Kirk Hammett's great. I'd love to hear him get up to some solo work. Then he might get to, you know, solo.

Changing the key of a song to fit the vocalist is just good sense. Key is largely arbitrary and people's voices tend to deepen as they age. I don't care much for the whole soprano arms race to hit the highest possible notes, so I don't see that as a concern. Sounding as incomprehensible as Hetfield did in the St.…

The Devil's Advocate is one of my favourite movies. They took Pacino's latter-period wildness and gave him a big enough character to justify it. I love every one of his ridiculous monologues, I love the absurd way he tempts a guy into murder on the subway, and I love the entire ludicrous premise.

The Batman:TAS version of the character may have been the best at suggesting that Batman/Bruce contains multitudes and isn't just all one thing. He can be violent and obsessive, he can be understanding and empathetic, he can be serious or wry or impassive or impassioned. Kevin Conroy does a lot of the heavy lifting…

You should have seen mine. I had a full beard coming in by 13, neck and all. I was quite proud of it.

He really isn't an obvious pick, but I rewatched the first one recently and I was struck anew at how good he was. I guess nerds acting silly about casting is a tale as old as time.

His Bruce is definitely the best (non-Adam West division). I liked Bale's Batman, but his Bruce was self-evidently a disguise. Keaton's Bruce would have blended into society with no trouble.

Just so. Michael Keaton has to be one of the best actors to put on the cowl. He created a fantastic Bruce Wayne by finding a real human at the intersection of a billionaire playboy and a violent avenger.

It was a remarkably smart show. They even managed to make terrible ideas funny (the Minstrel, or whatever his name is, must be the most incoherent idea for a villain that I've ever seen, but they still get a decent episode out of it). The feature film is genuinely great; it has a bunch of memorable gags ("sea… C for…

You can do both. Just make a joke about how Lars has technical difficulties when they play anything from before the Black Album and you'll be good.

I've never heard that called a burger. I've heard them called loose meat sandwiches or Sloppy Joe's if they have the sauce, but I haven't heard them called burgers. Probably a regional thing.

In my opinion, the best veggie burgers I've had aren't really anything like meat. I keep bringing up black bean burgers, but that's because they're awesome. They don't taste or feel like meat at all. Instead, they taste like delicious black beans.

If it's priced competitively, I can definitely see that. That's hard, though. They pump out animal products at intense rates these days. It'd be hard to price comparably unless you were doing it as a big corporation that can get the ingredients at minimal cost.

Have we somehow managed to start arguing the same side? This feels like one of those things. Anyway, that's actually pretty much what I've been trying to say here. A black bean burger doesn't taste even a bit like a beef burger. It's terrible as an imitation and great as its own food. The goal of making one kind…

Now here's an interesting line of argument. What is the essential nature of a burger? Texture is hugely important, but is it more important than the shape? I'd argue that it's the patty that makes a burger. You could put loose ground beef in a hamburger bun and people wouldn't call it a burger, for instance. I…

I get that. One of the things I've been trying to communicate is that black bean burgers and such don't really taste like beef burgers and they're better for it. This is probably an improvement for the fake meat, sure, but the stuff that isn't trying to be meat tastes better, and I have my doubts that this is going…

See, that's far better marketing right there. They should go see about doing a tie-in.

That's certainly a good testimonial to the burger's taste. The description put me off, as it sounded like it was basically the same as the kind of veggie burger of which I'm not particularly fond. I like black bean burgers, portobello mushrooms, etc. more that the kind that's largely just pressed TVP. The…

That's good to know, as I'd be interested in visiting Poland.

I only know about Japanese vegetarian cuisine from articles that said that you pretty much need to cook for yourself if you're visiting, as Japanese customers usually see meat as a big selling point. It's ripe for adaptation, though; lots of good vegan sushi available.