I habitually watch stuff with audio description turned on when it's available. I don't really need it apart from maybe following the action better when I'm distracted, but I've gotten really used to it. And lately I feel like one out of every 10 words in AD scripts is "gaze."
I think Kingdom Come is brilliant overall, but it's funny that it critiques edgy 90s superheroes while prominently featuring the Spectre, who regularly doled out deadly yet surreal punishments that would've made Stardust the Super Wizard proud.
https://outofthequicksand.blogspot.com/2012/01/top-13-spectre-punishments.html
Top 13 Spectre punishments:
When I read The Golden Age Spectre Archives a few months ago, I was surprised that one of the things it was lacking in was the kind of gr...
@admin Oh yeah, I've owned a couple of Enders, and the low price is pretty much their only virtue, especially by today's standards.
3D printing is an amazing technology and a fun hobby, but 3D printers are not nearly as reliable as more mainstream consumer tech has to be.
After some flailing, which involved doing manual bed leveling and finding *even more* bits of filament around the printer's mechanisms, my X1C was able to do bed leveling again. Then I had to take the AMS (filament-changing add-on) apart and remove some pieces of filament that were stuck. Tired now.
Xero's ability to copy superpowers extends to the abilities of godlike cosmic beings, though trying to copy those never goes well for him. That's probably why Mr. Xyzzy got annoyed at him.
I came up with a wonderfully dumb addition to the list of parallel universe versions of Xero:
"31. Cmxiv, a photocopier given life and superpowers by the cosmic trickster Mr. Xyzzy just to mess with Xero."
(CMXIV -> 914, as in the Xerox 914 photocopier.)
After that will be bits with the Masked Ranger (Lone Ranger), the Silver Spirit (the Shadow and other "mystery men"), and finally Stardust the Super Wizard (representing weird and oddly brutal Golden Age superheroes).
After the first Superman comic, Action Comics #1 has the first installment of "Chuck" Dawson, a kind of generic cowboy story. Since Chuck uses "jiu-jitsu" I had fun making my approximation of him use more authentic Japanese Jujutsu moves.
There are a few bits of the Xeroverse stories I'm writing in the present tense, and writing fiction in the past tense is a very difficult habit to break.
(Also thinking of that one time I changed a short story from first- to third-person, and it was way more annoying than you might think.)
