Why is the “Managing Editor “ guessing why Californians are fleeing the State when the information is readily available:

This. I just moved to Charlotte from Oklahoma, but 90% of the new folks in town I’ve run into so far are NYC transplants who came in the last few months. It’s like as soon as NYC shut down every cultural aspect of living in NYC (permanently, it seems) while all the jobs went remote, everyone realized that paying $3k…

As a 5th generation native Californian I expect I’ll have to leave at some point. I had family who lived in Paradise, CA and lost their home in the Camp Fire back in 2018. They’ve since moved out of state. For one, it’s damn near impossible to get fire insurance these days in many rural parts of CA. Many people who…

Yeah, this has absolutely nothing to do with the fires, and everything to do with the ridiculously high cost of living in places like San Francisco and LA. 

It’s funny because European knights were basically the same, right down to the fact that lordless knights were usually just roving bullies who would steal from and brutalize the peasantry whenever they felt like it. The ideal of chivalry, much like the bushido ideal, is one whose actual effect on the real-life…

Because foreigners often get their depiction of Japan wrong

I suspect the people who are deeply concerned about it’s portrayal of Japanese culture generally won’t really care that much about what actual Japanese culture thinks of it.

It is fact.

I know I’m way late to the comment party, but kudos for the positive attitude about all of this. I’m sure it was a pisser to get the city’s missive. It’s super refreshing to see someone be positive about something nearly everyone else would see as a negative and use as an excuse to vent spleen on the intertubes.

I agree. This was a mistake on my part.

I’m willing to bet that the wrecked Kia Rio bothered people more than any of the other vehicles on your yard. Should have gotten rid of that asap my friend.

“Let’s take something people have never seen before, a young villainous tween who grows as a character to become a hero... and instead (badly) churn out a movie people have seen a thousand times before.”

Disney probably dodged a bullet by not having to see what would have been disastrous box-office returns for this.

The only thing that makes the Artemis Fowl books stand out from a million other "kid entangled with fantastic worlds" books is how much they commit to that precocious, mostly amoral, condescending, snide, and often physically cowardly little shit as a protagonist. Without that, what's the point?

It still amazes me that folk didn’t take lessons from the Harry Potter films. Granted I only ever read maybe the first three books, but those first three films stuck to the characters and plot pretty well. Yeah, stuff had to be cut for the films, but it didn’t affect the personalities or plot.

Or, you know, do, but actually stick with what worked in the book. If it was popular enough to get a full series, then maybe they’d be surprised by how well it would be received if they didn’t mess with it.

“It seemed to me that for the audiences who were not familiar with the books, this would be a hard, a hard kind of thing to accept.”

Ah, the classic “let’s take an IP people like, but then do... not what that IP does.” Never fails! 

Never underestimate the lethality of a graphics card!