Aaron.

I’ve been doing a rewatch of this for the first time, I do find with binge rewatching I do tend to enjoy the series a lot more. TBBT was far from being my favourite sitcom and this hasn’t changed much on my first rewatch. I’m mid way thru Season 10 so I’ve already wrapped up the decent seasons, although I must say the first half of Season 9 was very good. Coming into the season I had Bernadette, Sheldon, Penny and Leonard as my top, however I completely overlooked Howard in my first watch. Borderline racist and there are so many jokes in the early season that would never make it to air now, however, some juggernaut storylines for Howard. First to get married, the loss of his Mother ect.

The Block Australia: I didn't watch last season, I didn't watch this season, but I will never miss a Block auction. Seems like I wasn't missing out on much, drama central. Even them trying to pick the Auction order was painful, it took almost half an hour! The Auction itself was worth it, as it always is. Some fantastic results, some really great looking properties. Kristian & Mimi, Ricky & Haydn and Maddy & Charlotte really stood out. Impressive result, winners took home $1.65M until you find out it was just one buyer for all five properties. What happened to this show?!

Dubai “on pause” aka cancelled by Bravo.

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I had fundamental issues with both All-Stars seasons. They both would end up in my bottom quarter, but they weren't the worst seasons ever. But they definitely were not great :lol: I recently re-watched Season 22 again. It was just unfortunate the 'wrong side' was winning every week. Janelle, Kaysar and Da'Vonne were all very close to winning HOHs in the early part of the season, had they won something I think the season could have turned out a lot differently. But yes, pregaming destroyed that season and the decisions they made to cut or put in the house was very questionable. Any Big Brother fan would have taken Dan over Cody any day. I think they did the best they could with the cards they were dealt. Some of the casting was sublime, the rest was just god awful. Replacing Christmas for the ladies and, unfortunately, most of the Men would have fixed this season. They really needed to do a better job of balancing out Old School Players, New School Players and Winners. They never really had a lens on what the Audience wanted (Janelle and Kaysar to at least make Jury) and built a cast around that... which was odd because they definitely did that for Season 7 :lol: I was watching an interview Ivette did recently and she made it quite far for Season 22 in the casting phase, but was dropped due to “problematic tweets”. I think they could have been over sensitive at the time giving the climate. I’ll never say Big Brother is “woke” casting but they were definitely cognizant of who they were putting in.

@1853461350581682389 I’m surprised they didn’t try giving this another shot this year, I really liked the first season!

I'm trying to complete the "Step-Up Battle" (14/14) however I've opened up about a dozen Booster Packs and have one Fire Pokemon Card. Annoying!

"Experience the fun of collecting Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) cards with Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, an upcoming game for iOS and Android devices from Creatures Inc., the original developers of the Pokémon TCG, and DeNA Co., Ltd. In this game, you will be able to open two booster packs every day at no cost. You can collect digital cards featuring nostalgic artwork from the past as well as brand-new cards that are exclusive to Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket." - https://tcgpocket.pokemon.com/en-us/ This game is not a replacement however for Pokemon Trading Card Game Online which has been around for years. I've really only done the tutorials so far, the gameplay is somewhat similar to TCG Online. There are some decent QoL enhancements like not having to bloat your deck with Energy, it looks like it automatically generates 1 Energy per turn. Lengthy handheld tutorials, I haven't actually finished them. Great if you have no knowledge of how Pokemon TCG works. Very taxing if you already know the mechanics. I'm not quite sure who the ideal market is here. Perhaps individuals that just got frustrated with the original TCG Online? I played this for years when it first came out. My favourite card of all time was Unleashed Roserade with Power Blow (Does 20 Damage times the amount of Energy attached to Roserade) gosh, this card came out in 2010. Unfortunately when they started releasing EX Pokemon Cards I tapped out.

@1851507809763906002 Apparently Luke was cast on another RTV show.

I’ll be buying at least four copies of the Teen Spirit vinyl when it comes out, but if they’re going for 25 years that wouldn’t be until February 2026. Teen Spirit was the first album I ever bought, while I was doing their website development and Admin for their forums. It was a glorious time!

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@1851270454108922251 I mean, they revived Jankie for a reason :lol: Great decision if they bring this twist back next year, it just worked so well this season.

