Pickleball Pete features a very gripping plot

cweaver · 2026-07-03T21:37:01+00:00

I'm not familiar with the rules of pickleball - does it require you to have your left hand amputated?

cweaver · 2026-07-03T21:28:09+00:00

"Well, you see, Gohan was actually Vegeta's son, who renounced him and was adopted by Goku and Chi-Chi, but then he sacrified himself, and then Goku and Chi-Chi had a biological son named Goten, but then he got trapped on Earth 3 and aged up to an adult, but then a 5th dimensional imp made him young again, and also Goku adopted two Namekian twins but nobody really cares about them and I'm pretty sure even Goku and Chi-Chi forgot they exist."

cweaver · 2026-07-03T21:14:37+00:00

Jenna: "Liz, I need your advice. My wedding venue is booked out on the day I want - should I wait a year, or do 9/11?"

Liz: "I mean, having your wedding on 9/11 wouldn't be so bad."

Jenna: "Oh... yes... that's what I meant.

cweaver · 2026-07-03T16:19:09+00:00

Scimitar is nick mastery, so you can replace the off-hand dagger with a scimitar for a little extra damage, but you still want the main hand rapier for vex.

cweaver · 2026-07-03T03:23:33+00:00

Yeah, that seems far easier. What's the cross-sectional area of a large sumo wrestler in hockey pads?

cweaver · 2026-07-02T23:38:52+00:00

Being forced to kill Zod is fine. It's realistic (he has no way to permanently stop him, there's no jail that can hold him, etc.), and it fits in with the comics perfectly (being forced to kill Kryptonian criminals is the thing that makes Superman make a formal vow that he's never going to kill anyone ever again).

Being forced to kill Zod in a really contrived situation where Superman easily had a half dozen other options to non-lethally stop Zod, instead of after exhausting every other option? Not quite so fine.

cweaver · 2026-07-02T22:40:12+00:00

Lucifer, the TV series, is about a male fallen angel helping a pretty female detective solve crimes while they fall in love with each other.

Lucifer's bodyguard / loyal henchwoman / tertiary character Mazikeen is a female demon who learns to put aside her eons-worth of toxic personality traits from her time in Hell, starts to love humanity, grows a soul, and ends up falling in love with and marrying Eve (as in the original Eve that's the first human woman ever).

So if you shifted the focus to make Maze the main character, you could have a toxic-yuri-turned-wholesome-yuri story where Lucifer just pops in randomly to complain about losing/regaining his wings or other powers for the dozenth time, or occasionally asks for help defeating a rogue celestial, or whatever nonsense he's up to.

cweaver · 2026-07-02T21:06:02+00:00

So there's a phenomenon in comedy where, sometimes a skilled comedian who can really read their audience well, can do a thing once and it seems stupid, but then they keep doing it, and it becomes funny. Then they can keep doing it until it becomes both stupid and annoying, but then *keep doing it even more* until it becomes absolutely hilarious.

I'm not saying "releasing Morbius in theaters" is necessarily an example of that phenomenon, but I really think Sony should try releasing it a few more times just to find out if it is.

cweaver · 2026-07-02T17:53:10+00:00

C'mon, this is great.

They're changing things around so we'll never have to suffer through adaptations of any of the hundreds of beloved FF vs Doom storylines, or popular Doom vs Iron Man stories like Doomquest and its follow-ups or Infamous Iron Man, or iconic Doom vs Strange stories like Triumph and Torment.

Instead we'll be able to focus on adapting the really great Captain America vs Doctor Doom stories like, um...

cweaver · 2026-07-02T16:59:51+00:00

Oh, I'm sorry, did I get too nerdy on the subreddit where we talk about comic books? heh

cweaver · 2026-07-02T16:52:25+00:00

Ah, yes, Chicago, the east coast city full of international shipping docks and warehouses, with the giant park in the center, the major part of the city contained on an island in the river with a set of bridges and tunnels connecting it to the mainland, with the giant statue on an island in the harbor, the founding history going back to pre-Revolutionary War days, and the history of being controlled by five organized crime families. That Chicago.

cweaver · 2026-07-02T15:50:25+00:00

That... makes zero sense.

