Welcome to the Public Domain! I’d like to see more things enter the Public Domain. As an example all of those shows that were pulled from streaming and the rights “destroyed”. Public Domain. All of them.
It’s been a dumpster fire as long as I can remember, so it fits.
I have stumbled across someone who does a tear down of Dragon Age that reminds me of the late Shamus Young’s take down of Mass Effect.
I did not have the Daily Wire releasing an adaptation of a book series I enjoyed when I was younger. I have a morbid curiosity about it now.
I find that I appreciate the idea of GOG more than I buy games from GOG.
And when they’re not carded?
Really, the white government is the real evil in this.
Are we talking about the same company?
In honor of those of you cutting back on alcohol consumption this month, let’s go with making ingredients instead.
Grenadine
- 2 pomegranates (or 2 cups pomegranate juice)
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 ounces pomegranate molasses (Optional, I bought mine from a high end spice shop)
- 1 teaspoon orange blossom water (you can use some orange zest as an alternate, or leave it out)
- 1 ounce vodka (optional)
If your starting with pomegranates, start by juicing them. Next, we’re going to heat the juice up, but we don’t want it to get to boiling. This can be done in the microwave or on the stove top (if you’re using orange zest, I strongly recommend the stove top). Once it’s warmed, add in the sugar and whisk until it dissolves entirely. Remove from the burner, and add in the molasses and orange blossom water (or strain the zest out in the next step) and stir to combine. Let it cool, add vodka if you wish (as a preservative), bottle and enjoy.
With that, I’ll let you get back to your weekends.
If you die of thirst deliberately you are simultaneously too stupid to live and metal AF.
AI Overview
Yes, Coyote vs. Acme will be released in theaters on August 28, 2026, after being acquired by Ketchup Entertainment from a shelved Warner Bros. project, as announced at San Diego Comic-Con in 2025. The live-action/CGI hybrid film, starring Will Forte and John Cena, was completed in 2022 but shelved by Warner Bros. for a tax write-off before being rescued for a global theatrical release.
Final Space is a prime example of the fuckery. There is no legal way to watch the show at this point. I managed to find it on the Internet Archive, and was impressed enough that I’ve ordered the conclusion.
I liked Final Space. Shame it just died.
Last night’s pulled film may have been due to some kind of rights tomfoolery as well.
Sensei:
In case you were unaware, the creator negotiated to be able to do a single graphic novel to wrap up the story. I pulled the trigger on a copy, as my understanding is that he’s allowed a single print run, and that is all.
Thanks!
Are we talking about the same company?
When you are in a hole – stop digging? Absolutely “masterclass”.
I have a list of clickbait headline words that I refuse read 99% of the time. Masterclass is on that list.
That sounds problematic.
I’m an expert news reader – here are the 6 headlines you should read every day
The third one will shock you!
8 Obvious Signs of Click Bait.
You won’t believer Number 5!
“Disney figured out that the terminology had become a lightning rod, so it shifted its language to “belonging” and “inclusion”.”
And if I don’t want to belong or be included?
What do the stakeholders think?
And when they’re not carded?
It’s Utah. Same reason I can’t get anything more than a 10 round magazine in NJ. It’s all about the feels!
OTH, the drunk can get booze in NJ and I bet I can get more than a 10 round magazine in UT.
I like the implication that even though they’re driving without a license, they will refrain from drinking without a license. I’m also entertained by the concept of a trailer trash guy hanging outside a liquor store trying to get kids with fake IDs to buy him booze.
And vice-versa.
Speaking of Merlin and shit we enjoyed as a kid, I really liked ‘Merlin,’ the 1998 two-part made for TV flick. (Sam Neil’s Merlin. Martin Short, Miranda Richardson, Isabella Rossellini, Helena Bonham Carter, Rutger Hauer. Woah, Lena Headley was in it. James Earl Jones’ voice is in it.
I rewatched it recently to see how it did, and I gotta say: They did a really good job. I had fun with both my nostalgia and with their take on the story. Would rewatch again.
