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This guy is hilarious. “I do not like working.” “How did you react when you learned they were printing half a million of your books?” “How do you think I reacted?” A kindred soul.

Blade Runner got it right babyyyy

This will make a lovely episode of Defunctland some day. Assuming, of course, that they actually break ground on any of these.

Name and logo still carry a lot of weight? Read more

Because you don’t vote for kings. Read more

So all that’s left is for some watery bint to lob a scimitar at him, and the prophecy will be complete.

I’ll be that geek who points out that The Sword in the Stone is not Excalibur. Arthur breaks the sword he pulled out of the stone in a battle, and later the “Lady of the Lake” gives him Excalibur.

I’m ok with this. She is using the game as a point of reference for her physical performance. The animators on that game and the motion capture performers would have done work to ensure the game has a sense of... I don’t know... um... weight to it. Anyway my point is that this isn’t much different than looking to a… Read more

Back in my day we used to complain that kids read comics instead of actual literature. Read more

So she's like Professor X with Cerebro? I know people who believe in all this but dont believe their doctor when they explain how flu shots work and I'm just like, how are you still alive?

I’m not incredibly familiar with SFV, but if Idom had blocked the kara-DP, couldn’t Sanford have cancelled into critical art for the chip kill?  If so, that makes it an even smarter--though significantly less risky--move.

People are incredibly suggestible. Every age has had their hucksters and snake oil salesmen. Social media just makes it easier and cheaper to reach a wider audience. Read more

I have spent the week leading up to the Lunar New Year dealing with a rodent infestation in the walls of my NYC office building. And by “dealing with” I mean having the super and exterminators come, then complaining at length about their strategy, which seems to be: Read more

I’ve also had energy pulled out of my butt but that’s because the vibrate setting on the plug was set too high and it made sitting a chore.

Just goes to show, the real Good Place is the families and friendships we build together. And nothing can destroy that, not even death (or skinsuit demons).

This would be an ideal place to make the lazy “maybe the real Good Place was the friendships we made along the way” joke, except for the fact the writers already did that, and better, while they were all riding a train to Hell. Read more

I have a really good friend since childhood, working mother of 3, doing well in her career, very down to earth, etc etc. She is the only person I know of who likes (actively unironcally likes) paltrow and ‘goop’. Its totaly incomprehensible to me.

Turning about 13 pages of comics a week (published in an anthology with hundreds of pages) into 25 minutes of TV every week really did a number on the pacing.

The most excruciating SFV match ever is any with the Capcom netcode. Thanks god the community has managed to bring SFV to the 21st century.

Only tangentially related but I will NEVER forgive Jezebel for introducing me to GSA (genetic sexual attraction) years ago when they did that story on the woman who fell in love with her dad. NEVER!!!