I don’t understand how two movies with this premise got made, because who is supposed to be the target audience?? It’s a mix between a cheesy female empowerment narrative and a violent gritty mob movie. Who watches Hidden Figures and thinks “this needs more murder”? or who watches The Departed and thinks “this needs…

Yeah The Social Network is a great work of fiction, but as a work of non-fiction it pisses me off. Clearly the real Zuckerberg had no issues with dating, by all accounts he’s happily married to a super hot doctor. So the film has to go and basically erase all the real-life women around him to try and make its point.

Can Idris Elba sing and/or dance? I’m not a fan of the trend of hiring non-singers for movie musicals, but Cats has to be the worst possible property to give that treatment. It’s barely a play, just a showcase for music and dance. 

It used to annoy me how these videos filled up my facebook feed, but then I realized... my feed is full of them because I watch them through, every time. They’re just so shitty and weird, I kind of love them.

It’s not quite as ironic, but my last 2 jobs have been working on software to make driving safer and more pleasant. I don’t own a car or drive regularly, and neither do most of my coworkers (the offices are downtown and do not provide parking).

Some of this is just getting older. But you’re not imagining things, pop music really has gotten very bland recently. When was the last big ubiquitous earworm? Despacito??

Are “nothing on you” and “feels” covers? Or does he just not care that those were both titles of massive hit songs in the last decade?

I’m not sure they were ahead of their time so much as very, very of their time.

That’s exactly the problem, actually - chicken is really easy to cook. So it’s a huge waste to order chicken at a restaurant, because it’s not going to taste significantly better than the chicken you make at home.

It doesn’t sound like UMG is actually denying the loss of the masters. They talk about how “the availability of the commercially released music” was unaffected, and that “master-quality, high-resolution, audiophile versions” still exist. That’s just saying that good quality copies exist of the actual finished albums.…

Oh, that’s a really interesting idea.

The problem with buying a scooter (which I can confirm, because I own one), is that it doesn’t disappear once you’ve arrived at your destination. If I want to take my scooter to the grocery store, I either need to leave it on the sidewalk to get stolen or take it into the store with me and carry it around.

You know, there’s a part of me that’s kind of bummed out that he’s becoming more open about being gay. The level of ambiguity and plausible deniability he maintained for so long was really impressive.

The movie is set in the 90s, so I think the reviewer just doesn’t know what twerking means.

It just occurred to me now, for the first time in my life, that the title “King of Queens” is referring to Queens, NY. Of course!

Yeah I’m not convinced this list would look all that different if it was just “10 fantasy writers to read after Game of Thrones.” Certainly Robin Hobb and NK Jemisin would still be in the top 3.

That’s funny, it’s the opposite for me. The first book is always a bore, but once I’ve fallen in love with the characters and the plot fully kicks in the next two breeze by.

Start with either the Farseer Trilogy or Liveship Traders, depending on your preference for animal sidekicks vs pirates.

From there, read the other one, and then continue the Realm of the Elderlings books in order.

Here’s a recommendation I never hear, but if you want something that feels like ASOIAF, it’s the best I know:

Women are statistically more likely to be pro-life than men are, so I’d imagine it’s a very small percentage.