Wizards of the Coast cleverly decided when they first produced the game to not start filing lawsuits. By cultivating a trading card game industry, they insured that MtG would be first among equals as long as the genre existed.

Every single one of these sounds like a Marvel mutant comic that had Deadpool as a guest star and then got cancelled.

I know this is going to be a crazy theory, but maybe the Flintstones movie wasn't very good because the source material wasn't very good and it wasn't like having fewer than 35 writers on any individual episode of the original television series helped.

Competitive Scrabble is full of people who memorize the word lists, but not the meanings. It can get pretty pathological. The current French-language champion doesn't speak any French at all (he's from New Zealand) and there are a lot of Thai players on the English-language competitive circuit who don't speak English.

There really was a great run of movies in the 80s and 90s about how you'd show them all that video games really were good for something, wasn't there? Between Cloak & Dagger and The Last Starfighter, it seems like only an idiot would spend their time studying for the SATs or learning how to be an electrician.

And just look how high BlackBerry stock is flying today! They sure made the right choice.

Replace "Bible" with "Simpsons" and this is pretty much the plot of Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (except not really, but you'll have to see it for yourself to see what I mean by that).

However, it is suitable for earth, water, and fire.

"It's always in the last place you look." - Joseph Hazelwood

Russian dash cams.

I was just about to say that I don't remember Vancouver looking like this the last time I was there.

"That's Bill Pullman, you fool!"

Tell that to the four innocent dudes he killed and put in his ghost jail.

There's a word for the amount of money that you can make by telling a certain subset of gamers that sixteen hours a day of Xbox really could totally pay off in heroism and women under the right circumstances.

I remember those comic digests, and the other-planet-adventure-and-shit was really one quarter of each issue, tops. The rest was dumb puns about money and Richie's cousin being the inspiration for the "Mitt Romney" character from that comedy show about the 2012 elections.

"Oddly-grandmotherly-even-in-her-twenties folk singer" checking in.

DEAD SHEEP
DO NOT EAT

Meanwhile, Scott Adams is trying in vain to convince the police to investigate that adventure-game-writing bastard who stole his Dilbert money.

And now so do I.

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