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@TimPreston93673 @TheAnnaGat @antoniogm @nickmacco Right. The movie shows that it was a disaster for Ithaca to lose their king and their best men for 10 years without getting any of the spoils. When he washes back ashore, he's lost everything but his family and the love of his dog.

@cjd11 @TheAnnaGat @antoniogm @nickmacco True, although, just before getting back to Ithaca, Odysseus is loaded with valuable gifts from the Phaeacians, which are supposed to make up for having lost all his War spoils, although not for losing his men.

Watched “The Return” a modern enactment of the final, climactic book of the Odyssey. It was a pretty straight retelling (down to the touching scenes with Argos and his nursemaid, who alone recognize Odysseus). Fiennes has to be juiced to his eyeballs, and even then felt old for the role. Odysseus is supposed to be moderately weathered and over the hill, not borderline geriatric (in theory he should be in his 40s). Penelope is the same age, and their reunion comes off as a couple who had a romance in their 20s and then reunite when senior, which isn’t the recessional tone of the poem. The one memorable line comes when Penelope meets a still-disguised Odysseus and asks for news of her husband after 20 years of absence: Penelope: “Men can find the route to war, but not home.” “At some point, war becomes home,” replies the scar-covered soldier. Overall a surprisingly unruined version of one of the Great Books of the West. Surprised such films are still made.

@TimPreston93673 @TheAnnaGat @antoniogm @nickmacco That boasting is also what allows Poseidon to learn of his identity and harass Odysseus the rest of the way. It's a proudful boast with a high cost. He returns home with no spoils, the men of Ithaca are all dead, and he has to disguise himself to enter his own home.

@cjd11 @TheAnnaGat @antoniogm @nickmacco In Homer's Iliad & Odyssey, sacking of cities is usually described in less detail than other battles, as the details must have been squalid, but gaining spoils & slaves by sacking cities is still boasted about. Odysseus proudly tells the Cyclops 'I am Odysseus Sacker of Cities'.

@WrestleClips The Shockmaster helmet is redeemed!

CODY RHODES JUST PULLED OFF THE BEST ENTRANCE IN WRESTLEMANIA HISTORY. PAYING HOMAGE TO ALL HIS PREVIOUS GIMMICKS THAT LED HIM HERE. INFINITE AURA. #Wrestlemania

@StizzBVT @DarrenJohnHill @ShamsCharania Sure, but he also missed a game for suspension due to technicals. If he didnt get suspended because he has decided to devote his life to doing a Chris Paul impression with the refs, the game lost for child birth wouldnt have mattered.

@cjd11 @DarrenJohnHill @ShamsCharania Because he missed game over child birth

Just in: The NBA and NBPA have ruled in favor of Lakers' Luka Doncic and Pistons' Cade Cunningham on their Extraordinary Circumstances Challenge for the 65-game award rule, making both eligible for all 2025-26 season honors such as MVP and All-NBA teams, sources tell ESPN.

@DarrenJohnHill @ShamsCharania "Through no fault of his own" - The guy got himself suspended because of the amount of technicals he received after complaining after *every single play*. The games rule is silly, but this stuff either matters or it doesnt.

Big win for both Luka and Cade. The NBA and NBPA got this one right. Both players have been dealing with significant injuries this season, and rigidly enforcing the 65-game rule would’ve felt incredibly harsh given how much they’ve already contributed when healthy. Especially for Luka: missing the threshold through no fault of his own would’ve been brutal. Glad they created a fair exemption process for genuine extraordinary circumstances.

@ChiefGolfCat @TheStingisBack We're really missing an ultra-serious Funnel Cloud to go along with Twister. That would have completed the set.

@cjd11 @TheStingisBack Yes! Precisely. Volcano & Armageddon for me.

Volcano Wars — Thread In 1997, two volcano movies went head-to-head like rival pyroclastic flows: Dante’s Peak vs Volcano Rushed shoots, brutal budget cuts, dirty studio tricks, and total panic as both films raced to beat each other to the screen Let’s dig into the madness 1/

@ChiefGolfCat @TheStingisBack Very much a Deep Impact/Armageddon scenario. The more serious and scientific movie is the better film, but it's also less fun than the ridiculous over the top disaster flick. Volcano got way more watches in my house growing up, exactly because of how silly it is.

