1. THE CONTEXT: The 2023 Academy Awards were a big night for Irish actors, largely due to the critical success of The Banshees of Inisherin. A quarter of the acting nominees were Irish.
2. THE SKETCH: In 2015, the "Democratic Debate Cold Open" sketch had several of SNL's most iconic political impersonations, such as Kate McKinnon as former first lady Hillary Clinton and Larry David as Sen. Bernie Sanders. Jon Rudnitsky played Anderson Cooper.
3. THE SKETCH: When Ariana Grande hosted SNL in 2016, she played a Tidal intern who impersonated several famous singers to save the streaming service during a glitch. She started by singing a rendition of "...Baby One More Time" in her "best Britney Spears voice."
4. THE CONTEXT: Earlier in her career, Jennifer Lawrence was praised for being "relatable" and seemingly "normal" compared to other celebrities. However, this "cool girl" persona later became something she was mocked for.
5. THE CONTEXT: Big Cat Rescue owner Carole Baskin criticized Netflix's hit docuseries Tiger King, which she said was originally pitched to her as an exposé on the exploitation and abuse of big cats in zoos. On her sanctuary's website, she wrote, "There are not words for how disappointing it is to see that the docuseries not only does not do any of that, but has had the sole goal of being as salacious and sensational as possible to draw viewers."
6. THE CONTEXT: David A. Paterson was governor of New York from 2008–2010. He is legally blind, and, according to the New York Times, he was "well-known for making light of his vision problems" while in office.
7. THE SKETCH: Similarly, in a 2018 "Weekend Update" bit, Pete Davidson mocked Dan Crenshaw, a congressman-elect who wears an eyepatch, as one of the "really gross people running for office this year."
8. THE SKETCH: A 2014 Fox and Friends parody mocked the way the show discussed climate change and Obamacare. Cosmos host Neil deGrasse Tyson, played by Kenan Thompson, appeared as a guest and tried to convince the hosts that climate change is real.
9. THE SKETCH: During SNL's inaugural 1976 season, Gilda Radner did an exaggerated impression of Barbara Walters called "Barbara Wawa." She spoke in an Elmer Fudd–like voice.
10. THE SKETCH: In a 2021 "Weekend Update," Bowen Yang and Kyle Mooney portrayed Pretend It's a City costars Fran Lebowitz and Martin Scorsese.
11. THE SKETCH: In a series of 2009 Today parodies, Kristen Wiig donned a blonde wig to play host Kathie Lee Gifford. She portrayed her as ditzy and cringey.
12. THE SKETCH: When Jennifer Lopez hosted SNL in 2019, Melissa Villaseñor pitched an idea for a sketch where she did her J.Lo impression. She told AV Club, "I was telling her, 'Oh, maybe I can imitate you in a sketch. You know, I could walk around your house and pretend I'm like J.Lo and be like, 'My favorite color's blue.'"
13. THE SKETCH: During her tenure on SNL, Maya Rudolph played Donatella Versace as a recurring character.
14. And finally, THE CONTEXT: Former SNL cast member Pete Davidson and Machine Gun Kelly are good friends.

Link to article

Some new items and reduced prices and shipping.
Hi mangaswappers! I’m selling parts of my collection, both OOP series and some duplicate volumes. Not splitting any sets at the moment, prices can be negotiated when buying in bulk.
Shipping to EU countries now included in the price for sets. Might be slightly less or more depending on exact location. Prices do include Paypal G&S fee. Timestamp is provided in the pictures.
Sets

Series	Pictures	Condition	Price	Comments
Battle Royale 1-15	https://imgur.com/a/iNOIYhK	G3-G4	€270	certain volumes show sun damage and yellowing due to age
Btooom! 1-9	https://imgur.com/a/e4iuVei	G4	€170	/
Btooom! 1-12	https://imgur.com/a/nAmafPz	G3-G4	€250	earlier volumes show more yellowing
Freezing 1-26	https://imgur.com/a/xfwjgGb	G4-G5	€720	/
Fullmetal Alchemist FE 1-18	https://imgur.com/a/5criTmc	G4-G5	€300	slight damage on the spine of vol. 2
Gantz 1-12	https://imgur.com/a/u62gQ8L	G3-G4	€360	vol. 7 is slightly damaged on the spine
Kill la Kill 1-3	https://imgur.com/a/KnnbqVq	G4	€160	/
Knights of the Zodiac 11, 22-28	https://imgur.com/a/OnNs2wy	G3-G4	€200	vol 23 is ex-library
Magi 1-26	https://imgur.com/a/DdjY0d4	G4-G5	€340	read once
Monster 1-7	https://imgur.com/a/YhVN4Pt	G4-G5	€150	/
Psyren 1-16	https://imgur.com/a/m6Nlid4	G4-G5	€340	/
Shaman King singles 3-9	https://imgur.com/a/bzlDbN6	G3-G4	€50	/
Shaman King omnis 1-9	https://imgur.com/a/IIBiiIA	G4-G5	€170	/
Summer time rendering 3-6	https://imgur.com/a/eiEQYTL	G5	€125	like new, never read
Tenjo Tenge 1-11	https://imgur.com/a/1ODffjT	G3-4	€330	/
Toriko 6-7	https://imgur.com/a/NafTwvS	G4	€25	/
Toriko 1-11, 15	https://imgur.com/a/Dq3STsA	G4	€220	/
Ultimo 1-4, 8	https://imgur.com/a/9QsITD0	G4	€60	vol. 8 is missing the viz media logo on the spine, printing error?
Ultimo 1-9, 11	https://imgur.com/a/oqPWMzq	G4	€260	/
Yowamushi Pedal 5-6	https://imgur.com/a/wuQUMDt	G4	€130	/
Seven Deadly Sins Box Set 1-2	https://imgur.com/a/GSUbsWk	G4-G5	€80	never read

Single volumes

Series	Pictures	Condition	Price	Comments
Astro Boy 2, 3	https://imgur.com/a/cG51Vj1	G4	€15/piece	/
Baccano! 7	https://imgur.com/a/OsLdWCn	G4-5	€35	never read
Black Clover 1, 2	https://imgur.com/a/1hTGJCd	G4	€6/piece	/
Mashle 1	https://imgur.com/a/1hTGJCd	G4-G5	€6	never read
Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest 2, 3, 5	https://imgur.com/a/1hTGJCd	G4	€6/piece	/
Rave Master 33/34/35	https://imgur.com/a/W5kpB4t	G4	€250	Ex-library copy, but in overall great condition
Solo Leveling 1-2	https://imgur.com/a/5IJ6dO2	G4-G5	€10/piece	read once
The Elusive Samurai 2	https://imgur.com/a/77j2U42	G4	€6	never read
Beastars 1-2	https://imgur.com/a/nwSidaT	G4	€8/piece	/
Pluto 7	https://imgur.com/a/nwSidaT	G4	€8	/
Fruits Basket 1	https://imgur.com/a/nwSidaT	G3	€8	/

