Those of us who live in the United States have a strange relationship with gun violence, no matter where we fall on the beliefs-about-guns spectrum. We have to. Our mass shootings statistics are too bizarre, too absurd to be real, and yet here we are, constantly living in a combined state of denial, disbelief, disillusionment and despair.
We don’t have to live like this, and yet we do. Thanks to a well-funded gun lobby, our incredibly unhealthy ultra-partisan politics and debatable interpretations of the Second Amendment, most meaningful pieces of legislation put forth to curb our gun violence problem don’t get passed. Everything but the guns gets blamed for our mass shooting problem, so we keep reliving the same nightmare over and over and over again.
A group of moms lived that nightmare on the Fourth of July, when a gunman opened fire on a parade in Highland Park, Illinois, killing seven and wounding 48. They immediately banded together with a singular purpose—to convince the government to ban assault weapons, which are increasingly becoming the weapon of choice in mass shootings.
They formed March Fourth two days after the parade shooting and organized a march in Washington, D.C., less than a week later. “I just want to go to DC, scream at the top of our lungs that we want these weapons of war banned, and not shut up until they listen,” said founder Kitty Brandtner.
Her quote to WGN9 News was even more succinct: “They f**ked with the wrong moms.”
Now March Fourth is holding another march at the Capitol on September 22 and they’re inviting anyone and everyone to join them. In a powerful PSA promoting the march, Americans describe what they “love” and “enjoy” about living with mass shootings—a bit of reverse psychology that makes the absurdity of our reality painfully clear.
The truth is no one wants to live this way. And we don’t have to. We can choose to take action to at least attempt to prevent mass gun violence. The assault weapons ban that was in place from 1994 to 2004 had an impact. One analysis shared in The Conversation estimated that the risk of a person in the U.S. dying in a mass shooting was 70% lower during the ban.
u201cAdding evidence to the #GunViolence debate. New work presented at #AAST2018 by @nyulangone faculty shows that during the #AssaultWeapon ban #MassShooting related deaths were 70% less likely to occur.u201d
Before someone swoops in with the “How do you define assault weapon?” argument, the current Assault Weapons Ban of 2021 bill that has passed the House and sits before the Senate offers a lengthy definition of the kinds of firearms it includes right up top. Read it here.
See more information about joining March Fourth’s September 22 march at the U.S. Capitol at wemarchfourth.org.
Amid a spiraling gun violence problem in America, one neighborhood in southeast Portland, Oregon, has done something to address a serious problem. Its actions have dramatically decreased gun violence at a particularly active intersection. The local neighborhood association worked with city leaders to take the radical step of removing the turning lane and turning it into a park. Yeah, you read that correctly.
Shootings at the intersection in the Mt. Scott-Arleta neighborhood were increasing dramatically. It also saw a lot of car crashes and pedestrians threats, according to Portland Mercury. Now, what was once an area prone to violence has been transformed into a community space with an eye-catching rainbow painted on the ground. City and neighborhood leaders made the community space by taking the Arleta Triangle, which had been a tree-lined traffic island separating the turn lane from the intersection, and expanded it, completely cutting the turn lane out.
u201cu201cOur hope is to enhance the Arleta Triangle to create an active public space that attracts more positive, community building activities to the area,u201d said Transportation Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty.u201d
— Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty (@Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty) 1655858161
According to Local Today Washington News, this specific area in Portland saw a drastic increase in gun violence after the start of the pandemic. Chair of the Mt. Scott-Arleta Neighborhood Association Matchu Williams told Portland Mercury, “We went from two or three shootings a year, to daily [shootings] for two or three months. Some of these exchanges weren’t just firing off a couple bullets in drive-bys, but 25 to 93 shell casings recovered by police. Terrifying.”
Living in an area that is subject to so much gun violence has to not only be terrifying but traumatizing for families and other community members. Parents, especially, have their children’s safety front of mind and a solution such as this is so important.
