I always suspected it’s more a kind of externalized cynicism and fear than a projected desire, largely driven by an inability to empathize with or imagine the inner lives of others.

AVClub will still be here —sure, they’ll have fired the staff and replaced them with listicle-assembling chat bots, operating from an offshore shipping container, but the site will still have some value as an ad delivery system.

Plus I’m sure a lot of those premature deaths came with some relation to horrible labor conditions, poor nutrition, complete absence of medical care, etc., which the wealthy (like those wigged gents) could avoid.

They cut the full quote short:

Assuming the dash cam is right, she was 3x the legal limit at 8:47am...impressive.

Oh, shit, you’ve confused me with Jeeves.

Obviously. I'm not sure how high that bar us currently though. I'm guessing an as-seen-on-TV sticker does it.

The name “the american dream” must be some sort of tragic metaphor or warning.

I quit caring precisely because he already did sign off on an ending. I have no desire to read a 1200 page novelization or alternate ending. I don’t know who would, outside of ultra-fans or folks with a lot of time and morbid curiosity.

...stories about lucrative, legacy intellectual properties, told by young-ish directors who know better than to get out of line and get fired midway through filming, where anyone can work so long as they’re projected to help secure a demo that would to contribute to a low-to-mid nine-figure gross...

Justice was *technically* served, but I don’t believe it will be *truly* served until his tombstone reads “punched to death, and had it coming”.

I made the mistake of playing through fallout 4 immediately before finally trying Skyrim, which rendered it completely joyless. A bit like eating at Pizza Hut then trying to eat a Lunchables cracker-pizza kit.

I dunno, given the benefit of a doubt in this era of hyper polarization, could just be that they don’t want to be forcibly dragged into culture wars and made into some sort of weird totem or litmus test, when all they really want to do is create live action remakes of childrens’ cartoons that featured subliminal…

I mean, it’s also the way pricing for most of the things we buy operates; demand spikes, you pay more (see also, the price of *everything* in 2022). Were they selling insulin, rather than tickets to see a shiny vampire man dress up as a big rubber bat, maybe it’d be worth giving a shit.

What % of truckers is this exactly? .0001ish? Nurses, EMTs, The Troops, etc. — don’t care what sanctified profession we’re talking about — there’s undoubtedly a small subset of dipshits among them. Let's not pretend we're all saints.

Plush carpet, African wood, stainless steel, lighting -- why would anyone want to escape such a luxurious trunk?

If I had a nickel for every time I had to tell my wife to take off her rollerblades before getting behind the wheel...

I feel like $1M is kind of a bullshit prize for a 50 day, 100 person island competition. Didn’t we start giving those kinds of amounts away to anyone who could weather a few days of trivia on a Soundstage back in the 1990s?

Sounds exhausting.......LY HILARIOUS.

I get regular notifications from two of my favorite artists that are not in languages that I speak (portuguese and something..russian-looking). If they feed them through google-translate first, it would be a nice upgrade.