I had no problem with Tetrisphere as a game, but it had a limited as hell soundtrack and what felt like the sole song that played during game play got stuck in my head for three straight days

Me too. I never finished it-that period of the tail end of the PS1-first years of the PS2 I bought a ton of games, and it fell by the wayside-but I quite enjoyed it.

You know, by and large I was not upset by the old EU getting the boot and a new story committee picking and choosing what would be acknowledged as canon and all of that. (By and large: I have issues in general with story committees and group think and all that sort of stuff.) The old EU was ridiculously bloated and…

Coming from a guy whose first record he loved was Sgt. Pepper, I honestly have to say you wouldn't have had the Beatles as they were without George Martin. Probably the archetype of the band/producer team. A lot of the innovations the band were lauded for were his. Amazing, amazing producer.

Jed's Dick has died of dysentery.

Wait.

Can we find whoever popularized "hot take" and punch them in the dick really hard?

Anyone remember when vinyl was dead, said to never return?

The State of the Union coverage did that one, actually. Forced them to change the series start, which meant doubling up since SHIELD was always coming back next week.

The A.V. Club:

Upvoted for the Neuromancer reference :D

TV Tropes has a lot to answer for, but utterly ruining the meaning of the word trope on the internet is on top of the list.

Holy shit that's the best username ever.

Stretching the "Die Hard" comparison to the breaking point here, aren't we?

The fact that the writer's strike around that time could've made "Sometimes A Great Notion" the series finale is kind of horrifying. What an awful way to end even a show as bleak and grim as BSG.

I was always less of the opinion that they were out of ideas from Burton by the time that the Black Album came along and were more "we've taken this shit as far as we can take it, now what?" And pretty much they had; Justice, for 80s metal, was pretty damn out there. They couldn't keep making albums like that, as much…

Nah, back then that was typical. White Lion opened for AC/DC. Queensryche opened for both Def Leppard and Metallica in 1988. It really wasn't until metal collapsed in the early 90s and bands had to start grouping up into like minded tours to insure audiences that you stopped seeing that sort of thing.

Where I went to high school was in a suburban area of Virginia where the average income across the school district I was in was not too far apart. You had blazingly rich people and you had some living in federal housing, but most of us were straight in the middle class.

The best part of it is it just shows up, unexplained, and the bit I quoted comes roughly halfway through the movie. It's magnificently surreal.

Lighten up, Francis.