CommonVices
CommonVices
CommonVices

Yeah, I’m having a hard time mustering much outrage over James Gunn’s tweets. They’re fairly tasteless and not at all funny, but it’s pretty arbitrary to single him out. A few points:

As I told someone else, nothing’s foolproof, and the more elaborate the steps you take to ensure that your “evidence” is rock solid, the faster you’ll hit the point where the effort outweighs the benefits and/or peace of mind. You could take a video and make sure to pan to the time on the driver’s console. You could

Right, but that’s less important than the time stamp or the existence of the photos themselves. You’re going to be able to poke holes in any strategy here, because a sketchy driver is always going to be able to come up with a farfetched explanation about how you vomited on the side of the car, not the interior, how

I mean, it’s not a terrible idea. A lot of people, myself included, take a quick video of the outside of rental cars when they pick them up and when they return them so that they don’t get dinged for preexisting damage to the car. Taking a quick video when you exit the car isn’t too hard if you make a habit of it.

When your smartphone takes a picture, it saves a lot of metadata that you don’t see if you’re just browsing through your photos, but can be viewed and used later to determine when/where you took a given photo. It’s actually pretty easy to compare that to whatever time your Uber transaction went through.

I would love to watch a cartoon in the vein of Harvey Birdman, except with obscure Marvel supporting characters instead of Hanna-Barbera...

“Cut the shit, Adora. She-Ra has two comically oversized shoulder pads, and you are clearly concealing two gigantic shoulder pads underneath that jacket. Everyone else here has one — ONE — impractical shoulder pad. Who do you think you’re fooling, exactly?”

False.  The best MCU stinger was the Howard the Duck scene following the first Guardians of the Galaxy.  Hands down.

Still wrong. Even giving you the benefit of the doubt for trying to distill legal principles into pithy layperson’s shorthand, no, you’re still wrong. Make an argument based on morality, ethics, personal experience, or - screw it - even anecdotal evidence, but for fuck’s sake, stay in your lane.

As a lawyer, no. Just no. Your assertion is wildly, comically wrong. I could point you to the correct answer, but (a) it varies somewhat by state (though no state’s laws are anything like what you describe), and (b) this is one of those times when Google - fucking Google - can effectively answer your questions about

It’s possible, but that’s assuming a lot of facts that you just don’t have access to, and it requires construing these scenarios — again, for which you have no detail or context — in the way least favorable to Whedon. Which you can absolutely do if your only goal is to decide whether you personally dislike Whedon.

I grew up around a pretty intense gun culture. Most of the families I knew had at least a couple of guns, at the very least a shotgun and a hunting rifle, and more often than not a handgun for “home security.” About half my friends’ dads had a gun closet that was readily accessible, and literally every boy I knew

Look at mother. Nature’s mom. I prefer her precisely 74 degrees. Must have a warm breeze.

I don’t recall him ever admitting to anything like that either, and though his ex-wife certainly has a lot to say on the subject, I don’t think (and by all means, someone correct me if I’m mistaken) any of the women he has worked with have come forward with allegations that he was abusive or leveraged his position to

First, yes, Art Adams’ run on X-Men in the ‘80s was amazing.

Yeah, that seems like an obvious fix, though I can think of a few limitations to its effectiveness. More importantly, it only applies to the problem of accidentally shooting yourself straight down away from the surface. It doesn’t do much for the panoply of other problems you’d face. In a lot of ways, this device has

Wow, really?  Holy fuck, that is just a whole other layer of pathetic.

1.) Neat.

As soon as Faygo starts making slime, you will see that show.

So, I took a quick look at your comment history, and it looks like you’ve already wrapped up misogyny, racism, transphobia and juvenile fat-shaming. How many more spaces do you need before you can stand up, shout “Troll Bingo!” and then show yourself out? Are you getting close?