Shocking Revelations and Epiphanies

[Thad]

I know I've read interviews with Stephen King's son where he discussed using a pen name to make it less immediately obvious whose son he was...and apparently it worked, because I didn't remember that pen name was Joe Hill. He wrote Locke & Key (with artist Gabriel Rodriguez), and it's one of the best horror comics I've ever read.

BTW I'm pretty sure I've still got extra digital copies of the first two trades that I got in a bundle; if anybody wants them, hit me up.

(ETA: Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure the "interview" I remember reading was actually Hill's introduction to Sandman vol 8: Worlds' End, which also features a foreword by King. There was probably a good 8 or 9 years between when I finished Sandman and when I started Locke & Key, so plenty of time for me to forget where I'd seen Hill's name before.)

[Thad]

Obviously I noticed Sean Astin had a similar name to John Astin, but I never realized he was his son. (And Sean's mother was Patty Duke.) I guess "I didn't know this guy was this other guy's son" is becoming a theme for my posts in this thread.

I also didn't realize John Astin was still alive, which is somewhat more understandable as he's 89 years old.

[Büge]

That's what "stan" means???

[Newbie]

From the Eminem song of the same name, yeah

[beatbandito]

I mean, he killed them because he's a big fan.

Pretty sure this one originated from the same teenage girls that wanted to fuck Ted Bundy for a while.

[mharr]

Is there a reason this is suddenly a meme twenty years on?

[Grath]

Is there a reason this is suddenly a meme twenty years on?

The internets work in strange and mysterious ways.

[Mongrel]

This is literally the first I've even heard of this being a thing.

[Joxam]

It doesn't hurt that a lot of people who're too young to even know the song jusf figure its a compound of the words 'stalker' and 'fan'.

[Mongrel]

Denim

de-nim

"Serge de Nîmes"

[nosimpleway]

At first I figured you were singing the underground theme from Super Mario Bros

"denim denim denim"

[Büge]

Christopher Guest, a.k.a. Nigel Tufnel, a.k.a. Count Tyrone Rugen, has a hereditary peerage in Britain. He is formally known as the 5th Baron Haden-Guest, of Great Saling, in the County of Essex.

[Thad]

Does that make Jamie Lee Curtis a baroness?

ETA: Yes. Yes it does.

[Mongrel]

In conversation, she spoke just like a baroness.

[Mongrel]

The MS in "MSNBC" is Microsoft. Because... it was co-founded by Microsoft (even if they're no longer involved).

I DIDN'T KNOW THIS, OKAY?!

[Mongrel]

I was reading the news and while scanning past headlines, I passed story about Bank of America.

A few seconds later I couldn't help giggling uncontrollably at "BofA".

[Thad]

I didn't realize until I listened to the Aladdin episode of Retronauts that Dave Perry was in charge of the Genesis game, but...of course he was. That game is proto-Earthworm Jim all the way; it's got absolutely gorgeous animation, one level's worth of decent stage design, and then a whole lot of sprawling levels that are punishingly difficult and not very much fun.

Jim is the better game, partly because it's funnier, partly because movement and combat are more fun, and partly because it's bursting with ideas -- yeah, they're a bunch of half-baked ideas that often add up to a frustrating experience (looking at you, Tube Race and Snot a Problem), but whatever EWJ's failures, lack of ambition ain't one of 'em.

[Brantly B.]

Back when EWG wasn't it's own thing it was largely described as "a new game by the guy who made Genesis Aladdin."

[Friday]

Great now this Nintengal really wants to play Genesis Aladdin

[Thad]

Back when EWG wasn't it's own thing it was largely described as "a new game by the guy who made Genesis Aladdin."

look most of what I remember from video game magazines of the era involves Gazuga and the Box.

Great now this Nintengal really wants to play Genesis Aladdin

It got a rerelease for PC and consoles in October, so it's not tough to come by.

It's a very pretty game, though I think with the benefit of hindsight the consensus is that the SNES version was better. (I never played but a few minutes of that one so I can't vouch for that personally, but "this licensed Disney game by Capcom is pretty good" is not a difficult thing for me to believe.)