I could just about buy a slightly diverse Veronica, like mixed-race or something, as if her acceptance by the core Heathers was like a lame attempt at virtue signalling or something, but this really seems absurd and clueless.

It can be caused by two things. Two tragic, unnecessary, things.

While the Faraday Cage effect protects most aircraft against lightning strikes, in the later 20th century many military fighter planes began to incorporate “composite” materials, such as fiberglass and epoxy, that aren’t very good conductors, and can fracture and explode under lightning stresses. Today most such…

Well, had I been the sole winner of the $750 million Powerball, my plan was to buy back the AV Club from Gawker, run it at breakeven, and go back to the old system or something very close to it.

[T]he main thing movies get wrong about demonic possession is that it is a thing that is actually real and not made-up bullshit.

Yeah, I get it, but my diocese has refused to perform an exorcism on Kinja.

I was usually greyed on Kinja comments before, but haven’t been since this started, so I guess my copious AV Club history has vetted me. I guess that’s a net positive for me. I still loathe this.

And to no longer be able to see the identities of our upvoters, making everything largely anonymous and watering down the site’s sense of community.

Farr’s great for stories, but for me the highlight was learning that he apparently still has his “Battle” trophy on display.

It’s interesting, given how much I thought this change would suck, that it’s managed to find ways to suck that I hadn’t even considered before.

Great, another thing I can’t figure out how to do!

Yeah, that got out-of-hand pretty quickly even in the old system, and this already sucks even worse than I expected.

I really don’t think the illustration on the warning sign is helpful. To the thrill-seeking mentality that they’re presumably trying to discourage, that sign likely looks like a lot of fun.

The waitresses at our local diner figured out their machine years ago, and would keep count as patrons would play it, swooping in when someone left it ready to “hit”. I believe they’d also come to the rescue when some little kid would start obsessing over a prize, either winning it for them or giving them a…

I found the swordfighting especially egregious in Gladiator and 300, in that the Roman and Greek styles of warfare were more-or-less defined by fighting in disciplined fashion from behind walls of overlapping shields, with stabbing swords and spears, respectively, and both films ignored that utterly in favor of wild,…

That “limited view” is the thing I find most annoying about most first person shooters and fighter plane simulations — I guess it’s justified in something like Halo where you’re supposed to be heavily armored, but it’s frustrating to me to be so tunnel-visioned in a combat environment.

I definitely agree on the “good idea”. Germany’s resource deficiencies forced them to utilize everything they could. Obsolete tanks were almost always recycled into tank destroyers or self-propelled artillery or the like. Porsche made a mistake in producing the hulls in the first place, but definitely made lemonade…

I've long been aware of and enraged by some drivers' "pass hesitation" — their habit of moving into the left lane and then either decelerating or just hanging out there instead of passing. It's especially common when passing trucks. I suppose it's rooted in some drivers' overwhelming fear of them, though I would think…

I don't know. His shirt looked relatively clean and mended by the epilogue. I think they're committed to his costume, much as I'd like to see that montage, and what sort of "new look" he'd come up with.

George Clooney? An Irishman?