Since I've been taking a closer look at The Boys, I've noticed that its parodies of established superheroes hardly ever really read as such. You have to squint pretty hard to get that "Payback" is a jab at the Avengers.
(Whereas the show's political satire is the most on-the-nose stuff possible.)
Ford completely abandoned making regular cars in favor of trucks and SUVs. Last I checked, BYD still makes affordable sedans.
“Don’t you know who I am?” he roared. “I’m the Red Ogre, bitch!” Xero rolled his eyes. “You’re the Red Ogre Bitch?” Someone started laughing hysterically. Xero sighed. “Hey, Killfile.” “Okay,” Killfile managed, “that was a good one, kid!” He tousled Xero’s hair for good measure. “Sure. Whatever. Are you gonna help or what?” Killfile hung his head, annoyed. “Fiiiine!” In one smooth motion, he pulled out one of his pistols and shot Red Ogre. Red Ogre grinned, revealing the bullet he’d caught in his teeth.
I just had to work in a jab at the Juggernaut from X-Men: The Last Stand.
A local antique shop had the paperback novelization of the 1980 Flash Gordon movie, which became the latest addition to my collection of cheesy movie novelizations!
A Chessex dry erase battle mat, with a crude outline of a town square and many paper minis of superheroes about, plus several of weird robots trying to surround them.
Finally getting into it, and shit's going down on Starborn Island, with Captain Eagle and the Z Squad attacking, and Warden robots from One Humanity descending to cause more chaos and destruction. Little does Captain Eagle realize, Mirrorshard is impersonating Null.
Monkey being extra silly as she demands breakfast.
Randomly stopped off to browse some antique stores and one had this nightmare way in the back.
youtube.com/shorts/CFDof...
I’d only really heard critiques of it in terms of how it fails to accurately analyze folklore and ignores women, but the video makes a compelling argument for it sucking as a story template as well.
An interesting critique of Joseph Campbell's monomyth, and specifically of how it's been turned into (bad) writing advice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=torK...
New on ClockworkAvocado.com, a look at Breaking Bad, its fandom, and how it was part of the prestige TV trend that David Lynch was (arguably) satirizing in Twin Peaks: The Return.
www.clockworkavocado.com/badly-breaki...
Found an old pic of Mog (the white and gray one) with our second cat, Gabriel a.k.a. Spike. I miss them both. ❤️
So basically, if you need eyeglasses, just pay an optometrist for a prescription--I got mine at Target for like $40--and use it to order from one of the many online glasses stores not owned by EssilorLuxottica. Glasses just aren't that expensive to make.
www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-glass...
This newsletter/blog is doing a series of articles delving into different instances of enshittification. www.worseonpurpose.com
Way too much of the stuff we need is now made by conglomerates who are following the rent-seeking, extractive, monopolist playbook of enshittification.
Marvel had a pre-visualization department that employed people much more consistently than is the norm for Hollywood. It's why the movies have such a consistent look (for better or for worse), and now those people will be more precarious contractors because money.
www.ign.com/articles/mar...
Curtains for Zoosha!
How DOES one smith a cyber???
I finished the main series of The Boys (comics), and I think the only thing I liked was the bit where in a WW2 flashback it shows just how disastrous supes without military training turned out to be. The ending was just insulting, and I don't expect much from the Dear Becky epilogue comic.
They're calling it the most Dragon Ball Z episode of Invincible ever!
The mouse I was using for my work setup died, and I replaced it with a Razer Orochi mouse, and while I don't need a mouse to have 18,000dpi resolution, but it just feels really good to use.
I mean the ElonJet account is still running on Mastodon, so I get to be vaguely creeped out every time he lands in my hometown of San Jose. mastodon.social/@elonjet
I have stickers and other keyboard goodies for sale on weirdlittlekeebs.com BTW. :)
higurashi we will never forget
i'm fucking crying who made this
I wanna point out that “inside job” would be 内部反抗 and not 内部の食事, but I’m guessing the overly literal translation is on purpose.
The movies apparently take place in the most insane period of galactic history. It goes:
Old Republic: 10,000 years
Empire: ~30 years
New Republic: ~30 years
Then whatever the hell is going to happen with both the New Republic and the First Order gone.
Is the person who said they were owed a job in the room with us now?
My family’s first cat was named Mog, so to me “mogging” clearly means something like “excitedly purring while smelling people’s shoes.”
An utterly scathing Cybertruck review: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3oO...
"Trolling isn't an ideology."
I hate how enticing I find this bullshit www.applebees.com/en/specials/...
"What if we cut a cheesburger in half and served it on a bed of melted cheese" f*** off applebees
Rewatching The Boys and it's impressive how with Stormfront they managed to capture everything that's awful about nihilistic alt-right shitposters. She has this incredible ability to pretend to be stupid at the most annoying possible moments, and acts like disagreement is proof of mental deficiency.
