They banned Slaughterhouse Five. Just a little information on Kurt Vonnegut’s experience in World War II that eventually inspired him to write the book:

He was sent as a POW to Dresden. On February 13, 1945, British and American bombers destroyed the city by dropping high explosives followed by incendiary bombs. The resulting firestorm turned the non-militarized city into an inferno that killed up to 60,000 civilians. Vonnegut and his fellow POWs survived by accident only because they were housed some 60 feet underground in a former meat locker and slaughterhouse. Vonnegut’s job for weeks after the bombing was to gather up and burn the remains of the dead. His experience at Dresden marked him for life and eventually resulted in his literary masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five.

The Florida Department of Education banning one of the most important American novels of all time, that was written by a WWII veteran, from American schools, is the kind of dark humor commentary that you’d find in a Vonnegut book.

It’s a big win overall, but some of the scumbags still got something out of it:

Even though scalpers are taking a loss on the Pro, those who banked on people flocking to buy the PS5 disc drive are turning a profit. The Pro is digital only which means you’ll need to buy a disc drive if you want to use it to play physical media. It took a while, but the disc drive appears to be sold out everywhere which means people are buying them for inflated prices through resale sites.

Not the worst thing but still annoying, like whatever the opposite of a silver lining is.

A portable SSD. I need a new external hard drive anyway, so adding that November sales have reduced prices currently and that announced tariffs are designed to raise them very soon, there really is no better logical time for me to get one other than now.

Dang I originally just saw the “9 Episodes” count for the season and thought they were all out and more were on the way, not realizing that only three episodes are released at a time with the next parts just being the other six episodes. Netflix has been big on the “one season split into multiple parts released at different times” that I thought there was going to be Season 2 Part 2, not even realizing it’s just a weekly release schedule with three episodes per week. Turns out I’m not watching this as slowly as I thought I was haha.

I spent a few too many seconds thinking that famous actor Matt Dillon is a linux enthusiast before I realized that Matt Dillon the software engineer was who is being mentioned here.

I’m taking it slow this time and have only seen the first two episodes of Season 2. So far it’s really doing it for me and reminding me why Season 1 was such a spectacle to see. I actually thought the “music video” parts worked pretty well, mainly because instrumental music seems to drive most of the action to where these felt “earned” but I’ve only seen those first two episodes so that could end up wearing thin for me too by the fourth time it happens.

At the risk of discussing too much before I get through the rest of the episodes, did you feel the writing just got messy in general or does it seem like they were stretching stuff out in order to split the season up into multiple parts to delay the conclusion?

You are thinking of the right word but a missing letter in the spelling of the word creates an innocent, humorous translation error. Drumstick is what these are typically called, like sticks used to play drums in music. Dumbstick instead invokes the comparison of a stupid, dumb stick, which is fun to think about.

The Guardian in the back has that look on her face like she just lost a bet that you wouldn’t return until 20 years passed.

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Saving this to read after I get the game and finish it!

I’m just realizing at least some of these art shares are connected and I gotta say I’m enjoying this series. Even without knowing the story it’s extremely compelling!

Sailor Doom

YES!!! I really wanted a “Let’s rock!” gif but the only thing really visible at that moment is right after when Drake yells “yeeaahhh!!!” and the automatic gunfire goes off for about one second before cutting away. It could still work but not as gif-friendly as I’d hoped.

Hudson’s last stand is probably the superior choice. He’s super visible from this part here when yelling: “Come on! Come on, you bastard! Come on, you too! Oh, you want some of this?! Fuck you!” This gif would have great use!

Edit: Fixed video clip link

It’s very possible my sheer lack of knowledge of the unix surrealism world means this has already been clearly debunked or blatantly confirmed, but I have it in my head that:

• With some of the older techno-mage masters, such as the last fish, freedom is in their digital DNA. They spread freedom and unshackle others from their digital handcuffs as intended when they were created. The girl, however, is not necessarily created with this inherent will of freedom, but rather gains this will on her own after following the call from the elder to start her mission.

I just watched this last week, OP this is 100% what you’re thinking of. The guy that directed this episode also directed Mandy with Nicolas Cage and Beyond the Black Rainbow.

My best guess is the Tales to Tremble By scary story collections:

Each story had some creepy art by Gordon Laite:

A lot of this fits with your descriptions from the best of my recollection.

Edit: Removed paragraph about potential third scary story series containing spider egg story, just realized that one was from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 3, so Tales to Tremble By and its sequel is my only guess here.

“Yo dawg, I heard you like toast, so we put toast in your toast so you can eat toast as a sandwich.” -Xzibit

If smoking increases the chances of lung cancer, would doing these regularly increase the chances of colon cancer?

Ah fond memories of crouching in the suit with the pip light on.

“We’re all lit up. Is it Christmas?”

I think the most memorable is probably The Wolf of Wall Street but it was nowhere near as awkward as it could have been. My sister and her husband wanted to see a movie with the family in theaters. Luckily the uproarious constant laughter from the packed theater was far more manageable than the awkward silence that would have happened with an at-home watch.

What really got me was that a whole group of my friends had planned on seeing it the week before, but one very difficult guy insisted that he would not go see a “boring movie about financial crime” and made such a huge fuss that we finally agreed to see American Hustle instead, which was a very tame movie “about financial crime” funny enough.

After, that guy said he was bored for the entire movie (despite the fact that American Hustle was actually pretty good). If it wasn’t for the fact that The Wolf of Wall Street is exactly the kind of movie you want to see with your friends and not your parents, and that American Hustle would have been a perfect movie to see with the family, I’m not sure it would stick out in my mind so much.