Genre: House, Dance / Electro Pop, Tech House, Deep House, Minimal / Deep Tech, Afro House, Melodic House & Techno Release Date: 2023-03-13
DOWNLOAD in 320kbps here: https://sharing-db.club/djs-chart/426467_green-velvet-lalaland-miami-2023-chart/
Tracklist: 1. Green Velvet, Chris Lake – Deceiver (VIP) (Extended Mix) (6:28) 2. Floorplan – We Give Thee Honor (Extended Mix) (5:41) 3. Green Velvet, Mihalis Safras – DEEPFAKE (Original Mix) (5:13) 4. Cajmere, Dajaé, Marco Lys – Brighter Days (Marco Lys Remix) (6:22) 5. Prok & Fitch – Hip Slide (Original Mix) (5:27) 6. Dillon Marinez – Mamita (Original Mix) (6:30) 7. Franco (AR) – Back to the Old School (Original Mix) (4:34) 8. Catz ‘n Dogz – Shine (Original Mix) (6:32) 9. Green Velvet, Mr Joe – Wild West (Original Mix) (6:01) 10. Walker & Royce – Feel The Vibe (Original Mix) (5:18) 11. Robot Needs Oil – Coco the Cat (Junior Gee Remix) (6:52) 12. Paul Najera, Jr, Quijada – Trippy Games (Original Mix) (7:07) 13. Mr Joe – Ghost City (Original Mix) (6:09) 14. Franco Musachi, Constanza Pucheta – Abyss (Original Mix) (6:07) 15. Camea, Saskia Krause – Feel You (Will Clarke Remix) (5:52) 16. Prok & Fitch – Testimony (Original Mix) (6:41) 17. Shermanology – Souljack (Original Mix) (6:25) 18. Dom Dolla – San Frandisco (Walker & Royce Extended Remix) (6:23) 19. Westend, John Summit – Detonate (Original Mix) (5:36) 20. Green Velvet, Jaden Bojsen – La La Land (Jaden Bojsen Remix) (3:42)

