I just came back from C2E2. Shit, was I supposed to be offended by the guy cosplaying as Baron Von Strucker? I can never keep track what I'm supposed to be mad at anymore.

Indeed. So basically you have greatest hits rerecorded, a new album a decade later, then live album, box set, and now live box set. The live album, box set, and recent tour all worked for me, as I'd finally "discovered" them and listened to little else for a stretch. But Tour de France, their last album, is really…

I like how Wolverine is technically dead, but there's still Old Man Logan running around. Marvel figured out how to have their cake and eat it, too.

While I'm pretty much obligated to get this, it is maybe a touch lame that they're releasing a deluxe live box set over 10 years after their previous live album/movie, with literally not a single new track to show for it.

Now I kind of wish Disintegration had been named "Treading In Heavy Syrup" instead.

There's a lot to chew on there. And I don't necessarily disagree with a lot of what you're saying. But pointing out how corporations just keep churning out stories long after the creators have quit/been shown the door or whatever only makes me think, had the corporation never been doing that in the first place, we…

I think it's a laughably huge stretch to say that minorities are avoiding Marvel comics because they made Cap a Hydra agent. I've read comics on-and-off for over 20 years, but never particularly followed Cap, and honestly never really equated Hydra with Nazis. Maybe they're supposed to be—I was too busy reading…

I think the question is, what were you doing wandering off down the street without one in the first place?

Agreed on all points. Including that an unmarried person without children would find it far more difficult to get elected president than someone with a spouse and children.

Indeed. I got Dark Souls, and played it for several hours the first day—and got NOWHERE. I gave up, and ended up selling the game. (I did share with a friend first, who confirmed it was as hard as I had thought.) Maybe that means I don't have game-player cred, but I like gaming as a fun distraction, not a grueling…

God, this show.

Just wait till Rey finds out her training involves jumping around with Mark Hamill strapped to her back, Yoda-style.

This really is a far less silly idea than the Watchmen Noir book they recently put out.

Oh-ohhh-oh!

And the big dance number in ROTJ.

Yes, but the charm is that they embrace that. Just look at the font of the title.

I kind of laugh to think how much time is spent just doing stuff to dull the boredom of living. Centuries ago it was hanging out, coming up with stories or games or songs. Now it's….this. I don't say that to disparage current society. Just that I think a LOT of life is completely trivial, and always has been.

Reality itself has become dystopian, crass, and absurd. So, yes!

Never quite got the Loot Crate thing. If I wanted a bunch of pop culture tchotchkes, wouldn't I just buy them? I suppose being surprised could be fun, until you realize you just spent money on something you didn't want.

Seems you really went out on a limb for that pun.