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I looked up "racist deleted scenes in Fantasia," and what I got was 23 seconds of what looked like a cross between a red pitchfork-carryin' cartoon devil and a blackface caricature. Honestly, that was less than I was expecting. I'm used to WB cartoons having Bugs Bunny dancing in black face and hugely racist WWII caricatures being a focal point of their cartoons.

How do you guys feel about kids' programming that has more nuanced messages regarding good vs. evil? I'm not sure if The Legend of Korra even counts as a "kid's show" at this point, but I'll spare you why I think that is and say it can still be enjoyed by families, if not the under-10s that may have difficulty getting into it. Anyway, that show's season 3 has villains that are trying to overthrow what are essentially corrupt dictators. While the show makes it clear that they are the bad guys, at least because of their methods if not necessarily their goals, it's not as clean a dichotomy between good and evil as many shows I grew up watching. The bad guys make some pretty fair points about why their goals are what they are. What age group do you think those kind of villains are appropriate for? Oh and season 3 ends on a bit of a somber or at least troubling note in many ways for the good guys as a result of battle scars. I bring up LoK specifically, but I think how much black&white or gray an approach kids' stories to good and evil is a fairly universal issue in media you guys could discuss in that ESRB podcast you mentioned.

I'm always surprised when I hear people say they had no idea The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe had religious overtones, but then I was reading the book in a second grade Catholic school that was also interested in teaching us about C.S. Lewis's conversion to Christianity, so there's that. I certainly have to admit I wasn't aware Tolkien's works were influenced by his experiences in WWI or WWII (I forget which) until I saw a History Channel documentary pointing that out. Or maybe that information is inaccurate, but the point is I can't say I've always been keen on allegory without a teacher straight up pointing out to me "the lion is Jesus." But I did have one doing this for TLTWatW, so that's why I tend to assume everyone notices the overtones.

I've had friends who worked at either DisneyWorld or Disneyland. A coworker of mine when I worked for SFA Residence Life was Tigger and his room let you know it. Another friend had a good experience waving kids around with light sticks for crowd control and working food sections I believe. Finally, a coworker I had higher up the chain than me at the company I worked at after getting my Bachelor's was none too pleased with her Disney experience. I want to say she was one of the actresses and she posted a Facebook status about how much more appreciated she felt at the job I had with her than she was at Disney. I actually got up to the phone interview after a job fair on campus my Freshman year, but decided against getting paid pretty much minimum wage and living in an apartment with several other people which would be sucking up most of your paycheck (at least later on through loans) from the sound of it. They were definitely selling it as an "experience" job and I had no interest at that time. 

Glad you had fun Angelo! I need to get to a Disney park at some point in my life. I saw a bread cone with bacon and cheese in it being offered at one of the parks and ... it doesn't sound like my thing. But I bet there's good food elsewise and I'm sure it's a great experience. Hopefully, I can save up one day.

LOL at the childless grown-ups rolling through Disney parks.

Thanks for the Past and Pending shoutout by the way! I need to see if avidjacram has done the planned one with Nicelob1989 yet. 

I want to say I watched Die Hard all the way through on my parents' DVR not too long ago, but I can't say for sure. I definitely watched most of it.

27 years later and I'm still avoiding Predator spoilers.

I'd have to get a look at Diablo III to see if I agree its designs could be more interesting, but that picture of a giant goat making a woman dance is effectively creepy. 

I'm having a hard enough time deciding if I want a PS4 or to get an XBox One for Sunset Overdrive or to wait and see if SO comes to PS4. IF I decide I can afford any of these things. But if Destiny is online-only even for single-player I would never personally buy it. 

I don't really buy bundles, but that's because I rarely see any I can afford when they come out or I've already bought the system by that time usually. 

As for HD upgrading, I haven't given it much thought, but if XBO is easier to upgrade memory-wise, that's another point for that system in my book.

Given that you're on the fence with Destiny and which system to buy, I'd say wait until you can feel 100% about the purchase. 

"TSA was still really nice, and I got to keep my shoes on, and laptop in the bag." I think that uber bitch was the universe's way of balancing you out with the rest of us Americans. lol My experience when I went to LA was that LAX TSA was nicer than DFW TSA. Then again, DFW TSA was morning TSA, so that's a pretty big factor to consider. 

Then again, sounds like delays were pretty bad for you. That's funny about the flight attendant giving no fucks.

I want all of that food and sceney. I never knew you were Hawaiian. So's my friend Kalei. Small world. 

That plane you posted pictures of looks fuuuuuuucked up. And are those propellors that are staying stationary in the sky? lol

I didn't think so. Calling slash attacks "felchinng" would be immature. 

Does any Pokemon game let you name your attacks? 

How did DeDeDe get to be king?

Speaking of East Texas, which is where I'm getting my Master's and you didn't even say hi (Death stare, Julian. Death stare), have you seen the movie Bernie? 

I liked Man of Steel ok. The action was good, but ... y'know I'm not starting this again. 

I've had a couple girl friends tell me Aquaman is awesome in the comics. I have only known the stigma against him too, but I want to like him, cause he seems so hated by the general public, yet so loved by people who actually read his comics. 

As for Robin Williams, I actually don't like the clips they show of his early days, but I did really like his Broadway stand-up, which is pretty dated now. But when you say you "grew out" of him, I assume you mean his comedy? Cause I still find his dramatic roles top notch. I watched a dark comedy he did called World's Greatest Dad on Netflix the day he died and ... let's just say the theme and main event of that movie were both the best and worst thing I could have watched in a way. It was interesting how the interviews he did for that one were all about how we mythologize people when they die ... Another movie he did that becomes both highly and not-so-highly appropriate due to how we went is What Dreams May Come. Beautiful movie. I have Good Morning Vietnam cued up in Netflix. I'd say it's his most talked about role, but I've never seen it. As for Genie, I still think of Robin Williams as that character, because I never really heard much of the Homer Simpson actor doing the voice after the original movie. Apparently, Williams hated that Disney made Genie into a marketable toy thing against his wishes. He had somewhat of a verbal contract with them, but since nothing was written down, his relationship with Disney was ugly for a while. 

Speaking of which, I'll come back for Angelo's Disney Adventure.