Squadron Supreme and its newer reboot, Supreme Power, are both 100% Marvel takes on the big-name DC characters. Hyperion in Marvel is usually not a good guy (and I don’ think Superman is, either), and he’s usually seen as a visitor from another dimension, which fits in with the current multiverse plotline very well.

I really like Stadia. I’m not much of a gamer but I have a couple roommates who like to play. I have a video editing workstation that would be someone’s dream gaming system, were it not frequently busy. For a while, they would try to use my Steam library on my nVidia Shield to play in my living room, but Steam grabs…

Resident of Indiana. Not only have I never heard of any of these things, I don’t believe that any of them are real. A TV show that runs for more than a decade should make SOME kind of mark on broader culture; my community makes sure I know the name of every fifth tier Right Wing Nutjob with an AM Radio show, but the…

Brother MFC-Jwxyz printers are sort of an everyday inkjet champion.

There is a podcast called Path of Night that just finished up a “short” ~24 hour season called “Forgetting Ashville” that uses a combination of Werewolf, Geist and Changeling player characters. No Hunters, but one of the interesting aspects to the game is that even the players have very little familiarity with the…

There is no world where I’m willing to forgive the loss of Google Play Music for the bullshittery that is Youtube Music, which could not match 88% of the tracks on my account to anything that was on Youtube. That means using ad blocking and sponsor blocking on computers and clients that have those features in place by…

Nikon is DEFINITELY in third place for autofocus among the big three. It might have better lenses than Sony overall, but again, each of the big three has at least one unique lens the other two don’t have.

Canon dropped the 30 minute record limit on the R7 and R10 and it’s thought that future Canon cameras will likewise not be limited.

There’s a lot of money to be made in building actual data security around the open source frameworks (e.g. Mastodon) most of these dopes end up using. Given that every one of these services winds up getting screwed with fifth-rate security practices, that should definitely be a priority for them.

There are less expensive mirrorless cameras, but many of them are on abandoned lens mounts (EF-M? Micro Four Thirds?). My current suggestion for a starter camera is actually the Canon R10, which is also $1000 without a lens but still has most of the processing refinements of the much more expensive Canon R5 and R6. At…

Panasonic is WAY in the back of the pack for autofocus tech. They’re a lot better as a starting place for people more interested in video work than photography. I think that might be because dedicated video shooters spend more time in manual mode anyway.

I. Do. Not. Care. About. Superman. Not a tiny little bit. Fuck that dude. He’s literally the most contemptable super hero, able to hear a planet’s worth of cries for help but more interested in what might be going on in Lois Lane’s panties at any given moment.

Jewel’s stores have low ceilings and tungsten-tinged lighting, at least from the locations I’m familiar with in Northwest Indiana and throughout Illinois. They all seem dirty and cramped, although that’s probably more because of the lighting than anything else. Jewel is also consistently the most expensive grocery…

I’m pretty sure I played through DA:O at least 10 times. I know I did each of the starting paths once, and I did one totally OP power-gamer play through where I did every possible thing to min-max my party, which was a lot more fun after my fifth or sixth time through than I would’ve guessed. I have no idea how many…

I’d say that iOS is the “one size fits some”-option. I can’t stand not being able to control a device that costs so much. Everything on Android is modular. If I don’t like the way the dialer or calendar works, I can change it. Apple devices are absolutely immutable, and there really are circumstances where the only…

It’s my observation that Chicago-area restaurants that attempt to go national are very often worse the farther the franchise is from Chicago. Every example I can think of it related to a deep dish pizza, so I hope Portillo’s avoids this fate.

A couple of the Immortal Weapons appeared in the Netflix series. I’d like to see a comeback and fuller exploration of that. We all hate what’s-his-name who played Danny Rand, but the Matt Fraction Iron Fist run deserves a full adaptation.

I lost about 160lbs about 10 years ago and when I was being super serious about my diet, McDonald’s was the one place I knew I could get fast food that wouldn’t screw me over. Baked Chicken salads and oatmeal got me through a fuckton of road trips and lunches on days I forgot to grab a protein bar.

Vero? And if you’re going to bring up the genital wart of terrible discourse, worst possible substitute for actual news and commentary, pox on complex thought and all around leaking pustule that is Twitter, maybe Imgur deserves a mention. Posted Galleries there are at least easy to browse and can don’t have limits on…

Kodi is NOT the “assumed usage is for pirate streams” tool everyone thinks it is. Kodi is just a playback platform. If you have a library of local audio or graphical content no matter the provenance, Kodi can deal with it, and is far more configurable than anything else in that arena. Low quality pirate streams are an…