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Words, both recreationally and professionally. Video games/comics/giant robots nerd, with a side of yelling about sports. Largely boring.
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If you've been mystified by all the GQUUUUUX callbacks now's your chance

The Fantastic Four and Superman movies deliberately choosing Silver Age aesthetics is symbolic of American liberalism’s constant search for the high of Kennedy-era optimism as an unrealistic bulwark against fascism, in this essay (I am beaten to death with pieces of furniture like Tiberius Gracchus)

How about every time a columnist pretends there's a silent majority desperate to support Rahm Emanuel, they have to either prove it with numbers or get fed to eels

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social IT HAPPENED AGAIN

ATTABOY WEAPON X

Experimental post: Untruthful Mario Boxes Occasionally, box art of Mario-related games will be misleading about the number of levels a game has. I list three examples in ascending order of "fraudulence", alongside equivalent statements if these were real estate ads.

i shit you not, i just looked this up: Twitch Plays Pokemon got the second badge in about 50 hours

How it started : How it’s going

Do. Not. Disturb. The. Mysterious. Ancient. Rune-inscribed. Skull-adorned. Ring. Found. In. The. Idyllic. Countryside. Seriously, there's a whole book about this. And movies. Long ones!

This is deeply funny if you've actually been following this litigation because the Court of International Trade is *bipartisan* - there are nine seats and by law each party is capped at five. So unlike every other court, presidents have to appoint a mix of Democrats and Republicans.

Sometimes I think about how the people who run Marvel Studios thought that "Captain America vs. the Serpent Society" was a funny, stupid movie concept no one would really believe was real instead of the best idea they ever had