My only issue would be if they made the Prince black, but he was still the Prince of a European country during any pre-modern era. I honestly don’t care how contrived the hand wave is—as long as they don’t make a single member of the Danish royal family black with zero explanation. Like, the thinnest veneer of a…

If turns out they made a wuxia movie with Hollywood tentpole/blockbuster budget, and production quality, I will be over the moon.

Meh, “Communist” just isn’t a meaningful word to these people beyond its dog whistle purpose. 

Just tell Gwyneth it’s Carter Baizen from Gossip Girl--dollars to doughnuts that she’d be like, “ooooooooooohhhhhh!”

Just put that link on under your address bar--because if Warren gets the nomination, the GOP and Republican state media (FN) is going to paint her as the second coming of HRC.

I dunno, I’ve heard people talk about “electability” in reference to Harris, saying that she might be the only candidate capable of reassembling the coalition of disparate interests that won Obama two terms in the White House. Frankly, I think there’s something to that.

My point is that the narrative of “these people come from good families, so of course they would not have done this knowingly” sort of falls apart when you consider that the sociopolitical schema that dictate that “people from good families” don’t/can’t do porn, would equally (or maybe moreso) prohibit “people from…

I like Metroid and I like Castlevania. Those two games, and their respective franchises, share certain common elements. I like games built around those common elements. When I see “Metroidvania”, I look into the game based on the labeling alone—more than half the time I end up getting the game, and I haven’t been…

I understand plaintiffs’ counsel litigatory purpose for saying this (if the cause of action is based on fraud in the inducement, or otherwise having made the videos under false pretense, they basically have to say this,) for if a woman’s family has an issue with them doing porn.... is it really going to be much better…

How much business will Razer lose for separating from Cattuzzo as opposed to if they had stuck by her? If I had to guess, it’s probably negligible one way or the other, but I would understand believing that they’d lose more business sticking with her. That doesn’t excuse their conduct, but it potentially explains it.…

Thank heavens—all I have are blue pens! 

I think this was a special case—I suspect a story about multi-generational family of wrestlers struck a chord for the guy.

It could also turn out that the documents they’ve provided thus far are reasonable and adequate, and that the Court (or a Court, if Riot loses at the first level and is allowed to appeal the issue) rules in favor of Riot. I’ve dealt with regulatory compliance issues on behalf of clients, and sometimes regulators and…

Ahhh, the classic catch-22: you don’t know that something is click bait flotsam unless you click on it first.

I’ve been largely offline for the past couple of weeks... did I really miss some kerfuffle over blue pens? Or are you being facetious and this is just another hilarious instance of Poe’s Law at work?

I’m prepared to give some of these folks more of a pass than others. In the Rock’s case, since blowing up (and therefore being able to do things like simply deciding to take a role for the sake of working with a particular director), the man basically only makes one kind of movie: big budget tent pole movies—more…

“Harris does not deny that Isaiah spit on one of the officers. But was that reason enough to put a spit hood on him?”

“Both shows aired on Thursday nights but Living Singleended after six seasons while Friends went on to become one of the most successful shows in TV history, maybe because the black sitcom never got the same promotion as the white version from the studio.”

Not sure whether you disagree with their music having been casually misogynistic or whether you agree and are just saying you’re not cool with that. I like the band plenty... but, yeah, plenty of casual sexist/chauvanist shit in there. Hell they even covered misogynist songs from other bands (i.e., “Hope”, which they…

The Ben Shapiro part is what doesn’t jibe for me here. I mean, to hell with Ben Shapiro (for about a thousand reasons), but I have hard time believing that he’s advancing any conspiracy theories that hold the Jews are taking over or running the entire world.