 @ChampagnePuthy Emma and Storm respect each other but are definitely not besties

@ChampagnePuthy Yeah I am not really a fan of every hero becoming besties cause they are on the same team. Not saying it needs to be on front street like Green Arrow vs Hawkman but Ororo & Emma should never be Besties. Though who Emma's Female Bestie on the X-men is an interesting question

Emma and Storm are coworkers who work extremely well together when they set aside their bs but they are very pointedly not friends. Betsy and Storm are sisters who’re devoted to one another. There’s not an order Storm would give that Betsy would ignore.

@DatSkinnyboi_ @RavikDrexx @ZTZRNALSOUL @RaineyOvalle It’s actually a fair answer. Most of the hate Cyclops gets does come from readers who only know his uptight personality, and aren’t current themselves.

@RavikDrexx @RayCoover @ZTZRNALSOUL @RaineyOvalle If you are not current then don’t talk on what you don’t know, being a charlatan

Hate having to stick up for the worst character in all of comics or fiction, but they shoulda made cyclops’ optic blasts green or purple or some shit so people could stop making this tourist ass error.

@ClistonBrown And I am properly embarrassed that I forgot about that

@RayCoover Next time you drive on an interstate highway, that was Ike’s idea.

I have often been asked where I would rate certain presidents. So I sat down and reviewed the top achievements of all 43 men who served in the office for longer than six months. If they had a major scandal or failure, I dropped them a bit. Here’s how I ended up rating them: (1/)

@NakatomiHarry @RaineyOvalle Come on man…

@Gear4Four @RaineyOvalle The movies made the mistake of portraying his optic blasts as heat-based, when they should just be pure kinetic energy

@RaineyOvalle How’s it not? In the movie as a Kid he melted and cut through the roof of that school

@DatSkinnyboi_ @RavikDrexx @ZTZRNALSOUL @RaineyOvalle He *was* a goody two shoes for decades, that’s what made his fall so shocking. Best guess is that’s a reader from before Utopia

@RavikDrexx @ZTZRNALSOUL @RaineyOvalle Uptight fairs but goody 2 shoes 🤣🤣? You can’t read the comics and say this, I blame the fox movies for this

@BanditBrigand Star Trek and Doctor Who off the top. Trek because I locked in early as a Star Wars guy. Dr Who because it sucks.

Nerds what popular franchise you just not never got into?

@uscfan981 This is correct

Steve Young > Joe Montana. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@ChampagnePuthy I would respect the hell out of Scott or Emma or Hank but there’s zero chance I could live alongside any of them.

Me and Jean would be best frenemies.

@StarchyArchie49 @jgrover1533 And in a time-machine test, not a single one of them would get a starting job in today’s NFL. Namath probably wouldn’t even make a roster.

@jgrover1533 Because history separates the flashy from the productive. Jim McMahon and Joe Namath grabbed headlines but Johnny Unitas and Joe Montana stacked year after year of strong performances.

Why are all time QB rankings based on how good they actually were playing QB but current QB rankings are always based on the most physical tools? Joe Montana was never elite with arm strength, Brady and manning never had the most physical tools.

@eshanbuilds He went from being Anakin to being f*cking Yoda, didn’t he?

