I think you grossly underestimate the cost of US healthcare - most hospitals charge upwards of $1k for a simple bag of saline, and my last 3-day stay had a total of over $35k. Yes, insurance paid most of that, but guess who pays for insurance? Remember, it’s a for-profit industry.

I take it you live in a blue state?

You’re completely right, the candies are actually a completely normal cocktail of high-fructose corn syrup, growth hormones, steroids and artificial flavoring.

This reminds me of that Jet Li movie, ‘The One’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_%282001_film%29), except with less kung-fu and more cannibalism.

So, I’m not exactly up on Amiibo pricing, but am I correct in assuming this will cost well over $500, and probably closer to ¥100,000 in Japan?

I have to live outside of a 25-mile radius of any Carl's Jr, because any closer and I would just eat until I died.

Have you ever heard of The Luther:

This sounds like a great Sharknado spin-off. I’m picturing something like ‘The Bionic Woman’, except built specifically to combat the airborne shark menace through precision headbutting. Her nemesis would be Stanley, the evil Soviet cyborg hammerhead shark who, thanks to the adamantium hammer embedded in his skull, is…

You just know that if this game somehow really really off, these cards will end up being worth ridiculous sums of money; of course, that's a big "if", but...

Robots, terminals and dead people need your help, too.

The “Ultimate Evolution” will have 11 onion rings and 14 strips of bacon on top, and enough calories to take you from 6-pack to full keg in a single sitting.

... Fair point 🤔

You mean the fact that he isn’t secretly immortal? I think most people figured as much long before release... I mean, yes, it would have made for quite the twist at the end to find out he was actually a day-walking vampire, but I think most people go into a game where you play as a human expecting that they will die…

So... given EWJ has always just been a worm sticking out of the collar of a super-suit...

Rock bottom is dreaming of the luxury of licking out the inside of week-old empty ketchup packets, only to wake up to a rumbling stomach and a breakfast of chewing tree-bark.

You must live a very happy life if that is rock-bottom to you.... Even eating moldy half-eaten pancakes out of a fast food joint’s dumpster is still a step up for some people.

The Connolly reference is one of the few things that does make sense, since ghouls in Fallout stop aging in the traditional sense, and you encounter more than a few centuries-old ghouls in the previous games, like the Vault-Tec rep in Fallout 4, as a recent example.

Kids are so spoiled these days...

That’s what ordinary fans would do - Mike pulls out the actual transformer (which has led to much destruction of property, but luckily, nobody tries to sue the man with giant robot death machines at his side)

I really want to see a Primus card now - I mean: