What tangled webs we weave…
“Madame Web’s connections to Sony’s Spider-Man films are tenuous as spiderwebs”
“Embracer Cancelled Nearly 30 Unannounced Games In Just 6 Months”
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Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
Madame Web. Worst movie ever. So I read anyway.
The girlfriend and I (both comic book fans) were discussing what was the worst superhero. The list we came up with for contenders was:
The Marvels
Morbius
X-Men 3 the Last Stand
Batman & Robin
Spider-Man 3
Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Hulk
X-Men Apocalypse
The New Mutants
Superman 4
Fantastic Four (2015, aka FANT4STIC)
Neither of us have any desire to see Madame Web in the theater. I’ll probably take the hit to watch it when it hits a streaming service to see how badly they fucked up a movie that probably shouldn’t have been made.
Pumaman
No contest.
We were looking for the bomb ones, specifically the ones based on the comics that flopped hard. I mean, I’m not going to call out Super or Defendor which were both bizarre as hell movies around superheros (but not based on existing comics).
For all I know there were Pumaman comics in the ’70s. If Brother Power: The Geek got a limited run and was oddly fondly remembered, anything goes before the respective Implosions.
hums “he flies like a moron!” quietly to himself….
A huge disappointment.
How did Black Panther not make the list? I haven’t seen it but the descriptions alone made me cringe.
First one was fine, and a huge hit, so avoids his “bomb” criteria.
Wakanda Forever, on the other hand…
And trying to stick to the worst of the franchise. The Marvels was so much worse than Wakanda Forever it’s not even close.
I did enjoy the building defenses to prevent a bunch of Mexicans from invading via the river bits of Wakanda though.
Don’t forget they had to take the South American mutant and get the moisture off his back to defeat him.
I gotta go with Daredevil, what a slog of a movie. It could have been good, Netflix got it mostly right with the series.
*looks over at old Frank Miller Daredevil comics…nods sadly*
Nerd!
“At long last, Varda Space has a license to bring back its orbiting drug manufacturing capsule, which was earlier barred from Earth reentry.”
I prefer Posh Space and Ginger Space.
That was remarkably terrible.
Would you rather I had made a reference to Agnès Varda Space?
Well, he’ll tell you what he wants — what he really, really wants….
But it went through your head anyway, didn’t it.
Ted’s just writes ’em down.
SPACE SMITH LIKE.
*glares balefully*
“Embracer Cancelled Nearly 30 Unannounced Games In Just 6 Months”
A licky boom boom down.
If they were unannounced, how does anybody know there was a actually a game to cancel?
I’m gonna guess insider information.
More likely the games themselves weren’t announced, but details like “Project Lambda” would have been.
Mmm, Project Lambada.
GM Project Lambda was Chevy Traverse, GMC Acadia, &c
And now that song’s stuck in my head. You asshole!
Failure to kneel before Zod
Engoron concluded that Trump and his co-defendants “failed to accept responsibility” for their actions and that expert witnesses who testified for the defense “simply denied reality.”
The judge called the civil fraud at the heart of the trial a “venial sin, not a mortal sin.”
“They did not rob a bank at gunpoint. Donald Trump is not Bernard Madoff. Yet, defendants are incapable of admitting the error of their ways,” wrote Engoron, a Democrat. He said their “complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological.”
There is no greater sin than insolence.
Did he just accuse the witnesses of perjury?
Back that shit up, you commie rat fucker.
From the dead thread:
The mob gets more respect from the justice system than Trump.
Well, the mob might actually do something about a kangaroo court.
Failed to accept responsibility for something that isn’t a crime and where nobody was harmed.
Moral preening.
The purpose of the verdict is two-fold: 1) to stroke the egos of the DA and Judge who fought the bad orange man to protect the citizen of New York; and 2) to bury the bad orange man under legal and financial burdens to stop him from becoming Prez again.
But I expect this has to go all the way to SCOTUS to be rectified.
The process is the punishment and even billionaires can be fucked by the system. No one is safe.
Here’s the problem, though:
Appeals courts don’t touch findings of fact made by the trial court except in the most extreme circumstances, and even then generally only when they can hang it off of a “due process” argument. Unless they overturn the verdict altogether in a way that nullifies the “trial”, those findings of fact will stand.
Thanks for the clarification.
