drcpunk

I appreciate this. Thank you.

I saw it the first time hopped up on cold meds, in a theater -- if you weren't with me then, I was drug free and it was my second viewing.

Ace Attorney is more harem than Ranma, in my admittedly limited and biased opinion.

That said, dang, that brother-sister pair is problematic, and not just because of the incest.

I admit I enjoyed the show, and felt very called out when @mnemex.bsky.social said that the character I played was the guy who got 3 cracked ribs or something because he had to crash his bike in some backstory event to keep from injuring some kids.

Fair. I think I have now demonstrated adequate ignorance of Nabokov.

No -- I'm fairly unread in Russian authors. I've read CRIME AND PUNISHMENT and a couple of short stories.

It's very much an old model, a 10-inch Asus tablet.

Is this a case where, say, an older tablet that someone isn't using any longer might be of use?

Scheduling is The NEMESIS!

Yes. This. It's telling people who can't handle the heat, which includes me, to eff off and die.

Not to mention the bit where tons of people die from heat stroke every time there’s a heat wave!

Biden Beat Trumpflation And The Trump Crime Wave It'd be nice if Dems would just say so!

New: Democrats and their media supporters are coalescing around the idea that Joe Biden should be more apologetic about his successful presidency. How about not doing that instead?

Good physical bookstores rock. I went to Kinokuniya to pick up Don't Call It Mystery 7-8, then browsed and learned Terry J. Benton-Walker wrote a book I didn't know about (Alex Wise vs The End of the World). Walking through a bookstore is easier and more pleasant for me than random online browsing.

Makes my "I managed to take out a live mouse and release it into a nearby park, despite both my efforts and the mouse's" pale to invisibility.

Lemonade/sekanjubin/shrub/gater-or-powerade. (I know this is drink, not food, but it's really important to keep pouring the liquids in.)

The first thing a lot of us in Texas probably think about when we see a lot of state troopers these days are the nearly 100 of them that stood by and let children die at an elementary school because they were too scared to do anything about a single shooter. It's all fucking cosplay.

I guess this is obvious but: the student demonstrators facing down state troopers at the University of Texas today are as Texan, and as integral a part of Texas, as the fascist cops and politicians here. In case anyone was going to try some "Fuck Texas let 'em secede" shit today.

I like it.

Certainly entertaining enough I'd have watched a third.

I... could believe that, yes. (...hunts for my old recorder...)

It has some things to say, in theory, but in practice, it's muddled enough that you're not substantially wrong. But... I don't think it was impeccably made.

OH GOTHAM, MY GOTHAM!

It's great except a) it completely undercuts Batman-as-detective, b) they just leave him there when they could, you know, take him off the board, and c) apparently no one cares he (and Batman) must have caused so much death, car destruction, and road destruction?

Like, he's the anti-Kingpin of cufflinks.

Or can't be arsed to go find another.

Yeah, that never is adequately addressed.

As is the finding out he lied at least a bit and is still deep down scum. I'm good with that. It's just -- 2 hours to get there. And they're not *bad* hours; they just... exist.

My first reaction to seeing Bruce Wayne (as opposed to Batman): He... looks like The Crow. Which... is a choice.

If you can get Phyllis Ann Karr's At Amberleaf Fair, that'd be perfect.