I actually had this happen to me, and when I realized my word had been completely mismatched it was a real pain in the neck to get it to reset so I could  do the correct day instead. If I didn’t sometimes talk about guesses with my partner, I never would have realized something was off.

Rawitsch was still a college student at the time he coded it! Given the nature of the schedule at the college he attended, he probably wrote it during or just after finals (the college is on trimesters and the first one ends just before Thanksgiving.) In homage to that, when I was there in the mid-‘00’s the school…

Everything you don’t like about it is because it’s basically an opera updated to a modern musical style, and it really should be critiqued with that in mind. I think that the film shows that all the things audiences historically found so compelling about opera still resonate with them as long as the music is made…

Yeah, Keanu’s not exactly a white dude (one of his grandmothers was Chinese Hawaiian, and he gets classed as white for audiences because while he does actually look mixed race, it’s not in a way people are used to in the mainland US), which just makes the whole thing even more bitterly inappropriate.

The recipe called for a 6 ounce can of chopped clams, and that looked like a considerably larger can of whole clams. That may have been some of the trouble, since I’d bet it involved a heck of a lot more liquid.

Yeah, from what I’ve read, the problem was that there was the civil faction of the Japanese government, which was absolutely open to peace, and the military faction, which was absolutely not. And then Hirohito in the middle, where it’s not entirely clear what he believed. For most of the war it didn’t much matter,…

The story I’ve heard is that some of the scientists involved in Trinity initially thought it’d fizzled because they got the detonation time wrong (they weren’t part of the group permitted to watch from the detonation site, so they’d hauled out into the desert in a jeep to see it go off). But other than that, they were…

6x13 shipper party in this thread, clearly, because that was my fave too; I still have some doujinshi, even. It’s a pity it was one of the smaller pairings and often in the background for 1x2x1 and 3x4 (or backstory for 13x5, can’t forget that) rather than being the main event. I had a fondness for 6x2, too, which was…

It’s kind of hilarious seeing that 1992 letter invoke Riker/Picard, which is a rarepair on the web. The big TNG slash ship is Picard/Q, and has been for the entire existence of fandom on the internet, although I admit I don’t know about the pre-Usenet state of TNG shipping.

Ironically, although the outfit itself is ridiculous, the boob design looks substantially better than the PUBG ones. That model’s breasts actually sit in the cups and the cups look like they’re supporting some weight. Everything else about it is insane, including the actual design of the cups, but I look at that…

On the whole, yes. There’s usually at least one totally insane side quest, and Yakuza 0 had many. Other games include moments like that time one of the other protagonists punched out a bear. Or the time another one forced his boss to wear a dress to smoke out some zombies and then hit on him relentlessly…

But you do think something like this:

While its use in English-language manga fandom is widespread, in Japan “bara” isn’t a genre term and Tagame is on record as disliking it as a synonym for gei-comi. (He’s more open to the idea of it as an English-fandom term for the subgenre of gei-comi with heavily muscled men/the art style that artists like he and…

The build and beard are pure author appeal. A significant number of the guys in his explicit manga look like that. The plaid shirt, however, I cannot defend.

I think more than just that Mike needed to be the spouse for the alliteration, he needed to be the spouse because that made him more legitimately family, and so someone Yaichi couldn’t politely refuse to host the way he might have a boyfriend.

No? Did you read the article? The author is an openly gay man who’s most famous for creating explicit, kinky pornography (usually featuring two Japanese men.) He’s using a Canadian here specifically to contrast how Mike (and the brother) were able to live while there with the situation in Japan, to help open some…

Wes Studi didn’t have a single line in the Hostiles trailer, did he? And neither did any other Native character. That doesn’t bode well for the film’s interest in them as people, or in its take on its subject matter.

The idea of you or someone like you killing my son, who’s too young to have some of the vaccinations yet, because you made a “personal choice” is literally something that keeps me up at night.

As far as co-op games go, I really like Sentinels of the Multiverse, which is a superhero game played with pre-constructed decks. The decks have difficulty ratings, and there’s a villain deck for the heroes to oppose and an environment deck that adds twists to the proceedings. Gameplay is basic TCG style, but without…