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[Büge]

What bothers me is that these people have legions of fans who will mindlessly parrot anything they say (or god forbid, make it an entry on TVtropes) and take it as gospel. They'll inflate the reviewer's ego until either it pops (witness what happened to Angry Joe on the Video Game Awards) or it just runs unchecked (Spoony, who is notorious for treating his fans like garbage and silencing dissent).

I like Plinkett and sfdebris because they avoid horrible sketch comedy and stale injokes. And also what teg said.

[Thad]

It bugs me when people describe WINE as "a Windows emulator".

Yes, the difference between an emulator and a compatibility layer is fairly technical, they both have the same basic purpose, and "emulator" is half as many syllables.

But for fuck's sake the thing is called Wine Is Not an Emulator.

[Royal☭]

In that case shouldn't it be WINAE?

[Royal☭]

I like Plinkett and sfdebris because they avoid horrible sketch comedy and stale injokes. And also what teg said.

Plinkett is good because I think the guy doing the voice is not the one writing it, and it's really just gags couched around honest-to-goodness film critique.  The man clearly has knowledge of the medium and is willing to acknowledge things he likes.  He's also fairly consistent from review to review, judging each film on similar criteria.  I like Plinkett.

[Thad]

In that case shouldn't it be WINAE?

ARTICLES ARE OPTIONAL

[Royal☭]

Psh, whatever.  You're clearly just racist against "an".

[Thad]

Actually I think recursive acronyms are stupid too.  But the point is, the goddamn thing says right in the name that it's not an emulator and there's really no excuse for anyone saying that it is.

[Rico]

Not having put any effort into it but knowing roughly what it did, I had just always assumed that WINE was WINdows Emulator or something like that. I do realize, though, that this was pretty stupid of me, given how clever people think they are for coming up with stupid shit like GNU's Not Unix.

[Saturn]

people that Confuse "Canon" with "Cannon"

[A²]

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cannon

[teg]

Not having put any effort into it but knowing roughly what it did, I had just always assumed that WINE was WINdows Emulator or something like that.

The funny thing is that that's exactly what it used to stand for.

[Thad]

Yeah, but that was 13 years ago.

PINE was originally Pine Is Nolonger Elm, but became the much-less-stupid Program for Internet News and Email.

(Or not.  Wikipedia says it was never "Nolonger Elm".)

[Thad]

Hey Vertigo.

When I finish reading a comic book, I put it in a box.

Upright, with a bunch of other comic books.

Right-side up.

In numerical order.

And because I don't have the top two inches of every single cover memorized, when I'm trying to find a specific comic I look for its issue number.

So you know what would be really fucking great?

If you PUT THE ISSUE NUMBER AT THE TOP OF THE FUCKING COVER LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE (INCLUDING YOUR PARENT COMPANY), INSTEAD OF THE BOTTOM, YOU ASSHOLES.




(still better than the old TMNT comics that put their issue numbers on the fucking BACK.)

[Royal☭]

Oh, geez, tell me about it.  That's basically my job all day, which is to order, sort, file and pull comic books out of long boxes.  A whole warehouse full of them.  And over the years, various companies have gotten creative with how they number their comics.  Vertigo is pretty bad, with most series being numbered at the bottom, and a few, like Fables, being numbered where I have to hunt on the cover to find it.

There have been other things, such as Marvel used to only put the number inside the barcode in the bottom corner, or had a tiny font with a color that blended into the background for the issue number.  I can also bitch about variant covers in general, but Marvel occasionally likes to pull "Variant cover is same as original cover but with subtle change", which makes my job harder.

And seriously fuck Richie Rich.

[Classic]

Did you eventually invest in dividers to place between every 5-10 issues?

[Thad]

Marvel used to only put the number inside the barcode in the bottom corner

Fortunately I sorted all my 1990's X-Men a couple of years ago and no longer have to look at or think about them (and it's not like I would actually take them out to reread them or anything).  But yes, I am very much aware of this.

Original series TMNT is still the worst.  Have to take the comic out of the fucking bag to find the number.  Often it's quicker just to punch up ninjaturtles.com and find the cover.

Did you eventually invest in dividers to place between every 5-10 issues?

I have dividers.  Someday I intend to start using them.  Every 5-10 issues seems a bit much; I'd probably use them to divide by series.

[Classic]

I'd probably use them to divide by series.

Sorry, I thought you were already doing that. My maybe-weak-OCD self couldn't imagine someone sorting something in a box and not at least having some sort of division between series.

It's probably the sort of thing to save for a day when you're not sure what you want to read, because the exercise basically demands going through your catalog.

[Thad]

Well, I mean, they're sorted by series inasmuch as I have 30 boxes, alphabetical by series.

But the box that has Green Arrow and Green Lantern in it (and Green Lantern Corps/Sinestro Corps/Blackest Night/whatever other spinoffs) doesn't have internal series dividers.

[Büge]

So where do you put "Green Lantern co-starring Green Arrow"?

[Niku]

Under Green Lantern.  Now if it was Green Arrow co-starring Green Lantern ..