I feel like between Donny Cates, Jason Aaron, and Scott Snyder (or to be more accurate, the team of artists that do their books), we’re entering a golden age of “comic book panels that could also double as van-mural/metal-band album cover art”.
Secret Invasion was pretty egregious, especially since it led into Dark Reign (aka “Let’s make Norman Osborn the head of SHIELD!”) and also Seige (“Let’s attack Asgard!”).
Richard Blais (ugh!)
Granted, I’ve not replayed the game since my first playthrough, but it never seemed as bad as people seemed to think it was. At worst, it was kinda tedious, but, then again, I suppose doing actual mineral surveying on a planet would be tedious, too. Plus, if you were doing badly in battle, you could always retreat to…
I’ll be mixing things up with something a little more fast-paced: Sega’s beat ’em up follow-up, Streets of Rage 2. See you folks next time!
I’m an agnostic and I don’t have much use for religion myself, but I don’t begrudge people the need for belief that there is some greater design to everything, especially in trying times. When I see big conceptual theories like this, it looks to me like people trying to create their own custom-made religion. They can…
I think the problem is that directors and producers of these big-budget blockbusters don’t seem to realize that there are just limitations to what CGI can portray well, no matter how much money is thrown at the film. Granted, I’m not an expert on the subject, but it seems like CGI has a problem with living…
MN Native here. When I was a child and our family would go to visit my grandparents (or vice versa), I was often very confused after the visit when my parents would start talking about some perceived insult they had received. I had been listening to them talking throughout the night and I had never heard anything that…
In other words: When it comes to original character created for the game, have at it, digital perverts. But when it comes to actual likenesses of actual human beings, CDPR is likely to keep shutting stuff down.
When I received my first Discman as a high school graduation gift from my parents, they included two CDs with it: INXS’s Kick and Motley Crue’s Dr. Feelgood. The former became a favorite of mine; the latter became a substitute for a clay pigeon.
Intriguing recipe, MTN DEW (we’re still supposed to say “Mountain Dew”, right, even those you rebranded as “Em-T-En Dew”?), but I’m not paying 30 bucks for your cookbook. This is promotional material; you give that shit away!
If it’s a short enough pause between the “Ummm...” (or “Let me think...” or “Hmmm...” or any similar pause phrase), I get your point. However, if the interval is long enough, it is a useful way to let the text receiver/audience know that the sender intends to continue the exchange. Communication via text is a…
“The only thing I know about them (Proud Boys) is when they came and spoke to us,” Clous said. “They were probably the most respected folks that got up and talked. They were decent guys and they treated us with respect.”
Good point. Degree inflation is a pretty big problem, too. At the very least, more degrees should have decent-paying jobs at lower degree levels like nurses or the various specialist/technician degrees do.
Am I the only one who finds Oreos a little overrated? I enjoy the many varieties of flavored sugar goo they provide, but I’ve always found the cookie wafer part (the regular chocolate wafer, anyway) texturally unpleasant, like cookie gravel or sand. The versions that use a different type of cookie--Golden Oreos, …
This country has a lot of work to do.
Thank you for this. I’m attempting a similar Trump media diet in my own life. I know there’s a good chance that he, his followers, his family, or his cronies will do something in the future that demands my attention, but, otherwise, I’m avoiding reading, writing, or talking about him. My greastest hope is that he…
There is a kind of “no girls allowed” kind of sexism to how Bruce Wayne recruits his Bat Family members: the boys are taken in, cared for, trained, and given an official Bat name; the girls, usually tired of watching from the sidelines, decide to train themselves to become crimefighters and, after proving themselves…
Fight Club is one of those “dorm room poster” movies (see also: Scarface, The Wolf of Wall Street, Resevoir Dogs, probably Joker) that alpha bros love because, on a surface level, they seem to make bad behavior/criminality/toxic masculinity seem cool or edgy or transgressive (even if a more thoughtful analysis reveals…