Another smug jerk with a courthouse wedding here, highly recommended. Also, where I live we have a city court and a county court, weddings are done at the county one. I asked a city judge if they ever did weddings at the city court, he said they used to but they did so many that it was taking up too much staff time,…

In my incredibly long marital and life experience, I can confidently report -albeit anecdotally - that the more hard earned cash a couple throws at the actual event, the increased likelihood there will be a messy divorce. The realities of an extended married life can’t possibly stack up to the excitement of such an…

I thought it was silly 41 years ago when I got married, and I still think it’s dumb to spend so much money on one day of a marriage.
I never had a single bridal fantasy growing up.
My wedding, with caterer, cost $750.00 (it was 1979). Dress was not a wedding dress and I found it at Bloomingdales the week before the…

Yes, clearly. What I don’t understand is how families actually have enough money to spend on such things. Coming from a working class family who only recently got their finances straight, I actually do not know what it’s like to have parents with significant savings that they can give to their kids, for a wedding,…

My husband and I did the same - made an appointment to get married by a judge, went on a bike ride afterwards (because Colorado) and then got dolled up for a fancy dinner with just the two of us. I don’t begrudge anyone a big party, but for me personally spending our wedding day with each other and no one else was…

I don’t think it’s that hard. Why not just throw a party without any of the typical wedding accoutrements? No big white dress, no first dance, no introduction as Mr. and Mrs. Groom’s Name, no being ‘given away’ by a traditional authority figure, no traditional vows, no taking the groom’s last name, etc. I’ve been to…

So, I’m going to chime in as that smug jerk who opted out and went to city hall. I get that it’s not for everyone- you celebrate in whatever way feels best to you!- but I had an awesome wedding day that involved exactly no worrying about anyone else’s expectations, and instead just doing stuff that was fun for my…

OK but how do I join W.I.T.C.H

I feel like your friend is probably moreso an actual valuable person to give a free night/experience to, since she probably has the experience and knowledge to write up an actual helpful post (being a travel agent). Also because she is a travel agent, she could actually recommend these places to her clients. So don’t…

In what amounts to a stopped clock being right twice a day, Marianne Williamson is the most prominent political figure I’ve seen seriously propose reparations for slavery, so good for her.

Final Fantasy X-2

I speak as somebody who took a half tab of acid and came up during Cats, then went to my friend’s house and watched both the Broadway show and a high school theater production on YouTube in a 10-hour psychedelic Cats marathon: the special effects in the movie Cats (2019) were bad. They were ugly, bizarre and poorly…

Jennifer Hudson’s performance was so overwrought and schlocky they should have taken her oscar away.

Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest will always have a most excellent place on my shelf for bringing seriously solid string slinging to the SNES. It is the Butt Rock of the Final Fantasy series.

Tough...but fair.

If they made an entire game out of the first five or six hours of FF7, it’s certainly gonna be more than nine years before they’re done with the remakes, if ever.

Also, between my current slow replay of FF7 and seeing all the games in one place here, I’m realizing I haven’t like the character design of most of the…

You’ve done it. This is the definitive hater’s guide to Final Fantasy. Drew Magary would be proud. (RIP Deadspin)

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest

Oh, the effects were great (I assume I watched the post-patch version), but even the best effects in the world don’t stop the fact that it was a psychotic fever dream of a movie that saved the worst for last when after at least being an innocent victim watching from afar, they sing the last song AT YOU and drag you…