Be fair, the economy is bad and as Mitt Romney once said, he and his wife once were so poor they had to shop for their own groceries

This is biggest assault on Australia since that one Simpsons episode

A reminder that the first official federal Thanksgiving holiday wasn't about the pilgrims, it was declared by Lincoln in 1863 to celebrate victories over the Confederacy

One of the best quests in a game I played recently (avoiding spoilers) was a "Oh, this is a simple request, nothing will happen" going to the inevitable "Something sinister happens" and it turned out to be a harmless prank where they didn't expect an RPG hero to show up, no combat or real threat

The whole credits riffing, especially the ongoing "Eastman" riff

"I try my best, but there's always room for self-improvement, I welcome any and all feedback!"

South Postpones Rising Again For Yet Another Year HUNTSVILLE, AL–For the 135th straight year since Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, representatives for the South announced Monday that the region has postponed plans to rise again.

Hilarity to declare it in the month when the Confederacy had their defining surrender (so sad that Fort Sumter happened in the same month, which I'm guessing is what they were going for). Also, reminded of this:
theonion.com/south-postpo...

The original TORG TTRPG, which had various different settings meeting each other - not the first to do this - but did have rules about how each world had rules that governed how people and objects functioned - a car becoming nonfunctional in a fantasy world, with PC able to bend the rules a little

Doctor Nemesis saying "Science!", and he means it

Doctor Nemesis, because he's all-in on the science

It's always weird for me because I grew up on 80s TV shows and movies where helicopters are so silent that can rise up behind you without you even knowing before it's too late

It was a... particularly bad era for the X-Men, but especially for Nightcrawler

American cheese, where cheese should always be in quotes. Growing up, we always had those cheese slices that would be used for everything, especially sandwiches, whose taste was indistinguishable from the plastic wrapping they came in.

Max Headroom. Or possibly Aeon Flux.

Growing up, I heard of bands and singers being dismissed as 'one-hit wonders' and then as an adult found that most of them actually had significant careers of making music that was often pretty good and just intersected with popular music trends once or twice.

Let her know that she'll be changing her tune if the two of you ever encounter a potential trap of some kind

In Mary Shelley's second draft Frankenstein brings an eagle back to life.
Her first draft, Frankenstein is just an arsonist

They were playing up the whole "Joseph MIGHT JUST BE the Real Magneto" pretty hard at the time.

I was glad to see that Knights of the Dinner Table finally broke his record for the longest-running independent comic series

Odd that you mention "old" technologies that are more associated with "obsolete", instead of things like books, DVDs, records, etc. My only question is why didn't fully embrace this absurd take and mention "wax cylinders", "sextants", etc.

All the world's monuments on a single beach! Yes, I'm fully aware that the Statue of Liberty is still in New New York in "Futurama", stop being pedantic

Futurama has an elegant solution, as it often does

That might be the only full-sized original Deadlands book that I don't have a physical copy of

Establishment Dem supporters want to desperately say "We need to be like Mamdani to win elections" without referring to Mamdani in any way and this is the unfortunate result

No group on Bluesky suffers more than a journalist who doesn't want to be criticized at even 1% of the level of the vitriol heaped on regular people at the other site

I was going to give you an actual reply but this statement made me realize you're just trying to get ahead of this:

I remember this being one of the questions they would ask in the oral argument portion of the physics qualifier - another common one would be to explain why rainbows appear always at one particular angle with the ground

But what if I told you he's also good friends with RFK Jr., would that help?

I'll be honest; I only get that joke thanks to MST3K referencing it to begin with

TTRPG about me

First game: D&D (white box) 1978
Latest game: Dark Sun w/ ruleset from failed Kickstarter
Longest game: Call of Cthulhu
Favorite game: Same
Favorite mechanics: Luck points (various)
Favorite setting: Shadowrun
Favorite art: Tim Bradstreet

I started out of the gate with four - the 'soft reboot' of the X-Men at the start of the 90s, with XM 1, UXM 281, X-Force 1 and X-Factor 71

I remember at the time it came out how gloriously absurd and over-the-top that cover was!

The Guy Living Next Door In My College Apartment Who Woke My Roommate Up By Calling Him To Come And Get The Squirrel Out Of His Kitchen For Him Because He Was Too Scared