SMB2 US was fucking awesome, I don't care what anyone says. It was weird and trippy and different, and that's what made it great. SMB2 Japan was great, too, but of course I didn't know this until years later (and The Lost Levels was a reasonable facsimile, but that version was toned down in difficulty, even). Both…

We find common ground over Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, and Led Zeppelin. It's doable.

If you think Beavis and Butthead is just about the dirty jokes, you're missing an entire layer of subtext. Yes, you can turn off your brain and just enjoy it for the dirty jokes, and it's still pretty hilarious, but if you pay attention, it's actually really smart satire. I would bet there are a lot of teenagers like…

Well, sometimes bands DO change their sound to become more palatable to the mainstream (aka to sell more records), and some old fans are alienated because they think the new sound is less interesting. It's not like it's not a thing that happens.

Yeah, I have a problem with this attitude too. That if you don't like something, you must just not "get" it or understand it. No, actually, it's completely possible to "get" something, to understand it, and still not like it.

And as far as I recall, we listened to Rush the entire 16-hour trip. Well, we listened to Rush and the driver’s snarling monologue about how, “This is good
Rush, the early stuff, not the new worthless shit that morons like. The
whole fucking band’s gone to complete crap.” And also about how only
the driver on a trip…

To be fair, you can be IN high school and going bald.

I beg to differ. Ramen is what you eat when you're too broke to buy real food. I've had it maybe 3 times since graduating college (I'm 33) and take that as a sign I've done something right, anyway.

For those lamenting the change, rest assured that Kraft Singles will still be made out of old shower curtains.

At 33, I only look at my own shit when I thought "WTF, is something wrong with me?" while passing it. Which, granted, is probably a good 45% of the time.

Yeah, there is world-building, and then there is 400 pages of nothing but world-building before anything happens. AFFC is where the bloat began.

Is that because you live in NY or NJ and that's just how people say "dog" there?

Totally agreed. If we buy Dany's title as the "mother of dragons", she's a terrible and neglectful mother.

The difference between religions and cults is in their numbers.

This could be my ignorance speaking, but did he ever actually claim to be the "smartest black man" or is that just something you're projecting? Maybe he did say that, but it doesn't sound to me like something he'd say.

Well, you certainly elaborated!

I always wondered if all the war and backstabbing in the world of GoT is being slowly built up to finally be revealed as so much petty bullshit when the White Walkers invade.

Daenerys is making a right fuckery of everything she touches. Hers is a story of the road to hell being paved with good intentions.

"Of those vying for the crown, the only one who seems to be having any fun is Stannis Baratheon"

My favorite Steve Harvey WTF moment on Family Feud: