“Put your phone in Airplane mode” is a totally different request from “please don’t make or take phone calls.” You can enforce the no-calls request without making everyone unable to receive text messages. It’s just as stupid as making everyone take off their shoes in the TSA line: overreactive theater that doesn’t…

we take our shoes off, go through metal detectors, and dump our water, all in the name illusion of safety

The reason to turn on Airplane Mode is because your phone will continuously search for a signal while in the air and drain your battery. 

It’s two people’s testimony about their personal relationship. It’s impossible to directly verify their emotions and mental states but investigating their daily lives would be invasive and illegal. So what do you want them to do? Go gossip with their friends and family?

Are we not allowed to hate The Force Awakens? The acting was great (except for Adam Driver, who can definitely act in other contexts), but the concept and script were godawful. 

This. There are very few non-hack uses of jump scares in media. Making you jump in response to sudden movement and loud noises isn’t scary, it’s simply startling. If you you could replace the thing doing the jump-scare with an adorable kitten and it would be just as effective, you’re a hack. Horror needs to be earned.

Nice, always enjoy seeing this game crop back up in the news. It’s still by far the best iteration of 3D Sonic since the original Genesis era.

two decades ago sexist characters were just delivery systems for sexist jokes

That gets a bit tricky since the episodes are all an hour long, which means that even with just eight they have more total minutes than the cartoon’s twenty half-hour episodes minus commercials.

Just FYI this one was one of the few 360 games I tested than ran well on a Steam Deck with the Xenia emulator. So if you have a fairly recent /decent computer it should be emulatable.

This game was the reason I bought a 360.  Absolutely lovely game.  I wouldn’t consider it “forgotten” though.

Look at Disney’s last live-action reboot, The Little Mermaid, which rewrote Ursula’s iconic villain song “Poor Unfortunate Souls” to remove sexist lyrics (“The men up there don’t like a lot of blabber/They think a girl who gossips is a bore,” among others). Ursula’s problematic verse was a deliberate narrative…

Everyone knows the airplane and Amelia are in the Delta Quadrant. 

I hated the gear and weapon progression. And the fact that there were no secret dungeons or bosses or puzzles that dropped super OP gear. 

To all the people who assured me that the merger was an undisputedly good thing… well, you were absolutely right. I’m sorry I ever doubted you.

If the severance package was *good* you can be sure they’d be loudly saying so, to try to regain some goodwill in the face of this bad press.

The arguments I saw all seemed to be talking as if a man had ‘stolen’ a nomination from Robbie, as if the best actress category wasn’t a thing. Meaning that the people who ‘stole’ the nomination from Robbie were...other women. Who are being recognised for their achievements. It all seems a very strange thing to get…

“I’m on my way to blow up the plane (with farts)" would have landed better.

It’s even more tone deaf to nominate Ryan Reynolds for a movie he wasn’t even in

I think it’s extremely tone deaf for Ryan Reynolds to be nominated but not Robbie nor Gerwig, HOWEVER...while I think Reynolds stole the show, I don’t believe anyone really deserves an Oscar for Barbie outside of production design. While the movie was very good and is an important piece of culture (so maybe the…