I’m building a library of free games on GOG, thanks to Amazon Prime.
I’ve got a large library on GoG and Epic, of which only a handful were purchased (all from GoG).
Uffda. Someone here posted a link to get a free version of Fallout and Fallout 2 on GOG.
I lasted 5 minutes in Fallout. WTF? At least tell me how to kill the fucking rats!
Uninstalled and I’m done with games. Last game I played was Unreal (maybe 2?).
Don’t kill the fucking rats. It’s a waste of time and ammo. Run past them and get out onto the map.
Ammo?
I debased myself and watched a tutorial on how Fallout was supposed to work. Didn’t help.
Fuck that noise. Doom didn’t need a tutorial!
There are many ways to kill rats.
I was going to suggest you try the internet or AI but remembered that you don’t have a computer (since you gave me yours a few years ago).
Fourscore (and Ron):
Like I didn’t notice all the shade the two of you threw at me in the ded thread!
Maybe I’ll pass on next year’s HH and see who does all the work?! Then who will be laughing.
* Mrs. Fourscore won’t be laughing if she finds out that there will be no Mrs. Holiness mandu in the freezer because you ran us off.
** Since my retirement, my computer skillz have atrophied at an amazing rate. I might have to bring you some mandu to get my laptop working.
What do you mean, I said I had a great time even with you being there.
You weren’t bad enough to ruin the day.
See, I said something nice about you.
Hey, everybody, Jimbo is the nicest person you’d want to meet, maybe not in a dark alley but..
No mandu? No mandu? You can’t do that, it’s against HH regulations.
Just a reminder though, HH is Sep 20th, not too early to start the Mandu planning sessions…
We just made a big batch of mandu for New Year’s.
I was allowed to participate this year. I have been banned for years because I have tried to bring good old American ingenuity to the process.
My sin is advocating for an assembly line approach. One person places the skins on the counter, one person puts a dollop of filling on the skin and finally one person seals the mandu.
My family, for some reason, think this is the absolute worst way to make mandu. They think each dumpling should be made individually. So they staged a mutiny and kicked me out of the kitchen.
Not sure exactly why, but this year they allowed me back. Of course, they insisted that I follow their misplaced belief in making them individually. I was so taken aback by this sudden reversal in policy that I had no choice but to follow their edicts.
Next year I’ll be prepared to stand my ground and hopefully gain a lifetime ban from the process.
I use grenadine from Portland Syrups.
It was made in collaboration with a cocktail you tuber I like Anders Ericsson.
Much better than Roses or any other grenadine I’ve tried.
https://news.google.com/home?hl=en-US&tab=wn&gl=US&ceid=US:en
Newly minted host of “CBS Evening News” Tony Dokoupil had a message for viewers to ring in the new year, but not everyone was on board with his new approach for the legacy network’s reporting strategy.
Dokoupil outlined a new direction for CBS News, vowing to focus on the perspective of the average American after years of media putting too much weight on “advocates … academics or elites.”
And one of the elites (who I’ve never heard of) responds:
“CBS News has fallen,” Dr. Kevin Young wrote in a post to X, following the anchor’s social media PSA video. “Americans must now rely on international news outlets rather than US based state run media for factual journalism.”
Fuck Dr. Young.
US based state run media
What a retard; not even NPR qualified as that.
Where “factual” no doubt means “DNC talking points”.
And heaven knows you can’t get that from any other American media. 🙄
They never had much of an opinion on that, but my late great Granma in law loved Marines.
I think it had something to do with WWII when she was a child, but she would never talk about that.
Okinawa has always had a strained relationship with the Empire.
During WW2 they had a strained relationship at best as well as some friendly fire issues.
I wouldn’t be surprised that in some ways the Marines were preferable.
I don’t know. Seems like overseas outlets have done a better job of covering US issues in a somewhat fair manner than the US outlets.
True that this has happened, but I’m convinced that it’s mostly been by accident.
