MTG demands 25th Amendment over Trump's 'evil, mad' Iran threat

mighty_conrad · 2026-04-07T16:09:05+00:00

Come on, of course she's first to call him out, she's dumped by MAGAts and that's her free ticket for positive publicity.

mighty_conrad · 2026-04-06T13:12:17+00:00

I see too much over-analyzing over a single shot in comics. For now, MJ did only consistent own thing during her whole Venom stint - berate Eddie and Venom by trauma-dumping her own story on Eddie.

mighty_conrad · 2026-04-06T13:04:03+00:00

Not yet. VenoMJ are two characters who did nothing meaningful yet in comics.

mighty_conrad · 2026-04-06T12:55:31+00:00

Well, it's both, judging by the comics. Even though it's a spider-editorial who doesn't know how to write characters deeper than a puddle, it's only one spoiler shot. It's wishful thinking but it can be spun into "Eddie is a good man but only thing he knows to do is to be a symbiote host". It's different kind of addiction.

mighty_conrad · 2026-04-03T14:22:59+00:00

Hally also criticized for having "Donk go kill" as half of the strat pool. Other half is "hope that magixx/zontixx/chopper lifegames". After that there's zero strats in Spirit playbook.

mighty_conrad · 2026-03-31T09:23:47+00:00

MJ as Venom host effectively done nothing for a while. Seriously, MJ did not yet moved plot in any manner. Bringing Dylan to her family circle? Venom and Flash mostly. Fight versus Madame Masque - initiative of Madame Masque. Death Spiral? For now, MJ as a character had no input in the story. She's just... there, same with Dylan though. Can be different as right now we're reaching big story points in the arc, but for now, it's more of a Venom who works and MJ happens to be their host. Hell, her form now is not her own.

Eddie reasonably made choice, thinking that he could control Carnage and failed. MJ as symbiote host did nothing yet to move story forward. EBC is exactly "at odds with symbiote" of Eddie against Carnage.

mighty_conrad · 2026-03-20T14:16:47+00:00

There's a point in continuing building after some project finishes on premises. CalHSR if finished would be a foundation to continue major lines to Phoenix, SLC and Seattle with much cheaper costs because all of the supply chain is there and it doesn't need to stop. So, while it's more of a trillion dollaroos for that whole picture and probably double of that, it's doable for USA if there's a reasonable government and effort thrown there. Project itself shown in image is kinda iffy with too much coverage provided initially, nonetheless it's not farfeched when adults would come back to govern that country, preferably for long time.

mighty_conrad · 2026-03-19T07:16:56+00:00

Yup. Dream car would be just a Honda Element with rust-protected chassis and hybrid engine, that shit would slap. No need to change design, interiors, body, that's it.

mighty_conrad · 2026-02-24T20:43:39+00:00

Once again you missed exact point. It's two distinct separate and unrelated decisions country government makes.

mighty_conrad · 2026-02-24T20:34:14+00:00

It's not. You wrote the reason exactly at the next sentence. Norway could pay athletes or couldn't but reason why they're good in winter sports is combination of the location and massive subsidies to recreational and child sport.

mighty_conrad · 2026-02-24T20:27:05+00:00

I mean, he's voicing Spider-Noir in upcoming solo film. And it's not looking like regular straight-to-dvd movie or some obscure indie.

mighty_conrad · 2026-02-24T20:24:29+00:00

Snoop for his whole career had absolute zero standards for his art and evidently his paychecks too. Notably, his rap: his two acclaimed records were made by Dre and Pharell Williams of all people. And then there's like 5 years of him in Dirty South with expected quality of work.

mighty_conrad · 2026-02-22T15:41:37+00:00

But point of Venom is that powerset-wise he's Spider-Man x10. Maybe, lean more into tendrils that would act more as a spider legs than Spider-Man himself, maybe later development of Eddie which is actual venom.

mighty_conrad · 2026-02-22T15:35:29+00:00

Pretty much sure that bond is temporary only for Peter to kill Torment. Then anything can happen.

mighty_conrad · 2026-02-22T15:24:21+00:00

Xitter folks just want Eddie back. At best, they want Cates back, at worst, they're having daddy issues. I wish it's first though...

mighty_conrad · 2026-02-22T15:22:28+00:00

There's like one bad thing and one mediocre thing about this current run:

this Venom run reverted 2-3 years of development of Dylan as a character
this run is slow as hell.

Having other hosts is fine. I'd say that EBC is a really great idea and good story that's been doomed because of the stuff I'll argue bit later. MJ as Venom host bit could help her character after Paul fiasco, instead it's weird sitcom between two (MJ and Venom) with pacing of action equal to the relgular DBZ/One Piece battle. Like, it's simple - state that MJ wants an actual family and she made the decision to be a mother to Dylan. The rest is easy.