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Getting this community space built was truly an effort of neighbors working together for a common goal. Residents see this as a way to reduce gun violence without adding more police presence in the area. Local resident Nadine Salama took it upon herself to get input from other neighbors on safety concerns and together they brought those concerns and ideas to the city commissioner, Jo Ann Hardesty. The neighbors and Hardesty worked to address concerns such as low lighting and reckless driving in a nearby church parking lot.
Within a month of meeting with Hardesty, who also oversees the Portland Bureau of Transportation, the safety concerns were beginning to be addressed, according to the Portland Mercury. In that short time frame, the church parking lot was roped off, leaving only one entrance, lighting was installed around the intersection and trees were trimmed back to address the visibility issues. The group was even able to add “local access only” cones at other intersections to decrease traffic, as well as add park rangers. If other governments moved this fast, who knows what could be accomplished?
It’s a great demonstration of what quick work and listening to your community looks like. Hardesty was presented with a problem and she listened to the community members to address all of their concerns.
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— Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty (@Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty) 1662692822
Amazingly, with just those relatively small changes, gun violence dropped by 64% in the area within three months. The community was happy to celebrate the achievement with a block party at the newly built community space that replaced the turn lane.
Hardesty told Portland Mercury, “You can see the smiles of the community and what they will always remember is that they were heard and we tried to help. And had it not worked, we would have tried something different. That’s what we have to be unafraid of—trying things that we don’t know will work.”
Since the FBI searched the resort in which now lives, emerging with highly classified documents he almost certainly never should have taken, Donald Trump has tried everything to save himself from potential peril. He’s whined about it. He’s claimed he did nothing wrong. He’s railed against the feds for, uh, not taking off their shoes. He’s also done one of his favorite tricks: try to gum up the works with frivolous legal tricks. But his latest ploy may have blown up in his face.
As per The New York Times, the former president’s attorneys met with the special master a Florida Trump judge, Aileen M. Cannon, okayed to review the seized material, to judge whether they were classified or not. It did not go well. During their first hearing, Judge Raymond J. Dearie cut through the usual tangled Trump nonsense, demanding the attorneys offer proof that the documents their client took with him to Mar-a-Lago were indeed declassified. They refused to say he had. Instead, they suggested they might do so later, claiming they didn’t want to give away their legal strategy.
Dearie said he was open to that, but he also expressed frustration with Trump’s legal team casting doubt on the classification of said documents without offering any proof. “My view is, you can’t have your cake and eat it too,” Dearie told them.
At one point, Dearie wondered why they were even having the hearings and, indeed, why he was even there. He pointed out that the government is saying the documents are classified while all Trump’s lawyers are doing is saying they aren’t but not offering any proof.
”What am I looking for?” Dearie asked them. “As far as I am concerned, that’s the end of it.” He added, “What business is it of the court?”
The hearings are already strange to begin with. For one thing, despite the case being based out of Florida, the hearings took place in Brooklyn, where Dearie, a veteran of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, is based.
At issue are the 11,000 documents taken by federal agents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, 100 of which bear markings that suggest they are among the nation’s most closely guarded secrets. Trump has claimed, without evidence, that he declassified them.
The disastrous first hearing prompted much rejoicing online, with some pointing out that Trump’s lawyers didn’t bring up some of their client’s claims, possibly because they know that lying would cost them their law licenses — a fate that’s befallen other Trump attorneys.
Why won’t Trump lawyers tell Judge Dearie whether Trump declassified the docs? It’s because the lawyers don’t want to lie and be disbarred and subject their client to a criminal false statement charge. 18 USC 1001.
Trump’s lawyers aren’t resisting Judge Dearie’s request that they prove the classified documents were magically declassified because of [irrelevant justifications]—they are refusing because they don’t want to lose their law licenses by repeating Donald’s lies in court.
This could still end up with a modest Trump win. It wouldn’t be the first time he escaped his presumed-to-be certain fate. But Dearie’s tetchy treatment of his lawyers does not bode well for him.
Carly Rae Jepsen’s next album, The Loneliest Time, drops on October 21st and the “Run Away With Me” singer is going to be in the midst of her So Nice Tourwhen it happens. Beginning on September 24th in Montreal, the Canadian pop star will then be touring coast-to-coast in the US. The tour concludes on November 5th in Chicago and she’ll be on stage at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, CA on the album’s release date. But who has Carly Rae Jepsen tapped to to open for her on the So Nice Tour?
