When Trump got elected I joked about America spawning an anti-pope and how it’d been a good 500 years since our last one. After the pope became an American suddenly my joke felt less funny. Evangelicals claiming a “woke pope” and declaring an “American Pope” seems entirely plausible to me now

Neon White. I got it free recently on PS Plus and just fired it up to see what it was like. I ended up getting all the A ranks on every level and got all of the hidden items. The soundtrack also slaps

Overall I anticipate it being a net negative. Mergers like this result in fewer jobs, lower quality products and less competition

I mean… I led with that. I don’t like the merger, but I like it more than Netflix acquiring them. There are takes beyond black and white

I have mixed thoughts. Overall I anticipate it being a net negative. Mergers like this result in fewer jobs, lower quality products and less competition. However I love movies (check my profile if you want proof) and specifically I love going to the movie theater. Paramount has continued supporting movie theaters which is more than you can say about Netflix and Sarandos. Likewise Zaslav was just making anti-consuner decisions left and right. I can count on more than one hand the amount of times I’ve called that man a piece of shit. Not to mention Netflix’s slavish attachment to “the algorithm” just churns out a lot of slop

So while the merger is bad it’s probably the better of the two options and anything that reduces David Zaslav’s power is a net positive in my book, even if he makes a small country’s worth of money doing it

Sorry, we thought we were selling snake oil to give you boners but it turns out we accidentally put real boner medicine in it. That’s our bad, now please return it and definitely don’t give yourself raging hardons

Man I want to wear the big suit for Halloween but nobody would get it

I’m sure they’ll tell you this when you get there but Icelandic speed limits are a rule, not a guideline. I picked up a speeding ticket in Akureyri just going a few kmh over from a speed camera because of that

If you want some more recommendations I’d be happy to share. I really enjoyed my tour around the country in 2023

Gullfoss Falls in Iceland:

Just stunningly beautiful and close to Reykjavík. It’d be a massive mistake to visit Iceland and not see this

One of the craziest parts in retrospect to me is Adam Baldwin (Jayne from Firefly (no, not one of those Baldwins)) is the guy who coined the actual term “Gamergate”

Probably soda. I think most people enjoy Coke/Pepsi and the other mainstream choices are usually considered superior to the small batch artisan stuff

I actually did the math and it works out to 17% abv or about 34 proof. Certainly on the high end of what you should put in a solo cup but we also usually had ice and as previously noted, the objective was to get fucked up

If I remember correctly the recipe was 1 handle of Everclear, 1 case of Natty light and 1 or 2 of the pink lemonade blocks. Easy and guaranteed to get you blackout drunk

Requiem for a Dream so you don’t get hooked on them

Yeah… water… we definitely weren’t using light beer to water down our hard liquor with this stuff

Counterpoint: John Oliver in sunglasses looks like a dork but he looks respectable in glasses

I’d argue that’s more of a wisdom roll. INT would be a attempt to decipher it without magic, WIS would be knowing not fuck with creepy book or to at least cast detect magic first

People don’t know/have forgotten that the Democrats really pushed the moral panic around violent video games and music. Both Joe Liberman (Al Gore’s running mate and promenant senator) and Tipper Gore (wife of Al Gore) were leaders in pushing for music/video game censorship

I mean, if history is any guide they’ll either wipe us all out with superior technology, enslave us, or some space disease will kill us all. Regardless, I’d anticipate it going poorly for humanity

I would guess the Batcave uses something proprietary based off of Wayne tech because he’s very paranoid. I’d also imagine it integrates some watch tower tech which is likely mostly from Cyborg