It was mostly the dialogue I took issue with, especially towards the end (can’t really say who specifically without spoiling anything). Maybe I’ll reread the first book first, since it’s been a while, and see if my opinion’s changed.

I read the first one and didn’t enjoy it much but I think that was mostly the translator rather than the content (which I found interesting too also as someone who doesn’t know much about 20th century Chinese political history). I’d seen that the second book was translated by someone else so I’ve meant to pick that up…

...the last 10 minutes of the film are kind of like the saddest version of Encino Man ever.

Well, it’d be useful for creepin’, but point well made. In theory (and if the idea was to use it for good) you’d be able to turn it on and off at will, and to varying degrees, like a dimmer switch. Otherwise, yeah, the logical extension doesn’t really work.

Invisibility is fine but it doesn’t go very far; what you’d really want is invisibility plus being undetectable by the other four senses.

Basically everything from Iain M. Banks’ Culture series.

China Mieville touched on the horrors of teleportation in Kraken, where a minor character who used a Star Trek-style transporter (I forget how, exactly, but go with it) ended up hounded by dozens of ghosts of himself.

Wait, is Infinity War no longer split into two movies? If so I guess I missed that. Unless they’re both going to end up nearly three hours long...

What, is he back or something?

Haley Joel Osment played the kid. He’s probably not too busy these days, sign him up for this!

She is an utter delight, isn’t she.

Hey, warn a guy first!

“Do you think Harmon and Roiland kept delaying season three because they were trying to write better dick jokes?”

“I spent my entire life to get to wherever I was in standup comedy” does not quite sound like something someone would write about themselves...

Wait, so burners can’t be used to port over an AVC legacy account? Well that... is not optimal. It’d be super-nice if Kinja didn’t require using a Facebook/Google/Twitter account and just let you, you know, create an account like every other site out there, but I guess that’s not going to happen. I didn’t have a huge…

That confused me too. I read it as we gotta wait.

Is there a bad time?