Oh, it never mentioned GE explicitly; it was just produced by them. I was just noting that, having worked for them, it felt very much like an advertisement/recruitment tool rather than an interesting project they decided to fund. Thus my concern that they may be treating this podcasting arm as opportunity to make…

Did folks really like The Message? I thought it started out ok if a bit generic, but then quickly devolved. It's likely that, as I briefly worked for GE, I found the later episodes to be drenched in corporate prattle. It was basically like: "We'll figure this out with the help of innovative GE technology!" Anyways,…

I recently finished up Ocarina of Time for the first time, and pretty much agree with you and that video. I actually had the game on hold for several months as I couldn't get past that Shadow Temple boss (somewhat randomly defeated it a few weeks back and was able to plow through the rest). So unfortunately I found…

Captain Jeffrey T. (For 'Edgar') Spaulding.

Oh, they don't? That would make sense since most of the data and the primary process itself is a mess. I'll confess I didn't really check out the site much during the primaries other than some after-the-fact analysis articles. But if they didn't have any actual models during that time then kudos to them because that's…

I don't think you're really understanding what role FiveThirtyEight is trying to fill. In essence it's just that their models didn't predict him winning the nomination. They were "wrong" only as far as their model not giving him higher likelihood of winning the nomination, but it's an unusual candidate and was an…

Plot shows average RT score in each year. Which may or more not be a bullshit metric depending on whether this guy actually calculated it correctly. But conceivably De Niro had some other shittier movies that year which would bring the overall score down.

So I only recently started playing Metroid games and Prime was my first. I knew fairly little about it other than the general sense of the series being about a scifi badass heroine going around destroying alien critters. Prime is now probably my favorite game ever and a significant part of that is the scanning, and I…

Oh I think it definitely is one Lynch's most harrowing films. That's why I think it might be difficult to watch very often even if you think it's good.

Fire Walk With Me is a pretty odd choice to want on repeat. I think it's mostly awful punctuated with a few great scenes (Bowie's cameo is terrific fun), but even if you're someone who likes/loves the film I can't really see wanting to return to it that often. I too am baffled as to what exactly Gus likes about Lynch.

I actually haven't seen the Moroder version. Seems like a fairly interesting curiosity, but now that this complete version exists my desire to seek out any older release is pretty much nil.

The (nearly) complete Metropolis. I'd seen prior versions of it at home, but beyond the hugely influential visuals never thought it lived up to its purported greatness. Seeing the complete version in theater with an engrossed audience was a whole new experience. The film just clicked once the additional plot bits were…

If I thought all DC films were god awful sure this might apply. But I like Man of Steel overall despite its issues. I thought The Dark Knight was fantastic and I like the other Nolan Batman movies with some reservations. I haven't seen Green Lantern, and I thought Superman Returns was terrible.

Yeah, I don't really care much about building up a universe one way or another. I don't think it has really meant much of anything in regards to the quality of the Marvel films overall - some are good, some are bad, most are pleasant if unremarkable. But I kind of like that the DC films have a stronger directorial…

Ignatiy's take on this is kind of how I felt about Man of Steel. There are major problems with that film's ethics, but overall I thought the story/dialogue/visuals were sort of endearingly goofy. The only other Snyder film I've seem is Watchmen which I thought was fairly dour, but if Man of Steel's (possibly…

Was there a reason Clark didn't keep pushing the jury removal to get a mistrial? I get that there would be a certain amount of embarrassment, but the whole thing was already a clusterfuck and I don't see how going for a mistrial would hurt the prosecution at all at that point. From the show it basically seemed like…

Anyone else listen all the way to the end (post closing ads) of today's (excellent) CBB? I'm wondering if they've ever done tags like this before?

As with most mathematicians/scientists their work is what's most fascinating but also hardest to capture in any sort of captivating way on film. If you have any taste for number theory the Ramanujan's Notebook volumes are really great. He truly had innate understanding of the field.

I found Fury Road to be such a frustrating experience. There's certainly a great deal of visual beauty, but as the film drags much of it begins to lose its luster through repetition. If it were a lean 70 minutes (not that an action film could be released at that length) or something I think it could have been…

Darcy Clay, "Jesus I Was Evil"