doing it slowly, at that.

See, for prestige shows, I think 13 episode seasons were perfect. Look at The Sopranos and Mad Men; they had overarching plots for a season but also each episode stood on its own as a self-contained story. The self-contained stories could focus somewhat on other characters, and that space made it not go-go-go all…

Strictly speaking, being a “professional” writer just means you get paid to write. It doesn’t mean they’re any good at it - just good enough not to get fired, really.

I accept and appreciate the apology, truly. 🙂

I only said “many supposed leftists,” which does not even necessarily include you, typically support humane conditions in prisons. As do I. Constant threat of assault, rape, and murder does not constitute humane conditions, in my worldview. I just don’t care for hypocrisy and just think it’s unfortunate that folks…

Talk like that is bad karma. I hope nothing ever happens to you to lead to incarceration. This idea that assault (sexual or no) in prison as something anyone deserves is not okay. I find it interesting how many supposed leftists are stans for prison rape when it’s a crime that bothers them personally. Everyone is…

I’ll support that just as soon as ANY killing of another person is life in prison.  Drive drunk and you MIGHT kill someone, but shooting or stabbing someone has way more intent to it. 

Alcoholism is a disease. Some of these folks wouldn’t get behind the wheel after a beer or two, but get them drunk as a skunk and they lose all decision-making skills. It’s not an excuse, but it IS an explanation.

Studies have shown that people are more supportive of a welfare state in countries with less diversity.  It’s an ugly truth that no one particularly likes to talk about, but note the rise in popularity of right-wing parties in Scandinavia that correlates with increased immigration to those countries.  Arguably, the…

Right? I’d say destroying Twitter was Musk’s greatest accomplishment, but the Saudis paid for most of it.

My “favorite” part of this era of AV Club/Gizmodo is how they drag Musk constantly yet are still dependent on Twitter for content.  I’ve started to wonder whether him being a fascist or him killing their content farm makes them angrier.

Personally I think the closer Twitter is to destruction, the closer it is to perfection.

When you realize the “writers” here are about the age the children on the show would be now, it all makes more sense.

Nope; Bill Maher is now a deplorable, and also the children who work here think he’s old and smells weird.

I can basically countersign all of this. Why couldn’t Gawker have just died, instead of its rotting corpse being down to this site, gradually killing it? Gawker got what it deserved in the whole Hulk Hogan/Peter Theil saga; the fact that they outed a fascist doesn’t make outing that person okay, you hypocritical…

“Writers who maybe shouldn’t be.”

I know, but I feel like I wanted this vision on Dune, but done as a miniseries instead of a two-part movie. I feel like they may have lost some people not giving more time for the political machinations to get all talky like GoT.

This whole thread is just 🤌💋

The alternative is to stop talking when you run out of things to say.  But keep spending your time propping up this rotting corpse of a website if you’ve got nothing better to do.

That’s less annoying clickbait than the incessant Tesla articles here.  Was their AI writer so bad they had to get Brownell back for this brand of lazy, tired snark?  You’d think it would be easier to teach a computer to be an asshole, but apparently you still need human “journalists” to write these “articles.”