Certain Swiss company has dealings with this and was most definite in it’s testimony that Drumpf was conservative in valuation….political decision (what idiots don’t realize is that, same as Delaware Chancery judge v Musk, this will harm their state waaaaaay more than letting one guy get a real just decision). Fuck ’em.
Yup. That read to me as “The defendant didn’t agree they were guilty and as such weren’t sorry for what I decided they did. Harumph. Harumph!”
And dammit… now I have to go watch Superman 2… COME TO ME, SON OF JOR-EL!
Failed to accept responsibility = didn’t plead guilty.
Defending yourself gets enhanced punishment, comrade.
That’s the way it works in criminal trials, so why not civil trials?
Appellate Court will quietly pare this down some.
Ron, you gonna be in town next week? May be a chance for lunch one of those days.
Sitting in Port Hueneme right now (just visited the Seabee museum). Already have to get up super early for my flight tomorrow – and I just found out public works is cutting off the power overnight…so I guess I’ll be finishing my packing by flashlight with no coffee…
I’ve been to Port Hueneme Beach many, many times. Silver Strand Beach nearby has a colony of sea lions.
Finally checked for comparison…yep…most of the guys I’ve been calling seals for years were actually sea lions. Yeah, a bunch of the loud buggers on the pier by some of the craft we were inspecting this week too.
It is pretty impressive watching them swim up to a 3 ft+ vertical wall and just jump straight up on it out of the water.
In La Jolla you can often see both seals and sea lions not far from each other. That’s how I learned to distinguish them.
I don’t have any plans for next week.
Let me know what day works for you.
Glibs who meet Glibs are the very best Glibs…
NewWife and I have never been disappointed
e’erbody come South when you can
We’ve met, so . . .
Concur.
I’m not going to link it, but…
Yesterday I broke down and watched a typically annoying Car Wizard video about an “unrepairable” early 2000s Bentley. Not unrepairable, actually, but he deems it to be not worth it. The motor is cooked, and the (active?) suspension is blown out. The body appears to be straight and solid.
Some enterprising person should buy it for scrap and Coyote swap it and put manual transmission and coilovers on it.
*cracks patriotic lite beer*
I reckon that could do with an LS1 swap.
James, who campaigned for office as a Trump critic and watchdog, started scrutinizing his business practices in March 2019 after his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen testified to Congress that Trump exaggerated his wealth on financial statements provided to Deutsche Bank while trying to obtain financing to buy the NFL’s Buffalo Bills.
James’ office previously sued Trump for misusing his own charitable foundation to further his political and business interests. Trump was ordered to pay $2 million to an array of charities as a fine and the charity, the Trump Foundation, was shut down.
But don’t call it a political vendetta. It’s just a selfless devotion to justice and democratic principles.
“campaigned for office as a Trump critic”
That’s understating it. I’m pretty sure she campaigned on “I’m gonna get Trump”.
That is the only thing she campaigned on, multiple times in front of a camera and with extreme assholery.
I reckon that could do with an LS1 swap.
Needs more cams and valves.
Fine a Dodge VX then.
Seems they can’t hang any criminal charges on Trump, but it looks like the strategy of lawsuits totaling $867 bajillion might work.
Yep, it will work.
And more importantly, it has a deterrent effect.
I’m getting tired of the Crazy Years. When do the Burning Times start?
*LIGHTS TORCH* Aye?
The vote buying continues apace.
who:
— Currently have outstanding federal student loan balances that exceed what they originally borrowed.
— Have loans that first entered repayment 20 or 25 years ago.
How the fuck can this be. You started paying two decades ago, and you now owe more than you borrowed. That’s a lifetime of bad decisions after graduation.
Those people are in a class by themselves at the top of the victim stack.
The thing is.. most of the people that this would benefit (over educated midwits) are already in the can for PPP, or whichever not OMB offering team blue runs.
Better be with The Beard. (Hat tip to Animal)
Obey the Beard
Casus belli
For Democrats and a minority of Republicans who are proponents of a muscular American presence in Europe within the NATO defense alliance, Navalny’s death served as yet another grim reminder of Putin’s brutality and the necessity of a US-led effort to isolate Moscow.
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Other top Biden administration officials wasted little time pinning blame on Navalny’s death directly on Putin, even as the Kremlin said it was working to determine the cause.
“Whatever story they tell, let us be clear Russia is responsible and we’ll have more to say on this later,” Vice President Kamala Harris said at the start of an address at the Munich Security Conference, where American support for Ukraine and to its NATO commitments has been a central and pressing topic of conversation.
