Hey, with their powers combined....

I generally read Gotham’s Penguin as having a stunted and delusionally child-like capacity for interpersonal relationships. Like, he GENUINELY believes he and Jim Gordon are besties, for instance. I’d say he was insane, but he’s got that certificate, so....

You joke, but the 5th element in that movie was essentially the same as the one in Captain Planet. Love/heart, kind of the same thing.

Honestly, I feel like if it ends up being a one-sided romantic thing, it’ll be Nygma who pushes things into “romance” and Penguin who genuinely didn’t see it coming. Nygma is feeding Penguin’s deep-seated need for unconditional support and affection, previously provided by his dead mother. He’s going to respond to…

I was the kid in the eighties who usually answered, “Yeah I’m gay, because ‘gay’ means HAPPY!” (I was lucky I was bigger than most other kids or I probably would’ve been beat up a lot). The gang in Stranger Things could have been modeled on my friends and myself.

I’ve found it generally true that when an opinion or assumption or whatever else becomes a deeply held belief, people will go to great lengths to defend it. They will double- and redouble-down harder and harder with each piece of contradicting evidence rather than let it go. It is inherently irrational, though I…

Didn’t help that they used a longer version of that theme song than most people would remember.

I guess after you’ve been turned into a giant turtle man and whatnot a few times, you pick up some self-confidence.

There’s always exceptions! D:

2 pretty much had everything going for it. Highly enjoyable level design, fun to use weapons (METAL BLADE!), great boss designs, well-refined gameplay, and some of the most memorable music on the NES. It really took all the best things that worked about the original game and improved them, while trimming what didn’t.

Agreed! While I immediately recognized his highly recognizable voice, I nonetheless argued with myself that it couldn’t possibly be him until the closest of closeups in the trailer. His entire demeanor, vocally and physically was so unlike anything I’d ever seen or heard from him that it was just plain difficult to…

Clearly you have no joy in your heart. It was fun! It was not meant to be taken seriously in any way.

Yeah, I got that.

Not everything is mindless nostalgia. Sometimes things are legitimate criticism of current trends compared to previous models (whether or not one agrees with them).

No. Why? Because the NES was a discreet, purpose-built hardware system. The NES is defined by its hardware.

Honestly, it’s not so much that it’s the same characters. It’s the fact that it’s also the same character designs (sort of) and the same voice actors and the same unique characterizations (again, sort of). It’s a mocking parody of the original, perpetrated by the same people who made the original. Plus the fact that…

Huh. It sounds to me like the man should have been a storyboard artist, not a manga illustrator, just based on your description.

My reflexive immediate question is... is that Girl Ten or Girl (Binary Two)?

After many years I’ve finally achieved a 99% or so success rate of replacing the word “god” with “gosh” in casual speech. I do it without even thinking about it, which pleases me. Occasionally I’ll do “goodness”, and rarely I’ll sneak in something like “ye gods” if I’m feeling particularly silly. I was never actually…

I think I like this less than the original’s mechanical eyes. Not sure if the eyes could move. I know the eyelids did. LCD screen eyes will never seem as viscerally real as actual moving bits, no matter how fake those actually look. It’s the fact that they emit light, in large part, along with the possible refresh…