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Well, I'd argue you can't be a good person if you have mind control. I can't think of a single friend I would trust with it. It's just too tempting and having it from a young age where you don't have the self control of an adult just starts chipping at any arguments you might have not to use it before those arguments develop. She is definitely a villain despite having some sympathetic value because of circumstances.
What makes Allison a really nasty piece of work is that everybody else in her family tried to do something to turn into decent human beings when they escaped the Academy. Even Luther was a decent guy despite being isolated and imprisoned for a long, long time. But Allison went off and became a big-shot actor (presumably completely under her own steam, seeing as she couldn't just mind control everybody into thinking she was great) but when things turned hard for her, she started using the mind control. And she got caught and there were legal ramifications, some of which included very very reasonable things like keeping her away from her daughter and getting therapy. And it was working for her! She did some major self-examination, tried to reconnect with her family, expressed regret for what she had done, and so on.
But when the chips were down and there wasn't a big social framework, she simply chose to be an outright villain and her power was irrelevant to it. She simply wanted everything regardless of the cost. She used her power on herself like a narcotic, abusing it to remove any vestiges of doubt or self-criticism, but the real damage she did was from being considered within the group and that's where she worked the worst of her damage. Ultimately her power helped her at being a nasty piece of work, but that wasn't the cause. Which makes her even worse in my mind, as there was nothing keeping her from choosing another path except her selfish outlook.
The part that sucks is that in season 2 it appeared she’d kinda turned the corner; she tried to atone for some of her worst excesses and resolved generally to not even use her power anymore. In season 3 the loss of her daughter leads her to ‘relapse,’ but she also does a bunch of unrelated reprehensible stuff.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
The Kraken announced another first for their AHL team, the first full time assistant coach in the AHL, in Jessica Campbell who worked with a dozen NHLs for skating training during the covid season then was an assistant coach in the German DEL league last year
And the Maple Leafs have promoted Hayley Wickenheiser for an assistant GM position, previously their director of Player management, marking just the 4th time in NHL history for that position, as well.
And I guess the draft is... In 2 days?!?
Which is probably why seeing how far she falls in S3 is so infuriating. She was taking on a hard role in a hard time as just Allison, not as a member of the Umbrella Academy, and taking hits well beyond the limits of what I would have ever tolerated.
What bothered me a lot about her fall, and like, I know the Umbrella Academy are all lovable idiots, but obviously she's still not married with the same child if her life has so drastically changed, and not even 5, veteran time traveler, thinks to warn her before she goes and breaks into her non-husbands home. And she kept saying her plan to see her kid, like, enough times that even Kraus should've caught on, but no. No one does!
and s2/3 are weird and not the same lol
Really curious to see what Kuemper ends up costing someone (looking at you, Edmonton and/or Toronto).
Also you deploy Saileach for the flexibility of her s2/s3, which are actually not super great for dp gen
Elysium is deployed for s2 utility + sniper buffing or being second fiddle to Myrtle for dp gen
Myrtle is still queen of raw output
Hockey news is hard to follow without twitter
There's been CC maps with heavy -DP gen where I've used all three at once even. I use Saileach primarily for her S3 (which only generates 10 DP) because of the Stun/Slow/Fragile, Elysium for his S2 -Def debuff & Sniper synergy, Myrtle when I just need a fuckin' DP Battery. And I pair them together and mix and match depending on what I need.
And hell there's maps that are slow enough that aren't CC or Annihilation where you don't even need Myrtle. I'll pair up Saileach/Elysium with Bagpipe and a 2-block Vanguard (e.g. Flametail) because the waves are slow and I don't need my heavy hitters right away.
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They're going full rebuild and if you assume 5 years before they're ready to win again DeBrincat will be pushing 30, and probably wanting $12+ million for a contract.
This is a case where it does make sense based on the likely timeline.
