going boromir mode

sitting in the strip mall parking lot bc the library is closed and my parked car played host to a rockabilly bf passing off some kinda Package to his goth gf before her waitress shift started at the pub. leaned on my shit smoking for a good 10 minutes. felt like a throwback

getting "celebrate the ravens win!" Big Offer e-mails about the outcome of a preseason game. the nfl must be brought low

no one really mentions it anymore because it's so normal it's just faded into the background of the promotion but AEW crowds are still chanting FUCK ICE every time brody king comes out and half the time don callis is out there ("Fuck Don Callis/FUCK ICE TOO")

i appreciate that the character customization in LOTR war in the north sticks to the core truths of the setting, which is that the dwarf is always ugly, the elf is always hot, and the man can go either way and with dumb facial hair

"second or third guy in house of torture" is such a dogshit spot for shun skywalker to end up. i guess he's decided he's done with the part of his career where he has good matches and we all just have to respect that

kid behind the counter at the new pizza place hit me with the "welcome back boss" and yeah man three times in two weeks was too much, i'm gonna fall back, glad we had this intervention

at the recycling center and a guy wearing a high vis just went by hollering LETS GET THE PLASTIC. I'M BACK ON PLASTIC. THAT'S MINE and yeah man for real that shit means something to me man

robert pattinson and anne hathaway had much better chemistry in their one scene together in the odyssey where their characters were both obviously diegetically plotting each others' deaths than they've had with a lot of other romantic leads and that doesn't "mean" much but it is very funny

yes there is a reason this is one of my favorite video games. you get the big lad with the expressive muppet face. the first thing you get to say to this guy is a delighted, "You can talk!"

i'm always saying this

they released a "legacy edition" of lord of the rings war of the north for 20 bucks on steam, and that might be a little steep for what you might pay sight unseen for a character action LOTR rpg from the 360 generation...but i immediately snapped it up because, well.

always love a good Celebrity Brother who looks like the celebrity but from the star trek fascist mirror universe

Digital Eclipse@digitaleclipse.bsky.social · last wk.

Hear (and meet) Jim Hanks, the voice of Woody from the classic Toy Story games, in person on Saturday, August 15th, at #D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event!

lmao this dude made a shoot and cry movie about the trojan war complete with a hysterical circe being told to Respect Da Troops and got called woke for it

it was bad enough that posting about it directly would be vaguely identifying because it made the national news

jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social · 2y ago

what was "the incident" at your high school?

the movie theater e-mailing me three hours before showtime to remind me to buy some FUCKING popcorn or a PRETZEL is a new innovation in the field of leave me the fuck alone

i've perfected the grand unified theory of what's going on with animals in swanboy but i'm not sharing it. it's just for me. it's got nothing to do with kyle, he's just into this stuff and makes poor decisions

Dreamboat Branny 🦢@bransonreese.bsky.social · 3d ago

swanboy.com/comic/saddam...

the real gap between modern spider-man fans and the true oldheads -- cranks stuck in the past whose final victory in the comics Brand New Day still holds -- is how central you find "lying to old biddy aunt may leading to comedic consequences that aren't funny" to be to the character of peter parker

curiosity got the better of me on this so i got "silverview" out of the library and i can say this about myself and late career le carre: we both have written first drafts of novels that careen wildly between past and present tense narration. we differ in that his son unkindly chose to publish his

turtle@turtle.labeledrude.online · 5d ago

drifted over to thrillers and saw a le carre i didn't recognize. turns out his kid is doing him like herbert

another victory for the prosecutorial strategy of "drag this shit out so long that they get tired of paying for the high-priced lawyer and take the known quantity deal instead of gambling that your cops fucked up everything so bad that they win in the courtroom"

NBC10 Boston@nbcboston.com · 4d ago

BREAKING: Luigi Mangione, the accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is expected to plead guilty in federal court on Friday, sources say. Details here. on.nbcboston.com/4Vcq9ZC

as elon musk's career and indeed entire life constantly and emphatically prove, an artless, graceless, expensive and embarrassing win is a win nonetheless

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 4d ago

A 3-year-long strike against Tesla in Sweden is over after the company *buys out all of the strikers.* The union calls Tesla "an entirely exceptional employer." Remarkable language in these statements. Elon Musk is truly a global villain. www.industriall-union.org/if-metall-en...

have a lot of questions about how the world in Shift at Midnight works that I suspect Shift at Midnight is not particularly interested in answering

wandering around a bookstore, hit the fantasy section and every possible formulation of The Noun of Nouns is fuckin taken, huh

pretty good confirmation bias outcomes over the last couple weeks for my bone-deep conviction that any poll showing a clear and decisive good outcome is wrong

positioning vader and doctor doom as equals. that tinpot baltic clown's PR machine is undefeated

IGN@ign.com · 6d ago

The Force works in mysterious ways, as the very first Marvel/Star Wars crossover has been revealed. Find out what to expect from Star Wars/Marvel: Hope Assembles. https://bit.ly/4z8uN2o

engaging in the Folly of the Library (sitting in a chair a low backed chair with my back to the main thoroughfare of traffic past the front desk so anyone entering or leaving can look over and see what youtube i am watching on my laptop)

they were never going to tee off on kremer, that's not the universe the orioles live in, but managing only a walk and an infield hit is pathetic

very few of these songs are any good but i would say that roughly 30 of them are permanently burned into my brain

assbutt@nasboat.org · 7d ago

roughly 25 years ago: 9/11 was about to happen, but we already were going through a national disaster on the modern rock charts

"one of the best things about swanboy is how it really defies adaptation" "oh yeah i know what you mean, great use of montage and flashback, along with seeming nonsequitor transitions in the service of the character work and the jokes" "well that and the general just showed up. from insurance"

Dreamboat Branny 🦢@bransonreese.bsky.social · 7d ago

swanboy.com/comic/chris-...

after 180 hours in slay the spire 2 i've developed an important conclusion about the game: the name of the silent card "fan of knives" is a pun