I remember some of the earliest development screenshots for Battleborn, where the developers were using Borderlands character models as placeholders.

Now I’m getting flashbacks to the ‘Black Debbie’ conversation from Sealab 2021. “What if everyone went around calling you ‘White Stormy?’”

I mean, the heart attack as a setup I can get. That’s Kevin mining his own stuff for pathos, and that’s worked out pretty well for him in the past (though usually he’s a little more subtle about it). But the rest might have actually taken me from “I don’t care how terrible it is, I just wanna hang out with these…

That’s a very good question. I’ve seen it reported somewhere that part of the show is going to involve diving into the mystery of whatever happened to Sam Beckett, so maybe it’s still tied to Sam’s lifetime.

For some reason, the ‘just be patient’ advice in this context reminds me of when I was getting some blinds installed at my house. I asked the guy from the hardware store if there was anything I could do to help with what he was doing in the moment (I can’t remember if he was measuring or installing). He said “You’ve…

While that’s possible, I feel like that’s the sort of move we’d be more likely to see in an earlier season. I feel like if we were going to see that sort of bait and switch at this point, they wouldn’t leave off on the cliffhanger but end things on Guillermo’s disappointed look to the camera whether before or during…

Same. I think the last time I was served an actual in-flight meal was during family trips between Pittsburgh and Florida in the 90's, when anything that wasn’t a half-hour puddle-jumper at least got you the equivalent of a grocery store-brand frozen dinner. Yet a couple of times over the last decade, I had non-stop…

Flying isn’t what it used to be.

If you’re in a legal case, pretty much anything you say outside the courtroom is fair game to bring back into the courtroom. Once my family was involved in a legal arbitration, and while my brother was in the middle of giving either testimony or a deposition (I can’t recall which), the other side’s lawyer grilled him a…

I let someone jam a pencil in my ear so I could model for the Electriclarryland album cover and all I got was this lousy t-shirt... and having to constantly remind people to stand on my right side if they want to talk to me.

It’s the same movie that decided to set the highly anticipated meeting of two different Spider-Mans in the kitchen of Ned’s grandmother, though, so it’s not like things making sense was high on the list of priorities during filming anyway.

Apple Crisp Oatmilk Macchiato

Bethesda got real shitty about the name with other people, too. An indie game initially supposed to be called “Prey for the Gods” but wasn’t anything like Prey (it’s sort of a ‘Shadow of the Colossus’ clone) got threatened with a lawsuit and changed it rather than risk losing a legal battle. But because they didn’t…

The last toaster oven I had couldn’t even consistently manage toast.

That’s why all the contests, all the promos and the advertising is concentrated on getting you to download the app.

A Tarnished Angel adaptation would be amazing.

I’m just trying to see why this is so much better than, for instance, getting one of those little squeeze bottles of flavoring syrup. Better for the consumer, I mean, because proprietary bottles and flavor pouches does sound like a hell of a racket.

I remember trying just a cream soda float when I was kid, but it didn’t quite hit — the sweet-on-sweet mentioned in the article. Some fast food franchise was doing Coke floats a few years back — I think it was Wendy’s, with their Frosty soft-serve, and that wasn’t too bad.

I actually found Whedon’s writing underwhelming on his comics (including the Firefly ones), oddly-enough. Even when coming from the same characters, in my opinion the dialogue never seemed to work as well on the page as it did on the screen.

I just recently got around to trying these. The taste was pretty satisfactory -- I’ve had worse real jerky -- and while the texture was definitely different, this didn’t get caught in my teeth the way the real thing does, and I actually really liked that. I also thought the price was pretty reasonable for the size of…