Gonna have to agree to disagree on this one.

People say a lot of things when they’re trying to protect someone. “After, we can go wherever” certainly falls within those bounds.

Labeling the Fireflies’ actions as “tried to kill a kid” is very weird to me. There’s a universe of difference between “creating a cure for this infection will cost this kid’s life” and “we want to kill this kid.” The Fireflies are not the heroes, but they are absolutely not the bad guys. Marlene’s journal, which you…

I could not disagree more strongly with this. I don’t believe Joel is redeemed, that Neil Druckman intended him to be redeemed, or that viewing it as a redemption makes it a more satisfying or better story.

Joel is the bad guy. He is, to be honest, a complete fucking monster. An unrepentant murderer and a terrible human being. That’s the whole reason Tommy exists in the story - to contrast against him.

Humanity is what humanity is: a complex, completely amoral natural system that can’t be assigned either “good” or “bad”…

would be no different according to Joel

I love this ending because it is a monstrous, monstrous betrayal that is completely human and believable. Joel looks Ellie in the eye and lies to her, because he can’t let her go, because he loves her. Ellie knows he’s lying. You can see it on her face. But she accepts the lie because she loves him. That doesn’t…

It’s been a huge pleasure being less funny than all of you for almost fourteen years now. In conclusion: go fuck yourselves, one and all.

Yeah, it’s a very real possibility that if GSW is, like, 10th in the West in March, they just go “you know what? Fuck it, we’re punting” and shut it down for the rest of the season. Why risk Curry and Dray’s health to maybe compete for the 8-seed and get destroyed in the first round by one of the LA teams, or Denver,…

Possible but I think it’s unlikely they bottom out completely, barring absolute catastrophe. Though I guess with the new lottery odds, they don’t have to be bottom-four to luck into a top pick.

This is definitely true. And as Nate Duncan pointed out on his podcast with Hollinger today: early trends tend to mean more when they match up with expectations. As I pointed out, everyone expected GSW’s defense to be bad ... and it’s bad. They just expected that the offense might offset that more than it so far has.…

It’s a perfectly cromulent word.

Houston is a blue city and Texas is a blue state that’s been stolen via gerrymandering and voter suppression tactics.

The best thing about this is that it will eat away at him way, way, way more than things like “credibly accused of being a Russian asset” or “revealed almost daily, often by his own idiotic admission, to have participated in criminal activity.”

This is cogent analysis and I expect it to get more stars than my initial comment. Here’s your first. :)

Two thoughts which effectively contradict each other:

Not to defend how ridiculously seriously football people (particularly coaches) take themselves too much, but the players do play a sport in which life-threatening injuries are a day-to-day possibility and in which they get a scant sixteen games each year to show off what they can do.

For sure. There are no special effects or weird synth scores or anything to make it feel dated. It just feels like a period piece with really compelling characters.

Yep, somebody pointed out my error - mea culpa!

Noted and mea culpa. Hard to remember all the different dates when it’s not my team.