Lego’s master plan to turn Gen X childhood into injection molded plastic bricks and sell them to us at a premium lands somewhere between pure genius and utterly diabolical. That faux wood grain hitting me right in the feels.

A lot of original NES games were priced around that level or even cheaper. I remember buying Kung Fu for $29.99 in early 1986.

Exactly. The last film before Nolan/Bale was Schumacher’s Batman & Robin, which is easily the low point of cinematic Batman. Coming from an era of neon decor and nipples on suits, a more serious take was something a lot of people couldn’t imagine.

Good choices! While probably not heavy enough for Eddie, I would have loved Motley Crue’s Shout at the Devil in that scene - just an epic middle finger at the bad guy right til the end.

So just standard issue monster fighting gear for late Cold War Russian gulags, makes perfect sense.

“No disrespect to ST, but all it’s really done is integrate one song (Running Up That Hill) at a few effective moments.”

So, I do have several questions, but by far the most important one is this: what is the Atlantean Sword from Conan the Barbarian doing in a Soviet prison camp in 1986?

Bears, beets, battling Galactus.

That seems obvious in retrospect, since Marvel wouldn’t have blown the big moment of revealing the MCU’s Mr. Fantastic in a one-off cameo

People who complain about how things aren’t like they were in the comics baffle me. You KNOW those stories. If you want to re-experience them reread them. This is it’s own thing that uses the comics as a jumping off point.

With Marvel not even a year removed from Shang-Chi’s revision of the Mandarin, you wouldn’t think this needed pointing out, but here we are.

A couple people have mentioned this. Is money what makes Bungie a ‘giant’ corporation? I read the word giant and take it to mean something like the number of people it employs or the facilities it owns, etc; something physically significant. The news always has stories about tech bros running ten-person startups that p…

Believe it or not, America’s first president predicted this back in the 18th century. When George Washington left office, he wrote a farewell address to the nation in which he specifically warned about the dangers of partisanship and encouraged future leaders not to form political parties. No one fucking listened…

Gorsuch shouldn’t even fucking be there. Mitch McConnell made the game clear when he refused to give Merrick Garland a hearing in 2016, but too many people didn’t listen or believe or care, and so here we are.

This has all been such a Boomer move. The first wave of their generation came of age in the free love 1960s, and they became the primary beneficiaries of Roe v. Wade when the ruling was made in 1973. Fifty years later, when their own reproductive days are long gone and they no longer stand to benefit, they take away…

The Republicans won’t lift a finger to prevent school shootings, but they will make America pump out more kids to fill those empty classroom seats!

for the giant multimillion dollar corporation

Yeah, I’m here for it. There are a ton of games from the late 90s/early 00s I’d love to play again (Planescape, KOTOR, System Shock, Deus Ex, etc) but I have trouble getting into with their very dated graphics and interfaces. Repackage my youth and sell it to me in high def, I’m totally here for it.

Yeah, it’s laughably irritating that they weren’t more clear about this. All but 11 days of our upcoming winter happens in 2023, but I think most people still regard this December’s change of season as Winter 2022.

Here’s a sad truth a lot of people don’t know about: most IP laws REQUIRE a company “do everything in their power to protect their IP”.