I’m calling it right here, right now.

It’s nothing more than the good old “Bums on seats” principle that every company that wishes to be profitable will eventually pursue.

Sitcoms have been shitting on everybody for the last 25 years.

You never heard of Rintintin ???

There appears to be method to the madness. Psychological research has shown that people who vote on the right are much more “tribal” than those who vote on the left who tend to be more critical of individual misdeeds, regarding of where they fall on the spectrum. So right wing voters are much more likely ignore or…

I blame Abrams.

Used to live in a fairly open area where hedgehogs were not unusual and I could see them scurry through our front garden at night. Sadly over the years housing boomed and they became increasingly rare. Because the garage stayed open for much of the day it was not that rare to have an inquisitive hedgehog trapped there…

It wouldn’t be Japan if their racism wasn’t weird.

I love serendipity, not five minutes after I chatted with a friend with which I’ve had a 10+ year dispute about “is it a costume/ is it CGI ?” I bump into this post and it completely made my day.

The texturing on that carbon fibre to make it look like cheap cardboard is amazing.

There were two main actors in this group, the GM and one of the players who pretty much set the tone, he must have thought he was the smartest because he was really good at surviving at all costs, even if he had to sacrifice the whole party to do so, instead of refusing to play on the GM’s terms and ask for something…

I got to know a gaming group and they invited me to join. We were on the back end of a Paranoia campaign, for those who don’t know, Paranoia was a very funny parody of your average 1984/Logan’s Run/THX1138 dystopia. Except that it felt like North Korea having fallen into the tenth level of hell going through an…

It is mostly the denunciation of accumulating or controlling property in such a way that it puts others at a disadvantage. If for example you buy up all the arable land available to a farming community, have a strict no-sell policy and only rent it at exorbitant prices, you diminish the ability of farmers to expand…

I was under the impression that the Fiat group rather liked the idea of associating their cars with robots, I wonder what made them reverse that policy ...

It’s all about paranoia, projection and control. It’s what drives people like Jack Valenti to say things like

The real problem is that she can go on Twitter or Facebook immediately tell “her story” and get a thousand likes and a hundred anecdotes from people who all reinforce her and she will never have to back down on her views because she knows she has the rest of the world on her side. It used to be that we could shame…

When it started the Eurovision contest was slightly off key with popular music of the time, just enough to be a little corny. It generated some hits and launched the odd career like ABBA, but by the late 70's it was completely out of touch with modern musical tastes, and you always knew the contest was coming up when…

Sim-bye-otty

There are tiny workshops in places like Thailand and the Philippines that can crank out amazing costumes that look if not just like, almost as good as the costume highlighted above, except it’s made of foam, cardboard, duct tape, dreams and a huge amount of creative thinking. These costumes will only last an outing or…

“Oh look, it’s a Glock, how could could that have possibly gone wrong ? It’s the most perfect gun ever made, with a special trigger safety that prevents all bad things from happening !” Said in a deadpan snark tone.