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by Thad
Tue Apr 30, 2024 12:12 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Friday's Favorite 100 Longform Video Media
Replies: 34
Views: 741

Re: Friday's Favorite 100 Longform Video Media

Rather than talk about Transformers directly, at this point I'll just add a link to Ron Friedman's GoFundMe. He wrote a lot of the series, most significantly the movie, and now he and his wife are dealing with serious medical problems and the financial ruination that comes with them.
by Thad
Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:45 am
Forum: Media
Topic: and Dead Tree Comics
Replies: 674
Views: 161637

Re: and Dead Tree Comics

In this case they should think of how they draw Colorado.
by Thad
Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:31 am
Forum: Media
Topic: and Dead Tree Comics
Replies: 674
Views: 161637

Re: and Dead Tree Comics

Deadpool #1: How is it that in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Four, people are still drawing Flagstaff like a goddamn Speedy Gonzales cartoon?

Yeah, I know Google ain't what it used to be, but I'm pretty goddamn sure you can still find fucking photo reference for Flagstaff.
by Thad
Mon Apr 29, 2024 12:40 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Friday's Favorite 100 Longform Video Media
Replies: 34
Views: 741

Re: Friday's Favorite 100 Longform Video Media

See, the thing is, when I think of Robot Chicken, I basically always think of three extraordinarily good shorts from it. These three shorts ARE Robot Chicken, in my brain. If the entire show was just those three shorts, I would probably put Robot Chicken in the top ten. That's how good the shorts a...
by Thad
Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:14 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: X-Men
Replies: 351
Views: 40658

Re: X-Men

I don't remember Bastion being any fun in the comics; my recollection was that he was a bog-standard preachy anti-mutant X-Men villain and I hated him. I like him a lot better this way. He's got the "supervillain who's having so much fun " thing going on; he reminded me so much of Malcolm ...
by Thad
Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:58 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Microsoft: Still a Thing
Replies: 135
Views: 39710

Re: Microsoft: Still a Thing

I don't think they even supported it on the Intel Macs for the last decade or so, but I guess stranger things have happened.
by Thad
Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:32 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Truthiness! (Onion, Clickhole, etc.)
Replies: 461
Views: 112355

Re: Truthiness! (Onion, Clickhole, etc.)

The Onion Sold to Founder of Twilio, Who Taps Ex-NBC News Reporter Ben Collins to Lead Satire Site as CEO This...seems good? It seems like the new owners are competent businesspeople who actually like and understand the Onion? That's no guarantee of success, of course, but it at least seems like a ...
by Thad
Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:30 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Friday's Favorite 100 Longform Video Media
Replies: 34
Views: 741

Re: Friday's Favorite 100 Longform Video Media

I would never accuse Home Improvement of biting, sophisticated satire, but the central joke that the guy who's obsessed with performative displays of masculinity is less manly than the guy who's quietly competent and doesn't have anything to prove is a perfectly good joke.
by Thad
Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:03 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Hot game deals
Replies: 843
Views: 224085

Re: Hot game deals

Golden Week sale at Steam for various Japanese publishers.

There's also a Steamworld franchise sale; you can get Steamworld Dig for under a buck.

GOG's got some sales on too.
by Thad
Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:49 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: DC Animation
Replies: 153
Views: 36484

Re: DC Animation

And I am done with my rewatch of Batman and Superman and on to Batman Beyond. Man, it is wild that Superman ends the way it does. Superman disgraced, the public's faith in him shaken, and that's just it . And AFAIK they didn't have any idea they'd ever get a chance to follow it up, though they event...
by Thad
Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:27 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Trump Leaving Office Poll (Part 2)
Replies: 622
Views: 65540

Re: Trump Leaving Office Poll (Part 2)

Nah, that's me clarifying that I, too, am a lot more upset than my tone might have suggested.
by Thad
Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:50 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Trump Leaving Office Poll (Part 2)
Replies: 622
Views: 65540

Re: Trump Leaving Office Poll (Part 2)

Fascinating to see how the constitutional "originalists" are now contemplating whether the president is actually a king It's fucking stomach-churning is what it is. It's not surprising , but just because it's about what I expected doesn't make it any less grotesque. This might be a good d...
by Thad
Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:07 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Thundercats
Replies: 30
Views: 9037

Re: Thundercats

#1 is fine. Retells the story of the first episode with a couple of retcons that make the timeline somehow make even less sense By issue #3 it's clear that this is intentional. The Thundercats think they've been in suspension for at least a decade, hence Lion-O's aging, but Slithe referred to his l...
by Thad
Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:50 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Trump Leaving Office Poll (Part 2)
Replies: 622
Views: 65540

Re: Trump Leaving Office Poll (Part 2)

Generally a good idea to take oral arguments with a grain of salt, but it's looking like the conservatives on the SCOTUS are congealing around some kind of "Well no obviously the president doesn't have total immunity but he has some immunity and we're not going to decide whether or not he's imm...
by Thad
Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:25 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Mega Man
Replies: 91
Views: 36457

Re: Mega Man

Japan-Exclusive Demo for Mega Man Legends 2 Receives English Translation

They call it a demo but at a glance it looks to be a unique, standalone series of short missions.
by Thad
Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:58 am
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: What about a thread for good news?
Replies: 332
Views: 91901

Re: What about a thread for good news?

I'm all for challenging the authority of the Supreme Court, but there are some pretty significant differences between Andrew Jackson ignoring a Supreme Court ruling against invading tribal lands and a guy who works at a sandwich shop ignoring a Supreme Court ruling about the legal enforceability of ...
by Thad
Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:36 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: X-Men
Replies: 351
Views: 40658

Re: X-Men

waaaaaaait a minute Emma can't use her telepathy when she's in diamond form!
by Thad
Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:57 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: Thundercats
Replies: 30
Views: 9037

Re: Thundercats

Issue #3 brought out my inner CBG on page 1 by saying "Thundrainium" when they clearly meant Thundrilium , but then won me back with a pretty specific callback to the interior of the Book of Omens. Also, it turns out Snarf does exist! And this version's way of making him less annoying is.....
by Thad
Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:39 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Arizona is a blasted hellscape
Replies: 405
Views: 107698

Re: Arizona is a blasted hellscape

Oh shit this too: Grand jury indicts fake electors who falsely certified Donald Trump as 2020 winner in Arizona The fake electors in Arizona are: Tyler Bowyer, an executive with Turning Point USA and a committeeman for the Republican National Committee Nancy Cottle, who chaired the Arizona Trump ele...
by Thad
Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:26 pm
Forum: :corncob:
Topic: Arizona is a blasted hellscape
Replies: 405
Views: 107698

Re: Arizona is a blasted hellscape