The Star Wars Expanded Universe (now called “Star Wars Legends” because of Disney)

Plot twist: the cat put up the sign

Holy crap that Animorphs game; I absolutely remember playing that. Stupid Yeerks

Logical Journey of the Zoombinis, Gizmos and Gadgets, All of the Carmen Sandiego titles (US, World, Space, etc.), Commander Keen

Sauron Denies Request for Contract Information

Reading a prepared statement from the tower of Barad-dûr, the Mouth of Sauron indicated today that the Dark Lord would not be complying with the demands of lawmakers to provide information on its contracts with the Trump Administration. The Messenger of Mordor further called the demands “ridiculous” and “unnecessary government intrusion into private affairs of Sauron, who does not answer to any higher authority, save that of his fallen master Morgoth.” Furthermore, the statement chastised the lawmakers for contacting Sauron through the Palantir, which he described as “an illegal privacy breach,” and said he planned to seek legal action for this invasion of his personal communications.

Maaaa sen quen yaaaaa babadits si ba baaaaaaa, wen ya yo (wen ya yo)

Or whatever those lyrics are

Amazing news, but RIP Joan Rivers, John Candy, and Dom Deluise. We need a whole new cast of non-humans!

My Very Educated Mother’s Cousin Just Served Us Nine Outstanding Pizzas - (Somehow,) Her Quiche Might Get Officially Surpassed

Now, you only have to remember that Makemake and Orcus are in the Kuiper belt (past Neptune’s orbit), and that maybe that Salacia is optional, and you can puzzle out the two repeated letters.

I spent too long on this.

Someone in the movie industry once told me that this is because movies are mastered for big theaters with massive speakers and THX Dolby 400.25.xqpiss MegaUltraπ+ Surround sound. Then they have to be remastered for the home when they make a DVD/Blu-ray/VHS/Laserdisc.

They used to remix it for 2-channel sound, which was totally fine, but then people started buying 5 or 7 or 11 and a half speaker setups because they wanted movie-like sound in the home for their big 17-inch black and white TVs. So movie studios had to remix it for both 2-channel and >2 channel sound. This cost money, which reduced the number of margaritas the executives could order on their Jamaican vacations, so they stopped doing that and only remixed it for people with home studio speaker setups. So if you’re listening through the normal 2 speakers on a TV/monitor/phone/repurposed Ms. Pac-Man arcade cabinet, it gets compressed and all of the voices (which would normally come out of the center speaker) get split between the 2 speakers. This makes them sound very quiet relative to the car explosions. Hope that explanation makes some sense!

I was a huge Star Wars fan before Disney took over, and haven’t liked anything they’ve done with it. Most people agree, with 2 exceptions: Andor, which I admittedly haven’t watched yet, and…Rogue One

I don’t think Rogue One is much better than the other Disney Star Wars drivel, but I’m apparently the only person in the universe who thinks that. I’ve watched it three times and just don’t get why people think it’s good.

Episode 1: Worst cast ever! Episode 10: I would die for these comedians

This screenshot does not do the actual cheese eating justice. They basically put cones on the contestants (like the ones that you put on your cat/dog to keep them from licking after surgery), then grated Parmesan directly into their mouths for a minute to see how much they could eat. And they were competing against their previous best, which had competed against their previous best. It was chaos. Game Changer is an amazing show

Despair.com (apparently still around!) was my go-to back in the day for those

I don’t think I’m a very good DM, but all of my players ask me for DM tips when they’re doing another game or one-shotting or whatever, so maybe?

Ahem… … … gif