“The book ends with (slight spoiler) a record of Halliday explicitly warning people not to repeat his mistakes, and withdraw into entertainment to avoid a world he was too meek to face.”
Yeah, but that’s kind of like ending The Expendables with a coda in which Stallone says violence is not the answer to anyone’s…
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couldn’t you just use the “edit” funct.... oh, never mind
I once tried to read a Dan Brown book. Does that count?
Not to belabor the obvious, but “the creator of OASIS” is only obsessed with culture from that era because the creator of the creator of OASIS is so obsessed.
I’m sure I’m not the first to say this, but isn’t Ernest Cline basically Caleb from Ex Machina? (See “poetry” below for exhibit A.)
Is that the one with James Spader?
I actually thought that he should have played both Batman and The Joker in the first movie.
Yeah, I thought this was the funniest episode yet. The whole Nazi thing—up to “white fielder”—was laugh-out-loud hilarious.
Denis Mill... Oh, never mind.
That really should be their new slogan.
By definition there is never a “reason” to be “needlessly upset.”
Yes, but usually only a basic 20%.
Is anyone NOT hate-watching this right now?
Giving Dangerboat a love interest is a bold move, period.
I was fully expecting what I thought of as a “Duane Jones moment” and I too cheered (0k, mostly inwardly) when Lil Rel showed up. (And then I started worrying about what I think of as a “Scatman Crothers moment.” I wasn’t sure whether Peele was sort of playing with those archetypal moments in “black” horror or whether…
“If it ISN’T intentional counter programming to Black Panther, WHY would they release it the same day as what is likely to be one of the biggest blockbusters of the year?”
I think you may be assuming a degree of industry knowledge and marketing savvy that is beyond the intellect involved here.
There’s a movie called Embrace of the Vampire, which starred Alyssa Milano in possibly the most ill-conceived transition from child star to “adult” roles in history. She has a couple of sex scenes, the first a lesbian hookup with (I think) Charlotte Lewis and the second with Martin Kemp as the titular blood-sucker.…
Owning the Mets is an achievement? (Yes, I am a Mets fan.)
“Who were the Christians who burned under Nero worshipping then?”
Modern technology gives us the ability to verify almost anything with first party accounts, written records and more. And yet even today, many people believe complete nonsense. It doesn’t seem to far fetched that some people in Rome might have heard…