A few moments earlier, Secretary of State Antony Blinken linked Navalny’s death directly to Russia’s president.
“His death in a Russian prison and the fixation and fear of one man only underscores the weakness and rot at the heart of the system that Putin has built,” the US top diplomat said at the start of a meeting with Indian officials on the sidelines of the Munich gathering.
Send in the troops.
Now do the J6 protestors, asswipes.
If anything, this shows how much they are alike. No support for J6 protestors, Assange, or Snowden.
I spit water here.
What really galls is they know they’re slinging shit, they know they’re war-mongers, and they’re fucking thrilled with it.
Funny thing is, me and my like are done serving…to whom shall they turn to fight? ADM Levine and the tranny brigade? Good luck, assholes.
Are they mourning their asset?
John O. Brennan
@JohnBrennan
Imagine prospects for world peace, prosperity, & security if Joe Biden were President of the United States & Alexei Navalny the President of Russia. We’ll soon be halfway there.
Sentient Easter Island Head speaks with forked tongue.
Fuck that Commie forever.
Just stocked up at The People’s Liquor Store
White Russian?
Painkiller?
Tennessee Honey and Pepsi?
Aviation?
Martini?
Strawberry Bailey’s and vodka?
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
White Russian, Aviation, Martini,
…
see you Zoom.
A select number of Republicans have sought to guard against the growing strain of isolationism within their party. On Friday, Trump’s sole remaining competitor for the Republican presidential nomination, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, assailed her opponent for saying he would encourage Russia to invade other nations.
“Think about what that says, that Trump’s siding with a thug who kills his political opponents. By the way, he killed another one this morning,” Haley said on a South Carolina radio show. “He’s siding with Putin, who continues to try and destroy America at every turn.”
For Biden and his top officials, the assault on international norms and institutions has generated both fury and concern. Biden was aghast at Trump’s remark when he learned about it last weekend and condemned it as “dumb” and “un-American” in a speech from the White House on Tuesday.
It’s 1916 all over again. I’m surprised they aren’t comparing Trump to Henry Ford.
It’s a good thing Biden never shoots his mouth off. Can you imagine the opprobrium from the MSM if he did?!
I love how wanting to stop a war and prevent thousands more young people from dying is “siding with Putin”.
Why do I dobt that is actually what he said?
I think it was something like, if other countries don’t pay their share for NATO, they’re on their own. Which is an invitation for Putin to invade apparently.
Pretty much. He was telling how he got the Euros to increase defense spending. He didn’t invite Russia to invade; Russian wasn’t even in the room. He was telling the Euros if they didn’t hold up their end of the deal, he saw no reason to hold up ours.
Yeah, even in 2005 I was tired of carrying the dead-assed Bundeswehr.
She’s a Raytheon funded warwhore, she’s going to interpret that just how they tell her how to interpret that.
They play this game every time Donald says something that can be faintly twisted in favor of them, which is of course often because Donald can’t help himself.
^THIS^
It’s a fair interpretations of what Trumps said. Of course anything Trump (or any pol) says can be parsed five ways from Sunday. He was making up one of his “A guy came up to me and said Sir” stories, this time about a world leader asking if the US would defend them if Russia invaded and they hadn’t paid their NATO tab, and he told them “No, I would not protect you,” Trump recalled telling that country’s leader. “In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You got to pay. You got to pay your bills.” So he would encourage them to do what they want and they apparently want to invade. Hyperbole fact-check – mostly True.
Thankfully, the nations that border RU or UKR have all upped defense, a lot past the line.
For some reason the Poles, Balts, Finns, Hungarians, Romanians, et al don’t really trust Russia. I wonder why?
It’s like you don’t get hyperbole Hyperbole.
Ah, were back to take what he says seriously not literally? Yes, I get that Trump’s a blowhard but that doesn’t mean one can’t criticize the stupid things he says just because he doesn’t “really mean” them. I didn’t “really mean” that that big Scooter Trash’s old lady was an ugly cunt, but that didn’t keep me from getting my ass kicked.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a reentry license to Varda Space’s manufacturing capsule, allowing the first batch of space drugs to return back to Earth.
TIL that there was such a thing as a re-entry license. Shouldn’t surprise me, but it did.
For its first mission, the 264-pound (120-kilogram) capsule succeeded in growing crystals of the drug ritonavir, which is used for the treatment of HIV, in orbit.