I don’t know about that. The Japanese corporate media is extremely anti-Trump.
My wife said all of her Japanese friends and relatives were very concerned about her having to live in Trump’s America.
One only needs to look to BBC video editing to confirm that’s not entirely the case.
Ron:
All my Japanese and Korean in-laws are concerned because I’m not sufficiently pro-Trump. They all love him for standing up to the wily Chinee.
I will admit that Mrs. Holiness has had some crazy ideas about the “Asian hate attacks” from a few years ago. She completely bought into the idea that Asians were being attacked everywhere.
Like a loving husband, I got her to change the focus of her fears to irritation at me by scoffing at her concerns. Even though I caused her fears to abate, she has yet to thank me.
But they still want the bases out of Okinawa and the U.S. taxpayers paying for Japan’s defenses, right?
OTH, mainland Japan wants to keep as much of that American riffraff down in Okinawa with those island hicks…
Jimbo, two of my three good Japanese friends are just flustered that we are no longer letting Japan free ride to the extant it has historically.
Mind you they are still free riding, but the idea that it requires more out their pockets has blown their minds.
Oddly, my liberal Japanese friend actually gets it and respects it.
I think there were some isolated attacks the media tried to exaggerate, but the attackers were black so that story got dropped.
I do the same thing with my wife sometimes.
She doesn’t appreciate it either.
Mrs F is anti-Chinese because they invaded VN in 700 AD, she’ll never forgive them. However she admits to enjoying Chinese style food, cheap clothes and appliances.
The very few Chinese she does meet are exceptions so they are all right.
Fourscore:
Mrs. Holiness is the same way.
Knee jerk reaction is to condemn any non-Korean (and the North Koreans no longer count as real Koreans). But individually she likes just about everyone we meet.
Last year in Seoul, we went past the Chinese embassy while a huge demonstration was going on. A lot of the locals gave me thumbs up and thanked me for “saving” Korea.
I told my wife that I had no idea that her fame had spread all the way to Seoul, but I was glad that they were thanking me for spiriting her off to Minnesoda. She was not amused at my joke.
As someone who listens to a lot of overseas news outlets, I’d have to disagree strongly.
The only section of I-70 deserving Trump’s name is the forty or so miles in Indiana starting at the Ohio-Indiana state line.
That is a pretty shitty section.
The sections in Colorado outside of Denver are pretty shitty too, though the scenery is good.
That story is a welcome reminder that the GOP can be just as shamelessly idiotic as the Dems.
IT IS THE CENTRAL SCRANTON EXPRESSWAY GODDAMMIT!
AND IT IS THE TAPPEN ZEE BRIDGE!!!!
McCarran!
Imagine the OUTRAGE if they rename a freeway in Indiana and IU wins the college football championship this year.
I’m sure that the lefty news outlets will scour the social media accounts of any ref involved in IU’s games.
cutting back on alcohol consumption this month
Those words are English but make no sense arranged in that order.
bring classic games back, and make sure that once you purchase a game, you have control over it forever.
🙂
The only thing I’ve bought from Good Old Games was their Quest for Glory pack. Maybe I should buy more.
I got all the Redneck Rampage games from them.
The QfG games weren’t great games, but they were some of the most fun games in RPG history.
I loved them as a kid. To the point every playthrough was started in Hero’s Quest (the original name before they got sued) as a Thief. Why a Thief? With proper skill point spends, you could get every skill in the game. You could grind any and all of the skills in various places and complete the warrior, mage, and thief trials in one playthrough. Since you imported the character, they kept the support for that going forward, even to the point you could become a Paladin as well.
Infocom and Sierra On-Line were a lot of my childhood gaming memories.
*clicks*
Ah, 1989. The 90s were a complete blank for me gaming-wise as I was busy with being a poor college student doing stupid college age stuff well into my 20s.
Roughly 50 minute interview with Amy Coney Barrett. Even though I have my problems with her, I found it an interesting interview.
Err… roughly 60 minute.
