Wulfsbane

According to The Verge, Epic has lost 60+% of it's player base after Apple removed it from the iOS store and wants a judge to force Apple to reinstate Epic in fears of them not being able to recover from this.

Well Epic, maybe, and I'm not a legal expert of anything, maybe you shouldn't have violated the TOS multiple times?

In Back to the Future Part 3, Marty emerges from the bathroom after putting on his cowboy outfit saying "Clint Eastwood wouldn't wear this." Doc runs up to Marty asking "Clint who?" Marty then proceeded to tap the poster of Revenge of the Creature and responding "That's right; you haven't heard of him yet." Revenge of the Creature was Clint Eastwood's first film, although he's uncredited, and it came out in May 1955

Here's a thread about little details and interesting behind the scenes stuff from films. Whether it's from an old movie or one currently in development.

Here's the first one: In Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, early on the film when Peter Parker needs cash to buy a car to impress Mary-Jane he enters what essentially is a back-alley wrestling event. The main guy (Bonesaw McGraw) is beating up a local, unnamed guy. Bonesaw McGraw is played by the legendary Macho Man Randy Savage. In the scene we see him preform his legendary elbow drop from the top rope. Despite going to upstart Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in 2004, this is the last (known) elbow drop Macho Man had ever preformed.

GaMetal has some really good ones.

Vaguely familiar

9 hours ago, MoKat said:

And sometimes finding one even in L is a challenge.

Hot Topic's website seems to have some variety in that department though - $20 & above for a t-shirt is pricey, but they seem to be currently running an online special. None feature Knuckles tho'  The only Knuckles merch I saw there was the phone holder (which is kinda cute ^.^)

But that requires going to Hot Topic.

RedBubble is usually a good one to get stuff from. Pop-Up Tee used to have a few unique ones but right now they don't have anything Sonic.

Wow this update is... something.

The darker theme is an improvement.

Gah, I almost have to relearn how to do stuff on here.

Not gonna lie, I actually like the smaller icon.

10 hours ago, MoKat said:

Should my Character Generators thread be merged into "Cool RPG tools, widgets, and decorum"?

I feel like that should stay separate as that can be used in other instances

Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. Reportedly, this was J. R. R. Tolkien's inspiration for the valley of Rivendell

Angeldia seems to have deleted her skype (or removed me) and I havent had the chance to email Tanner yet.

More Norway

I would love a newer Pokemon Stadium... though I guess Showdown is the same thing.

How about the original Medal of Honor games, like Frontline and Rising Sun?

Nærøyfjorden in Norway. Looks like an oil painting, no?

Pixar announced a new film called Luca, set in the Italian Rivera.

This one seems to be rather different from other Pixar films. At least right now

Re-read Brave New World for the first time in 8 years, yeah it's still weird and messed up

Also started reading Journey to the West. Want a good summary of the first 8 chapters:

I honestly don't like how going forward they're forgetting/forgiving that this was mostly Sonic's fault and there's going to be little to no consequences for him.

So, how would you do the arc after Zombots

I kinda hate the theory that Dale knew all along about Nancy/John/Joseph, but he's just playing along with it. It goes against a core principle of his character: He's a conspiracy theorist who trusts no one, but he has such a blind devotion/trust in his wife that he doesn't realize the biggest conspiracy is right underneath him the entire time.

Also I don't fully believe the skydiving accident caused Peggy to be more of a narcissist. If you watch the episodes before then it was always there, just not as a main focus outside of a few episodes

So in 2008, President Stuart Snyder rebranded Cartoon Network as CN and aired live action programming to counter popular Disney series such as Wizards of Waverly Place/Hannah Montana and Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh and iCarly,  a decision costed them dearly. How?

They lost Maxwell Atoms, who was creating a Grim Adventures spin-off called Underfist, which would have followed a team consisting of Hoss Delgado, Irwin, General Skarr, Jeff the Spider, and Fred Fredburger fighting evil coming from the Underworld and other dimensions.

They lost Craig McCracken, who was with Cartoon Network since the mid 90s, creating iconic shows such as the original Powerpuff Girls (for the record, he hates the reboot and it was done without his permission) and Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends. Reportedly he was going to help with the show Chowder and a possible Fosters spin-off was in the works

And they lost Mr. Warburton, famous for creating Codename: Kids Next Door. Warburton wanted one more season of KND before making the spin-off Galactic Kids Next Door but the network cut short Warburton's plans, which is why the Splinter Cell arc never got a real conclusion, and caused him to leave the company.

One decision costed the network three of their popular creators and set the network back several years, possibly leading to the afformentioned Powerpuff Girls rebbot as well as the hated reboot Teen Titans GO! Cartoon Network did get lucky by getting Adventure Time though.

Still one of the best moments of the show.... while also showing how Peggy is a terrible character

So I found out a little while ago looking at a thread about it on twitter from Tyson Hesse that

Also I am slightly disappointed the Blu-Ray didn't have an "original design" cut because I wanted to see how the film would have been if the execs kept the original design in.