Who Is Opening Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘So Nice Tour?’
The opener for the entirety of Carly Rae Jepsen’s So Nice Tour is indie pop artist Empress Of. The moniker of Lorely Rodriguez, Empress Of hails from Los Angeles and she makes glistening, dance-inducing pop. All three of the Honduran-American’s full length albums — Me, Us, and I’m Your Empress Of — are stellar spins. This past June, she released the likewise-excellent Save Me EP on her own Major Arcana label. It features standout single like “Dance For You” and “Turn The Table.”
Check out all of the So Nice Tour dates below and get tickets here.
09/24 — Montreal, QC @ MTELUS
09/26 — Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
09/28 — New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall
09/29 — Washington DC @ The Anthem
10/01 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met Philadelphia
10/02 — Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa
10/04 — Knoxville, TN @ Tennessee Theatre
10/05 — Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
10/07 — Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Festival
10/09 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall
10/10 — Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
10/12 — Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
10/14 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union Event Center
10/15 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
10/17 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Federal Theatre
10/18 — Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre
10/20 — Santa Barbara, CA @ Arlington Theatre
10/21 — Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley
10/23 — Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
10/26 — Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
10/29 — Vancouver, BC @ Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre
11/02 — Madison, WI @ The Sylvee
11/04 — Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater
11/05 — Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
Perhaps no comic book character has seen a greater boost in popularity from the Marvel Cinematic Universe than Iron Man. While people have always loved the character, the movies turned him into one of Marvel’s most beloved mainstream characters, up there with Captain America and Spider-Man.
With mainstream popularity comes new opportunities and fans of Iron Man are about to get a big one with the announcement that he will get his own video game from development studio EA Motive in the near future. Soon, everyone will have the opportunity to fly through the air, blast enemies, and experience an all-new original story as Iron Man in his own game.
“Marvel Games is teaming up with Motive Studio to collaborate on an all-new single-player, third-person, action-adventure Iron Man video game,” Marika Hashimoto of Marvel.com wrote. “Now in early development, the game will feature an original narrative that taps into the rich history of Iron Man, channeling the complexity, charisma, and creative genius of Tony Stark, and enabling players to feel what it’s like to truly play as Iron Man.”
This is a really cool moment for both Marvel fans and video game fans, because for a long time, Iron Man’s legacy in video games was an awful movie tie-in game that came out in 2008. However, this is going to be an original experience that, according to Marvel, will pull from every aspect of Iron Man’s “rich history.” If other Marvel games like Guardians of the Galaxy and Spider-Man are anything to go by then we are in for a treat — both of those games had phenomenal stories that made newcomers and longtime fans fall in love with them.
Robert Sarver was issued a one-year suspension and $10 million fine by the NBA for his racist behavior and mistreatment of women employees in the workplace. The independent investigation detailed many instances of workplace abuse, including multiple uses of the N-word. The evidence in the report made people wonder if Sarver would face a similar punishment to former Clippers owner Donald Sterling, but in a press conference, NBA commissioner Adam Silver defended the punishment and noted that he does not have the authority to force an owner to sell, while others have called out the league for getting it wrong.
The logistics of a forced sale may be thorny, but that still does not explain why anyone in the Suns organization or the league at large would welcome Sarver back to the NBA. Draymond Green discussed the issue on his podcast and has a direct proposal to the owners. Via ESPN:
“It’s a little baffling to me that we’ll walk into the arena next year,” Green said on his podcast. “The Phoenix Suns will walk into the arena next year, he’ll sit on the sideline and we’ll just continue on playing. So the one thing that I am going to need is someone to explain to me why is it that it was OK to get rid of [LA Clippers owner Donald] Sterling, but it’s not possible to force Robert Sarver to sell after what we read?
“… I’m asking that there be a vote. If that’s the only way, then let’s see what those numbers are. Let’s see what they are.”
Green spoke at length about letting Sarver back into the league, saying “this report that came out last week is the total opposite of everything the NBA stands for.”
