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Seth MacFarlane to Adapt Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl for Peacock

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Dinniman and MacFarlane will serve as executive producers on the project, with Chris Yost (Thor: Ragnarok, The Mandalorian, Cowboy Bebop) also on board as writer and executive producer.

I thought the first book was a fun romp, but I really hope MacFarlane has learned a little bit of restraint after The Orville so they don’t go overboard on this. DCC finds a sweet spot of sentimentality an over-the-top humor and I can see MacFarlane goes way overboard on both directions if he isn’t reined in.

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Cubs’ Cade Horton will have elbow surgery, miss the rest of the season

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After a brilliant rookie season during which he emerged as a key part of the Cubs’ rotation and posted a 2.67 ERA, Horton was viewed as a big piece for a team that has World Series aspirations.

Whelp… there goes our season. Stupid Pope putting a curse on us so his stupid White Sox don’t look like the mega dumpster fire they are over on the south side.

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Bulls fire GM Marc Eversley, executive Artūras Karnišovas in front-office shakeup

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The Bulls had made the playoffs just once since the two men took over the front office in 2020.

Even though the Bulls have been stuck in purgatory since this leadership team joined, I honestly didn't see this coming. The roster at the current moment in time is probably the worst it's been in a decade—which is a bummer—and the leadership team has definitely made some mistakes with draft picks and trades, but to start over fresh and get rid of the team who built the Denver Nuggets juggernaut feels risky, especially at a time when

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It Is Time To Canonize A New Baseball Saint

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The Marlins beat the Brewers 5-1. In all four situations where a player has hit for the Saint Cycle, their team has won the game. Sacrifice does not go unrewarded.

This is the kind of sports journalism we are looking for around here. Focus on the little things that really help teams win. Don't swing for the fences every time and strike out half the time. Smart sacrifices are all about winning games.

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Self-Published Saturday: Jim Mahfood and Jesse Lonergan deliver alternate takes on bat-themed vigilantes

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For this new edition of self-published Saturday, we take a look at two very different bat-evoking comics by Jim Mahfood and Jesse Lonergan.

Love us some Self-Published comics, and Jim Mahfood and Jesse Lonergan are two of the best artists doing it right now. They both deserve so much more recognition than they currently have. So if you aren't familiar with their work, go check them out. Raw, punk, fluid, and exceptional storytelling throughout their artwork.

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Personal Encyclopedias

whoami.wiki

This is when I realized I was no longer working on a family history project. What I had been building, page by page, was a personal encyclopedia. A structured, browsable, interconnected account of my life compiled from the data I already had lying around. I've been working on this as whoami.wiki. It uses MediaWiki as its foundation, which turns out to be a great fit because language models already understand Wikipedia conventions deeply from their training data. You bring your data exports, and agents draft the pages for you to review.

This is an incredible open source

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