1. Actraiser.

My name is one of those. I grew up meeting virtually nobody who had my name. Now, every other person I meet seems to have a tiny nephew with it. I'm at a loss for why. I mean, it's a pretty ancient name.

I would fucking die laughing if I saw this movie and Jennifer Jason Leigh was just playing, like, a medieval lute with no self-consciousness or explanation.

As I recall, Townshend got around to hating it pretty quickly too. Apparently, they just started gluing them back together if they were just going to be smashed again. He stopped doing that as soon as he could get away with it, I think.

Hey, Lamar was innocent of all of those things (I think?)!

Yeah. Haven't seen the movie yet, but making a new one that looked like the old one would have solved several problems there.

That was the thing I liked most about it. One of the last episodes in the final season has the main character become a conspiracy nut about the NCAA while the team is facing a hearing. My friend, who actually knows football, confirmed while we were watching it that everything the character says during his research…

If I recall how my friend described the episode, the joke was definitely about how totally not OK this was and the growing unease of their realization about how young she was. It actually makes me think of that It's Always Sunny episode with the Korean bar and the girls who turns out to be, like, 12.

Basically, the main characters of the show are all part of a college football program that gives its players license to do whatever they want so long as they're competitive. They have constant parties with more-or-less nameless and interchangeable young women hanging around in their underwear to participate in…

Man, what a wasted opportunity. I'd love to see some of that early weird generation of game designers come mix it up in the current climate. Haven't those publishers been paying attention? Small games made by small teams don't have to break every record to be profitable and weird stuff sells pretty well when it…

It's interesting to note how different their approach was at the time to what would directly succeed it. Roberta Williams came up in an era where people knew their adventure game designers by name and reputation. Then, gaming sort of hit one of its blockbuster eras and personalities were subsumed by franchises. …

Sir, you have Aaron Sorkin on line 1 and Brian Michael Bendis on line 2.

Oh, Roberta Williams. Has anyone ever been so firmly of a specific time?

There it is, I think. By the time you had the earliest possible chance of caring about Bloodsport, of all things, it'd be what, '98 or '99? So you'd go back and revisit Bloodsport, with no clues, after The Matrix come out?

Not knowing your age, I'm going to venture a guess that this may be an age thing. When I was a little kid (with older brothers) in the early 90s, Van Damme was basically a household name for our set. Kickboxer did quite well in a financial sense, too. I've always found it to be something that people remembered, but…

Who knew that Mojo Jojo was just being thoughtful this whole time?

The more I read, the more this guy seems like he needs Nathan Fielder's help with his plan.

I'm picturing something more like what happens to the cheaters in Casino.

To be fair, though, it's among the most important issues out there. Environmental issues can have the most lasting effect. Who knew that one of Theodore Roosevelt's most profound acts in office would be to establish all of those national parks? That alone will likely outlast the rest of his legacy.

If I remember correctly, they're diaereses. The idea is that they signify the advent of a new syllable (so that you don't try to sound out the "ea" in "reactions" as a diphthong or something).