I don’t have high expectations for this movie. The big crossover movies tend to be among the worst MCU movies in my opinion, just because they have to give every character their own storyline instead of focusing on the story the film is trying to tell. Based on the trailers I have seen, this movie seems particularly at risk for this trap.

For some reason, the Fantastic Four are going to meet the main MCU cast, then you know they will fight until they see the goodness in each other’s hearts and become BFFs. Then the X-Men will show up, possibly as Doom’s minions or something, and the same thing will happen. Also, Captain America is back! There is going to have to be a plot line about why he leaves his world and how all the Avengers are happy to have him back.

Let’s say the film will start with 30 minutes for the Avengers to assemble, then a half hour for each of those stories, and suddenly, there are only 60 minutes out of a 3 hour movie to tell the main story of Dr. Doom/parallel universe Tony Stark trying to take over the multiverse or whatever his plan is.

Am I still going to go see it in theaters? Probably. I am sure I will have a few friends who will be dying to see it and will want to go see it in a group. Plus, I am sure that it will have a couple amazing set piece scenes and it will be referred to by every MCU film for the next 2 years.

I am not a fan of judging someone harshly for something they posted on the Internet, 15 years ago, as a pre-teen, so I think it is stupid if the Blazers fired him to dodge bad publicity instead of just having him apologize and claim that he has grown and matured since then. I would believe him.

On the other hand, by the time the article was written, the offending tweets had not yet been deleted, so it could be the case that the guy refused to apologize and doubled down instead.

I just checked, and now the Twitter account is private. Hopefully, that is because the (former) announcer is going through and deleting all the embarrassing cringe bait.

I want to like Hyundai/Kia, but every decade or so, they make a decision that saves them a dollar and costs the consumer$1,000 and I write them off as a car manufacturer for a decade.

Yeah, why does it have a steering squircle? I should be driving my car exclusively by swiping on a touch screen.

No, it should have been The Switcheroo

I wonder if the timing is affected by multiple Xbox studios unionizing.

I am sure that the risk of killing your child while co-sleeping is very low, but what parent would accept a small chance of committing negligent homicide against their baby?

Maybe he could get consenting partners, but wants a girl passed out drunk before he makes his move? Judging by the fact that he is obsessed with improving his own appearance, I assume he is extremely insecure about his body. Is he too shy to undress in front of someone who will remember what he looks like?

You are making a point, just not the one you intended to make. The first coffee shop is selling to people who want a nice place to slowly enjoy their cup of coffee. The second coffee shop is targeting commuters who want to grab a coffee to drink while they are driving into work.

My dog knows that he is not going to fight off any intruders. He generally takes a two pronged approach. First, rally all the humans in the house to take up battle stations. Second, if there are no humans he can use, he falls back to a charm offensive.

For me, it would be the night after the last day of the term in college, after all the exams are done and the last project is submitted. I would go from having a soul crushing amount of pressure on me to none. I would have a nice meal, maybe watch a movie or a show, knowing that for a moment, I had no burdens in the world.

Has no one watched Beck Mongolian Chop Squad? The anime is about a commercially successful rock band. The producers had to license a solid soundtrack of songs for scenes of the characters performing. The soundtrack is one banger after another.

Yet, somehow FLCL still beats it.

I thought it was good, but not great or noteworthy. The story is a bit stupid at times, but it is well acted and it has some fun action sequences. It also avoids the MCU defect of spending too much of the movie setting up future movies. Villain and several of the major supporting characters are camios from other series, but they fit well into this movie.

How? Does it have a cellular modem built in or did the washer trick you into connecting to your WiFi is there a reason to connect the washer to the WiFi?

Edit: My joke felt a bit too snarky.

Huh? I don’t get that meme. Is it a person opening their pants?

All I know about him is that he has a very large YouTube audience and that he does particularly well among young adults. That is an audience that has (a little bit of) disposable income but is still learning how to make good use of their money. I assume Mr. Beast advertised his book non-stop on his channel, so his viewers went out and purchased it.

You need to see more people in your day to day life, then. I saw a lady on the subway that had a rectangular smart phone that folded in half to be a little square to stow in her purse.

Also, one of my friends has a fold out phablet for gaming.

The fact that I noticed and remembered both instances shows that phone makers have been doing a good job of inventing interesting and innovative hardware. The fact that there are only two instances for me to remember speaks to the fact that they have not been as successful at actually getting people to buy them.

Wendy’s released an RPG back in the day. Supposedly it was solid, if a bit silly, though it included meta-gaming rules for bribing the DM with food.

I am sure that when writers start a show with a multi-season arc, they have a mental map of what they want to tell in each season. Then the studio comes along and cancels the show after they film a cliffhanger or tells them to stretch the final part of the story into 3 more seasons (and then cancels it after the first of the filler seasons flops).

From what I understand, that was not the case for Game of Thrones. Going into the last season, the show still had a great audience and ratings and HBO was eager to keep milking it. It was the writers who insisted on ending the show and had enough clout to get HBO to agree. My assumption is that they ran out of ideas to keep the show going, realized that George R. R. Martin was hoping they would come up with an ending he could use in the books, and resigned on a high trying to get other jobs before the final season ruined their reputations.

I would welcome more of that. Don’t write season 1 to set up an arc that will take 7 seasons to complete. Don’t end it on a cliff hanger. I would love more single season shows. That way, I watch the last episode, appreciate the fine work that the cast and crew did, and forget about it for the rest of my life (unless I want to rewatch it or recommend it to a friend).

Recently, there was a bit of an uproar because Spider-Man Noir is starting to be nominated for awards but Amazon has announced that they are not doing a second season. I think Amazon’s error was considering season 2 at all. The show has a neat arc, it ties up all the loose threads, and the final scene is the characters moving on with their lives.