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Remember that time that Jezebel ran a story about how Variety said that Carey Mulligan wasn’t attractive enough for her role in Promising Young Woman and all the comments were like “yeah, wtf, that’s some bullsh*t!” And then Jezebel literally turns around and runs an article about how Ansel Elgort isn’t attractive

I mean, why not? You could also turn on motion smoothing and turn everything you watch into a 90s soap opera.

So the 15-minute pitcher/catcher and pitcher/manager timeouts would be replaced with 15 minutes of the IT guy coming out the mound to find out why the headset isn’t connecting with the stadium WiFi.

I’m trying to imagine something like this being written about book series, or the golden age of serialized periodical stories ala Charles Dickens. “Maybe people are just writing too many books these days!”

Is that the fault of Obamacare or the insurance industry?

How exactly are these hacks? They just sound like travel recommendations. Good ones, but still. The clickbait is strong with this one.

Sounds like you would be a giant fan of “Rutabaga the Adventure Chef,” a great comic by Eric Colossal.

Congratulations on possibly the most hyperbolic article title I’ve ever written.

So no developer and no release date... If this follows the Legend of Zelda pattern, it will end up being released for whatever system comes next after Switch.

+1 to you, good sir.

I would so loved to have seen a pulp-movie style poster for "John Carter and the Princess of Mars!"

I love that Hollywood Tom Cruise blockbusters are such a big deal these days that their posters get posters! "Coming December 21st... the poster advertising The Oblivion poster."

The biggest plot hole was the ending: if JGL-Joe killed himself, it wouldn't just make BW-Joe disappear, it would've erased the events of the entire movie. There would have been no reason they would've all been standing in that corn field to begin with. The movie was extremely inconsistent in its application of

#correction Second sentence: "first" not "furst"

Wasn't this argument the basis for the entire run of The X-Files?

First paragraph: "a squid that can grabs its enemies " #corrections

I recently read a graphic design study that showed that a font/color choice that is slightly difficult to read (like lack of strong contrast in this case) will actually make you retain the information better because you are focusing more of your attention on the reading and comprehension process.

It's not common, but it happens. Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach" plays follow the same character, but are self-contained. Tom Stoppard's "Coast of Utopia" plays are definitely a trilogy that benefits from seeing all of them.

You would think more people would know this, since all of our gas stations price gas using 9/10s of a penny. Gas down the street right now is $4.799, which should confuse the heck out of people who don't get fractional pennies (or pence).

This isn't especially amazing. You are replacing at least 50% of the shape with a new color, and like any pointalism painting, you brain finds the average between the two colors. Thus a red heart covered in 50% blue stripes, at a distance, is purple.