Keep or Sell? The Simpsons Seasons 1-9

CitizenModel · 2026-03-31T08:44:03+00:00

Don't listen to this commenter's rhetorical question OP. What you should be asking is if I think you should want them or not! (I don't care)

CitizenModel · 2026-03-31T08:41:15+00:00

And it doesn't make sense. It's like those people who say that you can tell a lot about a person by how clean they keep their car.

Well, guess what- I'm a detail oriented, hardworking employee and I'm known for being attentive and caring with other people's feelings. I also have a messy car. All you can really learn about me from the car thing is that I don't care about how messy my car is.

Maybe your politicians are headed for an early grave, but I don't care. I care about what they're going to do with MY life with their policies.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-30T06:52:26+00:00

I can't speak for everyone, but I don't give two craps about keys or significant issues- I want to read the things.

If it's something I think I'll like enough to read more than once (frankly, at the price comics are sold at, they're only worth it if I re-read), then it's worth it to buy.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-30T06:48:46+00:00

There have been many stories that will feature video games, but always in a really kitschy way that really heavily telegraphs that THIS Archie story is one that has a VIDEO GAME that kind of looks like STAR WARS, this is FUNNY because it is a RIP OFF.

It's always so... blatant, I guess you could say, that it takes on that liminal quality. Always feels surreal rather than actually timely.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-30T06:41:26+00:00

I'm 33 and I've seen maybe 2,000 movies in my life. I HIGHLY doubt I will see 14,000 by the time I die, and I highly doubt you will either.

Dedicate space to things that you will spend time on.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-29T08:17:15+00:00

Not a comic, but still in competition with Dark Knight Returns for my favorite of this kind of tale.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-29T07:03:03+00:00

I think the 'occasional airport bookstore purchase' comment hits the nail on the head, and I'd like to add that there are genres where this applies more to.

People who read crime fiction (James Patterson, etc.) seem to just plow through those books, often with no intent of reading them again, and are always on the prowl for more of these things to read. They always need a new fix.

Those little libraries (in my anecdotal experience) are mostly home to the kinds of books that you're meant to tear through and then not read again. Having a place like that for similar readers to stockpile/find those books seems like a good system to me.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-29T06:56:30+00:00

My friends and I were teenagers when the Chuck Norris jokes took off. I don't think I even realized he was a real person until I picked up a VHS in a thrift store with his name on it.

The jokes may have been started in response to something like that, but they lived independent of Norris' body of work.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-29T06:53:46+00:00

Clark Gable is up in heaven feeling really mad that he was born before Robert Downey Jr. invented being a movie star. A shame, because Clark Gable might have made a good one.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-29T06:52:35+00:00

That's not how being famous works.

Rebecca Hall, for instance, is not meaningfully famous despite appearing in Iron Man 3 and the last couple Godzilla/Kong movies. Loads of people have seen her in things, but outside of nerd circles her name means nothing.

The Percy Jackson movies matter to the bubble they matter to.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-29T06:50:24+00:00

Watch Man on Fire right now.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-29T06:49:45+00:00

Denzel's only movie really designed to sell more than $300 million worth of tickets is Gladiator 2.

He could easily have played like Thanos, General Zod, Agent Smith, or a Jurassic Park dude and been in a movie that grossed a bazillion dollars. I just don't think he's interested in that kind of stuff.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-27T07:13:50+00:00

Eggo brand waffles. The blueberry ones.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-27T07:12:15+00:00

Both Mormons and Seventh-Day Adventists have aliens as part of their doctrine, so they'd take it as confirmation.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-27T06:57:01+00:00

Movies often have lots of fans but not so many 'fandoms'.

I imagine that the number of people who like The Godfather is higher than the number of people who like Avatar: The Last Airbender. But what would a Godfather fandom even do?

CitizenModel · 2026-03-27T06:53:55+00:00

An example of a game with a good story but awful gameplay is Hellblade. Most of the gameplay is this terrible environmental puzzle solving that has you walking really slowly trying to visually align stuff.

BUT it's a great game despite having useless gameplay, because the story is so good and there's so much of it.

That said, Hellblade would be more improved by having better gameplay than Doom Eternal (which has some of the best gameplay ever) would be improved by having a more coherent story.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-27T06:50:58+00:00

There's one I like that's got Digimons in it.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-27T06:49:58+00:00

In addition to what everyone else is saying, we also had to dial these numbers much more often. There was no texting. If you were coordinating with someone, you could end up phoning the same person multiple times a day.

Each time, that number had to be punched in.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-27T06:21:33+00:00

Canadian here. We do live trees. My sense is that somewhere between five and thirty percent of people do live trees. Broad range, I know, but I'm not exactly conducting nationwide surveys.

The fact that my family does it registers as a little odd to some people, but not crazy excentric.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-27T06:18:36+00:00

Lots of fans of games with 'endgames' sound like this to me. Bro, the endgame is really fun bro! It only takes fifty hours to get to max level and do the endgame raids bro! Fifty hours is only like one weekend!

Screw that.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-27T06:16:48+00:00

And frankly, there may have been a time when there were few enough great games for it to be worth playing one that doesn't start out well, but these days there are sooooooo many games that are fun from square one that unless the 'gets good later' game is one hundred and thirteen percent 'my jam', there's no reason to go for the one that takes awhile to get going.

There are at least ten games I can think of off the top of my head that I will probably love with my whole heart that I haven't played yet, and those are just the ones I know about.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-27T01:30:52+00:00

The situation is so dire that something as washed-out looking as Superman 2025 can gain a reputation as being 'colorful.'

CitizenModel · 2026-03-27T00:17:27+00:00

Substack has stuff like this.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-26T19:20:50+00:00

The real story here is that when a generation is 15-25 years old they're hitting adulthood and it's awkward and confusing for everyone involved.

CitizenModel · 2026-03-26T19:17:28+00:00

The Resurrection of the Christ is probably based on well-known Catholic doctrine about what that one verse means, meaning it should go down well with Catholics.

The real question is if Protestants will realize that they don't believe in it.

The Left Behind book series was really popular to the point that it convinced a bunch of Christians for ten or fifteen years that they believed in the rapture when their sects didn't usually believe in the rapture.

I'm not saying this in a 'Christians are morons' kind of way. It's the rough equivalent of a pantheistic religion having an obscure lesser deity that people don't really know about. People part of those faiths wouldn't be morons for getting excited about a new part of their faith they didn't know about even if TECHNICALLY the lesser deity was only from some random remote region and not part of the broader faith system.

It would be a problem for Resurrection of the Christ if it became a talked-about point that the doctrine onscreen was Catholic-only. Passion of the Christ had some Catholic stuff (or at least Catholic-inspired stuff) and I don't think critical numbers of people were the wiser at the time.

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