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The vibes are out of joint— O cursèd site, That ever I logged on to poast them right!
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Andrew
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I know the US doesn't really care about other football, but y'all really needed the MNT to get past the knock out stage in the Copa America to help tamp down on at least some of this.
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Andrew
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Probably not a complete surprise than E. Nelson Bridwell, who was the company's unofficial continuity czar, is credited with the plot. If this had been a few years later, this book probably would have just been replaced with a Who's Who release.
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Andrew
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My LSH read-through has reached their first mini-series: Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes I've read this before and unfortunately it is not good. It's almost the equivalent of a clip show: there's a framing story, but mostly it's just retelling the origins of the characters across its 3 issues
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Andrew
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Depending on what you're looking for, Etsy is already flooded with fake goods purchased in bulk from AliExpress being sold as the real thing. So this isn't a huge policy change. More of a continuation, really.
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Andrew
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Listen, I know Bluesky is a sex positive space. But I think here we can make an exception.
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Andrew
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2024 manifesting the pee tape into existence.
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~Tilda is short for Majoritilda
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sorry not sorry
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Andrew
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Once he turns into a Sorrow Lantern his hair immediately gets darker & is swept forward like some mid-2000s emo kid.
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Andrew
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It was not until many years after I first read it that I realized that the image of Harriet in the "sacred collar" was a parody of a photo of Sophia Schliemann wearing the "Treasure of Priam."
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Andrew
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If you search that phrase on this site, you'll find nothing but people complaining about him going all the way back to last summer. He's got form, that's for sure.
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Andrew
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It's an interesting idea. But the design is just a bit too goofy looking to work. Mayavale has one other appearance after this: in the Legion of Super-Heroes adventure for Mayfair's DC Heroes RPG.
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Andrew
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This is a fill-in by DeMatteis, Ditko, and Wiacek. And it's odd. Dr. Mayavale (pictured above) has become aware of all his past lives, in all of which he was virtually a saint. So, in order to balance his karma, he has decided to dedicate this life to evil.
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Andrew
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.... wut
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Andrew
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How do they differ to classic (what variety is classic?) cucumbers?
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Andrew
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Straightforward from here: 1. Put your right foot in. 2. Take your right foot out. 3. Put your right foot in. 4. Shake it all about. 5. Do the hokey-pokey. 6. Turn yourself about.
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Andrew
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Over in the letters page, there's a mention that the book receives approximately 60+ letters a month and that this is possibly high for the period. Quite the decline from the Silver Age days of Adventure, when 300 letters a month was mentioned.
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Andrew
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Also I somehow have two copies of this issue? Yeah, I dunno.
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Andrew
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In this issue of Legion of Super-Heroes: the Legion (OK, Element Lad & Colossal Boy) battle a genie who is not really a genie in what has to be the most TOS story idea yet.
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Andrew
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Maybe, with the success of science fiction at the box office, someone thought they saw a potential untapped market? Whatever the reason, it didn't work. And the revived series was gone after 7 issues.
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Andrew
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I've mentioned before that I love the mystery books of the '60s & '70s. But by 1980 they were definitely on their last legs. None would make it past 1983. Which has always made reviving Mystery in Space — not a true "mystery" book, despite the title — a bit of an odd business decision.
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Andrew
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"In the infinite darkness, they are WAITING …for YOU!" An ad for the revived Mystery of Space series, 1980.
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Andrew
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I'm sorry, we only practice hockey law. For croquet disputes you'll want the lawn office across the street.
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Andrew
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I'm going to need at least one scene of Jimmy being fucked with for no discernable reason.
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Andrew
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That's at least somewhat maleable, as DC has put it in NY a few times.
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Andrew
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Apparently most of the stones just look like this.
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Andrew
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I'm sorry, we only practice hockey law. For croquet disputes you'll want the lawn office across the street.
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Andrew
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While I find this charming, I'd also say that the high-level crokinole play shown in it just looks *boring* Just shooting nothing but 20s & whoever misses the fewest wins.
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This issue is also one of the comics published in early 1980 that included "The Computer That Saved Metropolis" — a 28 page Superman story advertising Radio Shack's TRS-80 computer written by Cary Bates & illustrated by Jim Starlin & Dick Giordano For comparison, the main LSH story is only 17 pages
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Andrew
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Over in my LSH read-through, these panels from Legion of Super-Heroes #265 [art by Jim Janes & Dave Hunt] suggest that no, that's not a costume — Tyroc's just always dressed like that.
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Andrew
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That seems exactly like I'd expect for someone who would die of [checks] "The Suds".
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Andrew
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lol. They've got a listing of who's said what below it, and the "step aside" list is so short they've had to pad it with a bunch of people with "former" in front of their title (plus Marianne Williamson)
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Andrew
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And not, like, good, high-end dog food.
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Just found out about a massive data leak at Twitter/X. I don't use it anymore but I keep my account alive so no one else can claim my username. I just changed my password and suggest others do too. Also use 2FA whenever you can.
More:
cyberpress.org/9-4gb-twitte...
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Andrew
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This is how I felt playing Mass Effect 2 having never played the first! (I only had a PS3, not an XBox, so 2 got released in a version I could play long before 1 did.)
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Andrew
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Well, you weren't kidding with the Teenage Fanclub comparison.
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Andrew
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This reminds me of my favourite Say Anything anecdote: In Your Eyes almost didn't make it into the film. The studio sent Gabriel a rough cut to watch & afterwards he contacted Crowe to turn him down due to the overdose at the end. The studio had sent him the Jim Belushi biopic Wired instead.
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Andrew
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You might say "That seems overly complicated? Who would design something like that?" And listen, at this point I'm beginning to think that Zeiss's engineers designed their cameras mainly to flex on the competition.
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Andrew
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Just the high speeds though. The slow speeds are governed by a different system & they don't produce quite same clunk.
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Andrew
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There is something extremely satisfying about the "clunk" sensation that travels through the camera when a Contax rangefinder is fired on one of its high speeds.
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Andrew
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A Democratic donor? The press is currently big on the feelings of Democratic donors. Especially if the president didn't call you on your birthday.
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Andrew
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You can get some wild tales from the baseball stats community about him as well. How his system would constantly wildly overrate certain types of players, no matter how much he claimed to have fixed it. And how he'd get mad if you brought up certain names that hadn't done as well as her predicted.
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Andrew
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I've heard similar stories from someone who helped a friend recover files from their deceased son's computer. "Say, what's that folder labeled pictures?" "Oh. You probably don't want to check in there." "Maybe it's family photos!" (It was not family photos.)
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Andrew
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Only a model.
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Andrew
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If I recall correctly it said it was for "Watery Tarts Local 1485" & featured a Beardsley illustration framed by a large gear.
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Andrew
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The multiple ladies of the lake in Malory once resulted in me making up a shirt for a Watery Tarts union, which for a little while my partner used to wear.
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Dr. M.A. Davis
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only the Lee-Kirby translations are canonical.
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Andrew
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And before someone comes at me with "the sword in the stone wasn't Excalibur": that's a latter modification. One of the attempts to make the stories into an internally consistent whole. In the Vulgate Cycle it's Excalibur. And Malory explicitly names it as such.
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Andrew
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Does Arthur get Excalibur by pulling it from the stone? Yep! Does he get Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake? Also yep! Does the Lady of the Lake get beheaded shortly after? Of course she does. Does the she reappear to accept Excalibur after Arthur's death? Come on. You know the answer…
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Andrew
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At this point I'll even argue that Malory, one of the earliest & certainly the most famous attempt to compile the various texts, doesn't even try to make a consistent narrative — he just throws everything in that people would have been familiar with.
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