re: if a kid asked: Probably I’d say something like, “She got sad news from her doctor. It looks like they were hoping to have kids, but it didn’t work out.” You can stay big-picture at the start. They’ll figure it out eventually.

Pixar takes its research trips seriously, and they’ve gone to some pretty far-flung places for some of their movies (e.g. Up), which makes it all the funnier in retrospect that for Toy Story 3, they got to go to...the dump.

Para Para Parasiticinfection.

Yeah. There’s a segment earlier in the first game that I was so angry at, because the entire goal is basically “be sneaky sneaky through this human-occupied area, get to a door at the far end, go through it, and continue,” and I got to the door without killing everyone or being detected.

I’m starting to feel very, very glad that I did not get hired for the documentation job with HBO Whatever that I applied for.

Hell, I remember discussions about the problems inherent in having Fisher Stevens playing an Indian guy in Short Circuit. That movie came out in 1986.

I am absolutely not playing it, because wallowing in misery for hours on end as entertainment is not something I’m willing to do in a year where I’m already struggling with crushing depression and panic attacks (one of those was so bad it landed me in the ER and I’m still paying off thousands of dollars in medical…

Yes, and if you look at the unscored reviews on Metacritic, the tone is markedly different from the scores & comments coming from, y’know, Gamez Gamez Gamez! Magazine or whatever. Predictably.

There’s a bit in one of the comic books that serve as the canonical sequels where Mako finds out his exes are now dating each other. For several panels in a row, he looks like someone smacked him on the head with a board. It’s priceless.

Community is the exception to a lot of rules.

Yep. Rule number one: clip shows are never the writers’ idea.

Yep. At the very least (this is as far back as I happen to know), my dad, his mother, and her father died of colon cancer. Apparently my colon loves to grow polyps too. Why? After three years of colonoscopies and a couple rounds of genetic testing, we still don’t know. 

Well, that’s a whole lotta dudes.

Yeah, Nick wasn’t messing around. When I first saw the message, my thought process was basically this: “Why is it that specific length of ti—oh my god.” And then the bottom dropped out of my stomach. They knew exactly what they were doing.

Poor Unfortunate Souls is so much fun to sing.

At some point I read a behind-the-scenes book discussing ESB that referred to Leia’s hair here as “1930s Nordic.” Then I found a photo of my Swedish grandmother in the mid ‘40s with exactly the same hairstyle...

I read some of the spoilers and decided I need to wait it out on actually playing this, because from the sounds of it (and, I mean, the first game was hardly all puppies and rainbows in the first place, so it’s no surprise), it’s a little more misery than I can stand to wallow in while absolutely everything is this…

Ten bucks says PAX West will be the next domino down. Tickets usually go on sale in late May, anyway, so it won’t be long before we find out.

Frog? Meet Fred.

Music licensing is the worst.