Fuck the regulatory state in its ass roughly and without lube. Like prison gang-rape assfuck.
Reentery seems like a thing that would happen with or without appropriate licensure.
The capsule will just say it’s claiming asylum and sign up for refugee status.
And get it’s court date 5000 orbits from now.
“What would you do on your last day on earth?”
Aw, hell. That’s easy.
This guy gets it.
When you’re chewing on life’s gristle, don’t grumble. Just whistle!
The hubris, it reeks.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/16/democrats-economy-inflation-column-00141816
“Higher wages, higher growth, higher productivity. Win-win-win.”
What are those people smoking?
Higher inflation, higher interest rates, stagnant wages. Lose-lose-lose.
They really do believe in the Big Lie. I don’t think most are buying it but what the hell do I know?
If you like your economy you can keep your economy.
WTF? The only people who have gotten raises outpacing inflation (that I know) are disloyal bastards like me who job jumped. My old company gave everyone a 3% raise – when inflation was charitably 6% – and acted surprised when a big chunk of their IT staff left.
They’re using the cooked official inflation rate. When you pretend inflation is 3%, it’s easy to say wages have outpaced it.
It is 3%, you just have to leave out food and energy.
I recall the Assoc Press story on January’s inflation said wages were up only 1.4 percent year over year.
Cultural Appropriation – Reparations Edition
It is well known that the Native Americans were the only humans who ever thought to fashion shoes out of animal hides.
So they’re still using an Indian design on their shoes. If the old Indian design was cultural appropriation, how is the new Indian design not cultural appropriation?
Oh, you can wash the stain of your white supremacy away by writing a check to an Indian? Well, that makes total sense. Never mind.
They really do believe in the Big Lie. I don’t think most are buying it but what the hell do I know?
There is some new survey out there in headline land saying two thirds of
Americansthe people surveyed say their wages are not keeping pace with inflation. Tinkerbell’s motor is sputtering.Hmmmm, $364,000,000 on a complete snow job where the “victimized” said themselves they aren’t victims. Our legal systems, civil and criminal, are straight up trash. If they can do this kind of thing to him just think what they can do to you. Just unbelievable shit.
From the FEE article:
Bill Kristol was more subtle.
“Perhaps we need a total and complete shutdown of Tucker Carlson re-entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on,” the neoconservative pundit stated.
Well I didn’t think I could think any less of that total piece of shit but then he goes deeper. One of the great things about Trump’s presidency was outing this guy from any meaningful place in the conservative movement. Hopefully he is continually pissed at his utter irrelevance.
Low rent William Buckley is a piece of trash and an amoral sack of shit but irrelevant he isn’t unfortunately. The Republicanish neocons still respect the hell out of him.
The neocons, along with Kristol, are heading back towards the party that they came from. They’re better suited to the Dems anyway. Kristol comes no where close to the reach and influence that Tucker commands. Not to argue that shitheel doesn’t still have the neocons ears, but it’s a much diminished voice.
So it seems now that some people are beyond the pale and no journalo should be allowed to interview them.
What is next?
Some people are so horrible that they shouldn’t even get a defense lawyer?
Inconceivable.
Yeah, Kristol has always been a D-bag, but he’s taken it to a new level lately
My politics are basically derived from the Costanza Opposite rule applied to Bill Kristol. If you want to know the correct position on literally every subject, the answer is, the opposite of Bill Kristol’s. It never fails.
If you’re interested in seeing his full ignorance on display, look up the SoHo forum debate with him vs Scott Horton. His “foreign policy expertise” was shown to be a complete fraud. He had no knowledge of the history or the players involved in the Middle East. No more than the average Glib at least. He is an unabashed, propaganda spewing weapons salesman for the MIC full stop.
I forgot about that. Yeah, Horton ate his lunch and sent him home to mommy.
Uffda. It seems like the DFL is actually pushing a decent bill for once.
I’m surprised that this is actually a thing. For as long as I’ve been working, I’ve been told that non-compete agreements are basically unenforceable in Minnesoda. The only way to stop an employee from working for a competitor – when there is a non-compete in place – is to keep paying the person. No idea how true it is.
I know a guy who got sued over violating his non compete – he “won”, but the process was the punishment.
I am one such guy myself.
PO’d Nick can rent an apartment here and look forward to being sent to the Principal’s Office
This First is exploding onto your face you like Vince McMahon on a Saturday night after taking his Miralax.
And every time your bitch burp you smell my balls in the air.