MGS1 is the only one that makes sense as a movie to me. I like MGS3 more as a game, but there’s too many characters or concepts that rely on connections to other entries to have an impact. Ocelot has way too much ‘screen time’ that only makes sense when you know it’s setting up that Big Boss and Ocelot work together…

The first non-ISIS season, Archer Vice, had started before the terrorist group was really well-known. The decision to drop the name wasn’t made until the lead-in to Season 6, where they return to spy stuff under the aegis of the CIA. They could have kept on doing that, but instead they did Archer P.I. and the…

“If people had guns, this horrible abuse of power wouldn’t have happened” is a Republican meme.

The combat theme? The one that’s just a repeating series of escalating notes?

Many public transit systems are primarily fare-funded and receive any other funding based on ridership. A transit system fewer people use goes into a death spiral as fares increase and routes are cut.

Nathan Rabin reviewed a book by Karrine Steffans where she tells a similar story about Durst, but it was at a P.F. Chang or something like that. I can’t find the article, because AV Club treats its pre-Kinja articles like a pile of old refuse.

She was in handcuffs. Unless you’re suggesting she should have resisted arrest, I don’t see what being armed has to do with this.

It’s a little bit on the nose for the station to be called “KOCO”, isn’t it?

I’ve been playing the demo on Switch and the field theme is just way too bombastic. The environments are really pretty and I like to look out at the vistas and whatnot, and having this frantically triumphant music behind it kind of ruins the mood. Also that it plays when I’m wandering around little villages and…

Well, at least something good happened in 2019.

Black Shelton

Only in rats, and with doses per kg that would be in the 300mg range for humans. Most of these products have less than 20mg.

The lowest dose of CBD that’s been shown in studies to have any therapeutic effect is 300mg, which is far more than is present in any of these commercial CBD products.

Potato salad is like pizza or barbecue, in that everyone is super obnoxious about the particular style they prefer, but with a broader, worldwide scope.

What is it with car manufacturers and describing cars in terms you’d expect to find in a gay porn star’s bio? They should just start using “run me over, car daddy” as a tagline in ads and get it over with.

The “this is Katana, she’s got my back” scene is almost incomprehensibly bad for a major studio production. I mean, it’s not surprising that it’s badly written and acted. But that footage is unusable. It couldn’t have been any more inept if the boom had fallen on his head.

The movie was edited to hell and back, one cut being done by the people who did the trailer. Dan Olson did a good video on the editing problems in that movie (including the unicorn):

Sushi has rice in it. Rice half-disintegrates in your stomach and splatters all over your sinuses in little globs. Then you get to be blowing bits of smelly rice out of your nose for a few hours.

My mom, an old-school nurse, adhered to the (now-discredited) BRAT diet when I had a stomach bug. Bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast. By far the worst of those things to yartz up is rice, and it’s even worse when it’s banana-flavored rice.

For some reason, the thing that seems cheapest and shittiest about this movie is that the priest’s collar appears to be fashioned out of an ACE elastic bandage.