Man, you never know which way this crazy ball's gonna go!

Don't worry, my ambivalence won't stop me from going if I ever get the chance!

Not simplistic in their construction, but in their subject matter? Absolutely. The Reynolds affair is one of the most written about scandals in US political history, so yes, distilling it down to rhyming musical lyrics sounds a little edu-tainmenty. The play is written in a way that presupposes the audience doesn't…

I think I'm one of the few people who had the exact opposite experience. I love musicals and US History and went into it fully prepared to give it all my money, but listening to it did nothing for me. Maybe because I knew a good bit about the topic I felt like the lyrics all had a simplistic, wikipedia quality that…

Think you I would forget such a thing? No!

I can't defend the platforming levels, but I still love the Villa stage in Castlevania 64 and think it might be the high point of 3D Castlevania. I haven't played it in ages, but the level felt like a game in and of itself, with a large area to freely explore and interesting characters to interact with. Plus the…

The final first boss in SotN is actually based on the final encounter in Rondo of Blood, which never came out in the US, and named Bloodlines, after the Genesis game, I guess to make things as confusing as possible for US players.

This is horrifying to read, I'm not sure I could make it through the film. Something like this went on at my high school and I naively thought reporting it to an authority figure would solve the problem. (Authority figures put a stop to that kind of thing, right?) Instead I was subjected to a full-on re-education…

Yeah, I don't want to be ultra pessimistic, but I can't see the Trump thing ever getting put back in the bag at this point. Is he going to call Hillary and concede if he loses the election? Or is he going to spend the next months and years telling the huge chunk of this country that passionately supports him that…

I like Tyson but the Bruno segment on Cosmos was sun-revolves-around-the-earth-grade ignorant of the historical situation. It's unfortunate to see that kind of thing in an educational show, and I think it feeds into the misconception that humanities disciplines aren't bound by the same kind of rigorous methodology as…

What's fun is that if you do it that way the elf-leader later comes back and attacks you, but she shows up at a section of Novigrad I almost never passed through, so I didn't encounter her until I was level 50 something and she was still level 7. I didn't think it was right to kill such a weak opponent, so now…

Yes…yes…"legwork." Not painstakingly memorizing every Animaniacs episode and then keeping myself in a constant state of readiness for the chance to finally use it in conversation…

Ice puns are fantastic and all, but shouldn't a brilliant scientist with an ice gimmick have some conception of when the Ice Age actually occurred? It's like they weren't even try…oh.

The Tom Mankiewicz Batman script has been floating around online for several years. It's an odd combination of the plot of the 1989 movie it evolved into and an even campier, Golden Age Dick Sprang aesthetic. I'm not sure it ever would have worked, but it would have been interesting to see a Batman movie done with…

Animaniacs did it, though looks like they missed the chance to work in The Guess Who: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

The tense, doomed-expedition-struggling-to-survive elements were fantastic; the conclusion is especially unfortunate considering how good the rest is. Sadly Simmons despises all editors. Carrion Comfort has a 20-page prologue about how an editor tried to ruin his life by having the audacity to 1) be a woman he…

Since it's based on the work of Dan Simmons, I assume season one will cover the actual Terror novel, while future seasons will be increasingly paranoid right-wing rants about how Obama has doomed mankind for the next thousand years.

I'm sure the creators were in a tough spot since none of the existing characters would have worked at all as romances for Daria or Jane, so they had to reverse engineer Tom to fill that role. If he'd been too wacky it would have felt gimmicky, and to believably attract Daria he would have to be calm, intelligent, and…

I haven't seen most of the episodes since they were originally on, but going by the article it seems like opinions on Tom have improved somewhat? At the time I thought he was an incredibly generic white guy with no strong traits who felt like he'd been shuttled in from some other, lesser series, and this seemed to be…

Nice, I wish I'd been exposed to the odder parts of the Bible when I was younger. I don't think your impression is too far off from the original intent. The Bible is full of bizarre ideas like that, often mentioned like they're the most natural thing in the world, that would have made sense to people at the time but…