I know this is not all that hot of a take but I feel like if a movie or show is not legally available it shouldn't be illegal to pirate or stream it. I have literally no legal way to watch Patlabor 2.

Watching Batman: The Animated Series all the way through for the first time (I loved it as a kid, but only watching episodes as they came up on re-runs on AFN) and holy shit the animation is so good. youtu.be/76-8xyGf7w0?...

I basically have not touched any DC comics since 2015 when I worked at a comic shop, but I’m thinking about getting back into them with DC’s app. I’ve read the classic best-of stuff like Dark Knight Returns and Swamp Thing. Looking for recs from comic friends to build a reading list.

Replaying God of War (2018) and the themes of Kratos burying his past in his struggle to be a better person for his kid, are so goddamn good and hit different now. The way being unable to reckon with it hurts his son until he's forced to face it head on...

Not to be pedantic but "How do Americans feel about their country?" and "What makes America great?" feel like two very different stories, one being insight MOS and the other being nationalist propaganda we'd laugh at if it came from North Korean state media. It's a loaded question.

Had to be cut off on a show before me and a co-host spent another hour going through our "Top Five Revolutions Ranked" after we started talking about where the American revolution would sit.

I’s fair to say “I didn’t enjoy this movie/game/book because I have the attention span of a chipmunk on cocaine” but I think that’s horseshit to demean the artwork for that. Like, I don’t have the patience for Ulysses, but I think you’re kind of a prick if you turn that into “therefore it sucks”

The coolest sell for humanity in @totalwar.bsky.social is the upcoming factions are the Lord of Death, manifestations of the God of Decay, a rat sorcerer of unstable but incredible power, and... (left) a guy.

So soccer, that's like Rocket League but without cars right?

Don't do any of this.

Share an 80s movie you'll always love

Anchor: Can someone explain what MK Ultra was? Me:

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

Not to sound all Nanny State but if we have technology that will keep cars from going over the speed limit I feel like every car should have that www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...

Literally my only investment in the World Cup is praying every night that Croatia takes the whole bag

Artist I used to vibe with is now just churning out AI slop on Spotify

Accidentally left my mouse at the office and now all weekend I can only play games with my controller

I can still feel my disappointment across time and space from years ago when I first learned 'Fantasy Football' wasn't like "okay I'll have Legolas as Quarterback, Hodor as Right Guard, Conan as Strong Safety obviously..."

My parents did a bunch of military stuff with the UN in the 90s and it's funny looking back on how that led to me as a little kid thinking the UN was some awesome, global powerhouse and world government. The dream of 90s multiculturalism.

My script: '...for flights out of National Airport.' Producer: We could say Reagan National Airport

I love those moments in stores where random strangers are all vibing to the song. Just now everyone in the Petsmart was kind of quietly singing along to “like a prayer” and a few months ago in a thrift shop basically the whole floor I was on snapped to the “Adam’s family” theme.

A co-worker asked for TV show recommendations and they're watching 'Andor' this weekend. Is this the high missionaries feel when they convert someone?

It's kind of crazy how good Olivia Rodrigo's new album is. Three albums and every one of them is a banger; zero-drop off. It's better than her second album and at least as good as the debut.

In terms of sci-fi storytelling, Destiny getting taken out behind the woodshed and put down feels Star Trek being killed off after the original series or 20th Century Fox deciding not to go forward with Empire Strikes Back

Reading "Crossroads of Ravens" and playing a metric shit-ton of Gwent with my sister this weekend unfortunately has me thinking about giving the Netflix Witcher show another shot (I did not love it, to put it mildly)

I genuinely love House of the Dragon; season 1 is as great Game of Thrones at its peak and s2 is over-hated, but as good as the s3 premiere was it mostly got me thinking about how really special Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is.

Was out of the loop on all the 'Zizian' stuff until I had to go on a deep dive about it for work and...

I got Gwent this weekend and now my sister and I have been playing it almost constantly all day

I know it's probably because I have an out-of-vogue name, but one thing I love in Batman stuff is -- because it started in the 30s -- you've still got a cast full of characters named stuff like Bruce, Harvey and Barbara

Had to read a New York Post article for work and it was so badly written I literally felt a little nauseous getting through it

I’ve been wearing Hawaiian shirts every Friday but a co-worker was like “hold on, that doesn’t count as a Hawaiian shirt” Does it count or not?

My dream scenario here would be them tackling each other off a cliff like Moriarty and Holmes at Reichenbach Falls

Finally got around to The Mandalorian and Grogu and it would probably sit at the top of D. A couple scenes I liked, but otherwise completely bland and forgettable. Nothing offensively bad but just a complete void of charisma and imagination. Everybody just coasting through on the bare minimum.

Been thinking a lot (nostalgically) about Destiny's raids lately. It's kind of amazing how some of the best ones have not just new mechanics in each encounter, but introduce new visual and musical elements, and all those mechanics, visuals, narrative and musical beats come together in the climax.

When there's a new Spider-Man coming out but it's the live action one

IDK if there's a word for this style but every time I listen to The Metric I get nostalgic for this early 2000s graffiti-inspired art style

Jump scare reviewing video footage from a Spanberger event

They should have leaned in on the Goth branding when they painted it all black. This city loves Halloween, it would go apeshit for a spooky new hotel.

Kind of wild that Patti LuPone is famous from so much stuff I always forget she originated the English-version of Fantine

I am so unbelievably excited for the new season of X-Men 97 (spoilers in the trailer if you haven’t seen s1) I’ve called my sister like four times to rant about it and she’s kindly listened even though she couldn’t give less of a shit youtu.be/mfUtseK27pc?...

Look, I hate to say it, but Lincoln had a reputation as a good wrestler and probably would have loved UFC

My "up next" after the Olivia Rodrigo music video is a pretty great summation of who I am

Playing Destiny 2 again with the final update out and I still really think being able to turn yourself into a missile of pure electric energy is still one of the most fun mechanics in any game I've ever played.

"Linger" by the Cranberries came up on a playlist and all I could think about was the "Britta's Marrying Jeffrey Winger" version from Community www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxES...

I'm always kind of baffled at how Gen AI media became a right (pro) vs left (against) thing so quickly, but at the same time I think AI tech bro's antipathy toward art, creativity and worker rights does make it a natural fit.

I probably rewatch this like once every three months. When the show comes out I'm going to be absolutely feral. youtu.be/ncauRK9f75Q

Coworker just told me they were considering eating a potato salad that had been sitting out for 12 hours

It's really kind of wild what a fumble Fire and Ash was after Way of Water. WoW asked "what if we made a sequel that built on worldbuilding and characters but broke from the same generic structure of the previous movie" and FaA asked "but what if we did the opposite of that"