I feel the better solution for a lot of anime content is to do something more like Pacific Rim. Yeah Del Toro could have snagged the license for any of a hundred mecha/kaijuu franchises. But he would have gotten slammed based on whatever his interpretation left or added to an original.

Was he referencing existing…

> and somehow adapted that to live action without it looking too terribly creepy.

And I think that’s the point of contention I have, and I expect will split a lot of people. Because I find it exceedingly creepy and also highly incongruous in context of real actors/actresses (same issue I had with the Warcraft movie).

Pa…

I’m currently evacuated from Ventura but thankfully I have friends I can stay with and my office is out of the way and still open. So for me it’s just an inconvenience. And the firefighters have been fucking amazing at keeping structures safe (200+ structures lost for a fire this size, still only 5% contained, and in…

I think there’s a bit of a cultural difference in how you treat a nice vehicle; closer to how a lot of Americans who have classic/vintage/restored vehicles treat theirs.

Because there’s definitely a camp that feels if you have a beautiful car you want to keep it in near-pristine condition. And there’s another that…

Which is why no dragon people or even any of the old gen’s Laguz characters are ever on my team. They didn’t pull the child-thing with the Laguz really but they felt like furries to me so they still get benched.

I’ll stick with good ‘ol humans thank you!

I was more inclined to recast him on account of being horribly miscast and unlikable.

I groan when he is cast in things these days but he was not even set up for success when one, his role in the film was a surprise, and two, his appearance replaced Colin Farrell who was well-cast and likable.

He struggles on his own…

I just realized my brain merged John Waters and Vincent Price into the same human a long time ago.

Canoes are the mostly deadly non-motorized watercraft. Not only do they tip easily but once they do the ends fill with water and are very difficult to right.

So people expend their energy trying fruitlessly to right them and then drown. But if they had just swam for shore they’d have had a better chance.

But turns out…

The Genre is the real tie-breaker here.

Yes you can watch Saving Private Ryan and think, “Tom Hanks and the rest should just give up or wait for reinforcements so they don’t all die. All those guys die just to save one!” and yes you would technically have a point.

Except it was a fucking war movie and the point was that…

Sorry, this is fairly important Beth and I’m worried you won’t read a long comment. You’re giving people advice on genetics but are fundamentally missing the idea of how randomization works with genes.

Below is an entirely possible (albeit somewhat unlikely) way in which you might not be related to TWO of your…

> You share half your DNA with each of your parents, and a quarter with each of your grandparents.

I’ve bought two of the Intel NUCs and love them.

I’ve bought two of the Intel NUCs and love them.

Don’t worry, I played the base version of Pokemon Sun and Moon and all that was pretty much gibberish. No idea what orbs or the lightyear traveling is all about.

I’m currently struggling with a coworker who doesn’t know when to end a conversation (and is very talkative). We happen to share an office and she will literally continue talking at myself and others as they exit the room; only to attempt to continue the topic with anyone else around her even if they were never a part…

The sad reality is that most large companies will only handle this by saying, “We have become aware of the situation and are looking into it.”

Because if they react immediately and say, “Whoa, ‘person who is accused of sexual misconduct’, you’re SUPER fired!” and then it turns out to be untrue (or even just unprovable) …

Its going to be interesting how they handle that. There are a million little ‘quality of life’ things that have happened in the past 10 years that were almost universally considered to be positive changes.

I was more thinking how the world has changed if someone with face tattoos is employable enough they can afford a $1000 phone.

Which does assume he can actually afford it, but I’m going to instead just assume he is a really good bar tender at the cool gin bar downtown or something. Like he’s probably not saving for…

> commercially-successful and critically-acclaimed games.

I think the appeal is similar to Vegas. In that a lot of people really like it and if you don’t like it or don’t see the appeal those people will talk to you like you’re some kind of philistine for not liking X, Y, and Z.

The best thing I’ve found was unexpected: the weight tracking app for my scale.