Pretty sure that’d be Threads, though I’ve not personally seen it.

I don’t remember that many details, but I do recall a bit where Robards’ car stalls out in traffic, apparently due to electromagnetic pulse effects. Either that and/or fuel shortages/confiscation could be the justifications for a quick return to animal power, particularly in an agricultural area where such…

I agree. I was a not-all-that-impressionable 19 at the time, and viewed it pretty much that way. I think generally public responses were pretty much politically aligned, with the Left/pro-disarmament crowd seeing it as a rallying point, the Right seeing it as a demonstration of why we needed Strong Deterrence to keep…

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.

Turns out you only have to melt the brain of one Kellogg’s attorney to get the rest on board.

It looked to me like the Sons of the Harpy’s attacks were doing some harm during the colosseum battle, so I think the scales can potentially be penetrated by lances and heavy bows.

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…

That seems really unlikely to me. I’ll buy a limited run of all the toys from a short-lived series, but back in the less complicated and sophisticated marketing environment of the ‘50s there’s no way that the show’s lead character wouldn’t have been the first, and perhaps most likely the only, doll they sold.