So RDJ is IP Man?

I had no opinion on cricket until I married an Indian guy who is really into it. It’s actually really fun to watch. Imagine baseball, but the pitcher takes a running start, the batter pretty much has to hit every ball thrown at them, way more home runs, and the stakes are higher because once you’re out, you’re out.…

Ben is a Deadspin reader who likes cricket.

Is this going to end like the new Tappan zee bridge in NY where one of them builds it first in order to keep all the toll money

A related joke that ties into both navies of landlocked nations and Igny’s recent post about humor in totalitarian regimes:

I haven’t seen this panel (although I will as soon as I can), and I know this is an excerpt without much context, but that hardly sounds like good science or critical thought of why we wouldn’t be simulated. I mean it’s the equivalent of a child asking why to every answer it’s given to a question.

“Lisa Randall said, “I don’t know why this higher species would want to simulate us.”

Florine Gruen Goldfarb. Say that shit out loud. Sounds like you’re stroking out with a mouth full of marbles.

I see it as evolution of language. We’re developing a new vocabulary of pictograms. I’m not crazy about people who use emojis like crazy, but I do think they can punctuate text based conversation. And I prefer them to abbreviations like “LOL”.

I’m getting too old for this Sith

Is her character into balding, stocky funny men?

Yeah, such an awful show, focusing on a civically-engaged female lead character involved in local politics. What a terrible premise for a show, right?

So that incredibly detailed story along with his confirmed phone number and apology isn’t enough? She needs to be outed and have people know who she is simply because she had the audacity to tell someone that Aziz Ansari engaged in sexual misconduct with her? Gross.

What matters a little less is whether what he did was “misconduct.” I’m leaning toward he’s kind of a pushy asshole, not a date-rapist.

Well, the episode itself established that you kind of had to go through hoops to get people to remember - smelling the beer, playing music... How exactly do you get a guinea pig to give up it’s memories? Give it some carrot sticks? Not to mention that they figured it out before the play was even over.

Yeah, that was the thing that took me out of this episode. Not only would a guinea pig not be able to give you its memories, but neither, arguably, would a baby. There’s little evidence to suggest that a baby that young has episodic memory (i.e. being able to recall a certain memory from a certain time), and even if…

People who don’t understand the value of plausibility and internal consistency in fiction and how the value of the former may vary wildly from one piece of media to another based on things like genre and audience and established expectations... are nowhere near as smart as they think they are when they try to score…

I know the episodes are all supposed to link to each other (and this one in particular had several other nods to Fifteen Million Merits) but I found them using the same song distracting.

This was disappointing.

Linking to "Think Christian" ("No Such Thing as Secular"), Ms. Bowman has lost me as a reader. I am not interested in reviews based on a Christian wing-nut perspective.