Matt Garber

I still don’t get it.

Fucking EDGAR. Get outta here, pissboy.

(Toady One) Today was pulping oriented -- there were several problems with how the nerve network was being updated, and there wasn't enough bleeding. There are still some odd situations where the bone around the spinal tissue can be broken without impairing movement, but at least that won't be obscured behind a (false) pulping message now. I also allowed deletion of all the uniforms in the military screen.

1 in 3ish.

This is a special horror finale that was written by My Sister when she was a damn kid! Mother found the story and sent it to me and I stole it from Bonnie, so eat it, sis!! No more horror ever, horror is over. Go back to jokes, idiot!!!

Light bars.

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Note that Doctor Strange is unleashing Bolts of Bedevilment on his bass. It’s hard to describe, but it makes for a kind of a James Jamerson-meets-Jaco Pastorius effect.

UPDATE: Oh, egg on my face. As others have pointed out, Doc Strange is holding a six-string. Always check the axe. Always.

This should be the credits scene in Avengers 3. 

How do you translate that?

Nothing lasts forever, not even a $100 Never Ending Pasta Pass from Olive Garden. But that price will buy you all the pasta, salad, bread and soda you can stuff in your gullet for seven weeks from the chain eatery with its new gimmick.

Despite the name, the never endingness of the deal is limited to seven weeks for whoever holds it.

And there’s another really super big catch, besides the one that promises pasta forever — only 1,000 of the pasta passes will be sold, reports USA Today, starting today at 3 p.m. ET on the Olive Garden web site. The passes are a piggyback PR stunt that goes along with Olive Garden’s Never Ending Pasta Bowl event this month.

“What we’re trying to do is get some attention,” says Jay Spenchian, executive vice president of marketing. “It’s sure to provoke a reaction.”

If you’re dreaming of bringing all your friends out to eat on the pass, you might get a stern glance or two but no one’s going to smack that fork out of your buddy’s hand.

“Of course, if someone shares we do understand — we’re not policing the tables,” Spenchian explains, and doggie bags are fine as well.

Olive Garden: $100 for 7 weeks of pasta [USA Today]

This will make you think.

We learned something this week, and it’s that people like taking photos of their off-menu Arby’s Meat Mountains and sending them to us. In the spirit of convenience, we figured we’d put’em all in one place. You know, before this Meat Mountain thing blows over, or erupts or whatever it is mountains do when you’re sick of hearing about them and how much meat they have.

The more Meat Mountains we see, the more we’ve come to appreciate their differences. Each one is like a meat snowflake, unique in its posture, the texture of its bun, and the way the layers of meat are piled just so. These sandwiches seem to be falling into one of three categories, or Meat Mountain Ranges, if you will.

And I will:

THE “PRETTY ONE”

If you get this sandwich, workers at your Arby’s are excited about the new gimmick and aren’t tired of making it yet. Yet.

For example, here’s Consumerist reader Geoff’s experience getting that sandwich above that appears ready for its closeup. Geoff has probably the prettiest Meat Mountain we’ve seen thus far, maybe because by now, this whole Meat Mountain thing is catching on and getting workers excited to make it, too.

“They all crowded around and chuckled while it got made, and when they handed it to me, the shift manager said, still grinning, ‘If you’re gonna have a heart attack, don’t do it here, OK?’ ” writes Geoff.

You can see the love it was made with in its presentation — evenly placed, alternating meat layers, thoughtfully placed cheese and a sturdy bun that can contain its insides, at least until the first bite. That’s The Pretty One.

Another example, as photographed by Consumerist reader Michael:

THE “JUST EAT ME ALREADY”

Mostly self-explanatory. Matthew’s sandwich and its brethren barely realize they are not simply piles of meat, but are also supposed to serve as a single sandwich entity. These pieces of meat are trying to escape, after being unceremoniously dumped on the sacrificial bun. That’s why it’s blurry, the meat is trying to get away.

THE ONE YOU ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF EATING RIGHT NOW

Something about these sandwiches has made you stop and reflect on what happens to a sandwich while it’s being eaten, and to take a photo of that moment, capturing each and every layer as evidence of your conquest.The result? A challenge. Because you have to finish what you started.

 

THE “WE DIDN’T KNOW WHAT WE WERE DOING YET”

It seems like only a few days ago that we first heard of the Meat Mountain, because it was. And on that day, our earliest submissions from Joe and Derek just show that Arby’s workers were as surprised by the sandwich as everyone else was.

“They had to call someone to find how how to ring it up and get a print out of how to make it after showing them the Consumerist article,” wrote Derek.

