In my admittedly anecdotal experience, there’s actually a large overlap between athletic shoe collectors and conservatives, so I wouldn’t be so sure that some of these people aren’t part of their customer base.

Probably the nature of the product. They are fine if someone thinks they are associated with Christianity but not with Satanism, considering the former is believed in by most of the US, and the latter is despised by much of the US.

The issue is that the shoes still have the Nike logo on them. This means that, legally speaking, a reasonable person might mistake these as an official Nike product. The whole point of trademarks are so that brands have the legal ability to maintain control of their reputation and the quality of products associated…

Having read most of his bibliography, Lovecraftian horrors indeed rarely directly appear in them. The narrator never sees the ghouls in “Pickman’s Model” outside of some paintings. The narrator of “The Call of Cthulhu” never sees Cthulhu (although he interviews some people who have). The shoggoth only directly appears…

Yeah, I’m sorry. I’ve always despised this soundtrack except for “Go the Distance” which I find just mediocre. Of the Disney animated musical films, this is the last one I would willingly listen to the full soundtrack for. Yes, that includes Home on the Range.

Boomerang is owned by the same parent company, so I have no idea why all of that stuff is leaving. They don’t need a contract for those shows; they own the rights.

As someone who was arguably in the target demographic when a lot of these came out, it’s mainly two reasons: either the source material was bad and not that popular in the first place (see The 5th Wave as an example. Or probably don’t because it sucks) or the adaptation seemed to have been made by people who despised…

If you shrink the browser window enough, it will switch it out of slideshow view.

From what I’ve heard, Ayer had a finished cut that was screened for test audiences, as opposed to Snyder who only had a rough cut with unfinished special effects (and the Snyder cut that was released includes extra footage that would not have been there if his version of the film had actually been released in…

I’m surprised that Steam actually has standards considering some of the stuff on there that I’ve seen for sale.

A good post overall, but a minor correction: at least two directors left Marvel over creative differences. Patty Jenkins (it’s really weird that her name keeps popping up here for completely unrelated reasons) was originally hired to direct Thor: The Dark World, but left when she was unsatisfied with the script that…

I have no interest in any of these besides Ratchet and Clank which I already picked up a while ago, but haven’t gotten around to playing it yet. I feel really out of touch with what’s popular in gaming to be honest, as my tastes just feel really out of synch with the zeitgeist for whatever reason.

Still waiting for that money to trickle down.

This isn’t even the first time something like that happened. Arcade Fire won Album of the Year in 2011 for The Suburbs, but lost the Best Alternative Album award to Brothers by The Black Keys.

We did read some primary sources and do research projects, just not on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. Most of the projects were on slavery, the American Civil War, and the American Civil Rights Movement, or other topics that had little to do with anti-Semitism.

As someone who paid attention in history class and was in history classes in the last decade so it’s a relatively recent memory, I can tell you that nothing that we were required to read had that word in it. I did all of the assigned reading in my history classes (I was and currently am a very diligent student). It’s…

I am glad that I’m choosing to pass on this game. This is the type of game design that I hate.

There’s lots of people like me who only recently moved out of his parents’ house and I still use their Netflix account because we created it when I was still living with them. I live halfway across the country from them now.

I don’t think they completely trashed it, as they still used most of the assets and characters, and the basic story outline was pretty similar (Woody gets stolen by an evil toy collector and the rest of the original cast have to save him). I know that they heavily retooled the film nine months before release (I don’t…

If I remember it correctly, they had set up a system to automatically back up the files, but the system had broken a while ago and they hadn’t noticed it because they didn’t bother to check.