“That the prequels turned the aquiline and mysterious Alien into something talky and mythic, more akin to Star Trek than The Texas Chain-Saw Massacre, miffed many long-time fans, and I sympathize.” Read more
I thought Prometheus was awful the first time I watched it.
But the next time I watched it didn’t happen, because I was right the first time. Read more
If we hadn’t been in the hospital for our oldest daughter, she would have died not long after birth (SVT). And my wife would have died from giving birth to our twins (hemorrhage). So I’m very glad all those people were around. Read more
To be fair, humans are a subset of humanoids. Read more
I will never understand why people insist on having Shuri be the next Black Panther when Okoye is exponentially more qualified.
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I’m not going to repeat what I said on AVC. Read more
Yes, it’s kind of ridiculous that I need the add block not because I simply don’t want to see adds (I might be willing to support the site and let them show up like I do in some other places) but because that’s the only way to make the damn thing load. If a site only works (kind of, mostly) when user kills the adds… Read more
I actually put that in the other comments because as much as I can ignore them on my computer (they are silently playing in the corner) it makes the site extremely annoying on a phone because of the way the recommended videos stick on top of scrolling on mobile devices.
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What I hate is that they recently made the article titles unclickable. They used to be links to the base version of the article. It doesn’t seem relevant until you come to it through the link to one of your comments and then want to browse other replies but realise that when you come that way Show Pending button… Read more
I hate that Gizmodo and Io9 have so much duplicated content, but just enough unique stuff that I still have to check both. Either merge them fully or split them fully.
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Fix your ads Fix your ads Fix your ads Fix your ads fix your ads Read more
I have a fairly mild reading disability that means I have to fully concentrate on the sentence that I’m reading. You can imagine my joy at having a hovering, unskippable video at the top of each page. Yes, I enjoy reading the same sentence sixteen times before it mercifully goes away. Read more
I’d be somewhat happy if they’d just stop actively making it harder and harder for me to just enjoy this website. Read more
THIS^ Read more
I tried to comment about this on my phone, but since this site runs like swamp zombiefied ass on mobile, I had to switch to my laptop where it only runs like regular ass. My one request: Read more
Came here to say this, and I had to reload my desktop browser twice before the “Show all comments” button would work. Read more
The community here is mostly good, but the comment system (especially on mobile) is brutal. Read more