Also, were at the end of the crosby/malkin/letang window, probably, no one really cares about year 5 of the deal, except maybe the guy that gets hired as GM after hextall
Edit: plus they can just follow Toronto/Lupul/Robidas lead and put him on LTIR island, cite his stroke he had 10 years ago or whatever. The pens aren't a budget team, they can eat some non-cap salary no problen
http://www.nhltradetracker.com/user/trade_list_by_GM/Stan_Bowman/133
Stan Bowman fucked up bigtime last season with the Seth Jones trade. Now, he's unemployed.
Saad for half a season of Zadorov, then Zadarov for a 3rd round pick is another hell of a fuck up, from that list
But I think he lost his job because of the sexual abuse cover up thing, too? Or did that come out after he was gone
Huh. Slovakia coming up!
I don't hate it -- Beniers and Wright, Seattle could be ok in a couple of years
And SJ getting more picks, I don't hate that idea. If I'm Grier, every trade has an ask for an extra pick. Not the most exciting move, but probably pretty smart.
My man Sexy Hexy is past losing his hair, he's getting to the point I was at when I was 24.
Getting the Trimmed Medal for BI-EX-2 was really fun, haha. I more or less did it with only 5 Operators (Vanguards excluded) and the bulk of it was Weedy/Robin. I just had A Medic and A Sniper to take care of the drones, but said Medic/Sniper didn't matter. And like one FEater activation I think.
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Allison fell way hard, like crazy hard. I get that she's gone through a lot of shit, but trying to rape Luther and continuing to back papa Hargreeves after knowing he killed Luther and (very likely, but I forget if he copped to it) Klaus was seriously evil. There was also about zero reason for Viktor to let Allison press the button at the end. Allison asks if he trusts her and at that point the only sane answer is 'fuck off', the story had burned too many bridges between them and done nothing to build up anything to replace them.
Five was excellent as always, and the rest of the crew were pretty much on point. Luther seemed dumber than in past seasons. He's never been the brains, but he seemed extra derpy this time around.
WTF was up with the Sparrows, the original Umbrellas and Hargreeves' seemingly master plan to reset the universe to get his wife back? Hargreeves seemed to know at least the basics of how the reset worked back when he built the hotel. Seven sigils with three guardians. So he needed seven of the... whatever you call them, gold speck powered superhero people to power it, and to off the guardians, but why did he only ever adopt seven children? Sure, you don't want an eighth hanging out watching as you drain the life out of their siblings, but the way he ran it meant that there could be no screwups and it was straight luck of the draw as to what powers he got. Plus, as much as Hargreeves is a bastard, I'd have to think that even he would have understood that the Sparrows wouldn't have been able to successfully complete Operation Oblivion (or whatever) without casualties, and one casualty means the mission is a failure. Blob guy's power specifically depends on him being hit. Good luck with that one. And while the lady with the crows would be useful for scouting, the one with the hallucinogenic spit wouldn't be able to contribute at all. When Pogo quit/got fired in protest over the plan to send them to Oblivion he really wasn't kidding when he said it was a suicide mission.
I kind of liked and/or thought it was weird that the show kind of glossed over the fact that the universe was created by someone who left behind a terminal with a remarkably intuitive GUI in case someone wanted to tweak anything. Like, a lot was made of the fact that there was an emergency reset switch, that's weird, but relatively simple I guess; but then the terminal pops up it's just kind of casually mentioned that this is actually admin rights to a universe scale GECK with a remarkably intuitive interface. And the portal is on Earth, but 50 feet in the air, with incredibly lethal guardians but they don't show up unless you ring the bell and the activation points are just hanging out in the middle of the lobby. Dunno, at some point it crossed the weird and quirky event horizon for me.
It did sort of seem as though they're not sure if they're getting a fourth season. The conclusion is a weird combination of mostly wrapped up but there are some loose threads that can be pulled.
I almost wanna say I tried him but it was awhile ago so I don't remember. I know ultimately the problem was stuff was not dying fast enough and things were leaking through. It might also be my Pallas was too low level.
You're required to hit a minimum level to get the module, so unless you were under that, you were probably fine there.
Yeah, then I dunno :P (I forget what level he is but I know it's at least e2 60+) I was trying to actually not look up stuff for a change at the time so I'm sure I was just doing something dumb.