You gotta inspect your horn, boy! And clean it everyday!

Watching the short Catching Trouble once was enough. It has some good riffs but everything in it was deeply uncomfortable.

I just bought a New 3DS and finding somewhere that sold one was a surprisingly difficult task. Even online it's scarce and severely overpriced. The speculation was that it was due to understocking from Black Friday and Pokemon Sun/Moon, but if they're hesitating on phasing out it would make sense. I'm already not a…

I've got two black cats named Jake and Elwood. They actually grew up into the names; Jake is a big guy who yells a lot and Elwood is a silent skinny guy. Either of them would happily eat four fried chickens.

Paul Ryan has already passed a measure to weaken it. More to follow, I'm sure. https://www.washingtonpost….

That's the American Humane Society and how good they are at protecting animals used in filming is debatable. http://www.avclub.com/artic…

No, I don't. I assume you and I have very different internet lives. I periodically see articles discussing toxic masculinity and other social pressures and I periodically see articles praising masculine men like Nick Offermen and Dwight Johnson. I've never encountered something just blankly declaring all men evil in…

I'm being very intellectually honest when I say I have not seen evidence that this is the (I assume online) dominant narrative of male behavior. I do seem more discussion of the concept of toxic masculinity, particularly in media, but I have yet to see any cultural majority concept of "men are bad people because they…

Toxic masculinity isn't the same thing as masculinity. The traditional definition of toxic masculinity is the bullshit "uber-masculine" rules that society enforces on men in order to qualify for being "a man". These rules are harmful for men and women. Men being shamed for crying or for feeling weak or frightened is…

I played with a female avatar to match my female self. I was never going to play this particular game with a "getting the girl" angle but it is interesting to get the perspective of her as "growing more distant" as the game processed. I felt the opposite about her character growth, personally. I felt very sisterly…

I've grown really fond of Hau. Having a rival who's a chill little sweetheart and just wants to have fun together is what I really needed in my escapist game right now.

I named my Litten "The Sundertaker". It is a stupid pun but it makes me very happy every time Incineroar drops a chump.

Oh, I grew in the mid-80s/early 90s, which was a pretty fascinating area from a marketing standpoint. Reagan deregulated children's program and I think people just threw whatever was iconic and colorful into the giant money hole that opened before them, with generally profitable results. There's still some of that…

Oh wow, there was a Free Willy cartoon as well and it looks insane. I didn't realize how many weird movie franchise cartoons there were.

I can see how it would be pretty good. A bunch of people running around with a giant monster pal seems like a great premise and the monster designs that I've seen are good. I'm honestly surprised that ID didn't get a cartoon, it seems like another good premise with lots of merchandising opportunities.

Come to think of it, there was a Godzilla cartoon based on the Roland Emmerich movie as well… I guess the real surprise is that they never tried to make Independence Day into a cartoon.

Hand to god, there was a one-season Saturday morning cartoon called Stargate Infinity. It was roundly terrible and has gone on the pad the lowest basements of the Shout! Factory catalog.

Technically four, if you count the cartoon.

I interpreted the happy ending as pure sarcasm, basically "the readers would like to pretend they wouldn't abandon these dogs like everyone else did, so here's an abruptly happy ending". I'd probably have liked the book better if I could have taken the ending at face value.

There's an interview between H. G. Wells and Orson Welles where (if I recall correctly) Wells felt most of the reactors were people using the program to blow off steam about their fears of what Hitler was doing in Europe as opposed to people who actually believed aliens were invading.