And in the same repair yard…😉
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Repair shop down the street has had one on their lot for 3 or 4 years now, now I know why…
edit Street view or it didn’t happen:
8·21 hours ago“3rd world pricing” only seems cheap to an outsider coming in. To a resident, a $5 pint is just as egregious as a $20 pint to us.
Take Noida for example:
Minimum wage for skilled employees is ₹16,868 per month.
That’s $175.58 US, or 246.46 Australian.
Jack Gilbert:
If you want some great “Lost” Dave Stevens stuff, pick up the 3 volume collection of the Star Wars newspaper strips.
It was ostensibly done by Russ Manning, which is just a joy to see on it’s own, but Stevens worked in Manning’s studio and ghosted some of the art for the strip.
99% of it is pure Manning, but every now and then… “Oh, yeah, totally Dave…” (it’s the eyes)
if you’re going to ask the question, the least you could do is link to a source…
Fascinating book. I found out about it when it popped up in a Folio Society catalog. I have spent ENTIRELY too much money with them, so I get mailers on a regular basis.
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/piranesi
And I’m like “That looks fascinating, but I don’t know if it’s $90 worth of fascinating…”
So I picked up a normal copy from Powell’s.
Basic premise is this:
You know the Allegory of the Cave?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
Piranesi is trapped is a philosophical construct like that, he’s been in it so long, he no longer has a concept of reality, only his existence here. He’s lived it, he’s mapped it, and as the book goes on he comes to understand and escape it.
It’s a really good read, but maybe a little abstract for a lot of people.
13·3 days agoThey were fun, the first time. But how many iterations does someone need of the same game?
People complain about the latest game in a series like Tomb Raider or Assassin’s Creed going “OMG, IT’S JUST THE SAME THING AGAIN!” It’s literally a joke with Madden or Call of Duty, but for some reason Nintendo gets a pass.
It’s cool if you’re a kid and Breath of the Wild is the first Zelda game you ever played… For anyone else? Unless you have on the nostalgia goggles, there are better things out there.
Reminds me of an Australian zombie flick called Undead from 2003:
5·4 days agoReported as “internal US news”, but the angle on the larger discussion of Iran merits it being here.
Vic and Blood man… I thought I was the only one who remembered that one!
Did you know that it was originally a short story by Harlan Ellison and a FILM in 1975 before Corben worked it into a comic?
The film is notable for starring an IMPOSSIBLY young Don Johnson (25 or 26 at the time of production).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog_(1975_film)
Trailer:
Dark Horse has been collecting all the Corben material as a series of REALLY NICE hardcover graphic novels, I hope they get a shot at Vic and Blood.
(Den volumes 1-5, Murky World, Dimwood, Rowlf, Rat God, and the forthcoming Last Voyage of Sindbad, Best of Fantagor)
https://www.darkhorse.com/search/richard+corben/
I’d also say, if you like that, check out the less serious film “Six String Samurai”.
Nintendo titles are, essentially, very good introductory video games. If you’ve played, well, pretty much any RPG, there’s no point playing Zelda or Pokemon. Same for fighting games and Smash Brothers or racing games and Mario Kart.
Everyone has to get started gaming somewhere, but beyond nostalgia? The rest of gaming has moved in from Nintendo.
Very good adaptation of the manga “Lone Wolf and Cub” by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima written and drawn between 1970 to 1976.
It was hugely influential, spawning a number of films, notably two of which were combined into a single US release titled “Shogun Assassin” in 1980.
It would also serve as the basis for the graphic novel “Road to Perdition” by Max Allan Collins in 1998, which was also itself turned into a very good movie in 2002.
Garlic heads:
Nintendo Switch, I should have known better. Nintendo consoles are great for kids who are new to playing games, not so much for people who have been gaming for generations.
4·5 days agoI actually did use ChatGPT, but I did specify to only replace the gemstones with pepperoni. 😉
Never. By the time average people get there it will be as prison space labor.