Sooooo, they essentially seem to have recycled the old commtech reader technology for the crystals, made everyone think its something shiny and new, and charge super ridiculous park-special prices for otherwise cheap pieces of plastic. Intriguing indeed...

you forget she is fueled by justice and determination, my gramma made it to 92 after almost giving up to a pretty bad heart attack in her mid-80s out of sheer determination and spite after she heard a couple of my aunts and uncles arguing over who got what from the house when she died right outside her hospital room…

Centralia still has a few residents too but it’s called a ghost town, it’s even had its postal code revoked and had 90-95 percent of its buildings demolished, and is officially no longer a town and yet somehow still is one, albeit as a “ghost town”.

there’s a few left trying and going mostly unnoticed, the fraction and aja Hawkeye books were amazing, and the squirrel girl books were good until things started getting meh because of interference from higher-up. companywide though it’s a problem they have yet to address properly, and mishandling of properties and…

I’m honestly just sitting here wondering which of the books they’re going to rip off without admitting it like they did for the last few. I mean, they hinted at the jedi academy books and gave us Evil Ben from the books but not really because their “the books don’t exist to us” BS for TFA, and Rogue One had material…

NO, bad internet, BAD! that is not cool, that is nightmare fuel!

hey now, Death Note was another matter entirely, because crazy obsessive serial killer fangirl latching on to the object of her affections for a one-sided pretend relationship to manipulate her like he did everyone else, and their shinigami besties eyerolling at the crazy mortals and chilling with popcorn taking bets…

the point of the “game” in the book was that Halliday set up the contest as one giant easter egg hidden throughout the OASIS of all the things he loved in his lifetime to make a world he no longer recognized care just a little about the world he knew growing up. Only someone who really understood him not just the…

re-invented. marvel was doing one-shot “what if” books and miniseries a long time ago, even dark horse did them for a while, and DC is still flopping like a fish out of water struggling to figure out what to do with their own properties anymore. it’s really sad and i’m tired of it.

and the whole “prestige books”…

nope, it’s bad, you’re just seeing it from the “normalcy” as you called it of a current modern middle-class lens, where we expect there to be wifi and working toilets and instant everything as a given, and forget that the rest of the world exists once we have those things, especially things like poverty and the misery…

yup, because the main OASIS servers are there and the corporate headquarters, and people move there to be closer to them and have less lag, so columbus is one of the few cities thriving while the world dies of apathy and urban blight.

evil guys aka IOI company were only based in columbus because the OASIS main servers were there and they wanted the lad reduction for their mischief against the other company. the servers were why Columbus was the huge thriving metropolis and tech mecca in the book because everyone wanted to move there to live rich…

we have historic landmarks that old too, there’s a UNESCO world heritage site called Cahokia Mounds that is right outside st louis that is the remains of a massive stone and earthwork city dated back to the year 800-1400. people tend to forget america has a history that predates european arrival and the naming of the…

google the Cahokia Mounds, they’re the remains of a massive city full of massive earthwork and stone structures in north america, and they’re not the only pre-colombian (year 800-1350 estimated inhabitation) city existing in north america. for the most part the oldest structural remains of our past are ignored in…

that depends on whether you’re willing to count the remains of the native american mound cities, the massive stone and earthwork pyramids and animal sculptures in ohio and other places in the midwest, and other structures still left in america predating european arrival by more than a few thousand years. People kind…

I’m running the same version of chrome, and mine just has a toggle option in the menu dropdown on youtube already and has for quite a while. look in where the dropdown from your avatar icon opens the menu with your channel info and options about halfway down. mine actually says “dark mode: off” with an arrow toggle…

it’s really not a secret, mine actually has a toggle option for it right in the menu dropdown section on Youtube in Chrome. It’s been there for quite a while actually.

If you would like to know an interesting fan theory that’s been batted around the net for a while, it is believed that HotD was also a bit of a ‘love letter’ and nod to Kouta Hirano, creator of Hellsing, as not only is there a character named for him that resembles him physically who is an otaku and gun nut much like…

it actually might not be, it depends on who has the permissions and owns the actual copyrights. Japanese copyright laws are different than most places (which is how the fancomic/doujinshi market gets away with so much). depending on the publisher they’re working through, sometimes artists and writers can actually not…

Yep, and their entire family is named after underwear, much like there’s an entire family named after kitchen utensils, and other people named after food and household appliances, and even a few named for slang terms for body parts (like poor Chi-chi). The theory has been for many many years that Toriyama didn’t feel…