The scene does serve its place in the story - I don’t think anyone who watches the show believed for one second that Ramsay would treat Sansa with kindness and consideration. This was always going to be a traumatic thing that happens to Sansa and Theon. But it was shot to highlight Theon’s trauma. We get every single…
The part that ruined any catharsis of the film, for me is the entire premise of Ava’s construction, as revealed by Nathan. Because Nathan didn’t go out to create a woman he could control with Ava, he decided to create what he felt was a “realistic” woman, who could fool an outside observer. BUT - she wasn’t set loose…
Seconded. It was very pretty, but I was left disappointed . It’s the same old story, and Star Trek did it better in 1969. It didn’t have anything interesting to say about AI, or the relationship AI has with humans. It didn’t even present an interesting Asimov style quandry. It was (spoilers:
The texture! The flavor! Just 100% No across the board.
I work in a tiny company, so I have a pretty small sample size. In general, though, views range from fatalism that the industry is doomed to eventually, die, and that you’ve got to get what you can out of it while the getting’s good, and utter denial that anything is wrong (it is perhaps not shocking that this…
That’s a false equivalence. I make my living off the freaking oil industry, and I think we need to transition to greener energy sources, and I tell people that all the goddamn time. We ALL benefit from the extraction of fossil fuels from the environment, and we are all going to have to pay the price for it.
A thousand stars for Kate Griffon and Matthew Swift. One of the best imaginings of urban magic I’ve ever read :)
I probably read 50 urban fantasy novels last year, so I can toss out a recommendation or two
OH MAN NEW MARTHA WELLS.
I agree - although this probably isn’t going to result in a lot of harm to the white acting population, I think it sets a bad precedent to let anyone put up (essentially) a job posting that filters people by race from the get go - and I don’t think you really need to. They can hire anyone they want, for any reason…
Where I live, $800 a month would get you a 1 bedroom basement apartment, or a teardown in a shit neighborhood. Possibly you could get a decent 1 bed condo at the edge of town (~ 1 - 1.5 hours commute)
I don’t think people realize how much has crept out of reach for a lot of millennials. To buy a 2 bedroom house in my city, in a relatively decent neighborhood, that doesn’t need serious renovations will cost you north of $450 000. You need to be making more than $66 000 a year to have your housing expenses be only…
This is a case of the punishment not fitting the crime, regardless of the genders of the pincher, and pinchee . The goal should be that everyone learns the behaviour was inappropriate, and that the pincher doesn’t do it again. Bonus points if the pinch person learns its ok to stand up for themselves. What the hell is…
Or Sacher-Masoch if you really want to hit up the classics of the genre. Although probably not what your average 50 shades reader was expecting...
Don’ worry. I’m sure someone will come up with one for you at some point. Eventually. Not me though. I don’t give a shit
This is a really good article, and reminds me quite a bit about the debate I keep having with myself and others.
I don’t think so. They aren’t trying to reach people who don’t go to the movies because its too expensive - they are trying to reach people who don’t go to the movies because its a pain in ass - people who need to get babysitters for a night out, or people who hate crowds, or who wouldn’t be caught dead standing in…
Yeah, but for the kind of person who has a home theater set up in their basement? This is perfect.
It contains a 9 minute Terry Gilliam Brazil style pastiche that actually contains Terry Gilliam, for absolutely no reason! There is a man with an elephant for a face called “Mr. Ganesh”. Someone dresses a wound with a maxi pad, with the sticky side FACING the wound. Someone tries to marry their re-incarnated…