The same people who enjoy recipes where you have to read a 1,000 memoir about the person posting the recipe before you get to the list of ingredients, or who like Yelp reviews that begin “Sorry I haven’t posted in a while” like it’s a livejournal account.

I think it part persecution complex and part delusion of ownership. People who put that label on themselves too often (not always) think they’re entitled to have their opinions treated as demands because an entire industry somehow belongs to them.

You don’t want The Story! We need The Story or else how can we feel? I like having to read a 1,000 word navel-gazing memoir before getting to the chicken recipe I want to make for dinner.

They already have several. They’re called Comments Sections.

The irony is that 50% or more of modern video game consumers/players are women. They just play more mobile games than console and computer games, so they’re rarely associated with the common “gamer” label.

Darkseid is . . . a shirtless daddy.

I would guess being a VP involves a contract with a PR clause. I mean, she’s not just some data analyst or day trader. She’s a high-level representative of the company. That has to come with expectations of not doing anything that sheds a bad light on the company. Having the company name mentioned in every article…

I’m sure she has a gaggle of friends who will tell her at Zoom brunch “Oh my god, Amy, you’re like the most not racist person I know. It’s so unfair what’s happening to you.” And then, when she’s not around and you ask “Hey, aren’t you friends with Amy Cooper?” they’re all like “I don’t know her.”

A properly trained dog will behave off leash until the exact moment it decides not to. Because it’s an animal, not a robot. And all it takes is the right stimuli to kick all that obedience school training to the back of its tiny brain and pure, primitive bestial instinct to take over.

Boo-fucking-hoo. She was a VP at an investment company. She’ll get a nice severance package, sit out the rest of the pandemic, then “leverage her network,” and be back employed before Christmas. Maybe she won’t get a VP position right away. Maybe she won’t get the ~$162,000 salary she was making. Maybe she’ll have to…

Obviously, Mario Party is just a pretext for an airing of grievances. Whenever I have unresolved issues with my spouse, I just invite her to play a game of MP and she knows tears and apologies are implied by the proposition.

I agree that Cornette is irrelevant. Which is why I ignore anything he says. Why give his idiocy a platform? Especially when the vast majority of actually relevant voices seem to only have supportive things to say about Lynch?

I’m waiting for my kids to be just a little bit older before I show them the first movie. I want to show it to them with no set up and not tell them the title. The only thing I don’t like about Planet of the Apes is that, unless you stumbled across it during the Creature Double Feature, you knew you were about to see…

Casting Olyphant on this show is funny to me, because before I IMDB’d the cast, I was sure Mando was voiced by him. I remember saying to my wife “Is that Timothy Olyphant? Are they going to keep the mask on him the whole time?” Question 1 has been answered. Question 2, recontextualized, still remains.

The line outside Home Depot on Sunday stretched across the width of the building. Driving by what was queued up to get in the store made me decide to just keep going. I went home and ordered the things I needed off Amazon.

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We’ve been conditioned to instant gratification and selfishness. Remember, the last time the US faced a major calamity, our leader’s advice was “Go shopping,” and the majority of us were like, “Yeah, that sounds good.”

A former boss of mine years ago said to me “Your problem is that you rely on other people knowing what they’re doing. You have to assume they don’t and plan accordingly.”

Excited for this. Show title is a bit of a clumsy mouthful, but the cast is solid.

I would like to forward your request, slightly reworded, to the makers of Batman films. It’s ok for Batman to just solve a crime. He doesn’t always have to save the entire city. There are actually quite a few really good crime films where the hero just does detective work and that’s enough.