“To think that someone like Robert Sarver that’s acting in that manner can continue to represent us? That’s bullshit”
Green hit the nail on the head here. The players and league employees should be able to see where the owners stand on this issue. The report and subsequent punishment do very little to hold Sarver accountable for his workplace behavior, but an owner vote — which would require a three-fourths majority to remove Sarver as an owner — could change that.
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Mercury is currently in retrograde for the third time this year. The celestial phenomenon has earned something of a bad reputation, one that villainizes its interference with communication and travel, often resulting in delays and misunderstandings. Whenever it circles back around, the best advice anyone can offer to get through it is to hold on tight and hope for the best — it’ll be over soon. On “Imagining,” a deep cut from her newly released sophomore album Hold The Girl, Rina Sawayama looks towards the planet for an explanation of the emotional whirlwind she’s been experiencing herself. “I don’t know if Mercury’s in retrograde,” she states, pondering: “Am I okay?”
But the three-week period doesn’t have to be a time of fearful hiding. Mercury, after all, is the planet of communication, intellect, memory, and transportation. Even when it’s emotionally difficult to dig deep into the past, retrograde can serve as an instrumental opportunity for reflection as a means of healing and moving forward. For Sawayama, the process of creating Hold The Girl consisted of this kind of stark reflection, re-calibration, and reconstruction on a mass scale. The British-Japanese pop songwriter pulls from a well of emotion throughout the deeply introspective record, repackaging therapeutic breakthroughs about healing her inner child and re-parenting herself with the type of grace her own parents weren’t allowed.
While her own revelations came from consistently interrogating her upbringing in therapy and studying perspective-shifting self-help books, Sawayama doesn’t use Hold The Girl to report back her findings with the intention of leading anyone else through the healing process. The promise that she makes on the album’s title track — “Reach inside and hold you close / I won’t leave you on your own” — is to herself, repairing the relationship with the emotionally neglected young child within her. Elsewhere, on “Phantom,” the singer claws back all of the bits and pieces she’s torn from herself and given away over the years, pleading through swelling strings: “Inner child, come back to me / I wanna tell you that I’m sorry.”
Sawayama mostly keeps relatability at arms length throughout the verses, her vocal performance sounding at times as though she’s forming a physical barrier between the version of herself she’s trying to protect and the rest of the world. But to the listening ear, one yearning for warmth and connection, these sentiments can feel personal, even parasocial, despite their hyper-specific origins. When she does invite the masses to join forces with her, and to find their own healing, it happens most often during the choral moments that bind them together as one.
“All my life, I’ve felt out of place / All my life, I’ve been saving face,” she sings on the opening track “Minor Feelings,” a 2-minute, reverb-driven anthem. “Well, all these minor feelings / Are majorly breaking me down.” Sawayama captures the hedonistic nature of dance music on the track, which functions as a thesis statement for the record, placing a spotlight on all of the small moments that pile up and threaten to burst at the seams when she finally reaches the dance floor.
Hold The Girl builds a bridge of accessibility through the kind of grand scale pop hooks Sawayama received praise for on her 2020 debut album SAWAYAMA. Whether exquisitely executing Kelly Clarkson-style 2000s pop-rock on “Hurricanes” or evoking unhinged melodrama á la Marina And The Diamonds on “Frankenstein,” the album offers catharsis through grandiose sing-alongs that are as fitting for a high-production stadium show as they are for cavernous venues that can only squeeze in around a thousand people. At the center of the album, “Holy (Til You Let Me Go)” uses explosive industrial dance to wedge open a door to complete escapism, ushering clusters of sweat-drenched bodies moving in tandem with one another through the opening.
When the nu-metal dream SAWAYAMA arrived, nearly every venue and club was shuttered in the midst of the pandemic, making Hold The Girl the singer’s first proper album release. But the sonic palette explored throughout the record — one that roots itself deeply in everything from European house music to melodic country with a twist — doesn’t lean into dance music with the shallow intention of celebrating the return of live music. Instead, Sawayama embraces the function of these sounds and wields the emotion they evoke as a means of communication.