March 22, 2023
Edible Garden Reports 10% Revenue Growth for 2022
Achieves Third Consecutive Quarter of Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth
Reports Strong Execution and Projects Turning Cash Flow Positive in 2023
BELVIDERE, N.J., March 22, 2023 — Edible Garden AG Incorporated (“Edible Garden” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: EDBL, EDBLW), a leader in controlled environment agriculture (CEA), locally grown, organic and sustainable produce and products, today provided a business update and reported financial results for the three month and full year periods ended December 31, 2022.
Mr. Jim Kras, Chief Executive Officer of Edible Garden, commented, “We are pleased to report that for the third consecutive quarter, since last year’s IPO, we achieved year-over-year growth in top-line revenue. We believe we have prudently deployed our capital, which has resulted in continued momentum and growth of the Edible Garden brand.”
“During a point in time when many businesses are struggling, we continue to expand our market penetration, perform consistently, and have kept our pricing relatively stable during a period of rapid inflation. Moreover, we expect to see an increase in margins once our Heartland Midwest facility is fully operational. Based on our current trajectory, we believe Edible Garden will turn cash flow positive later this year.”
“The Company continues to build out our nationwide distribution network by adding retail partners across the Northeast, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeastern regions of the country. Additionally, we are diversifying our product offerings to include what we expect will be higher-margin products and new product categories. Furthermore, Edible Garden’s Zero-Waste Inspired® mission continues to resonate well with environmentally conscious consumers, as well as our retail distribution partners, resulting in a growing demand for our products.”
“Our achievements in the fourth quarter included the introduction of three new salad kits featuring locally grown, sustainable, cut lettuce, along with all the ingredients required to make a complete salad. Additionally, we acquired the Pulp® line of all-natural, Non-GMO, preservative-free, sustainable gourmet sauces and chili-based products, which will be available at Whole Foods Market’s Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern retail locations in the summer of 2023. These fermented sauces are located in the refrigerated section of the supermarket, typically adjacent to the produce section, allowing us to leverage Edible Garden’s growing brand recognition within this new category of products. This is an important step forward for the Edible Garden brand, allowing us to offer what we believe will be higher-margin products, with an extended shelf life. It also provides us with the opportunity for a further expansion of our distribution network with the addition of Whole Foods Market. Moreover, we added Morton Williams Supermarkets to our robust distribution network in the Northeast, which has begun carrying Edible Garden’s produce and products in all of their locations in the New York Metropolitan area. In addition, we deepened our penetration with Gristedes and D’Agostino supermarkets, and significantly expanded our product placement within their combined locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Westchester.”
“Importantly, we are committed to leveraging the latest technologies to advance our strategy of increasing yields and maximizing the nutritional value of locally grown produce. The Company recently entered into a research partnership with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the USDA, and the EPA, studying the impacts of nanobubble technology in a CEA environment. This EPA-funded partnership has the potential to revolutionize the industry, providing more nutritious plants with longer shelf lives, which could greatly benefit Edible Garden’s entire product line.”
Financial results for the three months ended December 31, 2022
For the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2022, revenue totaled $3.1 million, an increase of 9.9%, compared to $2.8 million for the three months ended December 31, 2021. The increase was driven by increased demand from the existing customer base.
Cost of goods sold was $3.0 million for the three months ended December 31, 2022, compared to $2.8 million for the three months ended December 31, 2021. The increase was the result of higher packaging costs due to inflation, higher labor costs due to the tight labor market, and increases in rates charged by contract farmers.
Selling, general and administrative expenses were $3.1 million for the three months ended December 31, 2022, compared to $1.7 million for the three months ended December 31, 2021. The increase was primarily driven by higher payroll and compensation expense, as well as other public company expenses that were not incurred in 2021.
Net loss was $3.0 million, or ($9.13) per share, for the three months ended December 31, 2022, compared to a net loss of $2.0 million, or ($12.76) per share, for the three months ended December 31, 2021.
Financial results for the year ended December 31, 2022
For the year ended December 31, 2022, revenue totaled $11.6 million, an increase of 9.9%, compared to $10.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. The increase was driven by higher demand from the existing customer base.
Cost of goods sold was $11.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, compared to $9.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. The increase was the result of higher packaging costs due to inflation, higher labor costs due to the tight labor market, and higher costs charged by contract farmers.
Selling, general and administrative expenses were $9.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, compared to $5.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. The increase was primarily driven by higher payroll and compensation expense, which included one-time expenses related to the completion of the Company’s IPO, as well as other public company expenses that were not incurred in 2021.
Net loss was $12.5 million, or ($48.68) per share, for the year ended December 31, 2022, compared to a net loss of $5.5 million, or ($39.28) per share, for the year ended December 31, 2021. Per share amounts have been adjusted to reflect all stock splits.
The complete financial results for the year ended December 31, 2022, are available in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available at: www.sec.gov.
Conference Call
Edible Garden will host a conference call today at 11:00 A.M. Eastern Time to discuss the Company’s financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2022, as well as the Company’s corporate progress and other developments.
The conference call will be available via telephone by dialing toll-free 888-506-0062 for U.S. callers or +1 973-528-0011 for international callers and using entry code: 396260. A webcast of the call may be accessed at https://www.webcaster4.com/Webcast/Page/2914/47876 or on the investor relations section of the Company’s website at https://ediblegardenag.com/presentations.
A webcast replay will also be available on the Company’s Investors section of the website at https://ediblegardenag.com/presentations through March 22, 2024. A telephone replay of the call will be available approximately one hour following the call, through Wednesday, April 5, 2023, and can be accessed by dialing 877-481-4010 for U.S. callers or +1 919-882-2331 for international callers and entering conference ID: 47876.
ABOUT EDIBLE GARDEN®
Edible Garden AG Incorporated is a leader in locally grown organic leafy greens and herbs backed by Zero-Waste Inspired® next-generation farming. Offered at over 4,000 stores in the US, Edible Garden is disrupting the CEA and sustainability technology movement with its safety-in-farming protocols, use of sustainable packaging, patented GreenThumb software, and self-watering in-store displays. The Company currently operates its own state-of-the-art greenhouses and processing facilities in Belvidere, New Jersey, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has a network of contract growers, all strategically located near major markets in the U.S. Its proprietary GreenThumb software optimizes growing in vertical and traditional greenhouses while seeking to reduce pollution-generating food miles. Edible Garden is also a developer of ingredients and proteins, providing an accessible line of plant and whey protein powders under the Vitamin Way® and Vitamin Whey® brands. In addition, the Company offers a line of sustainable food flavoring products such as Pulp gourmet sauces and chili-based products. For more information on Edible Garden go to https://ediblegardenag.com/.
Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements, including with respect to the Company’s ability to improve its financial results, the Company’s growth strategies, the Company’s ability to integrate acquisitions, including by expanding into new product lines, and its performance as a public company. The words “believe,” “could,” “expect,” “objective,” “opportunity,” “potential,” “project,” “seek,” “strategy,” “will,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, including market and other conditions and the Company’s ability to achieve its growth objectives. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date hereof to conform to actual results or changes in expectations, except as required by law.
Investor Contacts: Crescendo Communications, LLC 212-671-1020 [email protected]
(tables follow)
EDIBLE GARDEN AG INCORPORATED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (in thousands, except shares)
December 31, December 31, 2022 2021 ASSETS Current assets: Cash $ 110 $ 31 Accounts receivable, net 1,105 767 Inventory, net 586 360 Prepaid expenses and other current assets 62 33 Total current assets 1,863 1,191 Property, equipment and leasehold improvements, net 4,891 2,573 Intangible assets, net 50 – Other assets 161 226 TOTAL ASSETS $ 6,965 $ 3,990 LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT LIABILITIES: Current liabilities: Accounts payable and other accrued expenses $ 2,787 $ 2,880 Short-term debt 2,042 4,209 Total current liabilities 4,829 7,089 Long-term liabilities: Long-term debt, net of discounts 4,282 3,882 Long-term lease liabilities 34 126 Total long-term liabilities 4,316 4,008 Total liabilities 9,145 11,097 COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT: Common stock ($0.0001 par value, 6,666,667 shares authorized; 356,587 and 166,667 shares outstanding as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively (1)) 1 1 Series A Convertible Preferred stock ($0.0001 par value, 10,000,000 shares authorized; nil shares outstanding as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively) – – Additional paid-in capital 17,891 511 Accumulated deficit (20,072 ) (7,619 ) Total stockholders’ deficit (2,180 ) (7,107 ) TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT $ 6,965 $ 3,990 EDIBLE GARDEN AG INCORPORATED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (in thousands, except share and per-share information)
Years Ended December 31, 2022 2021 Revenue $ 11,552 $ 10,507 Cost of goods sold 11,188 9,859 Gross profit 364 648 Selling, general and administrative expenses 9,368 5,611 Loss from operations (9,004 ) (4,963 ) Other income / (expense) Interest expense, net (2,033 ) (617 ) Gain (Loss) from extinguishment of debt (826 ) 42 Other income / (loss) (590 ) – Total other income / (expense) (3,449 ) (575 ) NET LOSS $ (12,453 ) $ (5,538 ) Net Income / (Loss) per common share – basic and diluted $ (48.68 ) $ (39.28 ) Weighted-Average Number of Common Shares Outstanding – Basic and Diluted 255,776 141,005
Primary Logo
283 County Road 519Belvidere, NJ 07823
(844) 344-3727
Company Email: [email protected]
Investor Email: [email protected]
ABOUT US OVERVIEW PRODUCTS CERTIFICATIONS FACILITIES DISTRIBUTION TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT TEAM COMPANY ZERO-WASTE INSPIRED® GREENTHUMB ESG FOCUS INVESTORS PRODUCT SITES EDIBLEGARDEN.COM PULPFLAVORS.COM VITAMINWHEY.COM VITAMINWAYNUTRITION.COM CONTACT US FOLLOW US © 2023 Edible Garden. All Rights Reserved Powered by: The Vendor Group

Memphis is starting construction on its first BRT line and I was curious what outsiders think about the viability of the plan. As a local, any investment in public transportation is exciting, but I wanted yall's opinion on whether I should get my hopes up that this will actually help catalyze dense development and less car dependency?
For context, the stops it's hitting include (E-W): 1& 2.) University of Memphis area 3.) a large public high school 4.) the Memphis Central Library 5.) a strode-parkway intersection (though it is within 15 minute walking distance of several trip generators, including Christian Brothers University, Brooks Art Museum, Memphis Zoo, and big old urban park, and a 30 minute walk/10 minute bike from the college football stadium, so idk?) 6.) Our cluster of local theaters, and Overton Square, a bar nightlife area, is an 8 minute walk. 7.) Strode intersection consisting of a Walgreen's and mid-rise housing 8.) Hospital, mid-rise housing, 10 minute walk from the Southern College of Optometry 9.) University of Tennessee's Medical School/Medical industry cluster 10.) Sun Studios/mid-rise housing 11.) Minor League Ball Park/5 minute walk to Beale St.
And then the downtown loop, which includes hotels, 5 minute walk to our downtown basketball arena, several hotels, walking distance to our Bass Pro Shops Pyramid (lol), the central bus system terminal, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, University of Memphis' Law School, Autozone's Headquarters, other downtown type shit.
They plan to operate at 15 minute frequency, with 10 minute peak frequency. I think it has dedicated bus lanes MOST (ugh) of the way, but not all, and the main two corridors it travels on the way downtown are strodes in the process of being reformed, but still very much strodes.
Thoughts?

