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While supplies might run out any time, AARP currently has $15 Barnes & Noble gift cards for $12, limit 5. So, if you max out you save the cost of an AARP membership. :) (I'm gonna be spending money there anyway, I've functionally been getting free AARP for six years now.)

One of the many crimes of the MCU is that Volstagg was understated and only slightly chubby. IIRC he didn't even get killed on-screen. He should've been the last standing against Hela, blustered, then run away as she laughed mockingly...only for him to somehow be instrumental in Thor's victory.

It tells you quite a bit about American "healthcare" that ambulance insurance is a separate thing from regular insurance, and that a $350/year premium for it is not a horrible investment.

When discussing AI with someone this afternoon, he shrugged and sighed, "Yeah, old man yells at cloud." To which I responded, "Old man yells at Claude."

If you check out Lesbia NM in Google Street View, there's a floofy white dog chasing the Googlemobile.

If the only place I ever hear something is "famous" is in an ad for that thing, I am going to be inclined to think the ad is lying.

Automatic alt-text generators are better than nothing, but sometimes only barely.

I know someone whose PhD work was on Tolkien and he loved all the Peter Jackson movies. So it's possible for a focused academic to enjoy a popular adaptation.

www.thefifth.world/2026/07/dave... - Nancy Drew Mysteries: The Secret of the Old Clock Ep 4, Infini-T Force vol 8, Hooky vol 1, UnOrdinary vol 1, Adventure Finders Newly Hired Adventurers, Orion, Spider-Man Mighty Mayhem, Fantastic Four #13, Justice League Dream Girls #1-4 (of 4)...

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Anyone else ever buy a book, not because you expect to ever get around to reading it, but because you support the idea of it and you want to help the publisher's sales figures?

Is there a use case for yellow dry erase markers aside from "ephemeral art project"?

"Revamped origin story, then wait for sales figures before greenlighting anything else," is probably the laziest way to deal with licensing a nostalgia IP. The main, if not only, audience doesn't need an origin story and your Modern Take may just alienate them anyway. Just start telling stories.

I really miss when comics intended from the start as limited series would SAY SO on the cover. "Is the next issue just delayed, or was there never going to be a next issue?" is a problem I have all too often with my handful of remaining floppies.