Calling Bandcamp a "streaming music website" really sells them short. Bandcamp is my absolute favorite digital music storefront. Everything about their philosophy of being fair the both consumers and the bands rings true to me, and they're always the first place I look when I want to buy something digitally.

Yeah, seriously - this was an amazing series. Nice to have it officially over here in the states!

Probably not much of a threat, then, actually.

Ook?

I'm quite fond of Stardust, actually, and have seen it many times. It feels to me very much like the same kind of action-fantasy movie that was being made in the 80s - like it wouldn't have felt at all out of place if released alongside films like Labyrinth, Princess Bride, Willow, Neverending Story, etc. Just a…

@avclub-4ffb0d2ba92f664c2281970110a2e071:disqus Heh, well - I said I'd desist but apparently cannot resist one last reply.

@CyberneticOrganism:disqus Ha, indeed it has. I shall desist. :)

That's a completely separate conversation you're welcome to have with someone else.

Uh, no. I'm pointing out that when people snark about war, it's generally not making fun of, or otherwise ostracizing, the victims of war, or people concerned about the consequences of war. As opposed to this article, which is basically just making fun of Rihanna for having a legitimate concern.

The difference is that snarking about war, violence, and death is typically done within a framework of black humor where it's understood that the humor's derived from the idiocy of the snark (or at least in the shared experience of being horrified by the snark-target), as opposed to making fun of the dead people…

Ha, I have so much nostalgia for Last Starfighter, but when I watched it again a few years ago it was just SOOO BAD. I've pretty successfully repressed that rewatch memory, so I can bask in my unfounded senimentality, though.

I… certainly won't dispute the technicality of what you're saying (random cards win about as often as thought-out cards), but if you're playing CAH to "win," or are otherwise concerned with its "mechanics," such as they are, I think you're sort of missing the point of the game. It's just an excuse to be silly with…

I was pretty wowed by this at first, though in the end I'm not super fond of having regularized 3D models for many of the poses. Hobbes in particular comes off as being somewhat lifeless, IMO.

I wasn't even aware that the whole realtime-facial-overlay thing existed on phones until I saw a couple of kids playing with it in the row in front of me in a theater (not during the show, thankfully), and yeah - it was pretty astounding just from a technological perspective.

A long, depressing road.

I assume it's probably partly a sort of Bystander Effect in place, where the responsibility feels so diffuse that you figure it's just better to get on with your job and get out of there. Probably also a related sense of, "well this must actually be worthwhile/good/whatever despite my misgivings, because how the hell…

Yeah, indeed - I hadn't been expecting that explosion of guitar in there. Quite glorious!

Remember when TMBG started playing a full-band version of Fingertips at shows? Epic, man, totally epic. (For reals, it was a great version.)

I'm with you on loving Alien 3! I get why most people hate it, but I always thought it was a brilliantly bleak addition to the series. The CG alien FX during the end sequences could've definitely used some work, of course…

Hmm, I honestly don't remember the diaper. Presumably all the other terrible ideas just pushed that one out of my retention queue?