Man do I hate commercials featuring the Grinch. The literal message of that story is “Christmas isn’t about rampant consumerism.”

I had no desire to see Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, I did not see the first one because I was 29 when the first *game* came out. But I like Matthew Lillard a lot, and Quentin Tarantino is such an obnoxious turd that I just might watch those movies out of spite.

Gonna be real, all my friends are adults with jobs and lives, and reading a 250+ page textbook isn’t on a lot of their to-do lists. And I’m almost always the DM. I only ask that they pay attention to rules when they’re explained.

We rewatched JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. Since Star Platinum and The World are essentially the same Stand you think Dio ever figured out The World can grow its fingers out really long?

Nothing more fun in Dead by Daylight than seeing yet another Feng Min in a stupid gaudy costume start the fight with a flashlight, then immediately disconnect the moment she realizes the killer used Lightborn because they didn’t wanna deal with her stupid BS.

It is a whole lot easier to make a game based on Spider-Man and Wolverine and the X-Men and the Fantastic Four than it is to make basically any DC property that isn’t Batman. Superman is too powerful. The Flash just runs really fast. Most of the rest of DC is “Supes but not really.”

I think we could get Pete Hegseth on board with his arrest and public execution if we told him how much of a ratings success it would be.

Part of the fun of this current story I’m working on is remembering when I was on a morphine drip and thinking how I didn’t give a *fuck* about the world while that sweet, sweet drug was coursing through my veins. Someone could’ve hacked my hand off with a cleaver and I would’ve just shrugged.

We’re rewatching Stardust Crusaders and we had forgotten there’s two whole episodes of JoJo’s Bizarre adventure where a character de-ages to a 4 year-old and then has to protect a fetus from a child-murderer. And none of this particular Bizarre Adventure is happening to JoJo.

i can't find it but there's a tumblr post about a fandom where everyone is talking about how good the toast is at a new restaurant and then it turns out they were all bringing their own jam to the restaurant and putting it on the toast. that's how i feel about gay stuff in dnd

Fun Fact: enjoying a corporate product doesn’t mean you support corporate actions. Second Fun Fact: liking non-corporate things doesn’t make you cool or interesting by default.

Came in the mail today: my copies of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness Redux” and its supplement, “Transdimensional Adventures.” Proudly kickstarted by me. Yes I know the system is wonky, but it sounds absolutely bananas.

I see you this, and raise you “it’s not even a sexual attraction thing. He just wants to do it so Bats has to live with the fact that he liked it.”

Hot take but I will listen to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” twenty times in a day over enduring Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” one time a year.

"I only read books by listening to audio books at 3x speed and that's how I can read 400 books a year." "I only read the dialogue in books." Great, and how fulfilling was that for you? What did you get out of that? Is someone forcing you to do this? I do not understand.

Both Kill Bill movies back to back is one of those things that sounds like a great idea, until you remember when you had that viewing experience back in college. The pacing in those flicks are so different that it just doesn’t work when viewed together. Also Vol.2 kinda sucks.

Early Christmas present gift exchange. We like movies and we like all kinds of the things.

The age of generative AI is truly the age of people just casually, with zero shame, discussing on public forums how thinkie hurtie bwainie.

I went into Steel Ball Run fairly blind, and while I shouldn’t be *surprised* that one of the cowboys in a JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure story has to use autoerotic asphyxiation in order to remove salamander venom, that doesn’t mean I should have *expected* it. 10/10, check it out.

Weird how people don’t like paying twice for things

An artwork for Polygon I somehow always forget about (2021)

I tried reading it a few times and same. Then I listened to the original BBC radio drama, and I got it. Also, the radio drama is the *first* version, so I would argue it’s the more authentic version.

Submitted a short story. Hopefully it gets accepted!

Imagine hating poor people so much that you think they’re gonna sell a beat-up old copy of “The Secret” for drug money.

In Red Dead Redemption 2, there is a single Carolina Parakeet on the entire map that, if killed, will never respawn. This is because the Carolina Parakeet went extinct around the time of the game’s 1880s-1890s setting.

I saw someone say Silent Hill f loses its scariness by the time you’ve unlocked all the endings and yeah, I guess a 15-20 hour game *would* lose its jumpscares a bit if you beat it four times in a row in under two months. What a weird criticism.

We have such sights to show you, Charlie Brown

I don’t think there’s been a single video game that has had as much hype put behind it and analysis written about it but has had basically zero longterm impact quite like BIOSHOCK and BIOSHOCK: INFINITE. Nobody cares about this series anymore.

Current YouTube rabbit hole: There are dudes who have made an entire influencer career out of being that one kid at school who took a karate class and would go “I can totally take you to the ground. Come at me! No, twist your arm like this so I can grab you. No, bend it further — there! See?!”

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Majorie Taylor Greene resigning and Trump being nice to Mamdani are exactly the kinds of stories pundits love talking endlessly about for days on end: earth shattering events that won't make one fucking difference in anybody's life.

“I’m not sure about these C-buttons but this stick-thing is the future.” Turns out the C-buttons work better if you make them into an extra stick-thing!

I think the remake is Snyder’s best movie. The original’s better, but a the remake quite literally brought zombies back into pop culture and is the reason they were *everywhere* in the 2000s and 2010s.

There was this weird moment in the late 90s to early 2000s when horror fans hated this movie because it didn’t take Jason seriously. Jason, a giant zombie that kills teens for getting highl and having sex at an old summer camp he should by all rights *hate* because that’s where he was once bullied.

Modern video game music isn’t worse than classic tunes. Even the more ambience/based stuff in AAA games. It’s just that you’re over 40.

It’s never a bad time for this meme, but International Men’s Day might be the best time

There is something insufferable about libs on here who have spent all year harping on the Epstein files getting released, and the moment it gets voted and Dementia President goes “go ahead,” all you start seeing is these types going “he’s been completely scrubbed out of them.”

I love and respect animation of all stripes but I swear, there are some millennial/GenX YouTubers who do not understand they are hurting animation fandom every time they post a “This Cartoon Is NOT For KIDS!!!” video. It’s 2025. Everybody knows animation isn’t solely for kids.

I’m the kind of reader that will read Blood Meridian and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure in tandem, and in fact and doing that right now. Yee haw.

You olds don't need to hear this, but to you youngbloods out there, I come to you from the future: when the news begins talking about ways to save money for the holidays, rather than getting you hyped to drown in debt buying shit, that means shit is WAY FUCKING WORSE than they are letting on.

I’d completely forgotten Death Stranding 2 was even released. Meanwhile our house has talked about SHf at length several times.

That Legend of Zelda movie looks hella generic. But I’m also old and am not the 13 year-old target audience, so 🤷‍♂️

We just got out of it and theater is *the* way to watch a del Toro movie, if you are able.

Remember when IGN was good? Yeah me neither.

It’s no secret that manga *far* outsells Western comics, and I have to wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that Japanese comics are *dirt cheap?*

Twin Peaks: FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, driving while talking to his tape recorder.

The kind of people lamenting about the phasing out of the penny are the sort of people that think they’re saving money when something is $4.99 instead of $5.

Does anybody know what it is Jeff Keighley has actually done in the games industry that matters? At best it seems like he was a rich kid that used his parents’ money to pal around with game devs, and then me made the trashiest awards show known to man.

We’ve finally hit the most crucial part of my English grammar and rhetoric class: the DnD spells.