Gladiator isn’t an exemplar of a movie with a great script? But it was written by the same guy who wrote the scintillating screenplays of The Time Machine (2002) and Star Trek: Nemesis! How can you possibly argue with that?

Looks like they beat you to it this time around, because the launch release of Monterey is version 12.0.1.

I mean, I know that getting rid of the crappy houses is necessary to max out your score gameplay-wise, but in-universe, you’re literally killing nearly everyone in your village. From the perspective of the people on the ground, I doubt “wonderful” is the way they’d perceive getting Noah’s Flooded just because their…

My favorite part of ActRaiser was that part in the island town where you have to use Earthquake to cause a land bridge to form between the main island and the smaller one.

His son, Webb C. Hayes, was a real son of a Birchard

historical events, like the presidential debate in which Martin van Buren invited William Henry Harrison to “shut the fuck up, you fucking geriatric pig-fucker.” (Don’t get mad at us, this is the historical record speaking.)

In other food mess-related news, apparently there’s a town in Spain that has an annual tomato food fight every year, which almost seems to demand a Wiki Wormhole article ;-)

Also, one can argue that while those companies technically existed 20 years ago, they weren’t really the same companies. Google was a scrappy search-engine startup, Amazon was a bookseller, and Netflix was a DVD rental service. None of them were anything resembling the online digital empires they are now.

And then on top of that, Wanda destroyed that one guy’s grandmother’s piano, which might have been his only remaining thing to remember her by, for a sitcom gag.

That last paragraph is basically what I’m thinking about. Rebuilding her fantasy dream life somewhere out in the sticks and leaving everybody else alone has got to be better than wherever that’s going.

There’s one big thing about it that bugs me, and that’s....... if Wanda is living out in the middle of nowhere now, why can’t she just recreate the Hex there? She can recreate her “family” and live happily with them, there are no neighbors to get imprisoned... isn’t that a win-win?

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I think they will, assuming there are still people 70 years from now.

Secret of Mana for the SNES really should have been mentioned. Did you play Zelda and wish there was a multi-player version? No? I don’t believe you.

Terranigma is, for my money, one of the two or three best games on the SNES. Even if you didn’t care for Soul Blazer or Illusion of Gaia, give that one a shot. It’s a work of art, and it’s utterly criminal that the article didn’t feature it.

One of the things about it that was particularly memorable to me is the dungeon theme that uses a bloody-murder scream as an instrument (followed by several huge drum beats, no less).

Late to this party, I know, but Oh’s plan here required her to be able to perform a Vulcan mind meld, and we’ve never seen any evidence on-screen that pure-blooded Romulans can do that.

I was wondering if someone was going to post this one. :-D

*cough* Star Trek *cough*

Have yourself a merry little Christmas