It has nothing to do with it being a “short joke”, I just don’t think it’ll stand the test of time. What I’m saying is that this war about whether or not the article should exist will likely be a moot point because I don’t think it has near the cultural staying power or long-term impact of any of the ones you…

As the 50th anniversary of TOS was nearing back in 2016, I decided to watch every episode of it on the episodes’ 50th anniversaries, 90% of the episodes for the first time (which, yes, took until June 2019 to finish). I’ve been debating doing the same with TAS.

Honestly I only just heard about the Doom/Animal Crossing thing today in reference to Barbenheimer and I played a ton of New Horizons when it came out. Gaming is still considerably more niche than movies though, so Barbenheimer has already reached a larger audience, but as you say it’s a much shorter experience.

They also mention Neelix as one of the characters, but don’t mention Ethan Phillips as voicing him. It would be SUPER weird to bring back such an (for better or worse) iconic character without his actor, but I guess we’ll see.

Some editors cited the 20-Year Test, an old Wikipedia standard that suggests only things that will be remembered or understood in 20 years should receive articles. They believed this online meme didn’t pass the test and that in a few years, nobody would care about the Barbenheimer phenomenon.

I meant to watch Interstellar back when it came out, I don’t honestly remember why I didn’t. Tenet too, but I wasn’t about to brave covid to see it and had kinda forgotten about it by the time it was streaming.

It is but it’s the kind of food you know is going to be messy going in, so you’re prepared.

Had Korean corn dogs for the first time a few weeks ago from a food truck dedicated to them - pretty good, but I wish the hot dog/cheese combo one wasn’t literally a hot dog on one side and cheese on the other. Having the hot dog run the full length but be surrounded by cheese would have been a lot better IMO.

I hope y’all like/liked Oppenheimer but I just can’t muster up an ounce of interest for it. I feel like, like Dunkirk, a Nolan movie without some sort of twist or supernatural element just doesn’t do anything for me. I love Memento, Inception, The Prestige, and his Batman movies, but that’s all I’ve seen.

I haven’t tried the chocolate mint, maybe I should.

Crocs are ugly as sin but they’re comfortable and easy to slip on and off. If I need to make a quick drive to the grocery store or whatever, I’m probably just putting on my pair of Crocs I keep near the door. I’m certainly not bothering to go get socks for something like this.

Part of it is definitely the game mechanics, I was a teenager when I first played the first game and I just could not do it. The RTS mechanics were too much and, in my 30s, I’m still intimidated by them. It was overwhelming, but meanwhile I had no problem playing the new Zelda or Mario (or Final Fantasy or several…

Probably something financial in the contracts - “at season X, everyone working on the show automatically receives a raise” “ok well the contract doesn’t cover specials or spinoffs, does it??”

Yeah he was “Hirogen Alpha” in one episode of Voyager and he did a good job in it but it was just one episode as an unnamed character so I didn’t mention it. But yeah, The Visitor is probably my #2 DS9 episode (hard to beat In the Pale Moonlight), top 10 if not 5 for the franchise.

I’m aware that Tony Todd is in the Candyman movies, but I’ve never seen any of them. I know him best from Star Trek where he mostly plays Worf’s brother Kurn in TNG and DS9, but his best role is as the older Jake Sisko in DS9's The Visitor, which is a very different role but played masterfully.

Thanks for the novel, I literally did ask for it!

Any recommendations on where to start on Pikmin? I tried the first game on the Gamecube when it came out, but kinda bounced off of it because the RTS mechanics were really hard for me (I was also a teenager, maybe in my 30s I’d be better able to figure it out). I know the three first games are also on the Switch (and…

I bought one of these “Bread Buddy” containers a few years ago and they work pretty well.

As far as I’m concerned, anything that can be eaten with one hand without needing to look at it and that isn’t likely to make a mess (which comprises most things on the first list, though I do disagree with ice cream) is an equivalent amount of effort and distraction to drinking some water, so most people are fine…

Also true, I mean more to point out that though this is an improvement, we need to be wary to ensure that it’s as much of an improvement as we’re hoping.