Leaning towers of meat with haphazardly placed layers and a bun that can’t possibly stand up to all those ingredients is a sure sign that you’re dealing with an inexperienced Meat Mountain maker. It all ends up in your stomach though anyway, right?

Like my Uncle Kevin used to say, “if you build it, they will come.” And if you build a mountain out of meat and show people pictures of it, some people are probably going to want to eat it. Hence, the birth of Arby’s new off-menu Meat Mountain offering.

Arby’s wanted to make sure everyone knew it didn’t only sell those roast beef sandwiches slathered in cheese, so it made a poster showcasing a stacked tower of all the other meats on the menu, reports the Washington Pots.

Once they built it, the calls started to come.

“People started coming in and asking, ‘Can I have that?’” Christopher Fuller, the company’s vice president of brand and corporate communications told the Post.

The answer is now yes; yes, you can have a $10 pile of meat between two buns, but you’ll have to know to ask for it as it won’t be on the menu.

That mound includes: 2 chicken tenders; 1.5 oz. of roast turkey; 1.5 oz. of ham; 1 slice of Swiss cheese; 1.5 oz. of corned beef; 1.5 oz. brisket; 1.5 oz. of Angus steak; 1 slice of cheddar cheese; 1.5 oz. roast beef and 3 half-strips of bacon.

If any of you strong-hearted readers decides to take on the Meat Mountain, please feel free to send pics to tips@consumerist.com, post them on our Facebook page or tweet them to us at @consumerist on Twitter.

The $10 “Meat Mountain” from Arby’s: It’s exactly what it sounds like. [Washington Post]

A new Pew Research poll finds that the public overall is divided over whether Michael Brown's shooting by police in Ferguson, MO raises important issues about race or whether the issue of race is getting more attention than it deserves: 44% think the case does raise important issues about race that require discussion, while 40% say the issue of race is getting more attention than it deserves.

Meanwhile, the New York Times reports violence erupted again in Ferguson "even as National Guard troops arrived, the latest in a series of attempts to quell the chaos after a police officer fatally shot an unarmed man."

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In the past 3 years.

Next weekend, August 2&3, RIPExpo!!! Providence! I will be All Up Ins! Please come by! PLEASE COME BY! PLEASE COME BY!!

Former President George W. Bush has been working on a "highly personal project since leaving the White House: He has quietly completed a biography of his father, former President George H.W. Bush," the AP reports.

The book will be released on November 11.

vintagesciencefictionbookcovers:

Breed to Come (1972) by Andre Norton. 1973 cover.

And the most unexpected launch in Kerbal Space Program history award goes to... Space_Scumbag. No rocket launches when Gypsy Danger is around.

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Hey, I’m back from Comic Con! I had a delightful time seeing everyone. Sorry if I was quiet or missing when you came around the booth – I fell victim to a case of Con Crud, and was under the weather most of the weekend. Regardless, I have a lot of great memories and minimal redeye hangover.

The Patreon campaign continues to climb steadily! We’re getting closer to our goal of making Octopus Pie in full color! But there’s still a ways to go – consider pledging if you haven’t!

For just $9.95 per month: The Sarah Palin Channel.

In a video greeting, Palin promises her new venture will "cut through the soundbites" and "find solutions" for the "problems confronting America."

Said Palin: "Tired of media filters? Well, so am I. So, let's go rogue together and launch our own member-supported channel!"

An easily excitable wizard by Frank Kelly Freas.

(Toady One) Charlie Hall over at Polygon wrote an article on Dwarf Fortress focusing on world generation for which I was interviewed.

The population cap should work for next time. Hospital zones should be less greedy and snatch up only the proper amount of objects (ag). I also cleaned up some problems with the projectile code to move them over to a slightly more acceptable place, though there are doubtless some issues. Fixing a rounding error screwed up a lot of the other analysis, so I still had to wing it for now. Thanks to Zivilin, Pirate Bob, UristDaVinci, Joben, Bertinator and many others that performed various experiments and so on.

A new Boston Globe poll finds Martha Coakley has seen her edge over Charlie Baker (R) nearly erased in the last several weeks and is now leads by just three points, 39% to 36%.

Just a month ago, Coakley held a nine-point advantage over Baker.

by Gabriella Paiella

A doomsday tale told through Weather.com homepage screenshots.

 

Previously: Songs That Belong in Erectile Dysfunction Medication Commercials

Gabriella Paiella writes (and tweets) from Brooklyn. Yes, her name rhymes.

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