Max @max@smeap.com

The weird thing about expanding the backgrounds of Hobbs and Shaw in this movie, was it underscored that in this universe, it seems that all cops must have been car thieves or vice versa, and also most families car thief together. It's clearly very natural. Like you do.

I have now watched the most recent "Speedy and Snarly" car superheroes movie. It was exactly what I expected. Ridiculous. Mostly fun. It delivered physics breaking car stunts. You know, the usual.

For its tenth anniversary (!), early Kickstarter "Kind of Bloop" was posted free on its website. Its an "8-bit" cover album of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue that sparked some legal controversy so this is the first it has been available since that KS. I backed it, the album is great. If you like jazz and beeps and bloops, it does everything advertised.

For the first time since owning my car (~7 years?) had a year with no big road trips, and used practically no gas. Got the Fuel Maintenance Mode warning for the first time telling me to use most of what is left in the tank because it is old. Fascinating.

Let's ban all cars and reforest parking lots instead

Dumb shower thought: you know how we associate infrared with heat? iRobot Virtual Walls are literally just painting "the floor is lava" for Roombas

Wow, that Rocko's Modern Life special really had its finger on the Mastodon pulse, huh? Weird to see an animated special of 90s friends seem so ripped from my home timeline

Sometimes I feel like:

Gen X worked very hard to define Punk in multiple forms.

Gen "Z" is somewhat unintentionally very unironically Punk.

We millennials are in sort of stuck in the worst middle: intentionally Punk and very accidentally ironic at it. It's tough not to envy the sincerity of X and the seeming effortlessness of Z. Though I guess it's not Z's fault the world made punk the default (by being shit).

The Beast is incel. The Witch's Curse is the anthropomorphic friendzone.

These are just facts. Don't @ me

That 5th Player really seems to be having some difficulty keeping their PC alive for more than a few episodes each season. Poor them, not sure if bad rolls or interesting character decisions or both. But the NPCs at least got a lot more interesting this season, too.

It's SO MUCH plotted like an RPG campaign (which I mean it was, so). The party just happens to show up to all the important events in the solar system right as they are happening. The party splits up to prep the ship and the GM just has both dealing with the same problems from opposite directions to up the impact of the scenario they planned for months. The party has weird plot armor when they need it.

I really admire Geena Davis for getting through the phrase "my old dance coach Fluff LeCoque" with a straight face

Good Geordi version of that Drake meme format

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