In the anime he’s almost a supernaturally dangerous enemy. He shows up and people are gonna die. Now he’s just a weird gutless women abuser who fears death.

I notice he shut up after you pointed out the tonnage/volume. Elon Musk may be a POS (I mean he just is on a lot of levels), but unless Starship is just non-functional (which seems unlikely as literally all previous SpaceX stuff has worked), it certainly physically could do the job. It is indeed a base by itself.

“The original Bebop still exists and it’s exactly as amazing today as it was last week.”

I mean... I see people moaning about how terrible this is but I don’t know how you adapt Ed to live action faithfully and not have it look like this. Ed’s character was only barely tolerable in the anime BECAUSE the show was animated, and the suspension of disbelief wasn’t painted onto the floor as part of the…

Watched the first episode and that was enough for me. What a fucking dreadful, mean-spirited piece of nasty shit it is.

“Attacking NFTs by saying ‘Oh I can just right-click and save that stupid JPEG’ is a bit like someone else taking a picture in front of my Porsche, posting it on Instagram, and saying, ‘Check out my sweet ride.’ But it’s not their ride - they can’t sell or (in the case of an NFT with utility) drive my car. I can. All…

“You’re only getting the JPEG itself and not the proof of ownership on the blockchain, which is the main appeal of NFTs.”

You just don’t have your MIND open to the POSSIBILITIES, man! I can’t concretely explain those possibilities or justify why they can’t exist without blockchain, but I will use words like “new economy” and “unprecedented sea change in digital ownership” and talk about “finally giving artists their fair share” in ways…

NFTs are just the latest in a billions long list of why we don’t deserve to exist.

It has been clearly stated, and repeated, that the Kobayashi Maru test is not a test of tactical problem solving, but of character. It tests how a potential commander will face a No-Win situation, not necessarily how they will overcome it. Sadly, they never explicitly say what charter trait it tests. It really doesn’t…

I wish to god this show could just give some more episodic stories. why does the galaxy always need to be in crisis? why must michael *always* be the big dick swinging galaxy rescuing hero? we’ve barely seen this character act competently *or* responsibly. lets just establish a baseline level of confidence in her first…

So apparently Burnham picks a fight with the President of the freaking Federation and comes up smelling like roses again? My co-workers were talking about how bad this was. It sounds like the writing has gotten even worse, and I say that as someone who defended the first two seasons. I guess Michael will be failing…

Of course. A good choice, makes perfect sense. 

That and bringing back the best-acted villain with the same actor. You know Dr Octavius’ backstory if you saw Spider-Man 2, but even if you didn’t Alfred Molina will utterly sell the character.

Ook?

But if you create the possibility that the Dragon Reborn could be born a saidar wielding woman, then you completely eliminate the inherent danger of the Dragon Reborn going crazy from the taint.

It’s a shame the writers injected gender politics into a show based on these books. Yes, there could be improvements and cuts to remove the cringeworthy sexism that flairs every now and then throughout each book, but to mess with the gender of the Dragon Reborn and the duality of saidin/saidar shows gross ignorance of…

The books are well-written and a great yarn, but the bones of the story are so staggeringly basic. Chosen Mary Sue male destined to fight a big evil literally called The Dark One in the series, aided by a ton of tokenized groups stolen whole-cloth from other book series. (Particularly Dune)

Well, I did have hopes for this, but not anymore. I’m not interested in today’s insanity that absolutely everything that was male and female has to be changed or erased completely.

Sounds like my fears have been realized. The need to “fix” the gendered aspect of magic that is the central conceit of the entire series is a terrible instinct. There are lots of way to update aspects of the presentation of women in the books (which, to be fair, were majorly progressive for the time the series began)…