I fixed my cheap-ass rice cooker based on a YouTube video. I first took it to this Repair Cafe we have in Toronto where people fix stuff for free. The guy there told me that the heating element was busted and I'd need to get a new one. This was a downer since it seemed like getting a new heating element would be a…

In Canada, or maybe just Ontario, we had Jumbo Video as well as Blockbuster. Their thing was that each store had a popcorn machine and you could scoop up a small bag for yourself. I never got a membership there but I whenever I was at the mall with the Jumbo Video I would go in for popcorn then pretend I was looking…

Oh my God, that's why it seemed so familiar! I still kinda remember that episode too!

I think Omri's family was poor. His parents must not have had a lot of money because they gave him an old cupboard as a gift.

Universal Basic Income, dude. Many of the great 20th Century British bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were only able to survive their early years by going on welfare aka "the dole". The money allowed them the freedom to concentrate on their music and they were able to become good enough to be massively…

Yeah, but who wants to borrow someone's used skittles?

It is pretty insane but also pretty entertaining. Sorry for the late reply but I got caught up in the holidays and this is my first look at the AV Club in the new year.

Have any of you seen TOKYO TRIBE? It's like if The Warriors was a Japanese hip hop musical.

Man, WW1 sure messed up a lot of dudes. Maybe there'll be something worth reading from one of the broken guys coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, or better yet, from an Iraqi or Afghani. I'm not much of a fan of memoirs, though, so I hope it's a semi-autobiographical novel like Celine's.

I second Ghost World but the movie does a good job of capturing the story. For his comedy I would recommend 20th Century Eightball, which collects the comedy pieces from his comics.

Have either of you read Celine? Now that was a guy who hated everyone and himself. He was a doctor and apparently he was good to all his patients, which is surprising considering the hate in the two novels that are still published. (The later ones where he uses a weird, experimental writing style and goes into…

You should read Frank Black's memoir You Can't Win. It's about his life as a 'yegg' (a semi-professional criminal) in the 1900s: riding the rails, robbing houses, doing time in different jails - pretty engrossing stuff. It's depressing to read the coda and find out what happened to him after the book, though.

It depends on whether or not you're into these semi-autobiographical books and can understand what it means to grow up in a certain faith and then to kind of fall out of it. If you're both then you'll probably like it. For what it's worth I think it's okay but not something I would buy.

Man, that game would drain my battery even if my phone was plugged in. Maybe it really was hooked up to a real pot farm.

Be proud in your contribution to the flowering of the internet. A thousand years from now scholars will see your post and say, "Verily, this was a Golden Age". (Old-timey talk will come back into fashion for some reason.)

You know when you first play a game and you're doing dumb shit trying to see the limits of the gameplay? I wonder how the civilians would react to this.

That actually sounds like it might be an interesting game. It would depend on how the gameplay would model the social dynamics involved.

I find it interesting more for the way it shows how studio-level work is becoming easier for smaller players to make and may soon be possible for amateurs to do the same. The twist isn't too shocking for any sci fi fans out there.

Greedo would have been Indian and Jabba would probably have been Mexican.

That's why an editor should go through the comments, like the Exiled did with their Almighty Exiled Censor, who frequently 'improved' the worst comments.