Hello! I'm back with a new elimination record update from this current season/spinoff of The Challenge! A reminder, each one will have some facts added beneath the updated stats. This WILL include the Armageddon's from Final Reckoning, and all spinoffs, besides Champs vs. Stars/Pros (as that involved charity and challengers could leave and come back from the living quarters as they please). Spoiler warning if you haven't watched their other seasons!!
PREVIOUS POST (Episode 1-3): CLICK HERE
--
Episode 4: Jodi/Benja (ARG) vs. Nia/Rodrigo (ARG) in Oiled Up
WIN: Jodi (2-2) & Benja (1-1)

• Out of the three seasons Jodi has gone into elimination, she has always been in the 1st two she's eligible for. (previously Inferno 2 against Veronica and All-Stars 2 against Sophia)
• This is Jodi's first win against a Real World alumni!
• This is Benja's first win, after losing in the Argentina spinoff against Juli & Lio Ferro on Episode 8

LOSS: Nia (4-2) & Rodrigo (1-1)

• Nia ends her 4-win elimination streak and gets her first loss since her rookie season on Free Agents against Cara Maria (9 years ago!)
• After making the final on his rookie season on the Argentina spinoff, Rodrigo loses his first elimination against a fellow Argentinian
• Rodrigo won 4 out of 6(!) of the daily challenges on his rookie season (The Challenge ARG)

Hello! My wife and I have been looking for a house and working with a realtor and their recommended LO for a few months now and have placed 3 offers which we have gotten out bid on now.
I am beginning to feel that our realtor isn’t representing us well and would like to switch-but we signed a 6 month contract with this particular realtor. Is this legally binding? I will have a lawyer review it but wondering if anyone has been in a similar position?
We feel our relationship isn’t what it should be, the realtor is speaking with listing agents about properties without sending us the property first to confirm our interest, not being aggressive enough (we are in a hot market) and talking us out of offering higherefusing to offer higher on houses we wanted even when we voice this is the house we want to go all in for (hence why we lost out), pushing locations/houses we aren’t interested in. I feel we need a more seasoned realtor who will be knowledgeable and on our side. Am I being unreasonable?

The original plan was to give the Platinum and HGSS arcs 16 episodes and fill it to two seasons with the Ranger spinoffs. I couldn’t get any ideas to expand those storylines or make an original script for the protagonists of the third game. I had to make the pacing of Platinum a bit faster and I could no longer fit Platina’s Battle Tower challenge onscreen. HGSS is a very compact arc with little opportunities to slow down and I removed an episode of the Red/Pikachu special.
Episode 251:
Looker investigates the Battleground and he meets up with Platina on a mission (417, 15)
The Battle Frontier opens up and Platina decides to challenge the Battle Castle (418, 18)
Episode 252:
Platina has trouble with the rules of the castle and she reaches the Frontier Brain (419, 16)
Platina fights against Darach and she is able to defeat him with a clever strategy (420, 15)
Episode 253:
Buck tells the duo info about Stark Mountain and Platina enters the Battle Arcade (421, 16)
Platina advances quickly in the Battle Arcade and Buck reaches Stark Mountain (422, 14)
Episode 254:
Dia and Pearl meet up with the Elite 4 and they receive a special assignment (423, 18)
Platina must fight her own Pokémon and Buck and Looker fight Team Galactic (424, 16)
Episode 255:
Platina defeats her own Pokémon against Dahlia and Charon catches Heatran (425, 16)
Platina learns about the Distortion World and she goes into the Battle Factory (426, 16)
Episode 256:
Platina fights more in the Battle Factory and the brains investigate a problem (427, 17)
Platina battles Thorton and she is able to defeat him in a duel of knowledge (428, 19)
Episode 257:
Dia and Pearl find Rotom and it goes in a room in the Eterna Galactic Building (430, 17)
Rotom keeps on transforming in its forms and Dia manages to befriend it (430, 16)
Episode 258:
Platina battles through the Battle Hall and she defeats Argenta one on one (429, 18)
The bodyguards discuss Giratina and Charon attacks Dia and Pearl in Eterna (429+431, 2+15)
Episode 259:
Dia’s Regigigas fights with Charon’s Heatran and Thorton fixed the machine (432, 16)
Palmer leaves with Platina and others and Dia takes an attack from Giratina (433+434, 12+5)
Episode 260:
Pearl lets Charon flee as Marley finds Shaymin and Platina questions Palmer (434+435, 9+8)
Platina’s group enters the Distortion World and she finds her bodyguards (435+436, 7+9)
Episode 261:
Marley, Cheryl and Mira fight the Galactic commanders and Dia sees Cyrus (436+437, 8+9)
Dia and Cyrus free Dialga and Palkia while Pearl and Palmer fight Darkrai (437+8, 2+14)
Episode 262:
The trio gets their Pokédexes back and the legendary Pokémon start to fight (438+439, 4+14)
Platina beats Charon, Shaymin transforms to help and Cynthia beats Giratina (440, 16)
Episode 263:
Charon fails in his last resort and Cyrus disbands Team Galactic before leaving (441, 18)
Looker leaves after giving Dia an egg and Platina wants to see some comedy (441+442, 14+5)
Mid-season break
Episode 264:
Gold participates in the Pokéathlon and he wins the events as he learns rules (442, 18)
Gold continues to win other events and he competes against the big star Jet (442, 18)
Episode 265:
Gold uses a trick to win against Bruno and he reveals that he will meet Lance (443+444, 13+6)
Gold defeats the wounded Dragonite and he finds out that Lance is in trouble (444, 18)
Episode 266:
Silver looks for Lance as Clair finds him and they are attacked by many Koffing (445, 17)
Silver finds a strange plate and he gets dragged in the new Safari Zone game (445+446, 3+12)
Episode 267:
Silver is attacked by Petrel who fights dirty and he wonders about his plates (446+447, 12+6)
Petrel escapes as Silver explains to Eusine and Crystal arrives with her mom (447, 18)
Episode 268:
Crystal decides to travel with Silver and Gold meets up with the Kimono Girls (448, 16)
Gold asks Morty to find Lance and Silver and Crystal are cornered by Ariana (448, 16)
Episode 269:
Silver leaves Ariana to Crystal and he is attacked by Falkner, Bugsy en Chuck (449, 18)
Silver sees Gold again and Crystal loses to Ariana as she is surprised by Arceus (449+450, 5+12)
Episode 270:
Crystal fails to catch Arceus and the admins let her chase as it attacks the gym (451, 16)
Gold decides to follow Arceus and Morty gives Silver the location of the plates (451+452, 7+10)
Episode 271:
Gold finds Lance and he tries to fight Arceus in the Ruins Of Alph inside its shield (453, 17)
Silver finds a hurt Crystal and Arceus teleports them, Gold and the admins away (453+454, 5+12)
Episode 272:
The admins contains Arceus on a stage and Silver is forced to give up the plates (454+455, 8+9)
Archer forces Arceus to create a new Dialga, Palkia and Giratina for Giovanni (455+456, 12+5)
Episode 273:
The trio fails to defeat the dragons and Giovanni appears with Lance and Pryce (456, 17)
Giovanni, Lance and Pryce fight the dragons and they explain what will happen (457, 15)
Episode 274:
Everybody wants to lure the dragons outside, but Gold attempts to calm Arceus (458+459, 14+4)
Gold refuses to let his Togepi fight and he sees he never opened his heart to it (459, 16)
Episode 275:
Togepi is able to calm Arceus down and Celebi gives Giovanni his medicine (460, 14)
Gold says farewell to Arceus and they discuss the director's newest TV show (460, 15)

