I think the biggest mistake they made with Wolverine was keeping his past a "mystery" for so long, every upcoming writer had a chance to add more and more backstory, which just made it more and more ridiculous. The claws were originally designed to be part of his gloves. Then we find they're built-in. Then we find…

I think my favorite Wolverine fact is that the first time he's identified as having an identity behind the mask, it's by leprechauns who apparently have a history with him and know him by name. They're the first ones who identify him as "Logan". So there you go. Mr. bad-ass used to run around with leprechauns. …

Yeah, that scene was amazing—uncanny, even—as an X-Men fan. The quality fell off a bit once he finally meets up with the rest of the team, but that whole opening scene I was like, "holy sh*t, it's actually Wolverine!"

Was it that deliberate? I thought the "Pryde of the X-Men" episode was a year or two before the ongoing series. I figured by then they just were casting new voices for all of them.

No, you're right. I hadn't realized she was born into it, and that's enough to f*** anyone up, I'm sure. People can be messed up from relatively "normal" religions as it is.

As much as the exposes are justified, at some point don't you just kind of go, "look, if you're gullible enough to fall for this stuff and ALLOW them to ruin your life, maybe you need to own that"? I dunno. I try and be empathetic, but I guess there's a limit.

Tax is based on a percentage of what you make, theoretically. Not to get into what "enough" is—smarter people than me can argue that point on either side—but his percentage is lower than yours or mine. I also suppose one could ask if whatever he made as income is "enough" either. But it's not any more valid a…

Fair enough—I hate the guy, too. But since he's already in office, if it's not going to remove him, I don't see it doing much but maybe helping efforts in 2020 to end his presidency. And I don't see it changing the minds of his supporters, so it may not even matter then, either. Amazingly, he's not been required to…

Is it something indictable? Otherwise, it simply doesn't matter. He paid less than the average American? Shock. It's almost like being wealthy grants you exemption from the normal bullshit the rest of us deal with. His supporters won't change their views, and the rest of the federal government will continue to look…

Bra. Vo!

I may have to replay it eventually. I actually really liked both the HD versions of WW and TP, and don't recall really disliking SS as I was playing it. Maybe more that it just wasn't quite as captivating as the other games.

Both aptly put. I remember as a kid, kind of trying to imagine what the 2D world in LoZ would look like if it were actually real. Like, it dawned on me that certain areas were sort of "forests", and other areas were sort of "mountains", and other ones "deserts" and "beaches", even though the graphics were terribly…

Yeah. I hadn't considered how BOTW is such a better game just by omitting that kind of thing.

Really? Hm. I've admittedly forgotten a lot of it, but I guess OoT and subsequent games had me used to some pesky character/device adding their two cents every 5 minutes.

I never quite got the hate for SS. Maybe it's not the best Zelda game, but it's still better than most other games, for me.

Do you also vaguely remember your teeth?

I'm not familiar with Xanth, but I see that's Piers Anthony. I dug the first few Incarnations of Immortality books.

Ha! I feel the same way. There should be a support group for folks that survived the entirety of Mission Earth.

LOL. I put in my time with her, too. (I'd say "sadly", but I think it was at least culturally educational.) But even those two novels of hers pale in comparison to Mission Earth.

I read them. The only stuff I remember is a lot of weird sex/fetish stuff. (Go figure.) I honestly never saw anything in them to indicate indoctrination, other than the fact that I ended up on some Dianetics mailing list when I had sent in for a Mission Earth poster. But as novels, they were undoubtedly…