I also think Ledger’s Joker is such a amazing product of its time. You can argue the Joker is first and foremost, an agent of chaos but what makes that really scary is the raw idealism behind it. He’s willing to die on several occasions just so that he can carry forth a message and a worldview that is opposite…

Isn’t Kevin Simmons on the Video Games Hot Dog podcast?

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This version’s better.

Titanic Goes to Hell: The Final Sailing would be one heck of an Asylum joint.

I own a comic book store. It’s bordering on tedious at this point to explain to people that their beaten-to-death ‘80s and ‘90s Marvel/DC/Image comics are worth somewhere between jack and shit. I know that hologram cover was special, man, so special that they made eight billion of them.

(Whereas those Magic Beta cards…

Real Talk: I find that io9 has become a much more bitter site over the past year. Maybe its the lack of open channel, maybe its the lack of recaps, maybe its the shift in who works there, maybe its the Gizmodo partnership, but this site has become a lot more bitter.

When I was 26, it meant “do you get drunk and then have sex with strangers?”

Doesn’t count. Everyone who is an actual fan of the Olympics knows that Leonidas is the GOAT. He didn’t have all the fancy accommodations that Olympians have now, like shoes and anti-chaffing nipple tape. Do you know what they did back then if your chaffed nips got infected? They took’em.

I believe 164 BCE was also the last time a Buffalo sports team was in the playoffs.

more like Leonidas of ‘Roids.

Thanks for that whitesplaining. I’ll copy your comment and email it to the Chinese director and primarily Chinese cast. They’ll be grateful that you saved them from their internalized racism.

lololololololol, no.

I’ll never understand the ‘I can’t earn everything in the game, therefor I’m being cheated’ philosophy. Exclusive rewards for timed events are fine, and it doesn’t detract from your experience by not having every fucking skin for every hero.

These are awesome, though my inner Trek nerd wants to point out that the 1701 had duotronic circuits, not isolinear chips.

Great companion piece to these LCARS coasters -

A disappointing DC movie?

Agreed on the first two movies (which I still like but mainly for the source material), which are so literal-minded and slavish to the text that it robs the movie’s sense of discovery. I shouldn’t feel like I could call out every line of dialogue because its copy/pasted from novel to script. It may sound weird to some…