Kinda sounds like capitalism being capitalism, like sorry you put money into a startup company during their IPO and it tanked faster than you thought it would, but that’s how the market works sometimes

My thing is, if they’re a couple, why not take it up with her in private? why the need to go public with this?

The Mazda 3 is such a handsome, well-appointed, well-built, and reasonably priced car. Its hardware is a little archaic, but reliable as a result, and I can appreciate its sense of “simplicity” in an increasingly complicated automotive landscape. It’s a practical, sensible car with a heavy dose of style, and that’s a…

Volvo V60 - one of the few cars that catches my eye when out and about. Refreshing in a sea of bland crossovers.

The line’s existence at all is just such a China thing. You don’t see maritime territories marked anywhere else on the world map but China’s like Randy from Christmas Story opening presents - “that’s mine! that’s mine!”

I’m not so sure about that, to be honest with you.

No. It doesn’t. This is made in Italy, on the same production line as the Tonale.

The question should be “would China have noticed if the line wasn’t on something titled ‘world map’ which features an approximation of their country and its location?” The answer of course is absolutely they would - it’s what they employ scores of censors to do.

The joke is going to be at the expense of at least a few million dollars to the studio.

Get outta here with your facts and logic.  This is the Internet!  We’ll have none of that here kthxbyee!

When I heard the movie had done this, I thought it sounded like the absolute worst, most craven example of Hollywood sucking up to the CCP - like, in what scenario would you need to include any maritime boundary on a map, let alone this one?

That’s why North Korea is the villain in so many movies despite not even able to feed itself — nobody cares about offending North Korea -- it’s not like North Koreans are going to buy tickets to your movie.

Weird that the severe budget pressure led to the firing of the whistleblowers, but the promotion of the accused. 

Not to be too blunt, but countries like Vietnam are insecure—in the literal sense of not being especially secure against foreign adversaries. (Compare to the US, whose only land-border neighbors are close allies.) China directly borders Vietnam and has spent a lot of time trying to claim territory that Vietnam…

It think it has something to do with not normalizing it. If it’s somewhat standard on maps then China can make the claim that the line is essentially validated. I don’t really know enough about this to make an actual claim so form your own opinions. But I do think it’s along the lines of “Stop trying to make…

Poll any movie studio which Asian country they’re going to try to suck up to, and China’s going to come in at around 100%

Just watched Galaxy Quest last night. Never gets old. But Ron is not a Thermian. Ron is a grown-up version of the two douchebags who had nothing better to do on a Saturday than go to the QuestCon and laugh at people in the bathroom.

That second gif is so off-putting, it has ruined my afternoon

I’m certain he has a contingency plan to pivot to “What? I’m never been gay. Married this whole time to my beautiful wife. No, I did not say she was Morgan Fairchild. I said she was Morgan Fairchild-ish.”

Like any sale, don’t buy things you don’t need.