No receiver, just a soundbar. I do have a number of cats in here, though, so maybe that’s exacerbating the issue for both. Either way, even just playing it through in performance you can tell that it’s using every single inch of the system architecture at full blast. It’s a staggeringly gorgeous game.

Have you had any weird shutdowns? My PS5 AND the TV itself randomly shut off twice, which has never happened to me before with any game. Just cut off without warning or freeze. It stopped happening when I switched to performance and left it there, but now I’m afraid to turn graphic mode back on because I worry that…

They don’t really even have to kill him off. On that show, it would be perfectly acceptable if there were just a scene where he’s riding out in a field and this coyote shows up and Dutton rides out after it and then is just missing for multiple seasons only to show back up whenever his schedule is clear with some…

It was extremely obvious that it was supposed to be Keaton at the end. The Clooney joke wasn’t worth sacrificing the thematic resolution that the original ending would’ve provided. At. All. Add to that the vanished Keaton/Batgirl (Beyond) movie and it’s pretty disappointing. No wonder the original test screenings…

I’ve gotta admit, you took the thought right out of my mind with the “almost suspiciously famous John Hannah” line. 

That’s the thing, though. It all takes place in a few speed forced nanoseconds. He takes a hot burrito mid-cook out of a falling microwave and replaces it with a baby. Then, when time returns to normal speed and all of the babies are safely revealed to the nurse lined up on the gurney, the microwave dings and Flash…

“Yes yes, Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people’s needs. Very sad life. Probably have... very sad death. But, at least... there is symmetry.”

Well, this won’t help with the blu rays, but VR headsets are 3D compatible. It’s kind of amazing, actually. If you have a digital file of a 3D film, then you can watch it in a virtual theater. I use it in my Oculus sometimes. It’s insanely customizable. So, if you ever wanted to watch Avatar in 3D on a thousand foot…

I’m fairly certain that it’s a misdirect and they are actually testing him for Lex Luthor. Which, if you’ve seen “The Great”, he is more than up to. He’s surprisingly adept at portraying subtly layered yet theatrical villainy.

I think the real question here is whether or not Wes Anderson is technologically savvy enough to locate despecialized editions.

I think “The Smoking Crooner” was my favorite. “PEOPLE WANNA KILL ME, JAMES!”

This reminds me of the time I got drunk and accidentally ordered the shipwreck of the Mary Celeste on Amazon. Goddamn Subscribe-And-Save. I was forty-nine ghosts deep before I could even understand the Amazon return policy on sea-bound ocean-wraiths. It’s not the shipping that gets you, either. It’s the handling. 

Yeah, it should have been #1. Not even mentioning it is baffling beyond comprehension. The only late night show that I would ever make a point to watch. It basically kept me going when I had to spend a year in a hospital bed. I miss it too. All the time.

Headband + Mustache (shifting in size and scope depending on Cal’s mood). This is the only hair combo for my Cal. My Jedi is just a little bit trashy and that’s okay. It’s also why nobody is surprised when he whips out a blaster and shoots people in the face. That’s just how the headband mustache do.

I mean, I dug the show all the way through, but they seemed to be running kind of thin on material for a while there. And that wasn’t a Ted problem. It was more of a hitting-the-same-notes-to-diminishing-returns problem. I guess they could do something wildly different, I guess. As it stands, though, it feels like…

I gotta ask. Do they just keep coming back or are there always more possums hidden somewhere behind the decoy possums that are being evicted? And if it’s the latter, then what are you planning to do about your possum-covert rich basement environment moving forward? 

This show must set the record for the number of times characters say either “um” or “right”.

Hader has talked repeatedly in interviews about how Barry has gotten dumber every season (to the point where he started the final season literally calling Gene from prison to ask if he’d been tricked). In that spirit, “Oh, Wow!” are the funniest last words. I can’t stop laughing about it. 

He was vastly overpaid because he was tangentially related to the family who owned the company. Tom is keeping him on because he’s basically his only friend, but he’s going to be paid a reasonable salary for the position now. Although, I would guess that he’ll probably get promoted quickly anyway, for obvious reasons.