I am really growing to love Tradd Moore’s work. “[C]ompellingly strange and loopy’” is a pretty good descriptor for a lot of his drawings:

Since I’ve complained about slideshows in the past, I’ll praise the lack of slideshows on these “Best Of...” lists. Mind you, I still reflexively clicked the minimize button on my browser window shortly after clicking the tab, because AVC has still got a long way to go on that front.

It is really hard to pick a favorite and S2 really improved on what was already a stellar comedy, but my pick would have to go to “The Curse”, if only because of that crazy good assault of (and subsequent retreat from) the extremely 70s vampire’s hideout. It’s so good that, if you would change a few details, it could…

Ahhh... it makes a good deal more sense now...I’ve usually seen the multi-part Twitter statement formatted as a “(x/y)“ or just “x.”, but I suppose there’s no Twitter style guide, so I guess it works.

Old person here.  What the hell does “ A>E” and “3/3" signify?

I think the advice I saw in a GameFAQ for it really worked for me: if you don’t finish the combat in one or two rounds, you’re under-leveled and you should go back and grind a bit. The key items also seem to have some limited use in combat: the lighter is good against the worms and the camera is good against bats.…

During the whole J-horror fad, there was a brief spike of interest in his films, especially Cure, which I remember liking quite a bit back in the day.

I recently finished The Witcher 3: Please, Geralt, could you stop exploring every unmapped corner and just save the world already? and its DLC...or at least as much of it as I cared to. It was a fine experience, a well-told tale, but I’m probably not going to dive back in for a New Game+ any time soon.

Would “[Name], who played [Character Name] in [Film Name]...” also work?  There are probably situations where more clarity is needed as to who the person is.  Elliot Page is well-known enough (in the US, anyway) that you can say “star of...” and assume the reader can intuit that you aren’t talking about Jennifer…

Is there a German word for when schadenfreude is denied because the victim absolutely refuses to be ashamed or humbled when the bad shit (that they totally had coming to them) happens to them. In fact, I’m pretty sure Trump might have done better at the ballot box because of his brush with COVID.

Our family had a wild house rule that I believe actually sped the game up. We started with more starting cash (I can’t recall the exact figure), then we shuffled all the property deeds and dealt them out like playing cards. Each player had the option to buy the properties in their hand right away. Any property not…

I probably only caught the outlines of this dialogue—I’m at work and I’m not really in the frame of mind to really dive into it—but comment threads like this do remind me of why I stick around the AVC long after much of the old guard has taken off for greener pastures.

I know streaming services are always hungry for more content, but I’m always bugged by these anime-to-live-action adaptations, especially when the original is pretty much an idiosyncratically perfect work on its own.  They are almost certainly not going to improve on it, so they got to have a really fresh take on the…

The natural world is ravenous, especially during the winter months.  My parents used to keep one of those sturdy, thick-plastic pails of bird seed out on their patio, for the convenience of refilling the bird feeders.  It wasn’t too long before the squirrels decided that it was easier just to pry up the lid off the…

Children often have the worst taste in cartoons.  If you want a recommend for the best in cartoons, you gotta go to the college stoners.

There’s something very Kricfalusi-esque about that character in the screencap.

Again, I’m going to make the complaint that this is something that big studios should have been doing much earlier.  They just kept pushing major releases back and just *hoping* that this whole inconvenient pandemic thing would blow over soon.  It’s like the corporate version of magical thinking.

I wish it were an ARG...and that, right about now, the players would be hitting some kind of paywall.

I’m not a hardcore SoulsBorne player, but I enjoy them for the challenge, the clever level design, and the awe-inspiring (and a bit dread-inspiring) design. That said, I will admit nearly every one I’ve played (never played Demon’s Souls...will likely wait on the PS5 for a year or two) has at least a few bits that…

I do love drive-in theaters (and second-run theaters,), but I’ve also seen enough movies in a drive-in setting to know that they were far from ideal, as well: subpar sound/video, insects, rundown/filthy facilities, etc.  It’s possible it could come back with some upscale, new-fangled version, but it would take a…