Squash & Stretch, Goons for Hire Henchmen looking to make a living in a post-superhero world.

Judgment Night's first draft was written in 1978. This was intended as something closer to Taxi Driver, Rolling Thunder, Death Wish. But it was in development hell for 15 years and released into a post-Die Hard world. It's edgy for a 1993 studio thriller, but it's begging for that late-70s sleaze.

It's funny that you're nostalgic for Blockbuster but not the library, dumbass bitch.

Free on Youtube. One of my favorite solid B+ movies. It was clearly conceived to be about a group of yuppies who wander into a Cormac McCarthy novel. It's toned down to be about yuppies who wander into a marketable 90s thriller, and it flopped anyway. S. Craig Zahler should remake it.

The punching up/down discourse is for people who laughed at disabled kids in high school, and they think they've matured because they only bully deserving targets now. The funniest shit usually isn't picking on anyone.

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That banner feels apolitical and namby-pamby because it is. She sells NFTs and has a history of... "snitch" might be too strong a word, but she was volunteering information the cops didn't even ask for and people wound up in jail. zona-media.translate.goog/online/2015/...

As a wrestling fan, you tolerate a lot of horseshit to get to the good stuff because the good stuff is really good.

Haven't watched this video but he's right.

This might sound slightly libertarian, but nobody gets more lessons and lectures about the importance of sharing than the parent's least favorite child.

WWE's lack of any core, guiding principles mean that the company's values reflect the public's values at any given moment, for better or for worse. Hogan in the 80s, DX in the 90s, Cena during the War on Terror. Sami Zayn is a Syrian Muslim everyman type who wears Palestine colors on his tights.

"When there's a republican in power, we tend to attack their policies... With the democrats, we agree with their policies, so we attack them PERSONALLY." - Phil Hartman When a satirist stops at the small hands and silly hair, they're telling you whose side they're really on.

Don't call yourself a cinephile if you haven't fucked these movies.

I think The Batman (2022) and Superman (2025) represent a mainstream push back toward the Good Neighbor depiction of superheroes, after 25 years of MCU soap operas and the Team America fantasies of Nolan and Snyder. ICE kind of demystifies any fantasies you had about body armor and jackboots.

If you're a shy, inexperienced kid at 16, you're kind of unguarded in your devotion. Groomers love that, they gobble it up like vampires, and they don't care that you're going to become resentful and jaded, that your next relationship will be marked by distrust and suspicion.

I talk shit because sometimes it gets me a win without even trying, because I'm so unpleasant people don't want to play with me.

Boomers think they worked harder than anyone because they were rewarded harder than anyone.

I know there's no ethical consumption under capitalism but at the least, we shouldn't be using AI to make anti-AI memes. This isn't a "yet you participate in society" take. I'm asking why you're protesting the orphan crushing machine by hitting the CRUSH button on the orphan crushing machine.

"Seems there's nothing people enjoy more than writing me letters... Here's one from Chicago. This one's from Iowa. Here's one from Iowa, too. This one's from Montana. Here's one from some place called Kansas City. Here's one from Wisconsin. This one's from Arizona. Here's one from Las Vegas..."

Well, sure, in hindsight, yeah, the Iran War was a mistake.

I started to simplify my drawing style years ago in part because everyone thinks artists are just looking for ideas. So now they look at my stuff and think "Well I could do THAT." and then they don't, because they can't really be bothered, and they leave me alone.

I feel like I'm too heterosexual to be straight these days because isn't Milly Alcock like one of the cutest girls you've ever seen in your life? From a completely superficial viewpoint, how much goonbait do you need to swallow to find her in any way off-putting?

There isn't even a distant second. This is the best Batman suit-up scene in any show or movie. Even the better live-action Batmovies tend to be very fetishistic about the suit, indulging in pointless glamorization. Mask of the Phantasm is uniquely concerned with the effect, not the texture.

Creating hurdles to porn is probably an intentional push to fast-track the gooner-to-racist-subculture pipeline. You can still find whatever porn you want, but now you gotta ask some guy on Reddit for a link. Now you got these guys talking to each other instead of rubbing one out in 5 minutes.

Watching Batman movies like huh I wonder who this really pointy-face guy in the flashbacks turns out to be.

The very definition of craft, the aspect of art that is actually measurable in some semi-tangible way, pertains to employability and marketability. Without that, it's a bit like running on a hamster wheel.

In the middling-intermediate ranks, you can bet most players would rather lose the game than lose a pawn they don't need. I bump my head on a 1900 Blitz Lichess rating because I'm so conditioned against this type of player. Players who aren't scared shitless of losing material kinda stump me.

When I lose at chess I go "lol nice stalemate, dumbass." and leave before they can inform me that's not what happened.

How critical is sky-high rent to FunkoPop's success? Nobody carries that shit if they don't have to, right?

The Godfather/Sopranos parallels are obvious but Heyman says that Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now was a touchstone for the Tribal Chief.

"Anger, vanity, you mix that together with liquor, you've got two brothers that haven't spoken in ten years. Ah, whatever it was that made me and Lyle so mad... don't matter anymore. I want to make peace, I want to sit with him, look up at the stars... like we used to do, so long ago."

New account. I'm like, good for a mediocre player.

Deltarune tomorrow? Damn, I better stay off Bluesky to avoid the spoilers and furry inflation porn.

I think Bohemian Rhapsody set a precedent that it's fine for a musical biopic to be a steaming lump of hot wet dog shit, because it's meant to function like a concert film. The genre appeals to a fandom that likes to celebrate itself in the way Star Wars fans used to.

As far as I know, Batman has never officially had a Batbicycle, but Batman Jones, a kid who idolized Batman, rode this thing. The design doesn't make a lot of sense and it changes from panel to panel. I think it'd be cool to get those fenders and put them on a black cruiser though.

Family Guy's Marvel superhero gags got incredibly on-model after Disney first announced its intent to buy Fox in 2017.

When Shirley Walker wrote lyrics for the Batman theme, she went with fake Latin based on the names of her colleagues spelled backwards.

Legends of the Superheroes, a 1979 TV special. This came out the same year Richard Donner revolutionized the genre with Superman. West and Ward return. Batman almost clobbers Robin for destroying the Batmobile, then they get scammed into buying a clunker motorcycle at a used car lot.

"Cheap-looking" isn't necessarily a bad thing. Hell neither is taking cheap shots at other cartoons. But complete and total charmlessness is a deliberate aesthetic choice no matter your budget.

It's telling that the best use gooners can come up with for AI is "what if Emma Watson's tits were bigger?" considering that porn is always on the cutting edge of media technology.

Never take art lessons from the pretentious. Listen to the craftspeople.

The problem has never been religious faith, but its weaponization by tyrants. People used to get their asses beat for wearing straw hats after Labor Day.

Charlie Kirk's mourning fans be like wow I can't believe it's almost been a year without........... I wanna say Clark something?

The Earthbound Beginnings remake is a romhack of Earthbound for the SNES. It's cool how Iwata's framework forms the game's foundation.

"I would rather have written Cheers than anything I've written." - Kurt Vonnegut

"Wow this song is great. I wonder why the Big Bopper didn't have a long, rewarding career?" **listens to the rest of the album** "Oh."

Catwoman (2004) A piece of shit, but the most delightful piece of shit I've seen in awhile. Berry is miscast as a downtrodden office worker but perfect as a purring, meowing, bug-chasing, catnip-sniffing camp queen. Schumacher's films are like watching money burn. This is stupid, embarrassing fun.