“Forgiveness” creates a sense of safety through joyously shimmering production and tender delivery of the reassuring notion that healing doesn’t have to be linear, or simple. Hold The Girl marks the first record on which Sawayama locked in with a vocal producer, the benefits of which shine through as she uses her vocal range as a tool for conveying these varying complex feelings. More effectively, on “Your Age,” Sawayama evokes the spirit of Nine Inch Nails, using bulldozing industrial rock to communicate rageful disbelief. “Cause now that I’m your age, I just can’t imagine,” she sings with tamed fury, asking: “Why did you do it? What the hell were you thinking?”
On the album’s country-influenced cuts, Sawayama taps into the genre’s affinity for truthful storytelling in songwriting. Lead single “This Hell” opens with a nod to Shania Twain’s “Man, I Feel Like a Woman,” quickly spilling into a rodeo-ready country-pop party that embraces banding together through community. On the stripped-back acoustic ballad “Send My Love to John,” Sawayama sings from the perspective of an immigrant mother issuing an overdue apology for not accepting her son’s queer identity, drawing inspiration directly from the life of a close friend. In a way, she offers a proxy encounter for someone listening who may yearn to be on the receiving end of a genuine apology, but may never have the chance to experience one of their own.
Hold The Girl comes to a close with a healing self-care lesson of its own. “Flowers still look pretty when they’re dying / Blue skies always there behind the rain, rain / Oceans swallow all of our feelings / I know it’s just temporary pain,” Sawayama sings on the celebratory “To Be Alive.” Whether elating or soul-crushing, no emotion is permanent. Regardless of whether it lasts for three weeks of a celestial retrograde period, or for entire decades at a time, the guiding message is all the same: hold on tight and hope for the best — it’ll be over soon.
Hold The Girl is out now via Dirty Hit. Get it here.
Every now and then, the GOP let slip the truth. Earlier this year, George W. Bush tried to condemn the “wholly unjustified and brutal invasion” of Ukraine, but instead said Iraq, inadvertently slamming the disastrous war over which he presided. Whoops! On Monday, it was Jan. 6 apologist Ron Johnson’s turn to accidentally tell us what he really thinks.
The MAGA senator went on Maria Batiromo’s Fox Business show to, of course, talk about Republican’s favorite topic: the current president’s non-politician son. They got a little off topic, instead discussing Jim Jordan’s recent claims that investigations into “so-called domestic violent extremism” (i.e., Trumpists) were overblown. Johnson agreed, claiming “cyber threats” and “drug trafficking” were more pressing issues. He then went over his record.
“When I was chairman of Homeland Security, we’d have an annual threat hearing. And my ranking member would always be bringing up white supremacy which you know, I condone,” he said. Johnson quickly caught himself, saying, “I mean, I condemn.”
Problem is, a lot of people thought Johnson — who has done things like call COVID “over-hyped” — was right the first time. The slip inspired a lot of Freud jokes.
A woman in South Yorkshire, England, has had an incredible impact on hundreds of people’s lives by using her skills as a drone pilot to find lost dogs. Erica Hart, 40, told the BBC that over the past seven years she has “easily” reunited at least 200 lost dogs with their families.
It all started when she was playing with her new drone near a wooded area and a man told her he’d lost his dog. Hart located the pooch within 15 minutes. “It just went from there basically,” she told the BBC. “It’s like winning the lottery, it’s absolutely priceless.”
“When I first found that first dog and seeing that expression on his face because he’d been missing nearly four days, it was just a thing that, yeah, I can do something and I can make myself useful and be a pillar to the community and help unite loved ones with their dogs,” she continued.
What’s truly incredible is that she doesn’t charge a penny for her services and rarely accepts any compensation unless the job required her to use a lot of gasoline. Given the fact she locates animals that are priceless to their families, she could easily charge hundreds or even thousands of dollars for her services.
“I go home some days and I’ve spent £50 ($57) out of my own pocket and I’ve gone without stuff for myself to put petrol in the car to find a dog,” she told the Daily Mail.
Her success in reuniting lost dogs with their families led her to create HARTSAR, a Facebook community where people can enlist her services to find their lost dogs.
