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    In terms of genre conventions, this is more akin to complaining about how people turn around and run back when Irish whipped to the ropes. It's an atomic level Rule of the Universe without which things don't function, not a weird and deliberate choice.
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    I have absolutely zero expectation that this will be picked up on by Marvel TV, but I can't help but notice that three of the four lead characters for the Netflix shows have a connection to Scott Lang (he dated Jessica for a while, and Bendis's implication was that they'd have stayed together and been happy if she hadn't found out she had Luke's kid, and he was a partner in the 90s version of Heroes for Hire). Depending on who they cast, I could see him slipping in and out of the Netflix shows for a couple episodes to link them to Phase 3 without adding an Avengers-level powerhouse to the mix.
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    I'm betting that he and Rothfuss are colluding.
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    The Dick/Damian era is literally the only time in my life I have bought more than one arc of a Batman title in a year. I loved it so much, I guess because Bruce has always been the least interesting bit of the Bat-family to me.
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    Nope, that isn't there either. They are usually really good about making their characters best story arcs availible when a film/TV thing is announced. There are next to no Jessica Jones stories available after they announced she would be the star of a new television show, which seems a little strange. I'm fairly well versed in comic lore, and the only real Jessica Jones stories I've read were part of the New Avengers run with Luke Cage. Well, aside from Alias that's pretty much all there is for her (The Pulse is, what, eight issues? And drastically inferior to Alias.)
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    Eighteen seconds before the sun goes nova and we all die.
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    Chances of Max books on MCU are basically zero, as then they'd have to gate the service as 17 and up or add parental controls. I am shocked it isn't already on Comixology, and I expect it will be eventually.
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    Gog's new release for today was Wasteland. If other 1980s CRPGs I've bought in the last five years and tried to play are any indication, I will get less than four hours into it before I say "fuck it" and wander back to Bioshock or something. But I kind of feel like I have to try. Also: Shadow Warrior 2013 was on sale this past weekend on Steam. HOLY SHIT. If someone had told me that Duke Nukem's racially insensitive little brother would be rebooted as the best FPS I've seen this year not called Bioshock Infinite, I would have laughed and possibly called them offensive names. But this game is really, really fun. Could use some multiplayer though.
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    Savage Sword of DR. DINOSAUR is FINALLY out next week. I was starting to worry that something awful had happened.
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    After watching THE HOUSE I LIVE IN, I'm pretty sure my next non-fiction read will be Dr. Carl Hart's HIGH PRICE. Hart is one of the few people allowed to do controlled lab experiments with illicit drugs and he's become (a vocal critic not only of the war on drugs as social policy but the deranged moral-panic mentality that every "new" drug seems to produce.
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    I think it's time for me to go back and play MG2: SS again. I tried a few months ago on Vita, but found out that while the first MSX game works beautifully as a portable title, the radar on MG2 is pretty much unreadable at that size. I've said before that even as flawed as it is, it's easily my favorite game in the series, and that still holds true.
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    Kind of a disappointing month for my continuing weight loss; this morning's monthly weigh in found me at 211.4, a net loss of only 3.8 lbs from 10/9, when I was 215.2 (I did go as low as 211.0 on Wednesday, but then I went out carousing last night...) and 48.6 lbs since March 9. I knew from the start that eventually, I wouldn't be able to keep up the rate at which I had been cutting before. What I hadn't expected was the three week plateau that 215 turned out to be; it was fully 22 days before I managed to weigh in at 214.x two days in a row. It was totally infuriating after a while, but I still expect to be sub-210 by New Year's. 205 may be out of reach, though, if this last month is any indication.
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    You're talking about Valiant's Solar series, not Shooter's Dark Horse version from 2-3 years ago, right? Because that one was pretty much ass on toast.
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    Started Deus Ex HR Directors' Cut. The Vita's rear touchpad is a POOR substitute for shoulder triggers and click sticks.
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    TF: Dark Cybertron started this week officially, after nearly a year of "prelude" comics and overt build, and quieter build-up dating back to the relaunch in 2012. The bookend one shot is more about getting pieces into place (Orion and Hardhead hooking up with Rodimus and the Lost Light heading back toward Cybertron, Shockwave reopening the portal to the Deadverse, etc.) and ends with two pages solid of FORESHADOWING~! It was okay, but it leaves me worried about what it's going to do to MTMTE (which had gotten along just fine playing around the edges of the mythos and is likely to be ill-served by having to turn into pack-ins for toys that Hasbro decided independently to make.) I worry that after this is over, with Hasbro's greater involvement and the fact that "Remain in Light" pretty much ended the Knight Quest, it'll be impossible to get the old comic back. But hey, new Skids figure should be shipping soon so I guess that's something.