Hayden Christensen was 23 when Revenge of the Sith came out. He was 42 when he returned to the role in Ahsoka. For 17 of the 19 years in between, he was effectively exiled from the franchise and from Hollywood. The exile was not voluntary at first. Christensen was the focal point of the cultural backlash against the Star Wars prequels in the mid-2000s. The performances were mocked. The dialogue was mocked. The acting choices were mocked. He was 22 years old playing the most analyzed character in cinema history and the analysis decided he had failed. He kept working for a few years. Jumper in 2008. Takers in 2010. A handful of smaller films. None of them landed. By 2012, the offers were drying up and Christensen had largely stepped back from acting. He moved to a farm in Ontario. He spent years out of public view. The Hollywood narrative was that he had been broken by the prequels. Two things happened during those years that the Hollywood narrative missed. The first was the cultural reassessment of the prequels. The generation that watched them as children grew up and rewatched them as adults. What had read as wooden dialogue in 2005 started to read as deliberate stylization. The political plot, which critics had dismissed as boring senate scenes, started to read as one of the most substantively serious treatments of how democracies collapse into autocracy ever put in a blockbuster. By 2017, the prequels were being rediscovered as the most thematically ambitious Star Wars films in the franchise. The second was what Christensen was doing on the farm. He kept training. The lightsaber choreography he had learned for the prequels was technically demanding stage combat, taught to him by stunt coordinator Nick Gillard over months of rehearsal for each film. Christensen never stopped practicing it. When he came back to the choreography in 2022 for Obi-Wan Kenobi and 2023 for Ahsoka, the muscle memory was intact. He was technically better at 42 than he had been at 23, because he had spent 17 years quietly preparing for a return nobody had told him was coming. The Ahsoka scene that the fan accounts keep posting is from the episode where Anakin confronts Ahsoka in the World Between Worlds. The choreography is fast, precise, and recognizable as the same combat style Christensen used in the prequels two decades earlier. The body knows what to do. The body has been keeping the role alive while the rest of the industry was writing him off. What landed differently in the return is that Christensen at 42 has a stillness the 23-year-old version did not. The 23-year-old was performing Anakin's intensity. The 42-year-old is embodying it. The role finally fits the actor in a way it did not when he was first asked to carry it. The audience that mocked him at 23 had also grown up. The audience that watched the return at 42 had spent fifteen years missing him without realizing it. The exile turned out to be the preparation.

@MCD1592 @verysadvikings A VERY short list, and it probably comes down to what kind of window you have. If you’re picking a QB for 1 year there’s several. For 2-5 years, a handful. If you’re building a team for 8+ years? Not sure there’s anyone I’d rather roll the dice on.

@RayCoover @verysadvikings IMO, this is the only question that matters. Idc what his advanced stats say, I care about what I see every Sunday. It’s a short list of guys you’d take ahead of him. The rest is a moot point.

Not even divisional hating but it’s Caleb Williams. He was statistically one of the most inaccurate QBs in the NFL last year and was in the bottom half of starters in most efficiency metrics. Highlight watchers pushed him into Top 10 talks and he just isn’t that guy yet!

@ChampagnePuthy This is my fear though 😔

Why’re yall saying storm?

@ThtWr3stlingFan @myworldr0x “Can be” and “should be” is really the issue though isn’t it?

@myworldr0x I don’t agree with this type of behavior but one thing I’ll correct yall on is, it’s a public space so anyone can be filmed without consent

This video genuinely made me uncomfortable, and in my opinion this kind of behavior should not be normalized. I know some paparazzi make a living from this, but there is a big difference between taking a quick picture at the airport and constantly recording someone’s every move without their consent. Please do not be this kind of person, and let’s learn to respect the private lives of the people we admire 🙄

@MCD1592 @verysadvikings Easily, and without question #1 in the division. He’s got some mechanical and decision making flaws, but everything he lacks is coachable. Plus he has intangibles that can’t be coached.

@verysadvikings If you were starting a team tomorrow for the future, salary cap doesn’t exist. Would Caleb be a top 10 guy you take?

@ScottKacsmar Replace “Elway” with “Favre” and nearly everything you just said remains true.

The John Elway PR is a perfect storm: • Highly-touted NCAA QB people expected and wanted to be great • Highlight-reel QB but inconsistent on accuracy/decisions • Bad play was overlooked because GWDs make better highlight packages • Lack of statistical analysis for QBs in his era hid flaws • The Broncos fabricated his clutch success relative to other top QBs to create a false narrative as the NFL's comeback king • Took advantage of a weak AFC in the 80s, especially Martyball teams in crunch time • Crushed in the SB 3x, so people figured it was his team instead of him throwing the game away • Won at the end with much better stats on a truly stacked team, which helps people say he always had it in him • Even in his first SB win, he played like crap, but one helicopter twirl highlight gets immortalized while Terrell Davis and the defense that stopped the 3x MVP were the real heroes • Hollywood ending to win SB MVP in your last game He's the #1 case in NFL history of a QB where people willingly ignore the huge volume of bad plays/games/seasons and focus squarely on the best moments of his career. Things would be a lot different if we gave other QBs the same grace.