Also, they'd spend 6 years building the Robin/Barney tension, and the finale utterly destroyed all the progress that character made, and thought that giving him a daughter would be 'growth' instead of an extended struggle with CPS.

As far as I know, they lost the auction, and so kept the money, and while he used a bit of his fund to set up Papa Pope, I doubt he used all of it.

I love the guy, but his ideas about comics are like the Patton Oswalt monologue from P&R. Maybe Twitter needs him and his ideas about Final Fantasy and Chronocross crossover movies as much as he needs it.

Sharing photos on facebook was just an ordeal after a while. You could only upload a couple of photos at a time, so I just stopped bothering. And so did almost all my friends, except for the ones with kids.

There are certain friends that you just want to keep in touch with and know they're doing well, without having to spend a lot of time writing Christmas cards. The problem is that they get swamped by that one asshole that wants to live blog Daredevil and hasn't discovered twitter.

Ultimately, they're both very different than the writing of a novel, where it's just the writer and the editor, which is what most of us think when we think of 'writing'.

This Week On the Adventures of Huck, Billionaire.

The former Vice President Andrews. But really, it was all of us, and the spirit of common decency.

It's hilarious that within a week of the *main villain* of Walking Dead picking someone out of a line up to beat to death, the *main hero* of Scandal beats a helpless person to death.

I for one, am looking forward to Ex Machina land in the Magic Kingdom.

I wish that Diane would have talked to him later, right as he was about to watch it, and tell him that the movie was actually about how men can be easily manipulated by beauty, and that their lust makes them terrible people.

I remember having a similar discussion with my parents after seeing Annie, and being worried about ending up an orphan in some evil foster home. The resolution was even the same…. my guardian would have been my older sister, who really has her shit together.

I remember having a similar discussion with my parents after seeing Annie, and being worried about ending up an orphan in some evil foster home. The resolution was even the same…. my guardian would have been my older sister, who really has her shit together.

Somewhere I heard the term "Awesomeness Exhaustion" and I think that's a better description. Sometimes action sequences can go on so long that you're no longer engaged or excited, and it's tough to put my finger on why some movies like Fury Road can do it but others (Machete springs to mind) leave me feeling drained.

My pet theory has always been that novelty and fun in game play makes you forgiving of tropes or cliches that you would roll your eyes at in a movie. Warcraft is Warhammer/LOTR, but commanding armies of complaining orcs is still fun. But when you try and turn that back into a movie, you're just making a knock off of…

Cracked had a nice article about videogame writing this week, by the author of Spec Ops: The Line. It basically sounds like they're writing a game at the same time their art department is making whatever they think is cool, and then having to shoe horn weird scenes into their plot. Or they run out of money and have…

So, do we get a boss fight with a Putin in a exoskeleton sporting miniguns?

Furious 8: Not that Walker

Oddly enough, I got the Jerry Lewis reference :)

I remember that creepy feeling watching Apocalypse Now and thinking I'd seen it before, and after a while, I realized it had been the plot of an Animaniacs episode that I never got as a kid.