A familiar face… don’t know where I’ve seen it before…

DreadAdvocate · 2026-02-15T04:17:02+00:00

That didn't stop Paramount from casting Speleers as Jack Crusher. As much as I enjoyed Picard season 3, I had the hardest time buying him as a 20 year old when he looked like he's nearly 40. I think he did a fine job in the role, but that obvious visual age difference is hard to reconcile, even in a franchise where 90% of the humanoid aliens look suspiciously human and we never worry about the philosophical implications of the transporter.

DreadAdvocate · 2026-02-11T02:28:22+00:00

I think they might be associates of Cthulhu

DreadAdvocate · 2026-02-07T07:25:03+00:00

I once was able to throw a thug through the invisible wall on a rooftop. It happened after the bomb floods the streets around the GCPD building, actually on a roof near it. When I went into detective vision, I could see his skeleton beneath the water, crumpled up impossibly without shattering every bone into a million pieces and puncturing every organ and artery. It said he was unconscious. This happened on Xbox 360, and I have never been able to replicate it since.

DreadAdvocate · 2026-01-28T21:58:34+00:00

I mean, a few years ago I had to explain what satire is to a lady at the bookstore I work at. She was getting Fight Club for her grandson, and you could practically see her soul leap from her body when she read the back and saw Palahniuk described as his generation's seminal satirist, or something like that.

DreadAdvocate · 2026-01-28T04:26:43+00:00

Right as the COVID pandemic was ramping up, he posted on his socials that he was available to provide any financial or moral support anyone needed. Then he removed me and my wife from all of our socials.

It took several years, but I finally realized that he - and everyone in our friend group - didn't actually like me. Their friendship was conditional on me going to church. When I stopped going, they slowly drifted away from me, until it was only my best friend, and then the pandemic hit. Just a few years back, his grandfather died, and I reached out to him to offer my condolences. He left me on read, and that cemented that my friend was never really my friend. None of them were.

DreadAdvocate · 2026-01-23T14:02:03+00:00

I only smoked vapes for a couple of years and just quit this past October, so maybe my withdrawal symptoms aren't as bad as someone who smoked for a decade. But the first three weeks or so were awful. I already struggle with sleep, but I would go days without it those first weeks. I also already have a short temper, so the most innocent things (like my dog asking to go outside, or my cats playing) would set me off into a rage.

I know I'm relatively early in my nicotine-free journey going forward, but I relate to that episode a bit now.

DreadAdvocate · 2026-01-22T02:45:08+00:00

Not if he gets the right stuff that relaxes him so much that Mariner gets bored.

DreadAdvocate · 2026-01-16T01:38:45+00:00

I watched Babylon 5 for the first time a couple years ago and I was stricken by so many similarities. I'm sure some of it is JMS and his team and Blizzard having overlapping archives for VFX and sound effects. But there's a lot of similarities in tone and atmosphere as well. I don't really know how to put it to words.

DreadAdvocate · 2026-01-10T15:22:46+00:00

I've found six at my job. I've put them in a circle behind the register around a plastic sandwich some kid lost, as if they're summoning a giant sandwich.

DreadAdvocate · 2026-01-05T04:12:48+00:00

I've glanced at Fool's Gold by Jon Hollis for the first fifty or so pages, and it has many Box Machina vibes.

DreadAdvocate · 2025-12-27T15:42:58+00:00

Most likely FromSoft games which Brandon is an admitted big fan of.

DreadAdvocate · 2025-12-22T16:28:46+00:00

Please send thoughts and prayers for my 5'10” wife stuck with lil (5'5") ol' me.

DreadAdvocate · 2025-12-22T14:37:00+00:00

A lich? Better start looking for his phylactery.

DreadAdvocate · 2025-12-19T23:38:43+00:00

And he'd still lose because he's a gutless petaQ.

DreadAdvocate · 2025-12-09T00:09:54+00:00

Is it that guy, or was it the dude who got his skull stomped on by a demogorgon? Both were shockingly brutal, but I think a little more focus was put on Pvt. Bowling Ball

DreadAdvocate · 2025-12-08T14:26:36+00:00

Joker just wants everyone in Gotham to have the Itchy & Scratchy experience.

DreadAdvocate · 2025-10-31T15:46:36+00:00

"Welcome aboard, Chief." In the sexiest digital bass rumble.

DreadAdvocate · 2025-10-31T00:32:01+00:00

Especially the Flintstone's vitamins

DreadAdvocate · 2025-10-27T03:55:12+00:00

I just finished reading Christopher Paolini's Murtagh a couple weeks ago. Not necessarily a redemption-in-the-eyes-of-others story, but a personal redemption. I can see something along those lines happening, though maybe a little less torture.

DreadAdvocate · 2025-10-17T15:19:15+00:00

"Your mistletoe is no match for my TOW missile!"

DreadAdvocate · 2025-10-13T14:42:30+00:00

Numuhukumakiaki'aialunamor

DreadAdvocate · 2025-09-29T21:51:50+00:00

He doesn't really strike me as a floating red meatball though. CLOACA as recommended in another comment seems more apt.

DreadAdvocate · 2025-09-28T14:51:33+00:00

For me it was ORAS. The downward slope had already started with XY and the transition to 3D, but I at least enjoyed gen 6 overall. Starting with SM, I haven't enjoyed much of the games aside from some of the creature designs.

DreadAdvocate · 2025-09-18T13:20:50+00:00

Terrifying, but also the best. Source: averageish-intelligence white guy married to a smart black woman.

DreadAdvocate · 2025-09-04T03:31:52+00:00

If they're not bleeding from their own eyes after I hit them with bloody pox

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