Forget optimal. Optimizing a cake kind of goes against the whole point of cake, doesn’t it?

He did it in that order specifically so he would have the exact knowledge to create Good Eats. He’d been planning it in its final form for almost a decade.

This is going to be the new “end credits stinger” isn’t it?

Rick and Morty’s Szechuan sauce debacle is somehow still worse than all of these.

50% up from 5% is insulting. That’s like going up to your boss and asking for a 1000% raise for doing the same work.

There are already more good Spider-Man films than there are good Star Wars films.

I imagine one scene of J. Jonah reloading a shotgun and muttering, “Got ‘im!” in the next Ant-Man or whatever.

Whenever I need to check up on the people from my 20s that I’m no longer facebook friends with, I read Megg and Mogg. I figure it’s pretty accurate.

Of course he didn’t mean for his film to divide audiences, in much the same way the guy who stuffs live fireworks down his shorts never means to burn his own penis off. He just thought it would be a cool thing to capture on film.

The more money is involved, the fewer creative risks get taken.

Righteous.

The places that would be hit hardest would definitely be cities, where systems are constantly updated. And most of the major companies are operated out of cities. Paychecks to everyone who works for a corporation (like Walmart or Starbucks) would be delayed for at least weeks until records were manually reconstructed…

While it is relatively easy to shut down specific parts of the internet for some period of time—as it is well documented here—a global one is, at least so far, almost impossible, due to the distributed and interconnected nature of the Internet...

All of popular culture has taught me that if something owns the world, it has to be destroyed, probably in a huge explosion while the person at the top of the ladder screams “NOOO!” and falls several stories into a lake of fire.

We have a couple of sources of helium, but the one that’s being used up is also the one the government is artificially deflating the prices on. Each of those balloons would contain helium worth roughly 100 times more than it sells for.

“Planned obsolescence.”

The Pro will automatically call your boss, them them when you’re not doing anything and would love to answer some emails or pick up a project here or there, for free, just to help the company.

Did he? Or was it an extra that they deepfaked Toby Jones’s face onto after the fact?

Fox specifically? No.

I just would have thought that Lumberjanes was the kind of project that would be exactly in Disney’s demographic.