I love a lot of the Mario Odyssey boss fights because of the way they push you to use all the skills you’ve acquired through the enemy bodies you’d captured along the way. I think my favorite of the bunch is Brigadier Mollusque-Lanceur III, Dauphin of Bubblaine, the boss of Seaside Kingdom. The way that fight suddenly…

I just whip it out when I first walk into a bathroom so everyone knows where we stand /s

I agree with your reading that the “Trust the Science” bit is a misguided attempt to show liberals are hypocrites.

Does the series touch on the fact that Allen tells us repeatedly, in film after film, who he is? How many movies has he made now about a young, barely legal woman getting ensnared by a creepy old man (often played by Allen himself)?

Used to live in Texas and did some work as a research consultant to the DOT there. If I recall correctly, the DOT’s fleet of snow and ice response vehicles tend to be stored at District maintenance offices in the northwest (where I used to live) because they just generally aren’t used elsewhere often at all. That…

Jeff Jackson >>> that numbnuts Cal Cunningham.

Yah! The film falls pretty neatly into a nexus of niche genres I enjoy: underwater Alien clones like Leviathan and DeepStar Six, kaiju flicks and creature features, and cosmic horror!

That episode with Cotton has my absolute favorite joke in the whole series. Hank, in all of his humble earnestness, looks at the other guys and says, “There’s a lot we didn’t know about sheds 20 years ago.”

I literally just finished rewatching all of KotH. I appreciated the way the show brought resolution to Hank and Kanh’s tumultuous relationship. I think the show’s best seasons were probably in the middle, like 3-8, and not every take (there are some iffy gender jokes) has aged well, but it stayed mostly quality…

I find the baby avalanche theory Emily referenced to be the most plausible explanation yet put forth.

I’ve been wanting to do a long App trail backpacking trip for a while. Maybe after COVID.

She’s probably using Trump statistics. If we don’t take SD’s population (46th lowest in the nation into account, and just a little more than live in the city of Charlotte), sure, good job!

I get that. I'm specifically talking about the dirt bags, actually.

I should clarify here that I’m pro class-consciousness and shifting the structure of the system to eliminate wealth inequality. I just genuinely think we will never achieve in the United States until we deal with white supremacy (and other structural systems of oppression, like misogyny) first.

This has been my chief criticism of the Chapo fans; though I, generally, agree with their politics, the distillation of all oppression to class oppression erases so many would-be allies, and I’m honestly not convinced it moves the needle at all, at least not in the US. There are mountains and mountains of research…

I was pretty critical of the choice when he was first announced, but he’s said a lot about Vision Zero and re-orienting the Fed’s transportation goals that have me, well, if not encouraged, than at least not concerned, as I perpetually was with Chao.

Between this and the Jewish space lasers, Ms. Taylor Greene is having a banner week.

“That’s what all the neocons ask about the Arab dictators.”

I dunno. There were definitely married men and women at the siege.

There are theistic satanists, alongside the the humanist ones you reference. There are also satanists with Nazi leanings, like the Order of Nine Angles, that mix spiritualism with nationalism and have some pretty wacky teachings. A lot of those folks worship Evola.