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Professor Boredom
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Jesus, there are a lot of really shitty things being said about a 13-year-old girl in this thread.

In addition, in some jurisdictions the "…and a day" means you qualify for prison instead of local lockup. Because as bad as prison is, it's far preferable to being in the general population county jail for any stretch of time.

And you'd try to send a link to a friend but you'd have to spend five minutes explaining that just becuase it's a link to the Onion doesn't mean it's a fake article, that this part is real, etc.

It's the only example I can think of where it looks better in motion than in a photo. Usually it's the opposite.

It is SUCH a bizarre photo! Why is nobody else talking about this?

Mine is Better Call Saul. I know it's a Breaking Bad prequel, I know who's in it, and…that's it. Is it serialized, are there cases of the week? What happens in an episode? Is it a dramedy? Hell, is it an hour or 30 minutes? I have no idea.

What piece of pop culture do you know surprisingly little about? Not even surprising to others, so much as to yourself. Like you don't even realize how little you know about it until you're reminded.

I've been reading the AV Club since before it had its own URL. I'm okay with most of the changes that have been made along the way, because I feel like the original spirit of the site still persists.

The prospect of a slow, contemplative Hellboy movie where each scene is five-plus minutes, shot by a static camera often placed on the floor, makes me wish I hadn't been so harsh when devising my experiment.

(Thank you for answering seriously. Not because I'm annoyed at the jokes—I'm not—but because I'm drawing a blank and that's a great suggestion.)

"For director, I choose first-timer William Bull. Hellboy will be played by Pearl…Ronman?"

Thought experiment: You've been put in charge of a Hellboy reboot. You can hire any creative team and you can cast anyone you want, as long as they're alive and currently working. You can't choose not to make it. Who do you hire?

And playing Hellboy? Neal McDonough.

(A Hellboy quote would obviously be more appropriate, but this is a better reflection of my current mindstate.)

You maniacs! You rebooted it! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

It probably makes more sense in the game example: "you're not just getting into [Magic: The Gathering], you're getting into an entire lifestyle."

Oh yeah, the Harmon-affiliated podcasts are a good example.

I was reading a board game blog this weekend that used the term "lifestyle game," meaning a game whose players don't really play anything else (and possibly aren't even interested in any other games). Magic: The Gathering, Warhammer 40K, and Heroclix all come to mind. Their players are gamers, they're just not really

And they did it because they were influenced by the first season!

I haven't seen it, but I thought this was a limited series with a self-contained story.