Salt Lake City. My word. It's just so good. Britani: is the woman of a thousand looks. Every time I see her, she looks different. She gave such a strong Friend performance. Apparently, she was Full-Time until she fumbled the rest of the season. I love the mess. Bronwyn: I'm so impressed. Fashion. She can call these women out. So honest with her storyline I really like her. Angie: Center snowflake, like Sutton she did the transition from Friend to Full Time flawlessly. I'm an Angie K stan. Whitney: I can't stand her most of the time but at least she's standing up for herself now. Whitney Drew and her Clues. Sublime. Meredith: Man she was out like a light at that last event. She's in the best position this season being able to ride the middle of these two sides but she's fumbling big time. She will be a Friend soon if she doesn't pick up her socks. Heather: Everytime I get close to liking Heather she does something that bothers me and puts her right back in the dislike pile and right now I really don't like Heather. Mary: I'm so happy that Bravo finally found a way to edit Mary and make her Full-Time and likeable. I adore her relationship with Angie and Bronwyn and I'm interested to see how her and Meredith went sideways?! Lisa: She was my favorite Housewife on this franchise up until a few seasons ago. It's just rinse and repeat with her. But I am interested to see if she's about to expose herself exposing Whitney and the ALI BAH BAH situation. The first episode and episode 6 were both 10/10. No notes. They really fumbled the last Jen Shah season, I was ready to give up on SLC. But dare I say, this is one of the best shows on tv right now. Mary, Angie, Bronwyn > Lisa, Heather, Whitney

I’m out. Someone please send me a DM when this is back on C4/C5. Big Brother is one of my favourite shows and although ITV did okay last year there isn’t any way to come back from this.

Last nights episode was great, that tribal ate AND Rome went home :cheer: I really wish they’d just give us the regular path to Jury back stop with all the twists! I really do like most everyone left, I don’t have a firm favourite but I'm throwing support behind Genevieve, Andy, Sue and Teeny. I really thought Sue would be out early but I’m so happy she made Merge! Sam feels like an old school Survivor player, it’s been a while since we’ve had a white male get so much airtime honestly.

@1849088645694648638 Danielle Reyes and Karine have found each other on Twitter. We 10000% need a Global Traitors Season. All episodes are on Dailymotion as well if you need a link let me know!

I can see an Ali win if she makes it to the final. I’d say her chances are pretty mixed, with a few Doubles upcoming her only hope is Save and Replace. I’m actually worried for the next few evictions, if things keep going the way they are, our finalists will be a mix of Dean, Emma, Thomas, Sarah, Segun and Martha :rolleyes: If Izaaz goes this week I can easily see a Ali/Marcello eviction next week.

This season is absolute fire! Episode 5 and the Traitors Conclave. WOW. Need episode 6 right now :(

I was kinda hoping they’d keep the Era’s format going for a few more weeks, I have no doubt Rachel could have pulled out a few more solo wins. Happy with Kaycee’s elimination she’s so boring and brings nothing but ego every season. Bye! Devin I always go back and forth on but I miss when everyone hated him and he was actually rootable. Now that he has friends and numbers I don’t like him :lol:

I had a chance to play Mario Party Jamboree over the weekend! My friends and I did two boards the first night: Wiggler's Tea Party and Roll 'Em Raceway. I lost both games. Badly :lol: I did some longer 30-round online games over the weekend as well, so tried Goomba Lagoon and Rainbow Galleria - I actually won both (one, just barely) Excited to try the other boards but I've needed to take a break - my thumb is KILLING me. I was getting every Boo sent my way to take my coins. I honestly have the worst luck but this first weekend was a lot of fun!

I'm oddly conflicted. Want: I was thinking I wanted Marcello gone, but I'm really struggling with this season. I think we need to keep a few bigger names around a bit longer so I actually voted for Izaaz. Marcello will self sabotage and I hope it leads to a huge eviction for him. But I for whatever reason just don't see it in the cards this week. Think: This is tough for me to answer - I see everyone voting for Nathan or Khalid. I see Izaaz leading all the polls. Going into this week I really thought Marcello would be the frontrunner to leave. I think Nathan will hog airtime for the rest of this week resulting in his eviction, so I voted for Nathan. Who Do You Think Should Have Been Up: I voted for Marcello, Nathan, Segun and Thomas.

I retract everything nice I said about Ali. Last week was rough watching her with Khalid, he seems relatively harmless, I'm not sure why she has it in for him so hard. It was unbelievably cringe. She's lucky she took a backseat the latter part of last week because if she kept going on the way she was I think she would have been toast. I'm an episode behind but based on what I've seen on Twitter she's activated herself once again. Everyone on my timeline seems utterly divided by Ali. I'm feeling the same really.. this season really just isn't hitting for me honestly.

@1848437656600121565 Actually that’s a great point, I only saw Aaryn’s name start popping up on Social Media when Brooklyn was announced as a houseguest. She’s still going on, and she actually reposted on her TikTok the segment in the Jury House where she apologized to Helen and Candace. She’s still so full of shit after all of these years.

Aaryn getting cancelled again in 2024 is hilarious. I don’t know how to embed TikTok videos but go check out @soogia1 on TikTok. Soogia is a TikToker with 2.3 million followers and is known to speak up about racism. Aaryn was dead silent until this season on Social Media, don’t know why she popped up her head but clearly we aren’t allowing it.

Want: Ali Think: Ali She was a firm favourite for me until the last 2-3 episodes. Too judgemental and activated herself a few weeks early. Her opinions aren’t wrong, but JFC give us a second to get there on our own :rolleyes: