Well, there’s certainly a big urban / rural cultural divide in the US, but it doesn’t really involve the kinds of themes the movie is concerned with. You don’t really have the same sense of “these are traditions and a way of life that’s been around for centuries” in the rural US. Centuries ago in the US there would…

I loved Your Name, but so much of its charm was in the setting, and the way it juxtaposed rural and urban Japan. It’s hard to imagine the story transposed to the US without becoming something different entirely.

“Stronger honors his resistance to being labeled a hero by refusing to unambiguously depict him as one”

Damn, I bet WB is not happy. I wonder if they’ll push WW2 back to the spring.

I think you’re right, though I wonder if “we don’t have enough budget anymore to have so many main cast members” factored into the decision making as well.

I was wondering the same thing - it seems like it shouldn’t be so difficult to make flood-resistant houses, in much the same way people in earthquake zones build earthquake-resistant houses.

It’s funny, I spent a lot of time when I was younger on message boards, where replying to a very old thread was a BIG faux-pas. I never lost that mindset, so I never upvote or reply on old reviews, and when I do by accident I always feel really embarrassed. But I should really get over that, because I love it when I…

That explanation would be reasonable if they actually had a system in place for getting ordinary users out of the greys. I’m “stuck in this stupid grey pending BS on a site I’ve been commenting on for years” on Gizmodo as well.

These instructions sound very confusing. If I already have a Kinja burner account with the same name as my Disqus account, should I just not bother with all this? I won’t get to see any notifications for my old avclub comments but that’s not too big a deal. I would like to get out of the greys, though...

I’ve tried some Japanese whiskey and I really like it. What kind of things should I look for in a Scotch to get a similar style?

Yeah it’s kind of ridiculous to hear that advice coming from someone who “made it” by showing up in Japan with several million euros.

The real trick is to do both: Cook it for half the microwave time in the microwave, and then bake it for half the baking time. It still gets nice and crispy, and cuts the wait time in half.

From talking to my friends, I’ve gotta say the reason so few of my generation are getting married is because our parents’ generation fucked up marriage so bad that half of us think it’ll jinx our relationships. If anything, the same-sex marriage movement helped renew support for marriage as an institution, since it’s…

For dexterity: A lot of people don’t realize it, but the ability to consciously control how your body is positioned and how it moves is a learned skill, and you can improve it a lot if you work on it. (It also makes you more attractive!) Good activities for this are dancing, martial arts, yoga, and gymnastics.

Why are the direwolves giant but the moose is tiny? A direwolf was only slightly bigger than a normal wolf, and a moose should be much bigger than a horse.

The thing is, the Pope’s not allowed to have sex either. He has to remain celibate his whole life too, as do most of the people he spends time with. It’s probably not such a crazy idea to him.

Charity fraud is a real thing, though - if I ask you to make a donation to a cause and then just spend the money on myself, that’s illegal. I agree that Kickstarter supporters shouldn’t expect concrete results from their money, but it’s still reasonable to expect that that money be spent working on that project.

Ghirardelli chips are great. Plus their brownie mix is excellent. They seem like the kind of brand that takes baking seriously, and would have actually put in effort to find the right formula for good chocolate chip cookies, rather than just selling their normal chocolate in chip form.

A few tips from my own experience:

I use a 5 year old 3Gs that’s still basically good as new, despite being dropped more times than I can count. I left it on iOS 5, because at this point any upgrade is only going to make things worse. I’ve had a few apps stop supporting the OS, but the major ones work fine. Plus I never had to deal with the SSL bug or…