I’m the sort of person who enjoys elaborate intros. I also like to let the end credits run through. I hate when end credits are sped up, squished, or otherwise eliminated. (Notable exception: the tacked on international credits I see added to more and more stuff that have no music or style. Bojack Horseman had a good…

“Wrath” is essentially similar to the excellent Masterpiece Grimlock, with the addition of a combining feature. Similar enough to the point that I initially thought it was a copy of MP Grimlock when I first saw it. Both figures sold for about $150-200USD, unlike the green RID Grimlock, which retailed for around…

I found myself having the opposite experience. A local gas station had the VS Super Mario Bros when I was a kid. I played it a couple times. Not being able to breeze through world 1-1 through sheer muscle memory (mix of arcade controls and the mixed up items) frustrated me, so I never wasted another quarter on it. But…

Or an emulator for a PC or other device you already own, if you’re going that direction. Kind of beside the point! Some people want these things through legit channels.

Pizza Hut -still- pushes the “special crust” gimmick nonsense to ridiculous extremes. They push it like it’s some kind of side item instead of an important and integral part of the pizza. More frequently these days, they encourage you to rip the crust off and eat it separately, because they literally have made it into…

Hey, infinite universe!

The odd thing is that it seems, at least to me, like commenting is way down ACROSS THE BOARD on Kinja since The AV Club got smooshed in. I’m not saying it’s related, but something might be going on that’s at very least unfortunately timed.

I don’t think anyone ever actually said “transgendereds” in general. I believe the previous commonly used term was always “transsexuals”, however in-apt it may have been. So... just odd.

That’s kind of my exact reaction. I don’t think I want a series of this, but I would watch the heck out of a one-off movie.

With Valerian steel bullets!

By definition, no, but an amoral person certainly may have no compunctions against doing immoral things, just as they may feel no compulsion to do moral ones. So... kind of?

I believe he’s thanking the people for having so much spirit? Or possibly the hurricane for being such a big inspiration? Both? In either case the wording seems to suggest he feels it occurred in honor of himself.

I believe the answer may be “neither”, and in fact he just figured on more eyes on Trump, like he likes.

b. is the most obnoxious question anyone ever asks in Trekdom. The stupid, simple answer is “it was made in the 60s”. I would argue that Kirk’s ship looks very nice and very advanced, once you acknowledge the differences in set design capabilities and technological understanding between now and then.

TNG era and beyond? Large parts of ships ARE replicated. But remember, to replicate something you need a replicator bigger than what you’re making, and you need to be able to feed in the massive energy requirements for it, plus any necessary base matter sources. It is quite probable that such a facility might be…

Kinja used to be more helpful with this. I believe the URL to the comment included some of that info, so you could hover over and figure out which comment it was. Then suddenly it was just numbers, and pfft, useless.

Or Xena, Warrior Princess! She has many skills.

October. Yes, which is when they start airing the Christmas stuff in earnest (not counting the other times during the year it crops up also). Others in my house watch this channel constantly, and I was angry, maybe even offended when I realized the first time that they were kicking off their non-stop Christmas barrage…

A thing like this is great if there’s trust in the parent/child relationship. If the parent knows better than to use this as the first-resort contact option, and even then reserves it only for actually important situations, it can be a benefit to everyone. Otherwise it quickly does devolve into harassment.

As a person originally from Texas, I always thought it was incredibly strange that there were Six Flags parks in other states. The historical significance of those 6 flags was taught as part of state history in schools, and the park’s use of them was called out as a footnote kind of reference. It’s a meaningless name…