The Stranger of Paradise demo sure feels like the most tedious tutorial I’ve ever played. I’m sure it’s not, but it feels that way. Weirdest decision — animating the camp dialogues. In Nioh, you just got a little dialogue box to read and a portrait. Simple. In Stranger of Paradise, if you want to talk to someone, you…

What boxes did she think she stepped out of, exactly? I thought the movie was by-the-numbers Marvel, except that it left a lot of threads hanging in unsatisfying ways. Like a worse Thor 2. 

Six days for five felonies. Imagine if he was black. 

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The primary “creative difference” was that the studio wanted this movie to be something approaching “Watchable.” 

I googled once, so gigantic grain of salt here, but “Johnston County NC dealerships” turns up very few alternatives. Out of like ten places Deacon Jones owns four. Which, shit, is more variety than exists in my town. 

Talk to your local garden shop (LOCAL, not on the internet) to find out what kinds of tomatoes and peppers do well in your area. There are more varieties than you can possibly imagine.

You get pulled over less with disabled veteran plates.

Every time I roll into a bank and pass a note saying “I’d like to make a large withdrawal. Do it quietly.” with a big SUV waiting outside, it raises eyebrows. 

Yeah, this is a nothingburger.

I mean, Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker exists

Tell me you haven’t been to New Mexico, without telling me that you haven’t been to New Mexico. 

There are dozens of us!

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Hippos clock in at a staggering 500 human kills annually. Sharks? A paltry nine. Cape Buffalo clock in at 200 so like.... yeah hippos

If I have to look at one main character’s family, once, for a single second, I’m out.

Has any optometrist ever recommended dousing your eyes in milk? Or are we just playing jazz here?

Have we successfully created a new vulnerability that only aggressive federal policy expansion can solve?

My diet is simple — buy ingredients, make food. Don’t buy food.

I for one dream of a day when we all must seek prior approval from an unelected federal bureaucracy before making any statements of any kind.