Yeah, that’s the exact same thought I had. I’m not buying Chris’ voice as Mario as it is, and that last bit sounds enough like Bradley Cooper’s Rocket voice to throw me off. Not enough to cancel out how much I liked that first bit with Bowser, but if it wasn’t for that I’d have probably written this off.

That’s how I felt when I worked my first summer at the beer distributor my family owned back in the late 90's. Same age, about as much on the same paycheck. I either bought a minidisc player or a katana out of a catalog, I actually can’t recall which. (I mean, I eventually bought both, I just can’t remember which one…

“An employee just received a uniform and it was mistaken as a food order. Sometimes people throw their stuff in a bag to take home.” However, another user counters that the bag had been sealed with a sticker, which is a step you probably wouldn’t take if you were just transporting your own clothes.

I’m kinda the same way. I’m not a fan of bad things happening to animals in general, but something about pets getting hurt or killed will stick in my head and not in a good way. There’s at least one recent movie I’d have walked out of because of a scene like that, if I hadn’t been seeing it with my roommate. (Though I…

Honestly, I’m not as big on humans being killed (but then, I’m picky about horror films in general), but for reasons I actually can’t explain, bad things happening specifically to pets is enough to basically ruin an experience for me if not the entire day. Not that I want to see animals get hurt in general, but pets…

Yeah, but saying “This thing is happening with this TV/film project” doesn’t get nearly as many clicks without predictions of doom and gloom (if it’s news about the production) or baseless speculation on where the story is going (if it’s a reveal about the plot or characters).

If you’re signed up for Sheetz’ rewards program (which is worth it for the gas discounts if nothing else), you can get a free Nitro Cold Brew with a purchase. (well, the email I got specifically promotes the Nitro Cold Brew but the fine print says it’s compatible with all cold brew products)

There’s an issue of the Dork Tower comic from either late 2001 or early 2002 that has a ‘Gamer Celebrity Cookbook’ in it, and it includes a recipe by Gary Gygax that actually has you roll to pick certain ingredients (what kind of beans, etc.). Even if the show didn’t find the comic in their research and lift the idea…

For some reason there seems to be some common defect amongst people who play Chess who confuse being good at a board game with being good at anything else.

To be fair, the only person on the Star Wars set happy with the dialogue was George Lucas himself. Harrison famously told him that just because he could write it doesn’t mean that people could say it. In Leia’s scene with Tarkin, where she inexplicably has a British accent, Carrie said that between the dialogue itself…

I’d be willing to give this a try if there was some sort of little sampler pack with tiny bottles I don’t have to worry about being stuck with if I don’t like it.

Same. I can barely be bothered to shill, unpaid, for stuff I enjoy. I’m certainly not gonna dance for your marketing department in exchange for a raffle ticket.

It is worth noting that employees aren’t always allowed to make their own food, that comes down to managers and franchisees. My roommate used to work at a McDonald’s, and it actually changed from corp-run to a franchisee while he was there. Before the changeover, he could make his own food when he took his dinner…

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…