I was hoping someone was going to ask me why I thought Peggy Hill is a terrible character but I'll list the reasons anyways

• She thinks highly of herself and expects everyone to think of her as the same way. One of the biggest examples of this was when the episode where she thought the star of the Mexican crime drama wanted an affair with her because she believed herself as irritable, in reality it was a cultural misunderstanding. Another time was when she believed she was better looking than most of the women and thought she could win the Arlen beauty contest by herself and asked Hank about it, Hank responded by saying "That's a loaded question."
• She believes that she can speak fluent Spanish, but her actual knowledge of the language is probably average at best. Her own inflated ego makes her believe she is better at speaking it than native Mexicans, which has caused problems. In the episode "Lupe's Revenge," her lack of skill caused her to  not only lead the trip to a small village instead of the actual destination, but she mistakenly brought a young Mexican girl back to Texas, confusing her saying "Yo vivo en México", which means "I live in Mexico" in Spanish, with "Viva México", which means "Long live Mexico". After returning the girl home, she was arrested for kidnapping (believing that she was going to get an award for returning her). In court, she claimed she would be able to prove her innocents by speaking in Spanish against the advice of her appointed lawyer, which ironically she did but not in the way she thought she did. She thought she made this speech about how she made a mistake and did no wrong but the subtitles indicated she made this rambling mess of a speech. When the judge said not guilty, she screamed "I'm going to jail!" which caused her lawyer to roll her eyes and say the opposite.
• On the subject of her "Substitute Teacher of the Year" award, In an episode; she outright stated that the first two times she won the award as she made the award up herself in a way to draw up more work for her in the school, though it was hinted heavily that it was done to boost her ego. When they finally made an actual award, Hank (who was the substitute shop teacher because Buck Strickland made him take two weeks off) was going to easily win the award because how much the students actually liked Hank as the shop teacher. After Hank was kicked out for having the kids bring their own shop tools, Peggy changed her name on the ballot so it read "Mr. Peggy Hill" to get the votes Hank would have gotten and therefore win the award. When Peggy "won" Hank walked on stage to thunderous applause but when Peggy began a speech acting like it was hers, the students went dead silent.
• She often states well-known facts and claims them as her original thoughts, like suggesting that "the day after Thanksgiving is, in my opinion, the biggest shopping day of the year." Or the day before Thanksgiving is one of the busiest traveling days of the year. In line with this, she uses "As I like to say/call it," alongside common expressions in order for her to mention something on her behalf.
• She occasionally makes claims that seem to have no basis in reality at all. One time she thought a guy was an alcoholic because he didn't have an organ donor symbol on his license. She even thought Minh was in a bad relationship because of some of her hobbies.
• Peggy prides herself as a great cook, although others consider her cooking to be average at best. In the Randy Travis episode, she made "Spapeggy and Meatballs," and when someone asked Hank what she does differently, Hank responds with "I don't think she changes much, if anything really." Peggy becomes very defensive when others challenge her cooking abilities, having been in cooking rivalries with Minh (after Minh improved upon her Apple Brown Betty recipe by just adding nutmeg to the dish) and her son Bobby. In one episode, when Hank began to prefer Bobby's cooking over her own as he was learning in Home Ecc, Peggy showed that she was not above sabotaging even her own son to restore her ego, as she literally stole the Thanksgiving turkey from the home and tried bringing it to her hairstylist who she thought was alone on the day (he was with his wife and newborn).
• She's not afraid to use others to gain what she wants. When she got sucked into an MLM, she swindled Bill by using Bill's admiration of her to generate more sales and only saw the error of her way when she had a moral crisis at the end when, one of the rare times this happens, Bill stood up for himself.
• She claims to be intelligent but usually becomes the most gullible person on the show. She's been tricked into believing a death row inmate was a former student, but he was only 4 years younger than her. Peggy believed she was a genius after taking an online genius test and passing it, then spending thousands of dollars on a phony master degree. Hank, almost immediately, saw through it and told Peggy about it and even had Luanne take the test to prove it was a scam. She was also easily indoctrinated into a cult after talking with the lead for less than 5 minutes.
• She rarely recognizes when she is wrong or ignorant and will often become bitter or stubborn and refuse to admit it until the last minute.
• One episode, she outright says "God told me no, but I knew better."
• She almost caused Enrique to lose her house after she got a bunch of hipsters to move into his neighborhood, skyrocketting prices.
• She sabotaged Lucky's GED lessons because she believed Luanne was too good for him, ignoring that Lucky was actually a good man and Luanne was happy with him

Peggy really is a great yet terrible character at the same time. She does lover her family and does have some redeeming qualities. Though I always question what Hank saw in her as it seems more often than not he's upset with her and even annoyed by her, more so in later seasons