My sister and I have been watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 together (both the old show and the reboot). It’s a lot more fun when you have someone to watch with.

I found out that Steam has Darkstone, which was my favorite video game in high school, for $5. I’ve been playing it all day, and it’s just as gloriously terrible/awesome as I remember.

I think having the X-men and Avengers in the same universe is a stupid idea even without bringing reboots into it (getting superpowers from infinity stones, mad science, or aliens is fine, but getting superpowers from a natural genetic mutation means we have to throw you in a gulag), but I think having the XCU…

Miller’s Crossing might be the better movie (although that’s a subjective measurement) but quality and fame are not synonymous. The Usual Suspects is inarguably a much better-known film amongst general audiences.

Adoption is also not without it’s downsides. Healthy white newborns are adopted out as fast as they’re born, and oftentimes the mother will change her mind, leaving the adoptive parents back at square one. So that leaves you with adopting outside your race (which comes with a lot of unique challenges), going to a…

We’re past the point in our evolution where we need people who can pop out 6 babies and still run around in the woods looking for food. Our selective pressures are not infant mortality and predators anymore. So maybe this kid won’t be able to reproduce on their own, if they become a scientist and figure out a cure for…

The “80% of Republicans” stat is misleading, though; moderate Republicans have been leaving the party ever since Trump got elected. The only Republicans left are the deplorable 35%, and you can’t win with that small of a percentage of total voters, especially when not all of them will show up to the voting booth.

It is up to the judge whether the sentences are served concurrently or consecutively, but I think they made the right call in this case. This guy was a hardcore scumbag, and he deserves to never see the outside of a prison again.

I kind of feel the same way about Frozen. I almost feel like I get bragging rights for having successfully avoided it for so long.

The fact that he was just chilling in New York with his wanted criminal brother was indeed a little suspicious. Strange was right to be cautious while he figure down out if Thor was mind controlled, an imposter, or randomly evil now.

Caiomhe is apparently prounounced “Kwee-va”. Irish names are really weird.

I’m not a LEO, but I do watch a lot of crime procedural shows, so here’s my guess: If the guy was really dumb, he might have included a URL on his manifesto, so people could read more of his ramblings. The police could subpoena the hosting service for the name of the person who owns that site, and proceed from there.

I was thinking Mueller, but that’s even better.

I was thinking more “take all the kids in your extended family to see this while they’re in town for the holidays”. Kid friendly, non-controversial, but not particularly awful to your adult sensibilities, either.

Barney being eviscerated by a light pole was a moment.

My family’s white thanksgiving is awesome. 30+ crammed into either my mom or grandma’s house (they switch off every year), everyone fighting over who gets to hold the baby (there’s always at least one baby in attendance), and enough food to feed an army.

Dark World had a couple of serious flaws, but Thor and Loki’s relationship was so entertaining it more than made up for them. Loki’s “death” scene alone was worth the price of admission.

Jamie Alexander was busy with another role and couldn’t make it. The in-universe explanation, per the director, is that Loki was worried she was going to figure out he wasn’t the real Odin and sent her on a long, boring mission to somewhere else.

Apparently her name in the comics is Brunnhilde, but I did think it was weird they never said her name in the movie.

The X-Men work a lot better when they’re in their own continuity. I never understood why people were fine with people who got their powers from radiation, aliens, magic, or technology, but getting powers from a natural genetic mutation was unacceptable. It just makes more sense when the Mutants are the only metahumans…