“Sure, you can appeal, Rom. You just have to come to California and do it in person. The Academy will even pay for your airfare and hotel...”

The proper response when you’re in the way outside lane and are going to miss your exit on the freeway is this: Foot off gas, foot over brake, spew about 15 dozen profanities while foot hovers over brake and you pass exit without speed really decreasing, mash foot onto gas and accelerate like an insane person,…

In the original show, Ralph was chosen to wear the suit because he was a person with strong moral character, as opposed to “drinking tequila, singing karaoke, and not much else”

I’m unbothered by the “casting a woman” bit, but the “hard-drinking aimless slacker who gets forced into heroism” character archetype is more than a bit hackneyed at this point.

The night was still criminally absent of a Celebrity Jeopardy sketch.

It didn’t matter if it occurred to Luke. The Emperor was ready AF. Snoke was a dupe. Beaten by a dark Jedi who was beaten by a girl with no training. Looking back now, the threat of Snoke was all just perception, with nothing behind it. The audiences were dupes as well. That’s one of the reasons TLJ hurts TFA.

I actually felt like TLJ failed on three levels. First, as a movie in the franchise. It poisoned and retconned a huge amount of the OT. Those movies will be harder to enjoy having seen TLJ. Second, it poisoned and retconned much of TFA. Unless you’re delusional, TFA will be much harder to enjoy having seen TLJ because…

What I like best is that all those asshats from the OT are shown for what they really are, washed up losers. Han and Leia are failures as a couple. They are failures as parents. Han has to resort to shit he did 40 years ago. Like a CEO going back to flipping burgers. Leia is leading a failed rebellion into the ground,…

This is FASCINATING. Two people interpreting this allegorical incident as representing diametrically opposed positions on the political/philosophical scale. Never have I seen such clear evidence that these behaviors are identical, despite supposedly being “right” or “left”.

“The scene that best utilized this idea was when Alara was confronted for wearing a hat that she had no cultural right to. She didn’t know a thing about it and had only chosen it to hide her forehead ridges. Her accuser threatens to downvote her and create a scene.”

Back in 2004, when blogs were still a thing that people did, I had a blog. One night I wrote a long-ish entry on why I thought Rodney Dangerfield was the only modern comedian on par with Chaplin and Keaton. When I finished writing it, for the hell of it I went to Rodney’s web site and sent him a link to the post. (To…

counter-argument: hillary is a bad candidate. Only winning the popular vote by 3 mil and losing the electoral college outright to Donald Fucking Trump and his band of bumbling rejects and racist assclowns means you are a bad candidate.

People can sit there and say Hillary was a bad candidate, but she beat Trump to the tune of 3M+ in the popular vote and that just eats him up. She wasn’t a bad candidate, she was the unfortunate result of an electoral college system that nowadays has a built in advantage in the red states.

“Your ability to enjoy the tabletop game Secret Hitler will likely depend on your ability to laugh as an increasingly impotent progressive coalition fails to halt the rise of fascism.”

Yeah, but at least before you could leave the terminal if you had a lot of time to kill before your flight. Now you’ve got a captive audience, because nobody is leaving the terminal nowadays once they get past security. Convenience and a captive audience has pretty much always meant higher prices. Just now they have…

You got it. That hidden cave isn’t accessible until Goonies comes out.

The character actually has quite a few abilities. Tracking, X-Ray Vison (Through a set of special specs), hacking and technology abilities as well as being able to perform needed acrobatics to get to certain areas. Is the world great? Nah. Is it just great to see the IP used in a new format that includes new…

I got the pre order price at GameStop. For 7 bucks i would be happy with the minifigure and car alone. Gameplay is a bonus then.

Ah-hem