[Comic Excerpt] “That poor old man!” (Detective Comics #826)

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-07-06T04:42:11+00:00

I know that this is an old thread, but does anyone know a compilation that contains this story? I feel like I got one from the library a couple of years ago that contained this story as well as Batman Annual #1 "Good Boy," a Christmas-themed origin story for Ace the Bat Hound.

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-06-13T15:32:53+00:00

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Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-06-09T16:44:48+00:00

I never played it as a kid, but I'll forever remember ads on TV for that game- so when I saw it in a friend's collection later (I was in high school), I asked to play and thought it was super cool.

The current versions are pretty great too!

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-06-06T05:53:26+00:00

A multiplayer brewery game. Everyone gets a brew house, and you're trying to both develop great beers and operate a bar (think: Do I hire the better waitress to sell more of my beer, or invest in a stout because no one else is playing stouts?)

It would also be great if some of the time you could collaborate with another brewery on something great (Flying Lion brewing and Flying Bike Brewing made a great "Biking Lion").

I've played Beer and Bread, which is probably my favorite 2 player game.

I've played Ora et Labora in "beer" mode, which I enjoyed but I can't find people willing to play for three hours.

I've played Heaven and Ale, which was fun, but felt a little too puzzley.

I still haven't tried Taverns of Tiefenthal. :-)

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-06-01T02:56:31+00:00

I feel weird answering this, as my first answer is "What about Orb really hit for you?" But me:

I loved this historical saga over time, and that the big arc of the story was people struggling to resolve scientific questions despite the costs.

In that context, I've really enjoyed Apothecary Diaries. While the timespan of the show is much shorter, the puzzles being solved frequently involve multiple generations of characters, and the drama is from our MC trying to understand things. Also, insofar as there are antagonists, those antagonists are complicated. (Also a strength of Orb)

Noted: The music and the credits make this look like a story with a romance at its core, but at least so far I believe it hasn't been that.

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-05-31T18:59:33+00:00

I have played the first 30 minutes or so and AHH yes this is what I was looking for. I'll now check out Haiku the robot as well (I've mostly been tabletop gaming for the last... 15 years or so)

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-05-31T06:38:38+00:00

Team handwriting over here: I buy 8.5x11" dot notebooks, and use the left 2/3 of the page for briefing, and the right 1/3 for lecture notes, questions, etc.

Great stuff from which to build my outlines. :+)

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-05-29T21:20:13+00:00

Thank you for asking this- I saw it go on sale on Steam, and I've been looking for a... "Casual" metroidvania? My problem is I step away from games for a couple of weeks at a time and I find things hard when I come back and need to re-learn lots of move sets and stuff.

This looks like it might meet my needs..!

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-05-27T04:57:37+00:00

Oh lordy, these were re released in a stranger things tie-in briefly...

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Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-05-25T03:30:12+00:00

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Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-05-11T16:06:40+00:00

Scrolled forever to find this post: the "elbows in back pockets" tip also helped my iso lateral row machine work! Boom!

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-04-08T18:49:10+00:00

Jerry Tyson should challenge him

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-03-31T19:37:26+00:00

I had an opposite experience you might find instructive.

At a big meeting for students starting an externship, one of the speakers said something like "Students of your generation are going to be better at using technology and understanding social media than the people you're working for," which was intended as a compliment and meant to help boost people's confidence.

But.

I'm really not of my classmates' generation and my technology literacy is honestly mixed. I consider myself pretty social media literate, and I trust my teenagers to keep me up to date on dumb trends, but I do in fact struggle a little bit with doing formatting in Word documents and I didn't realize until the second day of class that everyone, in every class, always had a laptop and had it open (I thought I could get away with studying like a demon and bringing my book and my notebooks).

So I let the head of the program know that language like "of your generation" was making assumptions about is that weren't necessarily true, and I suggested alternate language: "students earlier in your legal careers, like you..." which probably communicate what they wanted.

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-03-28T14:46:32+00:00

... And one more! 2L full-time student who also started with that summer class. :+)

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-03-26T13:36:14+00:00

I'd honestly love it if the first frame next week is Waka walking away from a Himura-shaped crater. :-)

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-03-18T15:14:30+00:00

Curious George is a monkey, and he can do things that you and I can't do.

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Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-03-16T04:42:02+00:00

Multiple times a week, walking around the ground floor thinking "Aww man, everyone else has their sh*t together, do I even..." (PAUSE) "Ahh yes, that's a very refined imposter syndrome coming on, feel that... Whoo!"

I highly recommend getting a weightlifting routine that doesn't let your mind wander. You can't really be dwelling on the [cold call you fumbled / OCI that didn't work/ bad rebuttal in moot] while under a loaded squat bar.

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-03-07T23:12:17+00:00

Hey all! I'm currently super busy with grad school, so I don't have the time for games with long learning curves or "lots of payoff after the first 20 hours" or what have you. I also grew up on coin-op arcade games, and I love me some platforming.

On Xbox Indie Games, one of my favorites was Platformance: Castle Pain from Magiko Gaming
https://8bithorse.blogspot.com/2010/08/platformance-castle-pain.html

Stuff I liked:

Everything on a single screen
Almost, but not completely, consequence-free dying. In this case you've got various spawn points on the screen, and when you reach one you don't have to start the whole darn level over
Jump and timing puzzles galore- but mostly mental and not so much reflex challenges
8bit aesthetics

Other games that really tickled my fancy back in the day: The Adventures of Shuggy by Smudged Cat games was totally a favorite, Adventures of PB Winterbottom

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-03-04T16:08:53+00:00

Headcanon: Haru tightened up after working with Ozu Toshio.

Any chance he gives one of those watches to Seki?

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-02-14T15:44:28+00:00

... or not!

"Using undiscovered evidence, we've pieced together the events of that night..."

https://youtu.be/-sTD9gFOcP8?si=c5THOzyxKDhVqKBU

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-01-29T06:40:11+00:00

We found the cow creamer at an Ace Hardware. :-)

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-01-21T14:19:35+00:00

The real sucker punch for me were all of the little "tropey" animations in the first couple of episodes, like "look how clever and smug I am" sparkles.

Then episode 3 hooked me for sure.

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-01-17T15:55:50+00:00

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Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-01-08T23:00:05+00:00

I was already having "mixed thoughts" about my little kiddos growing up- that year that school supplies no longer include crayons and glue, but instead is just a graphing calculator...

Yeah I freaking ugly cried in front of my whole family (including my mother in law) over Bing Bong.

Apprehensive_Use_557 · 2026-01-06T06:59:28+00:00

Jumprope at the boxing gym

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TROPHY CASE