@TheStingisBack I’m a Volcano die-hard. I find it easier on the eye, where Peak is more cerebral, which neither film deserves to be. TLJ is just himself in it: go there, do that, hurry up, point, shout, run impatiently! The man-melting scene is always edited out, annoyingly.

@Kazeem John Cena retires, Mercedes loses all her belts, and now this.

Difference between Atlanta and Detroit slander and Boston slander is i actually like Atlanta and Detroit as a city. Now, Boston?

@Kazeem Man, Coach Van Gundy didnt attempt a single leg takedown on Zo Mourning so Knicks fans could celebrate the Heat winning.....

I watched Jimmy Butler walk yall down and I’ve watched the Knicks send you to Cancun twice in my lifetime. It keeps my sheets warm.

@AMS123183 @Kazeem Knicks fans have to build themselves up since their nemesis the Pacers are off the streets for the playoffs. This is their one chance before Haliburton returns.

@Kazeem You rapping an awful lot about another team when your team got their hands full in round one.

So when Boston blows home court again, benefit of the doubt or is it “gap year?”

@DanBFox1287 It wasnt particularly fun watching the Sox run out a AAAA lineup to get mowed down in the playoffs last year by a guy from Walpole...

Take this for example: The difference between Willson Contreras (.9 WAR) and Rafael Devers (-.5 WAR) would be the most valuable player in baseball right now Now tell me that isn’t fun

@JDerekkimbrough @DanBFox1287 The important thing is that Jordan Hicks is good.

@DanBFox1287 Bbbbbut he is the middle of the order bat that would solve all of the Red Sox current problems.

Is it petty to being enjoying Rafael Devers increasingly apparent decline? Probably? But it’s not as petty as refusing to play first base when your first baseman blows out his knee because of something that happened in the offseason

@BurialMagazine @eroscestlavie_x With the darkest sounding bell for his bike.

@eroscestlavie_x you know he loves to mountainbike…

My inability to imagine Trent Reznor doing normal stuff is akin to the way 1st graders imagine their teachers sleep at school…like what do you mean that guy has a hot wife and kids and goes grocery shopping and shit. He sleeps in his industrial cube wearing leather pants

@electromechgirl @BrndnStrssng The problem with those movies is that they have extremely great, tense, world building that then alternates with the dumbest people ever sent to space being like "maybe I should take my helmet off and stick my face in this egg." So much compelling lore was just hinted at.

@BrndnStrssng Prometheus and Covenant are such interesting evolutions on the religious and psychosexual themes at the heart of Alien and the people hated them because they wanted more stupid Cameron action schlock

Breaks my heart we never got another one of these and instead got whatever the fuck Romulus was

@UConnFanDotCom Playing that quiet long game to get a jumpstart on the squash dynasty.

@cjd11 That's what they want you to think.

There is a 102% chance that this fellow tried to look up what town UConn's in for this tweet and then accidentally googled Connecticut College.

@jupiter97531 @ElrodHoyer @realDonJunk @BillSimmons Seems like a strange thing to make your first ever tweets about. Yes, they are owned by the Tribe which is entirely intertwined in the casino. The casino also has a high debt load and has less exclusivity due to more regional casinos and online gaming.

@cjd11 @ElrodHoyer @realDonJunk @BillSimmons They were owned by a Native American tribe, not owned by a casino. The casino is one of the tribe's businesses.

Staggeringly stupid and an unapologetic money-grab that will immediately make the league worse. You can’t just frantically add new teams like fast food franchises the moment you have a little success. We have 7 decades of evidence. Build slowly and smartly. This isn’t smart.

@ElrodHoyer @realDonJunk @BillSimmons I think the problem is that they're owned by a casino business at a time when those are struggling. Sun have debt elsewhere and had a valuable asset to sell. It's a shame that the team wasnt allowed to relocate within the northeast. They took less $ to go to Houston.

@cjd11 @realDonJunk @BillSimmons I appreciate you providing this context.

@ElrodHoyer @realDonJunk @BillSimmons They're not leaving b/c of fan support, although it's not easy to follow the team. It's very weird to see families going to a Sun game and walking through a casino where you can still smoke. Moving to Hartford or Boston would have grown their profile and increased attendance more

@ElrodHoyer @realDonJunk @BillSimmons Sun were considered one of the more profitable teams. But tribe bought them for $10 million in 2003. They're selling to harvest profit at a time of increasing valuations for WNBA franchises. It was sell or try to build a new arena. Being located in the woods is part of the issue.