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.

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.

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

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.

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.

As a grocery store employee, I too climb the shelves when I don’t feel like going to the back room and grabbing the step ladder. Although I’d rather do it myself than have a customer do it, because I know how to do it safely, and I don’t know if a given customer does.

To Be Or Not To Be and The Producers are both great Nazi-themed comedies, so it can be done correctly, but if you get it wrong people will hate you forever, so it’s safer not to try in most cases. It would be interesting to see where he goes with it, though.

Pro tip for anyone who wants to buy one of these, or any other hard-to-find gift: ask an employee what day and time they get their shipments, and be prepared to stake out their toy section at 3 in the morning on a Wedensday. This is how my dad got our Wii.

Apparently that charge isn’t as cool as it sounds, it just means something along the lines of “conspired to commit a federal crime”, AKA everything else he was charged with.

No, trying to flee the country. Way more cowardly, and then we get to see him get perp-walked out of the airport in handcuffs.

It’s almost certainly Manafort and/or Flynn. They’re the ones who were the most obviously guilty, and have been the focal point of the investigation. Bet they’re going to rat out everyone higher up the food chain for a plea deal, though. I’ll prepare the popcorn.