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    Yeah, I'm reading this book as well. I'm only about 100 pages into it though. Early on, I wasn't feeling it. The section dedicated to the movies/entertainment industry in the mid-1900s didn't grab me, but it has pulled me in with the stories about the Mormoms and their viligante gang. I think it really picks up when the John Birch society comes on the scene. The post-McCarthy revival of the Red Scare, plus the talk of "ironic" conspiracy theorists like Robert Anton Wilson and Paul Krassner, plus the John Todd/Mike Warnke Satan scare and the talk of the 90s-00s is absolutely riveting. (It also does a good job of illustrating why, as soon as anyone cites the SPLC, I tend to tune them out.)
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    I rather wish I could do the DDPYoga thing, as I'm kind of reaching the limits of what I can do with my apartment complex gym, but all my attempts to do anything video-based have run up against the whole "legally blind" wall. I think for yoga to work, I'd have to do one-on-one instruction at first, and that's WAY out of my price range.
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    I am only up to Davos's first chapter in ADOD and so I've been skipping all the speculation. It took me a year to read Storm of Swords and only about 3 months to make it through Feast. Book four thoughts, minimal on spoilers: I actually kind of liked the Dorne parts even before the final chapter, and in retrospect there aren't nearly as many as there seem to be as the story goes on. I also think that getting a full book's worth of Quentyn hate from Arianne before we actually meet him and see what he's really like helps a great deal. At the same time, half a book of hearing about means that, even if that's a fake out, it hurts the drama in some ways. At this point, I am WAY more interested in what happens next to Cersei and Littlefinger/Sansa than what Jon and Dany are up to. So, Victarion and Arya get POV chapters in book 5 too? Huh. I really expected to be a bigger deal, and I don't know why. Given the rules Martin plays by, it could never be anything more than a distraction, and yet I was still let down when it turned out to be so quickly dealt with.
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    Augh, sorry to hear about that BB. I had the first anxiety attack that I truly *recognized* as an anxiety attack a couple months ago. A friend with whom I had plans had gone off the radar for a day and a half, and I got progressively more paranoid that either something awful had happened to her and her husband or I had mortally pissed her off. Then I had the Eureka Moment of "Holy shit, I'm being completely irrational. I'm having an anxiety attack!" (followed, after 90 seconds or so of clarity and calm, by an hour of freaking out because I was having an anxiety attack and being completely irrational, and therefore everything I was doing must be utterly wrong and my attempts to make sure my friends weren't dead would just come off to them as me being clingy and needy and they'd have to distance themselves from me for their own sanity. In other words, the knowledge that I was having an anxiety attack became the focus of said attack.)
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    I would *almost* bet money that with Munch's Odyssee expiring next week, that's when Stranger's Wrath will be added.
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    November freebies have been announced: PS3: Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen, Binary Domain, ibb & obb, Oddworld Stranger's Wrath HD Vita: Soul Sacrifice PS4: Contrast, Resogun No idea what drops which week aside from the PS4 titles.
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    March 21 birthdays: Salvador Lutteroth, popularly identified as the father of lucha libre Forrest Mars, Sr., chocolatier Timothy Dalton Al Williamson, illustrator and comics artist Eddie Money Greg Ellis, actor and voiceover actor DJ Premier Chris Candido And the one I always mention first, Mark Waid
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    Reading Jesse Walker's The United States of Paranoia, which is about the places where conspiracy theory creeps into mainstream politics and pop culture. It goes back as far as the Puritans' unshakable belief that there must be some "super chief" pulling the strings of all the Native tribes in a conspiracy against the Christian colonists, but of course the 20th century stuff is most interesting. Random take-aways: 1) John Todd was an amazing performance artist/con man/crazy person/monster. I listened to a couple of his 1979 lectures today and holy shit this guy. Out of all the movies to denounce as occult propaganda, the Billy Jack series seems like an odd choice. (This forum would be particularly interested in the Jack Chick connection, I think.) The fact that this dude was able to make hay for like eight years spewing easily disprovable, error-filled rants to churches is kind of amazing. (The fact that he plagiarized fellow fake ex-occultist Mike Warnke is doubly hilarious.) 2) Jim Garrison was a dangerous lunatic, and you don't have to believe in a single shooter to recognize that he ruined several lives with his idiotic crusade. Fuck Oliver Stone. 3) COINTELPRO! The Johnson/Nixon-era FBI was pretty damned evil. 4) I really need to watch The Parallax View, don't I?
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    Honestly, through the light of sobriety, fuck me. Woman cut me off, but I took it badly and acted way out of line and completely irrational. The guy who decked me thought he was coming to the rescue of someone who hadn't done anything wrong against a screaming, incoherent lunatic wearing a coat and tie and zombie paint and that he was letting me off easy by not calling the cops.
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    Anyone able to comment on the quality of the Steam version? Paying half the price of the console is HIGHLY tempting.
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