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All my life I wanted to fly, like the birds that you see way up in the sky. <sigh> Making circles in the morning sun, flying high in the sky 'till the day is done...

Angel:

Oh wow, I think you've just cracked the code.

With most of them, I get the impression they're not really meant to be played, just to comically highlight things that happen frequently or not at all.

Only if it's cruel to be... kiiiiind. <reggae music plays>

In some jobs, if you don't work a "full" workweek of 40 hours, the job isn't required to provide other benefits like health insurance, a pension, or similar.

Doctor Strange was fun, and has cool-looking, mandala-like special effects. About the only think it didn't live up to was the level of sheer delight I had watching Iron Man, The Avengers, or Guardians of the Galaxy, nor the emotional intensity of The Winter Soldier. The people out there saying it left them kind of expecting more, this is probably why. As the MCU racks up more titles in its collection, it's harder to provide something new or better than what has come before. The impressively new stuff: Doctor Strange, when he's still a surgeon, is not the charming douche Tony Stark was. He's a realistic douche of a kind movies like this don't usually risk their protagonist being. Cumberbatch's performance overall is more grounded than his usual, and the bag of tics and tricks he's used up until now is largely absent. He's not working the Look At The Acting Thingies I'm Doing persona, he's just being the character, and it's got moments that are much more effective as a result. Tilda Swinton and Chiwetel Ejiofor are also fantastic. And the ending is actually clever and not the standard army-of-minions fight. The negatives: Outside of the beginning and the end, the story follows the MCU structure to a T. It's not bad (it's a fun story to retell), but it's less interesting with overuse. Also, the initial steps of the MCU were slow and careful about introducing elements of arbitrary magic. It's why they made sure Asgardians had a Doctor-Whoish technobabble explanation instead of full-on "rainbow bridge takes you to the Norse gods," and the Mandarin couldn't be a literal sorcerer with ten magic rings. At this point, Guardians opened up the possibility of successfully basing stories around unfamiliar characters, and now Doctor Strange has justified magic and multiverses to the point where any plot now has an excuse. Fantasy films where any random thing can happen can be hopeless messes, and Marvel now has to contend with that danger. Phase I was a lead-up to The Avengers, to prove that a multi-franchise crossover universe could work in films. Phase II had less clear goals, and seemed to be more about showing this model could be maintained and people would stick around when franchises got dark or unfamiliar characters got their own movies. Phase III doesn't seem to be a lead-up to Infinity War any more - the movies after it are still considered a part, and there's no mention of a Phase IV. There's competition now in the so far much lesser DC universe, and the real challenge for Marvel will be fighting superhero fatigue as the new standard their stories have set becomes just standard. DC is continuing to exploit grimdark and the broader Gears of War and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland aesthetics and storytelling. Will Marvel's charm, fun, and higher quality be enough?

Haruhi Suzumiya viewers know that as the "Endless Eight" arc.

We should have learned from the time before when The Learning Channel changed their name to an acronym designed to give warm fuzzies.

It is as Nostradamus predicted (quotation below):

Breaking Goat edition: (spoilers for all of Breaking Bad - seriously, everybody should see this show)

Definitely.

The series of Vivaldi concertos known as The Four Seasons is part of a larger 12-concerto work called "The Battle Between Harmony and Invention." Even in 1725, it was understood that's the battle in popular art - you can only go so far towards the popular and familiar, and you can only go so far in introducing new ideas.

Doctor: If you crack one more pun in the next 24 hours, you'll die. Me: Okay, I can be patient.

"If money can't buy happiness, I guess I'll have to rent it." - Weird Al Yankovic, "This Is the Life"

Just finished Yakuza 5. It's got some parts that work wonderfully (some of the subplots, the driving and hunting controls, the character designs and acting) and some that make the game really tedious (everything involving Haruka's pop idol minigames). It works out to pretty good overall, and so very Japanese.

Yikes.

Was the first one intentional?

Far right: Fox News Centrist: CNN Center-left: MSNBC Those are the main ones. PBS, our public TV network, tends to have hosts that are kind of scattershot, but a little more humanist and thoughtful than the cable networks. There's some outlier stuff as well, like RT, which is far-left on everything not related to Russia, and Russian nationalist outside of that.

Warbreaker: Visual novel dating sim. God King ending's the easiest to get.

Rogue indeed.

In a country where voting isn't compulsory and turnout tends to be shamefully low by the standards of most democracies, campaigns are mostly a battle for the large section of the population that doesn't hold strong political opinions. A third party that gets a significant chunk of the votes is likely getting idealists of some shade. So, if you get 0-1 percent, it's "Oh, you and your protest vote." 1-10 percent, "You helped the other party win!" Between 10 and 51 is borderline impossible - Perot pulled off that area in '92, definitely splitting the right-wing vote, but with the way the electoral college is structured, he still got zero of the real votes required to make a blip on the map. It's a system that requires you to have more of a regional base. The last third-party candidate to get any electoral votes was George Wallace running on a pro-segregation platform in '68. He took some states in the deepest of the deep south.

Hellraiser 2.

It's related to the answer to the previous bad description.