Technoroid Overmind, episode 11

Rate this episode here.

Reminder: Please do not discuss plot points not yet seen or skipped in the show. Failing to follow the rules may result in a ban.
Streams

• Crunchyroll
• VRV

Show information

• MyAnimeList
• AniList
• AniDB
• Anime-Planet
• Official Website

All discussions

Episode	Link	Score
1	Link	3.6
2	Link	5.0
3	Link	4.0
4	Link	5.0
5	Link	3.0
6	Link	5.0
7	Link	5.0
8	Link	5.0
9	Link	5.0
10	Link	----
11	Link	----

This post was created by a bot. Message the mod team for feedback and comments. The original source code can be found on GitHub.

Sorry for the long post but I need to vent. I (32F) have a roommate (24F) that I moved in with 6 months ago.
A little backstory, this is her first time being in an actual apartment, with only one roommate. She had two other living situation prior to moving in with me where she was subletting houses with like six other people that all went about doing their own thing, and nobody really had to take care of household chores, because the owner of the house did it for them. It was part of their rent. So she was used to basically being taken care of in the sense of clean.
Everything started out fine when we moved in together, until winter hit in full force and her “seasonal depression” came. Please don’t misunderstand, I have full comprehension of what seasonal depression can do to a person, having experienced it myself, but this girl just completely weaponized it to her advantage. Her turn to take the trash out? “I can’t I’m just so overwhelmed”. Her turn to load/unload this dishwasher? “Oh I had so much anxiety today I just went to bed”. In the beginning I sympathized because I too suffer from high anxiety and am medicating thanks to a very understanding doctotherapist. But it’s every. Single. Day…. At the time of our move-in, we sat down and established boundaries. I have tried to be as accommodating to hers as possible. She, on the other hand, has done nothing but disrespect mine almost daily. Example Turn off lights and electronics when you’re not using them or leave so that we can keep the electric bill down. I come home to an empty apartment all the time with every damn light in the house on and the TV in the living room and in her room on. And the heat is set to 78 because she was chilly before she left. One of my hard boundaries was that I do not want her boyfriend over more than three times a week, or for consecutive nights in a row for personal past trauma reasons I won’t go into detail here on the internet with strangers. for the first month, she was respectful of this boundary. And then she began to just basically tell me to go fly a kite, and started having him over almost nightly. We have been round and round, and when I bring it up to reinforce my boundaries she immediately plays the victim, has an “anxiety meltdown“ and then says I’m the bad guy, claiming that I am “gatekeeping her relationship” and trying to “control her” when she has 50% share of the apartment. Which is technically not true, because I do pay more towards the rent/utilities, and, being the more experienced renter, was the one that initially set up all of the utilities. She constantly says, I’m trying to act like her mother, and nag her to do stuff. Which the stuff I ask her to do, is stuff that she should (as an adult) be doing herself without anybody having to ask. My theory is if she doesn’t want me to “act like her mother and nag her“ she needs to quit acting like a spoiled brat, and start taking more responsibility and be accountable for her actions instead of blaming her anxiety for them. Now there are a lot more details to the story of why I’m so frustrated than I will add for privacy reasons that cause me to feel this way. We have had several chats and heart to heart conversations about our boundaries and continuous negotiations. All of which I try to accommodate, but she always goes back on them a week or two later. Then turns around and plays the victim when I called her out on it. Saying that her anxiety caused her to forget what we had discussed, and that I am “bullying” her by reminding her of these discussions. I am at the point where I no longer sympathize with her anxiety because she is using it as a weapon to walk all over me. And I am done. There are two sides to me, the sympathetic and empathetic side. And the bitch side. She is quickly unlocking the bitch side of me. I only have about six more months with her, and I will not be renewing my lease with her, but I just had to vent on here before I hurt her widdle feewings with a cruel dose of reality that she needs to grow up and take some responsibility for her actions and quit blaming it on her anxiety and depression. But overall, am I just overreacting and being too sensitive?

I’ve had migraines with aura ever since I was in college - since I was diagnosed I had had one or two every 1-6 months so while unpleasant it was doable.
A little over a year ago I had a severe uptick in migraines - about 1-2 a week with an increase in headache days to almost every day. It was a very dark time for me - I refused to go further than 20 minutes away from my house because I would be unable to get home in time, developed severe anxiety and depression around triggering a migraine (ate the same food every day, refused to do anything new or different, stopped working out, had to quit a job I loved). Through this very rigid way of living I was able to decrease my migraines to once a month or so and headache days to 4-6 days a week and since then have gradually added things back into my life.
Under advice from my doctor I recently started adding exercise back in - this past week I went from two short workout sessions to two short and one longer in the same 7 days. After the shorter workouts I experienced minor dizziness that went away within 30 min with a snack and then yesterday an hour after the longer workout I started to get severely dizzy - it persisted and worsened until it felt like full blown vertigo with a slight headache. I couldn’t move without feeling like the world was spinning and lost balance so badly I fell extremely hard. Eventually I realized that it could be a migraine and took my abortive, which did help. Today is a post migraine day so I know my feelings are heightened but I can’t stop crying and thinking about how scared I am to have debilitating episodes like this multiple times a week. Our office just announced that we have to go back 3 days a week and I wouldn’t be surprised if the stress from that announcement caused this migraine ( I am in the process of applying for ADA accommodations to wfh).
I’m not sure what I’m asking for here. Has anyone else had periods with frequent migraines and then periods of no migraines? How do you deal with the uncertainty of never knowing if the next big migraine means they’re just going to keep coming?
I feel like this sounds dramatic and I know others have it so much harder, but I’m so afraid of being so sick again - I totally lost the will to live and I can’t imagine going through that again. What do you do to keep yourself grounded when you’re feeling like this?

