Well, Elder Millennial and Oregon Trail Generation are more or less the same thing. What I mean is what term I use depends on who I’m talking to, when it comes up.

Even money’s on an attempt to basically turn Madame Web into the Sony Spider-verse Doctor Strange, complete with knock-off ‘mirror dimension’ effects.

Yeah, the whole “it’s just like having an expensive cable package again!” meme is so fucking stupid and incorrect and I’m so tired of hearing it.

There were people who unironically thought Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was about 9/11. Assume nothing about viewers’ ability to read a situation.

Thank you, I could have sworn that she said it wasn’t about Dave (whether it actually is or not), but I thought that might have been the Mandela Effect at work.

Also, I would think his character would not use the “Short Round” nickname any longer because that was a child’s name and he’d bristle at being called that now.

Fair enough, though I’d still count that as Hollywood not realizing his potential, though.

I think given how long it’s been since we’ve last seen the character, there would be plenty of room for him to ‘reinvent’ Short Round in some capacity and let his natural charm serve as the obvious link. If not for the fact that everyone would know it’s him, I’d almost even have him running around using another name…

The closest thing I had to a serious complaint about Everything Everywhere All at Once was how angry it made me that Hollywood has slept on Ke Huy Quan all these years.

In addition to what other people have said about tricks with clothing, Aldi is one of those chains that makes you pay for bags, which means there’s a lot of empty boxes floating around so you can put your groceries in those to put in your car. I imagine there’s a lot of little tricks you can do with that to hide a…

I can’t remember where I read this, but I know I read somewhere once that there’s some chemical benefit to getting a little bit of water in your whiskey, something about the dilution emphasizing certain compounds over others and affecting the flavor experience — one of the reasons why scotch and soda is so popular.

I could be wrong, but I believe it’s intended to mean that she has the sort of butt stereotypically associated with African-American women.

I can see that. A downside of it being 100% canon is that it means all that tedious stuff with the Hand still went down.

Yup, same. I wonder if this is something more common with a chain we don’t have where I’m at.

With regards to how ‘essential’ things are, I tend to look at Phase 4 the way we look at Phase 1: beginning a larger arc and setting up a status quo. I think for now they’re playing it fast and loose and we’ll start seeing things snap into place once we have some big tentpole crossover and things move into Phase 5.

Yup. I’m blanking on the exact quote, but it could be summed up as ‘the Netflix shows are basically canon, but don’t expect every individual little detail to still hold up.’ Basically giving Marvel Studios some wiggle room if they want to ignore a subplot or recast a character or something.

My barista swears he doesn’t use TikTok. “That’s, like, the social media thing, right?”

I looked through the comments on the trailer and had a bit of a gut punch moment where someone posted that he was hoping to get to see this because he’s got stage 4 cancer and isn’t sure he’ll be able to hold out until the release. And then I scrolled down in the thread a bit and saw that Kevin Smith himself, having…

By all accounts, he is actually a pretty good dude and genuinely appreciative of his fans. But he does his best stuff when he gets personal with it (Chasing Amy, Dogma, Clerks 2) as opposed to just getting really high and coming up with an idea he can use to justify getting a studio to pay him to hang out with his…

It’s not amazing, but I unironically enjoyed it. The View Askewniverse characters were a big part of my pop culture landscape at an important time in my life, and getting to spend an hour and a half with them again was something I needed without realizing it I needed it. To be fair, there’s a lot about it that doesn’t…