What that tells me is that it probably wasn’t as widely loathed as we all would like to tell ourselves.

I’d go for the internet on that, with the way it’s turned dangerous misinformation into an industry. Reality TV can be trashy but it has its moments, and arguably the rest of TV has only flourished next to it.

I don’t really understand the delight this article seems to take in the possible demise of theaters. The pandemic has made moviegoing a bad use of time, but are we now pretending it was always bad and unenjoyable?

That said, this seems silly to me. Good popcorn poppers aren’t expensive (you can even make it on your…

They already did a revived third season just about 5 years ago.

Give it up. Firefly is 20 years older and so are all the actors, and Joss Whedon is persona non grata now (to say nothing of Adam Baldwin). It was a good little show that shouldn’t have been cancelled but the window has long since closed. There’s just no way a revival could recapture that magic or be anything but a…

I think The Littlest Groom was worse than both.

And yet it wasn’t even Fox’s grossest reality show; that was The Littlest Groom.

Oh man, the second season of Joe Schmo was so much better than the first. What ended up happening to the contestant’s life afterward was awful and sad, but the show itself was just so well executed. It even had Kristen Wiig playing one of the fake contestants before she got famous!

Except it’s not mostly chaff. Just about all of Radiohead’s last three albums, going back 15 years now, are loaded with melody and hooks. You can say you haven’t cared for it, but your initial comment makes it sound like you haven’t actually listened much, because it’s misguided.

They’ve done tons of melodic and relatively traditional songs since then.

Boston has a lower population than New York, DC or Philadelphia and yet that show has flourished. I don’t think it’s about that.

It still serves as a staggering example of how wrong the masses can be that there was a time when a lot of people thought the Director’s Cut was the better film.

Back when the Louis CK stuff came out, Drew Magary wrote a fantastic piece about exactly that subject. I really recommend searching for it if you haven’t seen it.

I don’t think you know what a strawman is. And IP law protecting an individual creator is a completely separate issue from an artist willingly signing a contract that grants rights to what they create to the company that hired them, paid them, and equipped them to do so. Individual creators who did not sign away their…

Sure, the multiplayer feature could be improved. Most things could. But the bottom line is it is a new feature they’ve added and it is something a lot of people have asked for, along with state saves. It’s not accurate to say these versions offer no concrete improvements over old versions.

Yes, I’m aware that’s one of the fallacious arguments people use to justify their theft. But the fact is you can’t dismiss the rights of creators just because those creators are corporations, and not even if those corporations are rich. Corporations employ people who create, and often in the case of game studios, are…

Which is exactly the roundabout logic that everyone uses while winking and nudging each other, yes, I know all about it. But just because a legal application for something exists isn’t a valid reason to dismiss debate if the vast majority of uses of it are not.

You pretty much just confirmed what I said: you are not approaching this from the perspective of the people who actually create things. It’s easy to tell artists the world over that they should only be able to monetize their creations for 20 years if you aren’t one of them. But on what basis do you make that judgment?…

Courts have affirmed the right to download “cracked” software for personal use.

The N64 controller was never a 3-handed controller. It’s a 2-handed controller with two left prong options.