So, Google AI is as smart as your average MAGA stooge.

It’s so crazy how awful the Google search experience has become. It’s arguably still better than any current alternatives, but man it feels like someone could come in and dethrone it relatively easily these days, just by removing the clutter. The AI results are garbage and yet another thing I have to ignore and…

The Onion can call their next historical compilation “Our Even Dumber Century.”

The question of whether it would have been better for her to go “off-universe” for IT help seems rational, but at that price point I would probably find myself FOMOing about losing time in the experience. I’m thinking here about moviegoers who only complain about a presentation issue after the movie is over (and after…

I loved the tidbit in there about how you can almost always spot a paid Disney influencer shill because Disney makes them awkwardly use the exact names for all the attractions and park. It’s not “Star Wars Land” at “Disney World”, it’s “Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge” at “Walt Disney World Resort in Florida”.

I think the dumbest part of the project is that all they had to do was make it a VIP Galaxy’s Edge experience and transition the bulk of gamified and story elements into the park. It’s not like the hotel had a lot of “window” screens that made the illusion they were travelling in deep space all that convincing. They…

But it’s not like it’s the first time a brand new experience or product has been introduced. When a new concept is being introduced to the marketplace, there’s generally more pressure on the marketing department to figure out how to sell it to the public. In most successful launches, a unique and memorable marketing…

100%. i love ‘the idea’. 

The video is well worth it and held my fascination throughout. The 4+-hour length really makes you feel like you’ve slogged through this overpriced, half-baked “immersive experience” as well.

I wanna be snarky but, minus the LARPing elements, the hotel sounds like something I would’ve dreamed of and loved to go to as a kid. I haven’t watched the video yet so I can’t speak to where Disney cut corners, but I suspect that child me wouldn’t have cared. If the hotel had been priced at least somewhat affordably…

The smaller one. 

Yeah and you gotta ask what they fucking expected. I blame the internet. They see small influencer ran places putting on crazy events and pro cosplay people making awesome costumes and just assume their local hot dog place is going to put the time and money into something like that.

I mean, the end titles of the third one, when it was finally over, is the obvious answer.

even as a fan of him in the role...buddy you did 4 mainline movies and 4 avengers movies. you don’t owe us anything. in fact, please make extraction 3 instead.

IMO it’s not about it feeling fresh or not, Love and Thunder is just a poorly written and directed movie that leaned into the worst aspects of Ragnarok. It had interesting subplots with Jane’s battle with cancer and Gorr’s anger at the gods but both took a backseat to unnecessary and, frankly, annoying humor like the…

“Grandma moved to Arizona” 

Note also the splendid “Liefeld’s Just Feet” store behind the duo.

Two hypotheses: 1) there’s a wider spectrum of ghouls in the show universe than what the games have shown us; 2) we can presume Moldaver has had her captive since whenever she went feral (unlikely she just went out into the wild and found her now), so maybe she’s been unfed and wasting away to nothing. It would be…

Thanks for a nice set of recaps/reactions—some of the best and most actually thoughtful writing I’ve seen on this site in ages, and from someone who actually has history with the Fallout franchise, even.

Useless fact! Hanks authorisation code is 101097 , the date that Fallout 1 was released!.