Sir G'kar

Also, UHF is a comedic masterpiece.

The Shadow (1994) is delightful. It’s fun, atmospheric, and does a great job of capturing the quaint charm of old timey pulp storytelling in a more modern action movie. It’s just a treat, and I honestly can’t believe it bombed, and as far as I know, never even got a cult following.

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr only got one season and has mostly passed into obscurity. Which is a shame because it’s fun and can be a great little time capsule from the days when people thought the future might actually be something to be optimistic about.

Cabin Boy is not what you’d call… good. BUT it is still weirdly enjoyable. It’s an experience. One other people should have. Whether they want it or not.

Advent Rising was so unsuccessful it helped kill the publisher, and it got terrible reviews. And yeah, the game feels like there are glaring omissions due to it being rushed out. But I absolutely love it. The powers are cool, the story is simple but works, and it definitely left me wanting more.

Also, Babylon 5 will always be underrated because it’s not possible to rate it highly enough.

From what I recall (and this may vary between editions), the game tends to assume that most people are playing younger vampires who aren’t anything like an aristocracy. By default, you play as the bottom rung of vampire society, the youngest generation in a system where the older generations will never grow old and die. The aristocrats aren’t the protagonists, they are the ever present boot stomping you down.

More importantly, the core concept of the game is supposed to be about the “personal horror” of being a monster. You were a (presumably) ordinary person who has been violated, killed, and brought back as an abomination. Your existence is defined by the struggle against the beast within. You are desperately clinging to your humanity, and every time you slip up or compromise you risk losing a piece of yourself that you can’t get back. You suffer mechanical penalties for becoming more evil, and if you ever lose your humanity completely you lose your character.

In short, the game isn’t supposed to be the kind of thing that would appeal to a fascist. If anything, it has more in common with the experience of waking up to find yourself surrounded by fascists and trying to survive without becoming one of them.

Any war powers resolution passed by the Senate would need to be approved by the House and signed by Trump to have the force of law.

The president is expected to veto any resolution to restrict his power as commander in chief and there are not enough votes in either chamber to override such an action.

While they should be doing anything they can to stop this shit, this whole vote is purely symbolic. Unless they can get support from the house and a supermajority in the senate, no standalone bill will do anything.

The only real leverage they have is a potential government shut down at the end of the month. Given how unpopular a repeat of Iraq and Afghanistan would be, I want to say that it should be fairly easy to find bipartisan support for a deal that would pull any forces out of Venezuala and potentially put some road blocks in place to dissuade further military interventions. You’d just need some competent leadership and a little bit of backbone.

[Exasperated Sigh]

I would have been way more excited for a Cursed Halo remake. Think of the nonsense they could unleash when actually building the game from scratch for it.

Luke is also a skilled pilot and an excellent shot. And the movie never establishes how experienced his squadmates are, nor can we just assume they are all highly trained since they are part of a cobbled together resistance and not a traditional military. And the only thing he does better than the others is hit the target. His survival wasn’t because he was better, it was because he was the last one left to make the suicide run, and because he was rescued at the last minute.

Oh, and let’s not forget that he never could have done it without the wise old mentor. You know, the guy from a previous generation that fought in a great war. The guy who passes on ancient wisdom and who is the only reason look was able to make the shot. Not exactly something that fits the “Our generation is the awesomest” picture the post is trying to paint.

Also, Star Wars came out in 1977, not 1970.

I really want a law that requires clothes sizes to use actual, verifiable measurements.

When I looked at it I just had the uncontrollable urge to play Tetris.

One of the wonderful little details from B5 was the holographic recording Londo made for [REDACTED] where he’s making his grand speech about how and why he’s having him [REDACTED]. The recording is constantly looking in the wrong direction, pointing accusingly at the wall, moving through people, and just obviously not lining up with the room it’s being played in because it’s just a recording.

Then the gospel choir kicks in and the episode officially becomes my all time favorite.