Tweet of the Day, I Fail To See How An Animaniacs Reboot Can End Badly edition.

Because this sort of thing ALWAYS works out in the end.

https://twitter.com/JimmieWrites/status/869639957727543299

Maybe if they bring back the actors, the animators, the artists, the writers, and the entire production crew? And rewind the culture so that it’ll all make sense?  And… OK, that last bit I was about to write probably qualified as libel.

The ‘Catwoman’ Honest Trailer.

They didn’t exactly resent having to make this, I think. But I think that Honest Trailers resents that Catwoman actually exists, and cannot be retconned out of physical existence like it would have been in the art genre that technically spawned this abomination before the Lord.  And I can’t say that I blame them, either.

Although those clips of Sharon Stone suggested that they might have been able to get a decent movie out it. Somehow.  It’d probably have to involve a tragic warehouse fire, or something.

The ‘Batman & Harley Quinn’ trailer.

It’s not a very imaginative name, is it?  ‘Batman & Harley Quinn’ sounds like a working title that they chose for the filing while somebody came up with a new, better one; only that person was let go, or something, and by the time somebody noticed it was too late to come up with anything else.

…That’s my guess, at least.

This one is gonna be direct to digital on August 15th.

Moe Lane

PS: There should be all sorts of entertaining subtext, given that Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy are dating in the comics now (and maybe in the upcoming standalone Harley Quinn movie). What’s that?  Oh, yeah, Suicide Squad ended up making almost seven hundred and fifty million bucks globally.  That’s enough for sorta-kinda sequels.

There’s now a literal artistic pissing contest going on at Bowling Green.

A highly entertaining pissing contest.

City sculptor Alex Gardega — seething over the “Fearless Girl” statue being placed across from Wall Street’s “Charging Bull” — has decided to retaliate with a work of his own.

Gardega created a statue of a small dog, titled “Pissing Pug,” and his sloppily crafted pooch takes direct aim at “Fearless Girl” — or, at least, at her left leg.

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Cow Ninja [GURPS 4e].

Blame this.

Cow Ninja – Google Docs

Cow Ninja

Stats: use the Oxen stats from pg 460 of GURPS Basic Set: Campaigns, but increase DX and IQ to 10, and add Intolerance [Humans], Acting-12, Brawling-14, and Stealth-12.

 

Actually, by laughing at this you are demonstrating that you fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the ninja.  The black pajamas thing is historically inaccurate; ninja were portrayed that way because the bunraku (puppet theater) tradition associated dark clothing with invisibility in Japanese culture.  In reality, ninja dressed in a way that was inconspicuous.  Or, in the case of cow ninja, in a way that deflected suspicion.

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Item Seed: Pinball Wizard.

Pinball Wizard – Google Docs

Pinball Wizard

 

Despite the name, this isn’t wizardry. It’s just good, honest 24th Century social science, being forced to use primitive 20th Century technology (specifically, seven heavily modified pinball machines).  At least, that was what the guy said when the agents burst into his lair; there was also a lot of bluster and sneers about “ignorant fools” and “Cower! Cower before the might of the Chan the Unstoppa…” It was about then that the guy’s integral temporal field finally overloaded from the strain of accumulated paradox, and sent him wherever people go when they get booted out of the timestream.  Don’t feel too bad about old Chan, though; the 24th Century seems to be mostly populated by megalomaniacal jerks, judging by how many of them keep showing up here.

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