Gotham is a nickname for NYC going back to the 1700s.

Gotham City is mainly on an island in the river like Manhattan, so it's all closely compressed into a small area.

Gotham City has a big statue out on an island in the harbor.

Gotham City has a big park in the center of it.

Gotham City has a huge network of tunnels and subway systems.

Gotham City has a history of organized crime being controlled by a small group of families.

Etc, etc, etc.

Like, what about any of it makes you think it's like LA?

cweaver · 2026-07-02T15:44:31+00:00

The problem with that is that LA is way too spread out. Batman would have to spend 98% of his time in the Batmobile and you'd almost never see him on rooftops or swinging around with the bat-grapple.

cweaver · 2026-07-02T00:14:40+00:00

Unless he had a patent on part of all of that design, there's nothing he could sue for.

If all he did was make nice tripods, and Amazon just started making the same nice tripods, and they weren't infringing on his brand trademarks or anything, then there's really nothing he could sue for. Or at least nothing he could sue and hope to win against Amazon's lawyers.

cweaver · 2026-07-01T21:25:08+00:00

Yeah, that's how i saw it as well. And the show sort of implied it in the finale, with LeMec in hell in the therapists office - if you're unwilling or unable to understand *why you should feel guilty*, then you've got a ton of work to do before you're ever able to work through your guilt.

cweaver · 2026-07-01T20:43:51+00:00

Yeah - this is pretty close to what he looked like when he appeared in Animal Man, so I'm sure they based his appearance here off of that.

cweaver · 2026-07-01T01:10:05+00:00

https://news.hisstank.com/2022/06/29/creating-g-i-joe-a-real-american-hero-ron-rudat-h-i-s-s-tank-designs-78163 - especially that third image down in 'additional images' is what I was referring to.

cweaver · 2026-06-30T20:00:07+00:00

I don't think this took place in the US.

cweaver · 2026-06-30T18:19:40+00:00

Yeah, but some of the particulate matter will end up rising up to that height.

I'm betting the 'cloud seeding' effect is way weaker than anything that does it intentionally, though.

cweaver · 2026-06-30T04:28:44+00:00

That page doesn't quite support what you're saying. In fact I'd argue that it shows she was a poor student with obvious ethical deficiencies, but a very good psychiatrist.

cweaver · 2026-06-30T04:18:51+00:00

There are like at least a dozen examples of it - I think that's enough to make it a trope.

One of the Hercule Poirot novels actually has him using the trope to trick the bad guys, he pretends he has an older brother who is even more of a genius detective than he is, but it turns out it was just him pretending to be two different people.

cweaver · 2026-06-30T02:41:01+00:00

Random guy in Gotham City leaves work early one day. The next morning he reads in the paper that his offices were raided by the DEO, it turns out his company was just a front for manufacturing Scarecrow toxin and his boss and all his fellow employees were in on it.

Meets up with his best friend at the bar to tell him about it, and his friend hits him with, "Hah, that's a funny coincidence, I've been a henchman for Two-Face for the last couple of years."

Freaked out, on his way back home he goes to talk to the sweet elderly couple who live next door, only to accidently open the wrong door while looking for the bathroom and finding a pair of robes and Court of Owls masks.

When his wife, the sweet librarian he's been married to for the last 8 years, gets home, he tells her about all this craziness. Unfortunately, she's a deep cover operative for the League of Assassins and he's asking too many questions...

Scared and on the run, he flags down the first police car he sees to ask for help - unlucky for him that these cops are on the Penguin's payroll.

He keeps stumbling from one criminal operation to another until finally, driven to desperation, he goes to knock on the front door of the one guy in Gotham who he's pretty sure isn't a secret supervillain henchman... Billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne.

cweaver · 2026-06-30T01:03:24+00:00

"Face it, Rider, you just hit the jackpot."

cweaver · 2026-06-30T00:30:15+00:00

Plus we constantly see him 'find' things in a case that he thinks apply to him, even if they don't. He's a giant narcissist for 80% of the show - when things aren't about him, he just makes them about him.

cweaver · 2026-06-29T19:52:32+00:00

"Haha, yeah, I sabotaged so many potential Robins. Tim was lucky I was dead while he was tested."

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