Barsanti’s right that HBO does get a benefit from being the exclusive place to see HBO content, but seems to miss that that advantage diminishes for older content. There probably aren’t people who really, really want to watch Six Feet Under, and were about to finally give in after 18 years and subscribe to HBO to…

Back in the late ‘90s I was working at a movie theater and Robert Wuhl came up to the window to buy a ticket. I said, “Hey, I love Arliss” and he gave me a look like he couldn’t understand why anyone would say such a thing.

This is a dumb concern. We have always had companies re-airing popular TV shows that first aired somewhere else, and this has been a big part of Netflix’s business model for ages. That has not prevented companies (Netflix included) from making new shows.

“Hey, all you people who thought Kate Middleton was sicker than Buckingham Palace was saying, I bet you feel stupid now that . . . Kate Middleton is sicker than Buckingham Palace was saying.”

The royals are the definition of English pop culture.

Just to piss you off.

Fascinating to see how this has already altered the media narrative in exactly the way the palace will have wanted... now, of course, anyone who ever questioned the official story (and its terribly staged and/or photoshopped images) is clearly a heartless, uncaring individual because this poor woman has cancer, how…

“clamoring for details about a stranger’s private life”

Awesome! Thank you!

Definitely. I think the difference is that the Japanese seem much more aware that he is trying to use them than he is of being used by them. Both of them see the relationship as transactional, but the Japanese seem to have a more realistic view of what is going on. It may just be that they have all the advantages -…

I don’t think that was it either. As I read the scene, he absolutely knew it was Mariko. He was taken aback when she claimed otherwise, but understood that she didn’t want to (or wasn’t in a position to) openly acknowledge what happened.

I pretty much agree except that he isn’t really endearing or lovable. He’s just a bigoted European full of unearned arrogance assuming that these people are savages because they aren’t white, English speaking, protestants. He considers the Portuguese to be only a small step above them.  Yes, he knows a few things they…

Congratulations, you’ve discovered what Shogun has deliberately been about since the original book. Even being entirely from Blackthorne’s perspective doesn’t hide that he’s an idiot blundering around and wrecking everything he touches, and for years now my line to sell the story to people curious about it is “Imagine…

Good think Gregory Peck is dead or else people would be mistakenly sending him abuse too.

Are you upset every time a multi-billion dollar corporation is asked to do due diligence, or just this time? Heaven forbid the super serious world of 2nd rate fps tourneys be disrupted. THEY OUTTA HANG FOR THIS!!!

Most of you guys call this hacker a loser but honestly it’s EA and RESPAWN that are the losers. Cmon, how can you people not realize this? EA and Respawn release half assed games just like Activision/Blizzard, Infinityward and Sledgehammer release half assed COD and don’t give a shit about their Gaming community. So…

Man I’m glad I don’t have to be able to prove to the internet that I’m still friends with coworkers from 25 years ago, because those fuckers all sucked.

I haven’t played this in years. Does anyone know if PC has a mod that lets you increment time yourself to some degree? As much as this game was super fun and all, as soon as you throw time management into a game my min-maxer comes out and turns the game into work.

to be clear, Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters was terrible. It had nothing to do with the casting (all very funny actresses) and everything to do with the slipshod CGI, even more slipshod humor, and general lack of fun.

K.