Corporations: “we should be able to outsource work to third world countries in order to save money!”

BSG is very much in the same camp as LOST and Game of Thrones for me- it had me obsessed and waiting on baited breath for the next episode... only to cock up the ending so bad that they killed any desire I’ve ever had to revisit the series. Such a shame too, because the miniseries and 33 were so strong; Should have…

It’s like finding out that a vending machine actually has a poor person locked inside it that is forced to take money and send out the right drink. Incredibly dystopian.

Good riddance. I only used the Amazon Go near me once, and that was enough to convince me it was both unsustainable and incredibly dystopian; Putting aside the horrifying implications of mass adoption of grocery storess that require a smartphone and amazon account to even use (sorry low income and homeless people- I…

He became YouTube famous for counting to 100,000 on camera in one loooooong take.

You know what I say every time I see a PC game that I can’t play because I haven’t sunk 2k+ into a PC gaming rig?

I don’t say anything. I move on.

...Honestly the fact that some people can’t grasp that concept is unreal.

I was struck by how translucent their skin appeared to be, and that all their eyes were odd looking; I thought it had something to do with the processing in post... but now it makes sense- What a cool thing to incorporate (and I love that the ‘black sun’ offers a genuine excuse to use it!)

Arrival is definitely my favorite of his films, followed closely by Blade Runner 2049 and Dune; What I find interesting about Arrival is that it doesn’t have the same slooooow pacing issues that people complain about in his later work- I’ve definitely never thought it was too long, but Blade Runner 2049 and both Dunes…

How can you see x-rays..?

Non-book reader here; for added context, I absolutely LOVED the first film, and Blade Runner 2049.

I interpreted that to mean that of course the story that G.R.R.M. established in the base game will carry over, but he didn’t write the DLC... So hopefully the expansion will include new demigods whose names start with something other than G, R, or M.

If you’re at all inclined to sail the high seas, you might want to check out “Blade Runner 2049: Aerodynamik”. It’s a fanedit that’s sole purpose was to tighten up the editing/pacing issues that made the movie drag, without affecting the plot at all. By making minor editing tweaks throughout, the editor was able to…

The worst part about this is that other fast food joints will no doubt follow suit, with the lesson being not to admit they’re doing it; there’s really nothing stopping them from instituting this pricing on the DL, and unless you’re regularly getting the same food at various times of day, you wouldn’t really know it’s…

Eh. Would have been funnier with ice cream truck music, moving slowly through a neighborhood... Then a quick bump of the camera with a THUMP THUMP sound effect, like he was so preoccupied with filming at his side hustle that he ran over someone and didn’t notice.

Immediately after the sting operation, US operatives turned around and sold Iran what they thought was a nuclear bomb made with the yellow cake uranium, but was actually just pinpall parts; They kept the uranium to use in the development of a time machine built on the body of a notoriously ugly stainless steel car…

As a taller man who has ears that stick straight out, I don’t have a whole lot of faith in this design... for one thing, it looks like the part that wraps around the ear can’t be adjusted at all (so I would be cramming the cartilage of my larger-than-average ears into it, making it painful after a short period) and…

Hey, remember when Sam Bankman-Fried accidentally described FTX as a Ponzi scheme? Whoops, talk about saying the quiet part out loud!

The solution, it so happens, is also the same one you can use with the stock market: buy and hold. Timing the market is a fool’s errand, but that’s no reason to not invest.

Imagine coming out of a superhero movie and thinking, “UGH. The best part was the beginning of the origin story, before they even had powers! Let’s stretch that out and make an entire movie about that!”

I can’t even really blame the marketing department for leading on the audience... they were asked to market a…

I mean, did you not see season 1 of True Detective? All sorts of supernatural creepy imagery, references to Lovecraft, Carcosa, the Yellow King... and then in the end it was a close knit group of sexual predators in a small town, and all the supernatural stuff was just Matthew McConaughey’s drug flashbacks. I haven’t…