Give someone a job to find offense, and they will. Never happens in the rest of society though. 

Well I’m not really cherry picking so much as noticing. I’m well acquainted and comfortable with the profit motive in films. But I do sense a palpable difference in the quality of “we have a script proposal that X person gave us and we like it” vs “let’s write a script for next franchise extension” mindset. But to…

Hm actually pretty great outline. 

To the OP’s point though, there’s a difference between stories that have a natural flow and their successors that are more “product.” The balance between original idea / craft and then “extending the magic” for profit is often palpable.

“the Squid Game universe has just begun.”

I know zero people who actually do burnouts. I’m sure they exist, but i’m guessing it’s pretty rare. 

Go with thighs. Way cheaper. Way tastier. 

Most people who need a sommelier to explain flavors etc may just not have the palette to discern the differences anyway. A sommelier -can- help you explore new flavors, but in many blind taste tests it’s pretty obvious that even self-proclaimed experts can’t really tell specific differences reliably. 

AGREE. THANK YOU for not making this a slide show.

Silent Spring was an important book, but it also got some important points wrong, points which later research revealed to be questinable. Just important to note that if we are into following evidence, that includes pointing out where the evidence is flimsy, even if we agree with the general theme of the work in…

I have high hopes for this because there’s not THAT much for Disney to ruin. I don’t mean that snidely, just that they don’t seem to care about long term fans so much, so a movie with thin source material is less likely to take a crap on existing fans in general. I liked Willow, but certainly was not “deeply into it.”…

THIS. I can’t tell you how many conversations I’ve gotten into online where, with the slightest sign of me knowing something, the next response is someone who clearly just clicked over to Wikipedia, read an article on the subject at-hand for the first time, and basically pasted one or two points from the very first…

I think the fact that they DIDN’T watch the clip is kind of the perfect condemnation of how internet conversations work these days. 

Uh, I’m sorry, what? These are not the same things and do not use the same reasoning. Precision is important.

It’s kind of amazing how hate filled and angry certain portions of the left online have become. It used to be you could reliably poke at the GOP for owning the lion’s share of short sighted outrage. No longer the case. It’s like the central premise of internet comments is “What? NOT exactly in line with me?? YOU ARE…

You’re all letting perfect be the enemy of the good. Having the ability to offer internet connection -around- hardwired censorship nodes is incredibly important structurally.

Quibble all you want about Musk, but you guys get that providing Starlink availability is a thing that potentially -helps- democracy, right? Like literally it means that local governments can’t fire-wall off their people. It’s a net good thing, even if you don’t like the guy providing it. Just play the chess game out…

Best of luck and well wishes. These treatments can not evolve fast enough. We’ve shown how quickly we can work against diseases such as Covid; it would be remarkable to do the same for cancers.

Musk is an annoying loudmouth. Also he changed the world and helped make things possible that people drooled over for decades. Both can be true. I’ll take the loudmouth, thanks, even if I don’t like him.