Season 11 Episode 08: Patrick's Journey
Aired: March 22, 2023
Synopsis: Patrick's weight has never been a bother, but now he's so big that it's getting in the way of his relationship with his daughter. If he wants to see her graduate high school, he'll have to reverse course
​
SPOILERS ARE ALLOWED HERE. DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
A new post will be created after the episode airs for post-episode discussion.
**NO SPOILERS OR RESPONSE THREADS, ALL DISCUSSION OF THE CURRENT EPISODE ARE LIMITED TO THESE DISCUSSION THREADS. TEMP BANS WILL BE ISSUED.**
Be sure to read rule 3. No spoiler posts or comments on other posts within 3 days of airing (until Saturday at 8PM Eastern). Spoilers are anything relating to the most recent episode. If you post spoilers, you will receive a minimum 15 day ban. Use this discussion thread or make sure you understand how to mark a post as spoiler using your preferred Reddit app or site.

As the title stated, our fridge is enclosed in an insulation free drywall enclosure that sticks out into the garage. I have pics if needed. I don't know dimensions yet. Actually, the entire house is basically without much insulation, though the windows are double pane. The home was built in 1957 as a track house. Other neighbors have long since done a garage conversion so I don't know if others had the same type of layout.
The garage is small. The wall faces the west side. We are inland Northern California. Our summers are scorching and winters are mild. But in the summer the top of the fridge gets warm and stuff freezes in the fridge portion. The freezer is on the bottom. It's a small, simple not very fancy house and I'm looking for a low cost DIY solution to regulating fridge temps a bit better. The fridge just fits inside the dimensions of 5he enclosure so there is no way to get anything easily inside there. I'm thinking even wrapping insulation around the outside if necessary. I have no idea if that's ridiculous or not.
Either way, we need to get this house better insulated because we are bleeding heating and cooling cost. We stay inside one room 6 months of the year it feels like. We make just a smidge(like $150) above income requirements for any sort of assistance for utility bills. And since I am currently unable to work, we are on one income without much wiggle room.

Tsurune: Tsunagari no Issha, episode 12

Rate this episode here.

Reminder: Please do not discuss plot points not yet seen or skipped in the show. Failing to follow the rules may result in a ban.
Streams

• HIDIVE

Show information

• MyAnimeList
• AniList
• AniDB
• Kitsu
• Anime-Planet
• Official Website
• /Tsurune

All discussions

Episode	Link	Score
1	Link	4.54
2	Link	4.92
3	Link	5.0
4	Link	4.9
5	Link	5.0
6	Link	5.0
7	Link	5.0
8	Link	4.8
9	Link	4.9
10	Link	4.8
11	Link	4.9
12	Link	----

This post was created by a bot. Message the mod team for feedback and comments. The original source code can be found on GitHub.

So I know everybody and their mothers with a borderline personality have theories about the end of The Sopranos. I just finished a (fifth? sixth?) rewatch of the show, and have had clearer thoughts about the ending than I have on previous watches. I'm sure this topic gets raised every hour or so on this subreddit, but I do think I have a perspective on it that, so far as I can tell, doesn't get much play anywhere else. And I want, for my own purposes, to write down my thoughts and get them in order. This will go on for a while, so apologies in advance, but I wanted to lay everything out as best I could. If you're looking for a TL:DR, this is not your post. Spoilers below (obviously).
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
​
Roughly, there are two major camps concerning the meaning of the end of the show. One camp, by far the most vocal, is the "Tony dies" camp. Here, the idea is that the famous "cut to black" in the final scene at Holsten's is the cinematic representation of Tony's death, and (crucially) that Tony's death is the dramatic culmination of the series as a whole. The Master of Sopranos essay lays out the evidence for the view, which is overwhelmingly convincing for a lot of people. The essay is pretty exhaustive, almost a frame-by-frame analysis of that final scene and (through it) an interpretation of the whole series. I'll just highlight a few key things, since they are usually brought up as the clinching pieces of evidence.

• First is the series of point of view shots in the final episode, and especially the series of them that are tied to the ringing of the front door bell at Holsten's. It is argued that, since we are shown repeatedly Tony's POV after hearing the bell ring, and since the cut to black happens after a bell ring, that the cut to black just is Tony's POV after that bell ring, because he's dead.
• Second is the line by Bobby Baccalieri, from the earlier episode "Soprano Home Movies," that you "probably never see it coming" when you die in a mob hit. This little scene is repeated late in the penultimate episode, "The Blue Comet," when Tony is holed up in the safe house with his AR, given to him by Bobby as a birthday present. We're thus primed to be thinking about it going into the final episode. Deathers will also point to the scene in "Stage 5" in which Silvio is present for the shooting of Gerry Torciano, and doesn't register that the shot happened at all until after Torciano's blood has splattered all over him. It is argued that the "cut to black" is the perfect way to represent Tony's death given this point about it (that it comes without your being able to prepare or acknowledge it), and that the whole last season, and much of the rest of the show, is very effective at foreshadowing this.
• Third, there is the guy in Holsten's with the Members Only jacket. We are clearly meant to notice him especially. He comes in at the same time as A.J., blocking us from seeing him at first. And his look clearly suggests to us the (dead) character of Eugene Pontecorvo, who often wore a Members Only jacket and whose arc was dealt with in an episode called "Members Only." It's even said by some that the guy looks something like Eugene, though I think the resemblance is not really all that strong. What's probably more important is that he's the only other person besides Tony in the restaurant who seems like he could be connected. He's Italian, about the right age, etc. And we (and Tony) notice him without being sure what it is we notice, exactly. He notices Tony as well, looking over at him multiple times. The shots track his movement, more than anybody else in the restaurant, and we watch him go to the bathroom, pretty much right next to Tony's table. It is argued, naturally, that he comes out of the bathroom with a gun (a la Michael Corleone in Godfather I) and shoots Tony who (along with us) never sees it coming, because he's looking up to see Meadow walking in.

