I think you are giving them too much credit. A surprising number of businesses are run by arrogant mediocrities who become obsessed with their own little pet project and will punish any underling who dares to point out the obvious problems with it. Everyone just buckles in and hopes they can somehow ride out the…

But rather than wanting to capitalize on Star Wars’ success, Paramount executives were convinced fans wouldn’t want to see two sci-fi films in the same year.

A lot of the ships in the prequels have a “kitbashed” look to them - as if somebody rummaged around in the Star Wars parts bin and said, “OK, let’s take the core of Darth Vader’s special super-TIE fighter, replace the side panels with Y-Wing bomber engines, stick on a pointy beak in front and a detachable hyperdrive…

He’s probably a psychopath, like so many other power-mad authority figures.

I always thought Silversun Pickups sounded a bit like the Pumpkins, but you are basically right.

Yeah, I live in Santa Rosa and it’s been ... quite a week, let me tell you.

Yes, the subtext of that Wesley episode made it abundantly clear that the people of that planet practice “free love” and enjoy introducing visitors from other worlds to their local customs...

Don’t feed the troll.

He does that quite a lot actually - tell an outrageous lie, then walk it back somewhat before even drawing another breath.

There have been semi-serious suggestions that he might be (at least functionally) illiterate.

The funny thing is that he’s not even Gawker trash - I remember that person from the Before Times, making the same kind of extremely terse, almost punctuation-free comments, never quite going full troll.

A lot of Silicon Valley companies, both successful and unsuccessful, chose quirky silly names that tell you nothing about what they sell or do - Amazon, Google, Napster, etc.

It’s hard to understand. She obviously doesn’t see von Trier the way the rest of the world does. Her father Serge Gainsbourg was known for obnoxious behavior, especially towards women. Maybe she just got used to that sort of thing and sees it as part of the artistic process for this sort of enfant terrible.

Lars von Trier has never seemed like a real person to me. He seems more like a grotesque caricature of a pretentious artsy-fartsy European film director, concocted by a philistine who hates serious cinema. Or he could have been created by a postmodern novelist more interested in symbolism and dry humor than in…

I think you are both overreacting and missing the point. There can definitely be a feeding frenzy when social media sharks smell blood in the water, but that doesn’t seem to be happening here. Remember, it wasn’t some random Twitter vigilantes objecting to Corden’s jokes, but two of his actual victims. I don’t think…

Won’t someone please think of the comedians?

It never made any sense though. It would be so hard to achieve that there would only be a handful in any given campaign world or material plane. Who is singing songs at taverns or festivals in these worlds, if not bards? Maybe the run-of-the-mill bards strumming lutes in watering holes are just regular old NPCs, and…

Starred for relevant avatar.

“I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”

Starred for Otherworld reference - I thought I was the only other person on Earth who remembered that show. Sci Fi Channel showed it back in 1999 but I haven’t seen or read anything about it since then. It’s pretty obscure.