I appreciated that after several Street Fighter games in which Sagat was significantly more difficult than actual final boss M. Bison, they finally made M. Bison truly challenging in Street Fighter Alpha 3.

Similar experience, though I think my mom was just white-knuckling her way through being a single mom with two kids, so she didn’t have a lot left over to pursue her passions and share that with us. That, and her father was a monster, so my grandmother was doing her own white-knuckle process a generation prior. I’m trying to make myself more emotionally available to my kid, because I’d like to reduce the generational trauma, but it’s going to make for an interesting conversation someday.

The beer they get from Deschutes brewery and mark as Kirkland “Lager” is actually quite good.

I was out at the hardware store a while back and Christmas lights were on steep discount, and there were ten spools of lights at 90% off, and so I bought all ten of them, and that was the start of a Christmas light hobby that is verging on Clark Griswold levels of light density, and I’m feeling real good about that process.

I recall a shaggy dog version of this that ends…

I think it’s hilarious that we keep reinventing wine coolers every so often. Wine coolers, Zima, Smirnoff Ice, hard lemonade, twisted tea, hard seltzer… it’s all just neutral alcohol mixed with fruit juices and sugar, but we’ve got to keep coming up with fun new labels for it every ten to fifteen years so as to market it to the current hip young demographic.

I didn’t know this had a sequel!

I support trans people, but if one of them cut my legs off with an axe, I’d probably be a little bit upset.

I’ve said that if I went out and they were guillotining billionaires I would say “Hey, I wanted to do this with progressive taxation, single-payer healthcare, and free daycare, but you just wouldn’t compromise, so here we are!”

Forbid Supreme Court justices from ever owning anything ever again after they become justices. Establish a community for Supreme Court justices that has nice houses, amenities, everything that they could reasonably want, and then require that they and their immediate families live in the Supreme Court compound. Anyone found violating this oath is stripped of all benefits and exiled to Scottsdale Arizona to live out the remainder of their miserable lives.

Perhaps it was a plaster cast replica of the real fossil itself.

Unexplained Ferrous Objects

I mean, I grant that there’s a pretty steep degradation from the first to the fourth, but are you annoyed by the implication that Superman could crush coal into diamond?

Word Crimes, by Weird Al Yankovic

Go squish some coal into diamonds.

It’s consistently interesting to me the way that AI image generators seem to grasp the basic concept of regular repeating patterns, but inevitably get bored and start going all wibbly wobbly. The keyboard and the striped shirt are great examples; it can tell that there should be regular, parallel groups of lines, but it quickly devolves into a dementia patient trying to draw a chess board.