These are great, thanks for posting! I wish there were still pulp magazines like this that were introducing new characters.

I love these interviews. I don’t even have a device to run Leaf, but I enjoyed reading this anyway.

Wish I had scrolled through earlier, this would’ve been the first one I got right so far!

This game was fun in small doses. Very fast gameplay on tiny maps, so you died constantly, and there wasn’t a lot of variety in the maps or weapons. Basically, a more shallow version of Unreal Tournament or Quake 3, but it did run really smoothly.

This looks so cool. I hope at some point there is a movie or TV show that uses all of the 1960s/70s costume designs.

It’s nice to know that something like this still exists, even though the original poster in the reddit thread said that business is slowing down. :(

There’s a watch repair shop near me that has this same kind of vibe: a somewhat cluttered shop, run by a guy wearing a jeweler’s loupe that knows how to fix anything.

There was also a small appliance repair place that has unfortunately closed, and I never had a reason to go in while it was open. It had a storefront that looked like it was designed in the 60s and hadn’t been changed since then. Looked great.

Yeah, this quote confirms that the CEO has become AI-obsessed and therefore probably did replace the writer with AI, just like the writer claimed.

Also, it is always so weird to me when people admit that they used AI to do something that they definitely should’ve been able to do without AI. “I had to ask Claude who this employee was” is not a dunk on the employee! You’re just admitting that you don’t even know how to search for a name in your own HR system! Like you’re an incapable moron or something!

Haha, this is great. First time I’m hearing about it. I’d love to find a translation somewhere.

In the song Brown Eyed Girl:

Whatever happened

to Tuesday and so slow

Gun down the old man with a

transistor radio

I was picturing someone holding out a radio in front of them, brandishing it at the old man like how you’d wave a cross at a vampire. The old man doesn’t like that newfangled rock and roll music, so they’re shooting the sound waves at him to scare him off.

(It’s “going down the old mine with a transistor radio,” but whatever.)

I completely agree about Michael Keaton being a great villain. The part where he’s in the car with Peter is one of the best scenes in the MCU, in my opinion. And I’m so glad that I watched the movie in a theater; everyone gasped when he showed up at the door as Liz’s dad. Also, I think Liz is just Toones’ daughter, not step-daughter.

Ned is just Ned, not a reference to anything in the comics, and I love him. A great new character, if you ask me. I’ve never read the comics, so maybe I’m just not concerned about the movies being faithful to the source material.

Your criticism describes both what was really good and really bad about that phase of the MCU. Basically, you do have to have watched all of the other movies in order to really catch what is going on. It’s like there’s an assignment you have to do before you get to fully understand each movie. For those of us who were watching these as they came out, they were coming out at a reasonable pace, and it was possible to just keep up naturally. Today… not as possible, lol.

But if you have seen all of the prior movies, then there’s a whole bunch of backstory that you’re already familiar with, which means they don’t have to introduce all of that in each movie. That might be why the pacing seems off: every movie is basically a sequel to multiple other movies. And they just start off that way, like a sequel.

Most viewers would have already been familiar with this version of Peter Parker, since he was introduced in an earlier movie. (That’s what the beginning this movie was referencing, when it shows those clips that Peter recorded with his phone. That was from when he showed up in a prior movie.)

I absolutely love Tom Holland as Spider-Man. He does a great job of playing this teenager that is eager to use his new powers for good, but also a little intimidated by what he’s getting into. I think the sequel, Far From Home, is even better than Homecoming.

During the height of the crypto boom, I couldn’t have afforded my own gaming PC that I built ~4 years earlier. Hardware prices have been such madness lately.

Congratulations on the bookstore! That’s exciting!

• Absolute Green Arrow #3
• End of Life #6
• X-Men #33

Some kind of “empathy score.” Not sure what the formula would be, but it would reflect how readily they feel empathy for another person, and how many other people they can care about.

A narcissist would have a 0 – they can only care about themself. Someone with very limited empathy would have a small number – say, they can only care about their immediate family, and they need to really get to know someone before they care about that person. People who naturally care about others, even if they don’t know the other person, would have high numbers.

This number would sometimes just flat out tell you that certain people should be avoided, or certain conversations are pointless with that person. Or if you do need to try to convince them of something, the number may show you how to frame the conversation. E.g., show how it’s in their own interest if they have a low number.

He’s alive because he manipulated Lindsay Graham into taking his place in hell, for now, using some kind of underworld parliamentarian loophole that he learned when he clerked for Satan.

Only Murders in the Building features the HOA. It’s a TV show, and also I haven’t finished it yet, so it doesn’t quite fit your question. But it’s also a good show.

Absolute Batman #22

Absolute Catwoman #2

Uncanny X-Men #31

I haven’t started it yet (haven’t even bought it yet), but I’ll probably pick up Bomb Rush Cyberfunk and start playing that this week. I’ve been listening to the Jet Set Radio soundtrack lately, I mentioned that in a fedi thread, and several people said I needed to play Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. It’s been on my wishlist for a while now.

Absolute Martian Manhunter #12 - I believe this is the final issue!

Nooo! I was hoping this would be an ongoing thing. Oh well, still a great run.

Additionally:

Poison Ivy #46

X-Men United #5

Pfft, the only “hoarding problem” is that storage is expensive these days!

Same, coming up on three years without a Steam purchase for me. Stay strong! :D

I love it when you find a site old enough to have these. Some new ones do it for nostalgia; go to https://caddyserver.com/ and scroll down.