Howard the Duck: Refugee from Blue Hell

Cory Booker is sort of like Zohran Mamdani if Zohran had the politics of Bill Clinton but still wanted to make you think he was Zohran Mamdani, so you end up with big bold proposals that don’t really do anything and are stupid

A Beautiful Day for a Neighbor: Tom Noonan (1951-2026) A personal tribute to a great actor, a great friend, and a gentle giant of a man.

"I looked up, and up, and up, and up, until I saw Tom Noonan's face, looking down at me with a curious expression. 'What did you say your name was?' he asked." A remembrance of my friend Tom, lost too soon. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/a-beauti...

The Economy is now a bunch of cabals of illiterate pedophiles clasping their hands and trying to spirit bomb the economy back up every time Trump puts his hand on the stove cause the instant 'growth' stops we're going into a depression

Willem Dafoe in Streets of Fire (1984)

So glad I’ve hoarded so many barrels of oil over recent decades. It will be worth having had no room for us to live in our house, what with the 100s of big barrels.

But now it’s my time to shine! (somehow… will figure out asap...)

Finally some has the courage to make a medium coffee available.

Similarly but less well known was their attempt at reviving their westerns, which resulted in the homophobic Rawhide Kid comic

They wanted to revive their other genre comics and started with Romance; because this was mid 2000s Marvel of course they thought Millar was the right guy to try it

It’s also rumored this was meant to be a stealth Ultimate book but the response to it made them drop that reveal

YouTube video by BBC Maestro Alan Moore - Read Terrible Books - Storytelling - BBC Maestro

The classic Alan Moore reason for engaging with bad art youtu.be/rCOmkrwQdFc?...

Like a lot of things rich guys believe and fund, the AI consciousness thing is in part driven by a desire to abscond from the responsibility of what they've made. It also explains why so many of them think we're in a simulation. Doesn't matter if everybody died if we're all just 1s and 0s baby!

Game trailers at conferences used to be announcements of upcoming releases. Now they're basically like a six-year-old shouting "watch me!" All you know is they're about to attempt something but there's a high likelihood it'll just end in tears.

I believe the phrase for this is “eating the seed corn.”

I think it's important that if you are covering something like this you don't write this kind of sentence. As a journalist you shouldn't try to justify or normalize these companies completely illogical business moves. They are performing mass layoffs that guarantee they get zero return on investment

It exhausted its PP, yeah

boy I sure wish Sony wasn't a bunch of completely useless dimwits and would let me play any PS2 or PS3 ratchet and clank on modern hardware

Side note it’s funny I’ve seen some folks calling this a bold new strategy when they literally had Ellis do the same thing during Age of Ultron and it was boring as all get out

Day 9,173 of the Dubya Administration

I just hope 4-6 get that treatment cause the last versions of those available readily in the states were on the DS

Like I can’t defend DQ7’s newest remake but the DQ 1-3 2DHD were much needed after the most accessible prior version was an absolutely garbage mobile port with the blandest sprite work known to man and bizarre levels of input latency

Do you think anybody with money understands that everytime someone does this it makes all future service games less likely to take off

the thing about live service games thinking they'll get fortnite money is the execs also have the brilliant idea that if they copy fortnite but skimp on the money they'll make even MORE money because they'll have fortnite but with a bigger profit margin

They semi-recently in the Beyond arc had an evil lesbian businesswoman who they used as a red herring for The Goblin Queen who essentially was a lady Norman

(Instead they decided to continue to piss on JMD by making one of his characters he based off a real person the Goblin Queen)

“Oh it’ll be cool to play games on the controller screen”

(Actually sees the controller screen)

“Oh, uh, never mind”

Oh dear

When the US did regime change in Libya to bring democracy, it led to slave markets being introduced.

With Iraq, the country collapsed and ISIS emerged as a destabilizing force.

In Afghanistan, trillions were spent only for the Taliban to return to power within days of the US withdrawal.

Like any established institution under capitalism, journalism has been incentivized/coerced into supporting imperialist violence and left broadly unable to engage with radicalism or liberation without compromising their privileged livelihoods. Their defensiveness about this is loathsome.

I can't brook any 'Bloodborne is fine' takes. The frame pacing being fucked up is legit awful. That's an actual thing that needs to be fixed. I will always be shocked they never patched that