That D.Va mech/minifigurine from Funko’s Overwatch line is awfully impressive, though! It’s enormous and surprisingly detailed. You wouldn’t even know it’s Funko at a glance.

The promotional stuff doesn’t bug me too much, but it can be annoying that the same couple of advertorials to keep popping up in rotation for months on end, and it seems like there’s a new “never been a better time to sous-vide!” twice a week.

Prince used a teleprompter. It was kind of a trip to see that up close and personal; along with the expected “2"s and “U”s, every instance of “I” was replaced with a graphic of an eye.

Too bad the black currant flavor dropped off the face of the earth. My wife was obsessed, to the point of buying Ribena, black currant preserves, and anything else that said “black currant” on it after I bought her a can on a lark.

Too bad the black currant flavor dropped off the face of the earth. My wife was obsessed, to the point of buying…

“News at 10" by The Vapors (of “Turning Japanese” fame).

I wasn’t on the Discord either and was able to register last night. There was a window where the registration form would load but didn’t have the CAPTCHA stuff in place, causing submissions to always fail, but that was addressed before the night was out. I’m not sure if they’ve locked stuff down since then.

“An icon in Canadian rock music, Downie was born in Ontario in 1954"

https://jezebel.com/does-anyone-have-pictures-of-these-two-just-so-i-can-t-1787837178

ex = Robert Rodriguez
Hollywood exec = Harvey Weinstein

“Because ads” is the short answer.

Castle Rock produced Seinfeld, and they were gobbled up by Turner. I assume that’s what he was referring to.

Who wants to know, who wants to know about him?

This August is brutal. I’ve preordered Agents of Mayhem, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, and Mario + Rabbids. After missing its targeted date by 6-7 months, Limited Run Games’ release of Skullgirls should finally be shipping in August. Sonic Mania and Windjammers are calling my name, although I’m thinking about waiting…

Someone posted untagged spoilers on a message board I read "divulging" the entire plot to Toy Story 3. He said Andy was stricken with cancer, and the movie ended with his toys being buried with him.

For voice chat in Splatoon 2, producer Hisashi Nogami says “Voice chat can only be used when playing with someone you know, such as in private matchmaking; voice chat with someone you don’t know in random matchmaking won’t happen.”

"Sir, this is Colonel Glover. I'm sorry to disturb you at this hour, sir, but we're at Q-2 status. It looks like we've found that lost consignment of Easter eggs. Yes, sir, pretty sure. They've turned up in Seattle. I'm getting confirmations on this from the Seattle Police Department. Seattle, Washington, sir. Well,…

I don’t have a UHD TV at the moment, but that should change in the next couple of months once my wife and I are in our next place. We figured it made more sense to build out a new home theater once we had the “new home” to match. It’ll be some flavor of 65" OLED. Atmos is a big question mark.

I always figured I…

A friend of mine bought a used 4-track at a flea market, and there was still a tape inside by T. Money and the Crew (featuring the smash hit "Shirley (I'm Talkin' About)". I wonder if T. Money was backed by Storm, Misty Knight, Luke Cage, and Manifold too.

I’m in the same boat. I’ve un-docked it a few times to do little errands in Breath of the Wild so I can game next to my wife while she plays Overwatch, but otherwise, we always keep it docked. I can see myself taking advantage of the portability when some JRPGs roll around, and I’ll take it with us the next time…

Holiday Inn is represented up there. Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, etc. are all under InterContinental Hotels Group now. The corporate names reshuffled from Bass to Six Continents to IHG. The Bass name was already on the way out when I started consulting on web projects for them way back in 2001.

My version of that is: