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I remember I was in fifth grade when a classmate brought a gaming magazine to class. It had a description of the first Kingdom Hearts in it. It was an April issue, and I remember all of us were like, "This is the dumbest April Fools Joke."

I…I fucking love this?

I had no idea Daytrotter still existed. It seemed like one of those flash in the pan ideas that couldn't possibly sustain itself past a few years.

Miller's got such a hard-on for Yogi Bear 3D that I'm not sure if it's ironic or utterly sincere.

It was like, late 1998 when I first picked up The Sorcerer's Stone. I checked it out of the library in second or third grade because it was worth a lot of points for Accelerated Reader, and I was a competitive little nerd, who always wanted to be the top reader of my class. I devoured that book. It caught my attention

Neat. I'm down. I'll give it a shot tonight.

Damn. Evan Rachel Wood is a good choice, especially for a '90s-era Dazzler.

Janelle Monáe? Janelle Monáe.

Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique is so unlike actual Mystique that I've just been pretending she's a completely original character to the franchise.

I fired up Call of Duty: Black Ops this week. I remember loving this game's team deathmatch mode when I was younger. Its multiplayer holds up, but my skills did not. I was pleasantly surprised that the Xbox One's backwards compatibility had managed to retain all of my loadouts and my ranking. Playing through this one

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Huh, they're putting a DC property and a Marvel property back-to-back?

If Frank is responsible for getting illegal guns onto the streets and into the hands of youth, does that mean he needs to punish…himself?

Gilly!

The chemistry and love story between Peggy and Steve is why I would be A-OK with a death cheat somehow bringing her to the present. Like, maybe she's somehow flung forward in time, lives in the present for a few years, and then one day has to go back to live her life in her normal timeline. A second, sadder goodbye

Oh yeah, Civil War is spectacular. The Russos are killin' it so far. I rank the first Avengers movie higher than Age of Ultron, which, admittedly is lower on my MCU list on the whole, because it has the more memorable action sequences of Whedon's films. I did like the party scene in AOU, though. Particularly Thor's

And, for what it's worth, while I'm not like, a shipper or anything, it's looking like they're hinting at a Bruce and Diana something or other in the DCEU. Maybe a good friendship, which would be fine, but they were definitely somewhat flirtatious in their first appearance together and Bruce is the one who finds the

Eh, Age of Ultron's biggest sin was that it was kind of boring, as a whole. I enjoyed some of it, sure, but it never lived up to the expectations of that first trailer. And, personally, I hated his decision to pair Hulk and Black Widow together. "I adore you?" Yuck. We saw like, zero build up for that, and she

It did, a bit. They had a flirtatious relationship during-I think-Joe Kelly's run on JLA. IIRC, Wonder Woman even used some kind of tech to imagine what sort of lives they'd lead. Basically, they were either really, really great, or not as great but not super bad? They decided to remain friends.

Yeah, like, dude literally sacrificed himself and blew himself to pieces seconds ago, after declaring his love for her. It makes sense that she'd be thinking of him and not her aunt who went down like a warrior weeks prior.