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Sorry to hear that, Bob. This has been an incredible exercise in persistence on your part.

I'm about to start Fourth Wing. If I like I'm, I am going to try to catch up to my wife before the next book comes out.

I've met @bushido_man96 (thread) and @gheinisch (thread) in-person. Always up for meeting folks who are visiting Hollywood. Love to hear about in-person meetups between members. Virtually all of my closest friends are people that I first met online that I have met in-person - and even see somewhat regularly. Half of my closest friends come from an online community, the SitePoint Forums. One of them is now the godfather of my son. I know my wife because of online communities. They've really changed the arc of my life.

Very satisfying to go from the first pic to the last one! Thanks for sharing, Ken.

Congrats Brian!

https://deadline.com/2025/06/cobra-kai-creators-hilary-swank-return-final-season-1236445291/ Thought this was interesting, about how the Cobra Kai creators tried to get Hilary Swank for the last season.

These are probably just generic spammy offers that are likely best ignored. But I definitely would encourage you to write. You'll need an editor at some point, but you can start to piece your ideas together and see what you have.

Only 3 episodes in, but I had some of the ending spoiled. Will be back once we're through it.

If you do, let me know what you think. Obviously, I have no idea how genuine any of it was, so was curious what folks thought.

Just finished it last night, actually! I enjoyed it.

I just watched this movie last night, with the thought that we might check out the sequel that was recently released. One scene shows Affleck's overbearing father forcing a man to run aggressive fight drills against him and his brother, who are just kids. With the captions on, one interesting thing popped up. When the man spoke, he was attributed as "silat instructor."

I guess what I mean here is the lack of actors. Outside of Macchio and a brief appearance by (not going to spoil it), there isn't much crossover.

Thanks for sharing this, Bob. I can only echo what others have said, while at the same time acknowledging it may feel like cold comfort at this particular juncture. But obviously you mean a lot to many people, and you still have so much to offer people, in the martial arts and outside of them.

I think this movie was always going to have a hard time because of it releasing so close to the end of Cobra Kai, which was so well-received. If it couldn't have been tied in directly to Cobra Kai, it might have been better for it to have a little breather. With that said, here's a picture of some of the marketing in Hollywood!

Without any tracking, I probably get 6.5-7.5 a night. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Our toddler is generally sleeping good these days, but if he wakes up and needs one of us, then we're both waking up. But he's pretty solid these days.