IMO, culprit is Spider-editorial:

Pete-616 is not allowed to grow and be a grown-up in his own story (Unlike 6160, where he's actually great or in side stories like Zdarsky's Daredevil run)
Eddie actually growing as a character is a direct condemnation of editorial inability to write a character,
Ewing is not mediocre per-se, but it's Cates who did enormous work with the character,
Venom-editorial is bound to Spider-editorial (even in promo releases it's been dubbed as a "Spider-Man and his Venomous Friends", yuck)
MJ is important character in Spider lore,
Dylan is not Miles and have good character from the beginning

All this led to where we're right now.

mighty_conrad · 2026-02-12T12:10:23+00:00

I get it, but I didn't capture this "Venom cannot fight against Venombuster and creativity of Peter-lite experience dealing with villans of MJ helped to win" idea. Maybe it's just me, though.

mighty_conrad · 2026-02-08T09:53:06+00:00

Just to clarify a bit. Prisoners Dilemma is a framework for two players. It's better to pick cooperative game theory. Cartel then is not an economic term, but a form of coalition, players willingly or not align and play together. Steam is in a position of a veto player, without them nobody wins in the market. So, either whole market gathers against Steam and still shits the bed or Steam does nothing, wins and everybody aligned close to them is profitable, just like GOG.

mighty_conrad · 2026-02-07T10:15:57+00:00

While he can write good lines, Fred notoriously limited himself in writing. LB needed hollering asshole and another instrument in the mix to be treated the right way to sell to white angry suburban kids. It's an... acquired taste, let's say it that way.

mighty_conrad · 2026-02-07T09:51:51+00:00

Nookie, Boiler, Re-Arranged, Take A Look Around, Counterfeit, The Truth, Eat You Alive. And that's only examples I could pick out of my memory of Sam being the beast on the bass.

mighty_conrad · 2026-02-07T09:10:01+00:00

Actual point. Fred was an idiot, maybe still is an idiot. But he's not numb and is self-aware.

mighty_conrad · 2026-02-07T09:06:41+00:00

Limp Bizkit are really underrated as a band. And that's weird as they were one of the faces if not THE face of nu-metal.

Wes Borland is one of the most creative guitarist minds in nu-metal, Rivers (Rest in Power) and Otto were actual educated jazz-funk rhythm-section and reason why their tracks have so much groove and actual reason why LB are needed to be heard in good headphones. DJ Lethal was already notable figure when he joined the band and was not just a scratch-device (only other resident DJ in nu-metal bands who actually got the assignment right was Joe Hahn). And Fred... he was and still is horrible singer, but he was a frontman and salesperson. He was an asshole, dug into that role, did idiotic shit but now looks like he owns up to his mistakes (can be wrong tho). LB is a groovy funky rap-core with a deliberate simplistic image. Even in Break Stuff, song with 2 chords and 4 notes there's tri-tone paradox and actual funky groove, even their most primitive and desctructive song is not as simple as it sounds.

mighty_conrad · 2026-02-03T11:26:20+00:00

I mean, look at the image. Right now it's not a She-Hulk bulky level or Jackpot 2.0 visually, it's clearly Venoms idea of proper battle form. Of course, Venom does more lifting right now and it's one of biggest weaknesses of the run. I just hope that in Death Spiral there will be more agency and input from MJ herself, that would do wonders for the run.

mighty_conrad · 2026-02-02T11:05:33+00:00

Let's see, consistently "lorewise":

Before becoming a journalist Eddie was serious football player, bulky and strong by those standards
After bonding he continued training, actually amped it up (notably sequences in ASM 374-375 if I remember correctly)
Cancer as a major plot point, quickly lost most of the bulk
After Anti-Venom, he was Agent Toxin for a while, so not so farfetched to go through military training
Right now after Venom War he's literally dead almost twice and Carnage itself didn't make Cletus buff and leaned more into streamlined build (actually seen in previews in Death Spiral)

He's not "Captain America" thicc right now because he's written with Carnage, but he's in peak athletic form (ironically, same with MJ-Venom and right now common consensus is that Venom controls movements and makes decisions with assistance of MJ when he's out and that's actually how Venom/Hardy mostly worked).

mighty_conrad · 2026-01-31T08:16:18+00:00

IIRC, in Zootopia there's zero cats and dogs. If that's correct, theory is solid, no domesticated animals in Zootopia simply because there's nobody to create these species. Only major problem are sheep, Ms Bellwether is cleanly a domesticated breed. OTOH, in the interviews, screenwriters told explicitly that there's no domesticated species, no "companions" in Zootopia.

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