Overall, aside from these details, I think the argument's strength comes from the tension of that final scene. It seems clear that the scene wants you to be afraid something bad is about to happen, before it pulls the rug out from under you. Often, deathers will argue that this tension makes no sense unless it's building toward Tony's death. So, while we don't see the death itself, it must have happened, and in any case there are good reasons internal to the goals of the show and foreshadowed in advance for why we don't (even can't) see it happen.
The other camp, if it is a coherent camp, is the "open to multiple interpretations" camp. This has been advanced in multiple ways by multiple people, but is perhaps best expressed in this AV Club essay. The idea is that the "Tony dies" view is too simple, given the general ways in which The Sopranos always reveled in ambiguity and anticlimax (the essay compares it to fundamentalist religion). We don't see Tony die, and so we don't really know what happens that night in Holsten's. One way to interpret it, obviously, is that Tony dies, but it's far from the only one. Perhaps, it is often claimed, we're being shown the tension with which Tony always has to live his life. He better than anyone knows that he could die at any time, and so that tension is just the underlying anxiety he lives with all of his life. In any case, there are multiple ways of viewing that final scene (if there weren't, why would we still be arguing about it?), and reducing them all to one robs it of its dramatic significance.
(Technically you could say that there is a third camp -- the "Tony lives" camp -- but this is usually just an expression of hope, not an interpretation of the series/ending. I won't talk about it here.)
You'll notice that I discussed one view at way more length than the other. This is because, in a superficial sense, all the "evidence" is on one side. People in the "multiple interpretations" camp may have their own personal interpretations of the final scene, or they may not. But if they do, the interpretations are ideas that are far from being as fully thought out as the "Tony dies" theory. Deathers like pointing this out. The debate often stalls here. The multiple interpreters claim that the show is more ambiguous than this. The deathers admit that there is ambiguity in parts of the show, but not in all of it, and that anyway if you just read the Master of Sopranos essay again you'll see that this is not ambiguous.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
​
I think both camps are wrong, and in fact have generally been totally confused by the debate about the ending as it still exists. I wonder if this comes in part from not having watched the show when it came out. I imagine that for those who watched that last season as it aired, there was a lot of wringing of hands about whether Tony would live or die. My impression is that critics at that time generally accepted the ending as ambiguous on this point (many of them wishing that it wasn't), while it was normal fans who readily accepted the "Tony dies" theory once it was developed. I of course recognized that Tony could die at the end of the show, but didn't expect it, and perhaps more importantly didn't expect the end of the show to depend on whether this plot point happened or not. And it seemed to me that the show itself wasn't really directing my attention to this very much. To me, it obviously had other, deeper concerns.
For this reason, I was always especially hostile to the "Tony dies" camp, and I remain so. I think the basic argument against it, which others have made before me of course, is pretty devastating: Tony's dying is simply not a satisfying ending to the show. What is it supposed to mean that Tony dies at the end? That he's getting punished for his life of crime, just like every other cinematic gangster ever? Given that people grew up on Godfather, Goodfellas, etc. it makes sense that many of them might expect such a conclusion, but this show always made fun of its relationship to these movies. The fun it made was affectionate, of course, but it's made abundantly clear throughout the series that this is not a typical mob story. Lots of viewers were unhappy about this, wishing there was more mob drama/violence, but we can say now with confidence that they were just misreading the show. Chase and co. cared more about Tony's relationships and his own view of life (informed by those relationships, therapy, various experiences, etc.) than they did about who would kill whom, who would rule Jersey after Tony goes, etc. So I guess the direction the deathers have to go here is to say: yes, the show cares more about Tony and his view of his life, and his death. The death at the end is satisfying because it is what Tony has been contemplating all along, and finally it comes. But still this doesn't seem very satisfying; indeed, it seems more like an after the fact justification for what is at the end of the day a very conventional way of ending a story. What a waste it would be for such a bold, creative and uncompromising show to end on this frankly quite boring note.
At the same time, though, the multiple interpreters seem to me often to argue in bad faith. The tension creators in that final scene are there, and much of the argument against the deathers has seemed to me willfully obtuse ("maybe it means something else, we don't know!"). That last scene is very clearly setting us up to believe that something terrible is about to happen. Why, if Tony is not about to die?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
​
Mostly I've bounced back and forth between these objections, unsure as to exactly why. I've even been tempted sometimes to avoid the issue by thinking that the show is basically over after my two favorite episodes ("Kennedy and Heidi" and "The Second Coming"), and that the stuff in the last two is mostly unnecessary. But I smile every time that Journey song starts up in Holsten's, and now find that last scene almost hilariously funny, and this impression strengthens every time I watch the show again. I think I've finally figured out why. So, here it is:
That last scene is an intentional toying with the audience. Chase is deliberately giving the scene a tension that the events in it do not really warrant. He sets us up to expect a dramatic conclusion that he is dead set on denying us.
All of the evidence that the Master of Sopranos essay adduces as proof that Tony dies is there, and the deathers are right that it mostly points in one direction. Indeed, I don't think it really needed a whole essay to spell this out. You can just feel it while watching. Obviously that's because of the filmic techniques the essay goes into, but we don't really need to have all this pointed out to us. Everyone knows while watching that scene, especially if they've noticed that the episode (and thus the series) is within minutes of ending forever, that something important is about to happen. And indeed, if you watch it a couple times, it's not hard to notice the filmic techniques either. One of the oddities of the experience of reading the Master of Sopranos essay is that one senses that the writer finds all this stuff much deeper and more exciting than it is. (That's my impression anyway.) The techniques pointed to (point of view shots, foreshadowing, Godfather references) are not anything special in themselves, and certainly not anything mind-blowing for a series that gave us episodes like "Funhouse," "Kennedy and Heidi," "The Test Dream," etc. etc. These techniques work in the scene to build tension, but it feels like any first year film student could have told you as much, and any competent director could have come up with these ideas for building tension in the episode.
That is intentional, I think. The deathers' three points of evidence above are decidedly not some genius construction. They're a really quite cheesy setup for a conventional plot point. Tony dies, and dies in the midst of a freaking Godfather reference? Are you kidding? (I say this by the way as a great fan of The Godfather, and of that scene with Michael Corleone in the restaurant in particular.) I think the answer is, yes, Chase is kidding. The whole show has been very intentional about its relationship to traditional mob stories in general, and The Godfather in particular. The show gets a large part of its energy from the friction between this traditionally more violent and more moralistic mode of storytelling on the one hand, and the more domestic, everyday, family-centric mode that was more natural to serialized TV shows. The show's interest doesn't really lie in the one or the other, but in something in between. The show works in part because the threat of mob drama and the moral implications of it always lie in the background and threaten to break through, in ways that undermine the usual stability of the more traditional family-focused TV drama. And this of course makes it possible for Chase and co. to say all kinds of important things about family that the traditional family stories usually gloss over, about subterranean rifts and long-held grudges and slow generational change and on and on and on.
Think of the moment after A.J. tries to kill Junior -- he says he's inspired by the famous Godfather scene (where Michael is avenging his father's shooting, too), and Tony tells him "it's a movie." In fact, what A.J. says is that he's inspired by his dad's reaction to the scene (that he sits eating ice cream and says it's his favorite scene). Tony's reaction to this is not straightforward. He means "it's a movie, not real life." But of course his real life (unlike ours) is the subject of that movie. He himself has killed people in order to exact revenge, and probably has even thought of The Godfather while doing it sometimes. His real response to A.J. is not that it's just a movie, but that A.J. is not like him, that it's not in his "nature" to act like this. And he knows, for his own part, largely because of his experience in therapy, that he is not some simplistic mob movie character, that in fact while it's in his nature to do these things it's not in his nature to do them wholeheartedly, as his panic attacks and depression reveal. The Godfather reference serves to point us back to the tension of the whole show -- that these are people who do horrible things and can't or wont' fully acknowledge it to themselves, and that this lack of acknowledgement dooms them, even if the doom comes slowly.
By the end of the show, we've experienced this tension in more or less all of its possible variations, and have seen the characters experience it too, and make their peace (or not) with it. A.J. and Meadow especially are challenged by their upbringing to decide to what degree they want to be characters in a mob movie, and I think it's no accident that the last episode spends so much time looking at what direction their lives will be going in after the series is over. (Asking themselves, in Tony's coma-ridden words: "who am I? Where am I going?") Neither makes a particularly encouraging choice, though it's clear at least that neither of them is going to turn into their parents all over again. Tony himself shows, in the late scene with A.J.'s therapist, that he's going to fall into old habits, and thus forever be the half-hearted and depressed mobster he's always been.
What then of that last scene? Why does it make me grin? You know when you're watching it that things are about to end. And you know, if you've been paying attention, that the things the show cares about, the things that it's helped you to care about more intelligently (i.e., the way these characters relate to each other and how they conceive of their lives) cannot possibly resolve themselves in the next 5 minutes. You feel tense because part of you still wants that resolution, hopes that Chase and co. have some last trick up their sleeve, hopes that that last trick will somehow draw all this mess together and make some sense of it. And then you find that the show itself seems to be setting you up for it. All those point of view shots, the Members Only guy, the repeated failed attempts by Meadow to parallel park and then her run across the busy street -- all of it seems to be confirming for you what you wanted, for something big to happen and blow you away. Tony, Carmela, and A.J. are just talking about the things they always talk about, including a reference back to a really important family event from way back in Season 1. But you don't pay it much attention, because of the building tension. You're getting more and more excited. Meadow crosses the street unscathed, the bell rings, and then -- black screen.
There is genius here, but not where the deathers think it is. The genius is not in the tension building elements, which are film technique 101, but in the juxtaposition of this tension with a normal family moment, and that black screen. Nothing happens in that scene, not really. Or what happens in it is exactly what's happened in the show all through. The Sopranos sit around talking, breakin' each others' balls, worrying about the future, trying to remind themselves that things are good sometimes and that that memory can help you through the tough times. That could have happened without the tension elements and the black screen, and it would have been a good last scene, I think. But what's there is better. The show tempts us, the viewers, with a big resolution, even though we ought to know that one isn't coming. We give in to the temptation, and we give in to it for the same reason that all of the characters in the show make all of their bad decisions -- we want to believe that life is simpler than it is, that one big moment might change everything and save us from having to do the dirty work of life, day by day by day. We want to "get it," as Tony does in the desert in "Kennedy and Heidi," but also to be able to say clearly what it is that we get, and then have all the problems of our lives resolved. We're interested in The Sopranos because we're interested in those problems, whether we realize it or not. And that last scene is telling us: the problems are always there, and your hope that they could all just somehow go away is always there, too. The Journey song comments on this so obviously as to almost need no elaboration. It was a perfect choice, I think, in that it means this really quite deep thing, but is also just as banal as the tension setup. These are really ordinary, banal people in a way, and yet their lives (like our own) have all the depth that a life can have. And the most deep, banal thing that life tells us is: don't stop. Keep going. Hold on to what was good. Build what you can from it.
Chase's ploy here, I want to stress, is not mean-spirited. When I grin at the last scene, I'm not grinning at the misguided deathers. Chase is not making fun of people who wanted to see Tony dead. In fact, he seems to have been disgusted by this desire, and surprised after it was over that so many people were feeling it, since presumably they had been at least partly identifying with Tony throughout these 6 seasons of television. Chase is poking fun at a very human desire in all of us, the desire for our problems to go away, for them to resolve cleanly like a movie does. The desire is so strong that we convinced ourselves that a guy in a Members Only jacket was going to come out of the bathroom with more than just his dick in his hands to kill Tony, even though we know that that wouldn't solve any of the problems that the show has encouraged us to see and care about.
What happens when it cuts to black? Well, in a certain sense the answer is "who cares?" Here, I think the multiple interpreters are on to something. Maybe Tony dies, maybe nothing happens and these characters go on living their lives, maybe Tony is about to turn state's witness, maybe Meadow is going to reveal that the reason she changed her birth control is that she just got pregnant, etc. It doesn't matter, because the show is over and has said all it wants to say. But what really happens when it cuts to black is that you, the viewer, are frustrated. Your desire that something big would happen at the end has been frustrated. And the reason for that frustration is absurd. You wanted something that you should have known you couldn't have. But you can't help wanting it, because for all of us, as for Christopher, "the fuckin' regularness of life is too fuckin' hard." We've got to live it anyway, and that's all there is to do after the screen goes black.

