I don’t agree. All the outcomes are the result of human folly, courage, and frailty - our fates are very much in our own hands. And though the inciting event is mysterious in cause, it doesn’t suit the criteria of cosmic horror - it’s a threat to life, not a threat to our conception of reality.

The Void is a great object lesson for cosmic horror, as it’s clumsy and amateurish in its script, its acting, its directing - in everything except evoking that elusive sense of cosmic horror, which it absolutely nails.

Also unfortunate - we are now that much further from getting the Wild Cards shared universe anthology show that I’ve always dreamed of (and that, after years of superhero universes and the reawakening of anthology shows, the general public is now primed for).

You’re standing on my neck.

This attempt at making the Bhagavad-Gita as a buddy-cop comedy seems ill-considered.

This is the closest real-life equivalent to this site that I’ve seen yet:

We have the drawer to thank for that.

I could tell almost immediately that this is a person who has never had to work a day in their life. It’s that very special kind of total solipsism and self-absorption that is only possible when one has absolutely no structure to their life, a rarefied state enjoyed only by the mentally ill or the idle rich.

I’m really starting to worry that Dr. Mann is gonna be a white lady.

Schlemiels. Schlemazels even!

East, West, and Gulf.

There’s a lot of strong associations for people when it comes to soft pretzels - baseball games and boardwalks, state fairs and carnivals, the steam rising off a freshly torn pretzel on a freezing winter’s day - that I think would be even stronger for a NYer like Rebecca, and thus a deeply comforting snack. But the…

I have seen the USPS pith helmet in service on all three coasts.

Have you seen My Name is Earl, a show that was in many ways a precursor to The Good Place, in its quest through personal responsibility, moral growth, and ethical conundrums, but one that specifically used karma (admittedly, an ever changing and personal interpretation of the concept) as its guiding principle?

I like how there’s a shot that looks like it could be from Alien: Covenant right by another that looks a heck of a lot like a Covenant alien.

Campaign: Star Wars is a fantastic actual play that I think is a must-listen to anyone who likes TAZ (frankly, I think it’s straight up better).  For me it’s the perfect balance of improv humor and creativity with rock-solid dramatic plotting and world-building, and finds that magic chemistry between the cast and GM…

Yeah, this was an almost word-for-word, cadence-for-cadence (down to the asides to the audience!) recreation of that Babs performance.  Which is fine, it seems like that’s part of the joke.  Maybe.

Holy SHIT I had no idea Nnedi Okorafor was writing for Marvel - and on a Shuri book, no less!  Amazing.

When I got my LotR Superdeluxe Banana Boat of Discs n’ Extras (this is a bit before everything went up on youtube on day zero), the very first thing I did was spend about forty-five minutes just looking through the bajillion features to find ANY footage of orcs/uruks doing the haka. I eventually found it, and it was…