"Music on TV now is a cook-off when it should be a pot luck."

I don't even know anymore. Now I hear it applied to rappers more often than anyone else.

I'll bet that Bender and Uncle Buck ran into each other on a few occasions.

Illuminati?

He could sing them himself!

In Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud has this bit that demonstrates the idea that no panel transition can be entirely meaningless, no matter how much of a non-sequitur, because there's an alchemy happening in our minds that finds some kind of resonance, no matter what. I think it's similar with music and movies. …

Intercut that with Bush sitting in the classroom with that look on his face after hearing the news and you have pretty much the perfect usage of that theme. Just think of that as the end of an episode.

I always thought of that as the bar to clear. I don't think I could have sex with someone I didn't like. Why would I even be in that situation? Where's the attraction if there's nothing even close to affection? What if they don't care about my welfare and are planning on knifing me partway through or something…

The thing that always got me about SFII Turbo (on the SNES) was that incrementing the AI slider upwards would just make CP Ryu throw more fireballs. That was the entirety of the system's understanding of difficulty with Ryu. Just endless, boring waves of fireballs and nothing else.

That said, I think she's talking about the charge meters and super combos and stuff that really are additions, not glorified bugs/exploits.

I played a table once that was themed after the Arabian Nights. I recall a big djinn toy in the middle. It was possibly the best table I've ever played and definitely up there with the Addams Family table (which I think is widely agreed to be in the pantheon).

Still relevant, apparently: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

There's no such thing as no accent, though. "Default" accents are a choice, like how RP in the UK is basically a South London accent reified as the standard of British speech (please let me know if I got the area wrong, Brits). Changing one's accent just means moving towards another.

I have to say that I think they're somewhat overestimating the impact and reach of Siri in specific and maybe even voice commands on phones in general. Not everybody uses a smartphone; of smartphone users, iPhone users are probably a slim majority at best; children are often limited in their direct exposure to phones…

I'm looking up Numenera now and it seems like it could be useful for fleshing out a character. The thing about alignments in D&D is that they don't really have a narrative to them. It seems that having a three-item moral description to go alongside Numenera's three-item ability description would be both handy and…

I liked Chun Li and Ken. Chun Li had the ability to wall-jump, which I loved, while Ken had neat throwing moves. Neither of these considerations are particularly competitive.

Senseless deaths are the worst. Generally speaking, we deal with death by turning a person's life into a story that hopefully has a happy ending. When happy endings are thin on the ground, we sometimes turn them into fables or cautionary tales. Dying suddenly and unexpectedly is like a story that ends when the…

That said, though, Snuff Box is pretty much the definition of something built for one series and one series only. Where do you even go with that in a second series?

So he's in the preliminary stages of preparing a Scooby-Doo LARP event?

Jesus. Two adults wrote "practically titty-fucking the bottle" into a script, said "we are geniuses", high-fived, and kept writing with renewed vigour and purpose. Then they put it out in front of people, on a relatively public list and with their names on it, and people voted for it, implying that this masterpiece…