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I should do a teardown of my used computer chair sometime, and try to figure out why it has a habit of making a clunking noise when I swivel it.

Napster also wasn't killed by a bill sponsored and signed by a sitting president who was up for reelection; it was killed by a court ruling and laws that were older than most of its users' parents. Big difference.

And honestly, for those of us who want to see social media as a whole shrivel up and die, a comprehensive crackdown on data harvesting would probably accomplish that too, because 90% of these companies have no idea how else to make money anymore. That said, it won't turn back the clock and...

Heck, I wouldn't have minded a return to the gruff Brooklyn-accented voice for this movie at all. Even now, 99% of the complete sentences Mario has uttered over the course of his life have been in some variant of that voice, and I'm the kind of person who's seen enough footage of the Super Show...

The thing is, letting a site fade into obscurity naturally is different from everyone waking up and discovering it's just been wiped from existence, all at once, by force, by your own government, at the height of its popularity. The only other time I can think of when that's happened was...

Hey, you know how Biden can guarantee losing the votes of nearly all Americans under 30? By sponsoring and passing a bill to shut down TikTok.

I'm not sure he can be any more miserable than he already is every waking minute of his life. I'm starting to suspect he made a literal deal with the Devil at some point that guarantees he'll never face any real consequences for his actions but, in return, is cursed to be a paranoid wreck for...

How 'bout we just regulate capitalism clear the hell out of existence instead.

I appreciated the twist near the end of Tomb Raider, to the point of making me wish they had thought of it for the game. But then I suppose they'd have been on the hook to have every subsequent game resolve in a similar way, whereas they could just not make any more movies.

Apparently $7500 is all a human life's worth these days.

You're always welcome to rename it.

That also makes Pete now the oldest character to appear in any Disney park. I thought he was a holdover from the Oswald era, but I looked it up just now and it turns out he's even older than that, having actually debuted in one of the Alice shorts (which explains why Walt never lost the rights...

I haven't seen any footage firsthand (the Super Best Friends broke up before it came out), but from what I've heard, it's like if a bunch of fans who completely missed the point of the first game created a fangame that somehow got picked up and published. Despite the fact that it was, as far as...

I just had a horrifying thought. This isn't over, is it. There's no way the own-fart-huffing morons at Naughty Dog were going to let their baby get made into a TV show unless they also agreed to cover the events of the horrible sequel. Especially not after they insisted on rebranding the...

I doubt anything productive would have come of shutting them out. It's not like you're preventing them from going on air and telling their lies anyway. All it served to do was antagonize them even more. And then Trump, Mr. "I'm going to be the exact polar opposite of Obama", spent his entire...

The state of Ohio is suing over the East Palestine train wreck:

I was wondering if movie Mario's voice would end up like movie Sonic's horrible character model, and they'd redo the whole thing in response to the fan complaints. Except that would require recasting their main character, and I'm sure they were locked into a contract with Pratt. Best they could...

"Permanent DST" means even more months of having to get up before sunrise; is that really what you want? Meanwhile who cares if the sun goes down before dinner for a few months? It's winter; no one wants to be outside anyway. I'm for permanent standard time.

I say let the whole house of cards come crashing down. Those of us at the bottom already have nothing to lose.

There's an argument to be made that people of privilege spend too little time around those who are different from them, and that prejudice stems from being able to concoct an imaginary idea of what they're like in their heads without any firsthand evidence to contradict it. And that that's why...