OK, I chuckled. Only a few otaku are going to fully appreciate this.
https://x.com/anime_/status/2007006492772143450
Bruh…
Um… okay.
Evangelion?
Yes.
But wait… there’s more!
https://www.reddit.com/r/evangelionmemes/comments/bcipy8/curb_your_masturbation/
I may just be one of the few anime people that is indifferent to this series. I neither think it a masterpiece nor despise it.
It was fine, ending sucked, no desire to rewatch.
And this did not go as planned.
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/2007194117772812333?s=20
JUST IN: Parachutist gets caught on the field goal netting cable, falls 35 feet to the ground moments before kickoff at the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl.
Five parachutists were set to land on the field before the Rice vs. Texas State game.
According to reports, only three of the parachutists landed where they were supposed to.
ouch
Yeah, and tOSU didn’t land where it was supposed to either!
Figures a Browns fans like Neph wouldn’t cover this story. After all, he is pro-wire for the block
Speaking of circumcisions gone wrong, my bro was vehemently against having his three boys get snipped. He felt the religious/ cultural history wasn’t necessary, especially cuz ‘don’t do something that *may* cause harm.’
Natch, he got vaxxed multiple times cuz he believes in his Scientific Clergy. Same with M&D. Came home from work and found Dad tested positive for COVID and is feeling it. I was vaxxed in S Korea because my job required it. I thought about marking my mask with “Under Duress” or “Not voluntary,” but I didn’t there and then was a time to poke my Korean employers. (That was wise, but I felt personal shame for not sticking to my moral guns.)
I am quite confident I won’t catch it from Dad. My voice is nearly back and I doubt my bug was COVID-related, mostly cuz I’m also quite confident I was exposed to it through all my Korean students.
I find Bro’s complete confidence in (Democratic) Science to be rather sad. He just *trusts* them. I’m happy I don’t have his Faith.
My reply to this kind of crypto-cult behavior is always, “Science shouldn’t need my trust.”
I find it amazing that anybody still takes covid tests.
This person immediately gained a huge amount of respect from me, by having a well-reasoned critique of the movie Event Horizon. Much appreciated, Neph!
There’s also an analysis of SHODAN, dude’s interests line up quite nicely with my own.
He’s not wrong about Event Horizion.
That being said, I did enjoy it, but not enough to watch it multiple times.
Seconded
Disney’s approach reflected a broader corporate evolution: stripping divisive language from public filings while maintaining substantive workplace policies.
aka hiding the ball.
Precisely.
These companies create environments where talented people want to work and produce products and services that contribute to better communities.
A good way to do that is to weed out the malcontents and advocacy activists and anybody not focused on products and profits.
Random Thought: Awoke from a nap to Mission Impossible, the first one from ’96. Just a damn good fun flick. The wire scene is the best known scene, but the story and delivery are just really fun and well-executed. (That one *is* famous for a reason. DAMN. (Yes, that’s where it’s at now.) Modern audiences wouldn’t be keen on cold, slow-burn tension like that. (Same is correctly said for every generation.)
A while back folk were talking about Tom Cruise’s actual acting ability. He’s damn good at his job, hence, many things. Him/ TMITE and more have seemingly forgotten about the year or two when he was at his Scientology Peak. Must be odd, being hands-down the most successful and famous actor in all Hollywood history. (40yrs as a top Box Office draw, as we speak. Who else competes?)
On that note: I was in FL with Dad, Clearwater. He knows nothing of Scientology but wanted to see. He and I were given a guided tour of their HQ and looks into the testing machinery and the like. I was on my heels, wanting to see everything, but worried about Dad’s naivete, ready to bounce if my spider senses tingled. Absolutely zero red flags and we walked out after maybe 2hrs.
When we told him about Scientology later, he says he never, ever have gone in there if he had known. (I have my doubts.)
Damn, that’s such a good scene. It really, really is.
Mission Impossible, the first one from ’96
Steven Hill would like a word with you.