Has Suchet actually run out of Poirot stories to adapt? I know he’s been playing that part forever, but still, that’s impressive.

Agreed. If anything, I wanted to see more of Fake Odin and Loki’s ridiculous propaganda play.

Yeah, as I mentioned below, Mr. Miracle is excellent, but that’s the only new thing I’m reading just now that jumps out as a must-read. I also just finished the first trade of Priest’s Black Panther run. It’s kind of a slow starter, but I really liked it once it got going.

King’s Mr. Miracle is fantastic. I haven’t read a ton of post-Kirby New Gods stuff, but I think you’re right about nobody else approaching them this way. I’d say this and Walt Simonson’s Orion run are miles ahead of anything else.

Agreed, although I did kind of love that scene. The Fabio-type book was a nice touch.

We had a dumb but weirdly fun variant of battle mode in Mario Kart 64: one player would go clockwise and the other counter-clockwise, while staying as close as possible to the edge (either inside edge on Big Donut or outside on Skyscraper). It’s like a weird cross of chicken and jousting with turtle shells.

I’m mostly familiar with the first 2-3 versions of Civ, but that’s honestly a little disappointing. What’s the point of a nuclear holocaust that doesn’t royally fuck up the planet in the process?

“modern era soldiers and bomber planes raiding their city protected by colonial era Riflemen and cannons.”

I usually waited until the first time the Senate tried to stop me from picking a fight with the superpower next door, then made the switch. Hitting the Revolution button was a lot more satisfying that way.

991122 could be November 22, 1999, the 36th anniversary of JFK’s assassination. Trump just released a bunch of files on JFK’s assassination.

Are we at the point where “retro” social networks can make a comeback for nostalgia’s sake? There’s probably some guy still sitting on the Friendster url and praying like hell for his big 2nd chance.

He is awfully skinny for a guy named Cannonball.

He’s nigh invulnerable when eatin burgers at the malt shoppe!

Wow, I forgot that was him. Strangely, I saw Gerard Butler play Attila the Hun in a TV movie around this time, and so he has somehow been permanently imprinted in my brain as “that guy from Attila”.

Never underestimate the curiosity of genealogists. I doubt if she’s planning to actually contact any of them, but wanting to know where her ancestors’ slaves’ families ended up is not at all surprising.

“Profanity is a crutch for the ignorant motherfucker”
—my grandfather.

Boy, I hope someone got fired for that blunder.

This is madness. A woman from the 1950s flying a plane?!?

Thanks! None of us AVC-ers ever thought we’d be nostalgic for the olden days of Disqus, but life is full of surprises.

Yeah, I didn’t expect the spoiler tag would work, but wanted to see what would happen. I put another comment below that, saying as much, but who knows where it went.