Σternal Kappa
GUILD INFO:
https://swgoh.gg/g/SfnB9bQET4ufnBRZwbJkpQ/
Relaxed group of active and social members! Looking for positive vibes as we continue to grow!
The Eternal Empire is a family of 8 independently run guilds and home to 400 players. We support all level of players from beginners to experienced, end-game all-heroic competitors. Guild GPs range from 300M - 430M+. All active & dedicated players are welcome! We understand that life happens & take that into consideration. We share one Discord server where we have the tools, bots, resources & seasoned advice to help guide you as you progress. Our motto is: “We build together, we grow TOGETHER!”.
49/50 Members, 330M+ GP
1:30 UTC / 20:30 EST / 17:30 PST Guild Reset
REQUIREMENTS:

• 6.5M+ GP, exceptions can be made for the right focused roster
  
• 500 Tickets Daily
  
• Active Discord Use
  
• Synced & Public swgoh.gg account
  
• Active in ALL Guild Events
  TB:
  31 ⭐️ DS Geo TB & 34 Wat Shards
  21 ⭐️ LS Geo TB & 14 Kam Shards & Growing (expecting 22 & 18 next run)
  18 ⭐️ Rise of the Empire TB
  We Use EchoBot for Platoon Assignments
  TW:
  We have a dedicated Discord channel for TW
  Adaptive strategy depending on our opponent & team readiness
  RAIDS:
  All-Heroic Raids On Farm with 24 Hour Join Period
  Guild raid times:
  HSith: 14:00 UTC / 9:00 EST / 6:00 PST
  HAAT: Simmed
  HPit: Simmed
  CPit: 19:00 UTC / 14:00 EST / 11:00 PST
  CPIT - Cleared
  Discord:
  https://discord.gg/xevajEGw2c
  JOIN THE ETERNAL EMPIRE!!!
  HOW TO JOIN US: Please come to our Discord server & an Officer will help you! We want EVERYONE to succeed & are constantly looking to improve on what we're doing to help all within our collective of :eight: independently run guilds. We are an established guild with active players who are looking for like-minded, common-sense individuals to join us for the growth & benefit of all!