When Hart goes searching for a lost dog it’s like a military exercise. Her drone is equipped with a thermal energy camera that makes a warm-blooded animal easily identifiable among its cooler surroundings. The drone gives her an incredible vantage point that makes it a lot easier to see a dog than by searching on the ground.
From there, she positions people on the ground to intercept the missing pet.
Recently, she helped find Jamie and Leah Hollinshed’s black schnauzer Hilda in just 20 minutes after the couple had been trying to locate the dog for hours. Time was of the essence because a storm was on its way.
“What she did is brilliant. She’s a hero, a real superhero,” Jamie told the Daily Mail. “We’d had a couple of hours with no sighting but she spotted her in 20 minutes. It just shows how good these drones can be, we were so relieved when she found her.”
Hart’s brilliant technique for finding lost pups has already helped hundreds of people, but her story may save countless more. This new technology should be used by law enforcement and rescue shelters across the world to reunite people with their lost fur babies.
If every town in the world had an Erica Hart with a drone, hardly anyone would lose a pet.
Hart’s innovation is incredible, but for her, it’s all about the animals. “When I post it on Facebook and I see the comments I lay in bed with a smile on my face and realize why I do it,” she told the Daily Mail. “I do it for the love of the dogs.”
NBA 2K23 was released to the world on Sept. 9, 2022, and general feedback on it so far has been mixed. On one hand, when you’re one of the better sports simulation games out there, it comes with an extremely high bar that is going to be difficult to clear every year. On the other hand, the ways 2K23 struggles this year is the same issues that have been plaguing the series for some time now. The MyCareer plot has once again failed to meet expectations, virtual currency still runs everything, and online play is still inconsistent.
Rather than spend an entire piece explaining all the reasons 2K23 is frustrating, a thing we have done before, we’d rather focus on what we did enjoy from this year’s game, because while it’s far from a perfect game, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t things in here to enjoy.
The Jordan Challenges
The big addition to 2K23 was the return of the Jordan challenges. Originally a part of 2K11, the Jordan challenges came back with more to do, more to experience, and modern gameplay on top of it. The final result is honestly one of the better experiences of the entire game. Not only does each challenge feature video interviews with people who lived these experiences in person, but they adapt to the modern time they were played.
The very first challenge the game throws you into is the 1982 national championship game between the North Carolina Tarheels and Georgetown Hoyas. Since this was a college basketball game in the early ’80s, it did not feature the 3-point line, because it had not yet been fully adopted by the NCAA. It even uses a classic broadcast style, scoreboard and all, to really emphasize the period this game was played. Touches like these are throughout the challenges and it makes it a great way to experience Jordan’s career from beginning to end.
Movement
The movement in 2K23 is really good. As someone who preferred the faster more arcade-style games from the early 2010s, it’s odd to play a game that is against me using the sprint button and actually enjoying it, but that is what 2K23 has accomplished. Momentum feels good, players don’t get stuck on each other, and passes feel like they’re actually being thrown between outstretched arms instead of just floating to their target. It feels good to move around even if the defense is simultaneously amazing at preventing 3-point shots and awful at stopping dribble drives.
Balance aside, having a game that feels good to move around in will go a long way in keeping players engaged while playing. Patches are more than likely on the way to work on some of the balance issues, but that’s typical of most modern games these days. It’s important that the core game is fun, and when players start up a match so they can play with their friends on the couch, they should have a fun time.
General Presentation
This is something that is actually great in every single NBA 2K game, but it honestly doesn’t get praised enough. The presentation experience while playing is maybe the best in all of sports gaming between commentators, sideline reporting, and how players are represented on screen. A huge part of why people continue to come back to NBA 2K every year, despite all the genuine complaints about it, is that it nails the experience of what watching a basketball game on TV should feel like.
For years, NBA 2K was praised as being a game where someone could walk by the room and think an actual basketball game was being played on TV, not a video game. That experience has been replicated over the years, and while it’s not a perfect experience — it’s probably never going to be one — it’s nice that there is still something about this franchise that continues to be great year in and out. Even this year, there are still moments where you fall into the experience and forget about everything because the polish is still there.
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