Due process applies to governments, not private companies.

I don’t disagree with your point about Twitch’s history of favoring top streamers making them a bit suspect as the “agent of change” here. But the response to them going to light on top streamers is to press them to be more strict with those top streamers, not to throw up your hands and say “Well, if they’re not…

Twitch isn’t a court of law dealing out criminal penalties like jail time; they don’t need proof beyond a reasonable doubt. In civil court (in the US, at least), the standard is “a preponderance of evidence”, which basically means “is it more likely than not that the claim is true?” or “is it more that 50% likely the…

It is really hard to explain to people who were not alive yet what the summer of 1989 was like. The Batman logo was on everything. The old Adam West show was on one channel or another nearly constantly. Every mall and auto dealership was hiring a guy in a Batman costume to sign autographs for kids to get parents in.

You, sir, made the right call. Dead Poet Society is even more overrated than Batman, and teen makeouts are nothing to fondly remember. 

He was so good for so long. Even deep into his 30s, he could still dominate games, and even in his 40s, he could still show flashes of brilliance and occasionally make key plays.

“Superman: The Movie had been a huge hit a decade earlier, but the ensuing sequels had been progressively crappier and less successful”

Dumb story time: Batman was my first midnight movie. It was the summer between my 8th and 9th grades, and the theater was close enough that my parentset a friend and I go get in line at probably 8pm to wait for a screening. The whole time, and I mean almost literally the whole time, my friend kept going on and on…

My employees at a previous job kept arguing about where they wanted to go for our annual end-of-the-fiscal-year outing, so I told them to make up their damn minds or that’s where we’d end up going. I made good on the threat. Place was packed with kids, and in the middle there’s a table with a bunch of embarrassed…

My memory of this (aged 26, and a big comic fan) was incredible excitement followed by huge disappointment. Messy action, the plot MIA, and Keaton never convinced me (although you could blame the costume, which was plainly as restrictive as hell).

Complaints about cancel culture are just people who have been insulated from criticism their whole lives suddenly being forced to confront what people actually think about their work. And, ironically, the same people who bitch and moan about cancel culture are the same people who bitch about “snowflakes being…

It’s real, and harmful, but it’s also a reaction to behaviors that are themselves real and harmful. People have been getting away with terrible things for a long time, and now there are ways for the general public to make these people pay in some manner. In a lot of ways it’s a good thing, in that the types of abuses…

First generation immigrant, here. We went to Chuck E. Cheese exactly once, I recall, when I was under 10. But we went to the Sizzler many, many times. My gauche, meretricious first tastes of Mass Americana are dying, I tells ya! What’s next--Radio Shack?!

Nazi Bronies have been a thing since there were Bronies. They’ve always been there. Generally, Bronies lean right, socially and politically. No one’s sure why, but I think it’s a Quisling-esque drive to associate themselves culturally and politically with the big, tough, masculine men who bullied them as children. …

Apologizing doesn’t really do much of anything, because people give half-assed “I’m sorry that ‘you’ got offended” apologies all the time. Just the bare minimum.

The Mythology your thinking of doesnt Define them super well and the dookalfar and svartalfar were likely a type of dwarf.

The reason why it’s so hard for some “adults” is that some adults are just over-grown children.

Alignments in D&D always seemed backwards to me. They imply that good and evil are inherent traits of a person rather than descriptors of their actions.

White women performers are sometimes encouraged to wait for their first “IR” scene in order to land a lucrative, exclusive contract. The idea is that an interracial scene is a sort of taboo and part of a series of extreme acts, thus a white woman performer with a large fanbase can “hold out” and command a big…

The only thing I’d suggest is that this line doesn’t strike me as correct: “Their first instinct was to react with fear...”.  I think rather, their first reaction was to act like they were in charge and that the person they were talking to was not their equal.