The original show implied that Hartnell was a later incarnation back in the 70's, and had the original show continued they actively planned to reveal the Doctor was a reincarnation (not a regeneration) of The Other, one of the three Time Lords responsible for their entire society (alongside Rassilon and Omega). So the…

Maybe it’s the only one of those places he’d heard of or knew anything about?

I know I’ve harped on this before, but given that this entire Snyder Cut business was based on the claim that there was an entire finished movie that effectively got paved over, why should there be any concern about anything shot by Joss? I mean, Joss is an asshole and I don’t give two shits about either cut of the…

It’s weird for me, that being the final question, because I grew up in WV (where the Greenbrier is) and I knew that before I got out of junior high. I’m not sure I’ve ever met anyone who didn’t know that.

When it’s ‘preferred,’ people will prefer not to wear the masks. I live in WV where there was no mask order until very recently. So when it’s voluntarily, I’d see maybe at most 1/4-1/3 of the people in Walmart wearing them. Even fewer at Kroger.

I know certain types of hearing aids and implants can actually make it physically difficult to manage the straps on a mask. But then, again, they can just have someone shop for them and deal with it.

I don’t know the specifics on the pie thing, I’d have to check. It’s possible it could be some sort of ‘have to move inventory to get more’ thing, I dunno. Could just be corporate ass-covering. All I know is that when the pies are on sale, it’s because the manager has been told by their boss (usually a franchisee)…

I’m sorely tempted to get the stuff to make this, because it sounds intriguing. However, I know my roommate would refuse to try it because he’s boring, and I’m not sure if I want to go to the trouble just for myself. Hm.

The visual novel (of a sort) 428: Shibuya Scramble, which uses extensive still photos and occasional live-action footage, was shot on location throughout Shibuya. And the director there did the same thing, with crewmembers whose job it was to get arrested by the cops and slow them down long enough for everyone else to…

Beautifully put. I remember watching this when I was, I wanna say, 13 or 14 when it first came out on VHS, and I remember having heard of the effort they’d put into making Martin Short look like a kid and all that (like the ‘maze’ built into the floor for the party sequence) and being legitimately impressed by said…

And yes, this violates the same ethics laws that his daughter’s tweet flouted the day before.

While I do hope people enjoy this, I’ve seen enough TV and webcomics in this vein over the years that the trailer doesn’t really show me anything I haven’t seen before.

Not gonna deny, a spinoff about the Bad Batch A-Teaming it around the galaxy is something I’ve been dying to hear about ever since that final season of Clone Wars.

Similarly, when you go through a fast food drive-thru and they go out of their way to tell you about a two-for-one deal with their pies or what have you, take that as a sign that they’ve got a bunch they need to move quick before they go bad. Learned that from my roommate from when he worked at McD’s.

And yet that name is probably the second-most-interesting thing about him, after the coat. ‘Generic growly video game protagonist’ is an unearned compliment given his personality, IMHO.

Nope. But because ‘prospective reader picks up book, notices woman wrote it, puts it back down’ is a thing that happens (not as much now as it used to be, but it’s still pretty bad), a lot of women will use their first two initials and last name as a gender-neutral pen name. And when the first Harry Potter book was…

Honestly, it’s even funnier given that she actually didn’t even have a middle name until she needed one for the second initial in her pen name. So it may as well be ‘Karen.’

Aside from Popeye’s and Chick-fil-A, basically none of these are near where I live. That said, I’ve eaten at First Watch on trips and it’s good to see they’re expanding well. I’ve always had a positive experience there. They’ve also probably got the best coffee I’ve ever had in a restaurant that wasn’t,like, a…

I’ve been waiting for this to come out on the Xbox, though I have been wondering... does this include the ‘guided imagery’ mission guest-starring Hideo Kojima that was PS4 (and hacked PC) exclusive? I’d heard in passing early on that that mission would be part of the season pass for Xbox players, but haven’t heard…

He also used to be a prolific artist for Legend of the Five Rings (particularly back in the AEG days) and was part of the community there, too. He did the artwork for one of my favorite cards, and I’ve got a playmat of that art signed by him. So that’s a pleasant memory of the game tainted now.