What’s not clear is how they’ll calculate the earnings under Red. If it’s like Spotify, they’ll base payouts not on a straight number of views, but on the percentage of the total pie those views represent. That could easily mean significantly less on a “per view” basis than advertising was providing.

You lost me there . . . at this image size and resolution all I can tell is that the pants are black, and I didn’t realize that was somehow a marker for “lawyer.” Heck, how can you even be sure that the white guy is supposed to be the Jewish one? They may not be the predominant variety in New York, but there are black…

Are they being stereotypical, or are you by assuming “the Jewish one” is the lawyer absent any actual evidence?

Claiming that things that happened in BTTF were designed to set up elements of the sequels seems a little far-fetched to me, since neither of the sequels was written until a couple of years after the first movie was released. Also, time travel movies *have* to be carefully constructed, or they fall apart completely…

I know Tracie’s gone, but you should still see if you can get this re-posted on the main site as a response to the glowing little piece that CNN’s new Great Big Story site posted as part of its launch today. A few people have been linking it in comments as a reality check, but most of them are just women gushing about…

I’ve got no problem believing that the phrase was used in a quote in an early edit of the episode, and maybe it was even used by Ms. Brown. Heck, the first person I ever heard use the term as an adjective was black. The problem is that they *ever* thought pulling the phrase out and highlighting it as the title was…

The pizza dough lady was clearly a jerk, and Papa John’s policies are what they are, but I don’t think it’s actually a thing for restaurants to be certified to sell only cooked food, and nothing raw. Lots of places sell both cooked food and raw food (salads, fruit plates, steak tartare, etc., etc.). As far as I know,…

Are you in the Carolinas, by any chance? I’m in Asheville, and get my pizza dough at the tailgate market from a company called Rio Bertolini’s that’s based in Charleston, SC but clearly has a pretty wide reach. Their dough is great for pizza and calzones, and also makes pretty decent bread/rolls.

I think you’re right that most people would eventually come around to chips and salsa as an option, but I’d say the real point here is that when the server seemed confused, the customer couldn’t offer a single clarifying detail and just got angry and loud.

I agree that the other examples I used have a bit more narrative variety to them, but even though these BCO stories are all of the same genre, each one has its own unique details and idiocies, and “give me what you gave me before but with a few tiny tweaks” is a pretty standard commercial strategy. This is basically…

You keep saying “utterly destroyed the Empire” but your only evidence to support it is a few scenes showing celebration on several of literally *thousands* of worlds. If all that was left of the Rebel Alliance was their forces on Endor’s moon, isn’t it just as plausible that they weren’t able to follow up their big…

In my head the Special Edition additions are non-canon, but even if you accept that they happened, two or three planets (including one of the biggest hotbeds of opposition to the Imperial takeover, Naboo) do not an “entire galaxy” make.

There was no chance this movie was going to be made without a ton of self-awareness and fan service, but I think that jumping to the conclusion that it’s just a reboot of the “exact same” story is probably premature.

Ugh, watching this just makes me annoyed with the Special Edition changes all over again . . . this version took a scene that was already cheezy right over the top into near-parody. So terrible.

They killed the Emperor and blew up a big base, but that doesn’t mean they “beat down the Empire.” The Empire is a huge, galaxy-spanning entity that undoubtedly had a giant bureaucracy in place to keep it moving forward, however much the loss of the Emperor would have hurt.

It feels like you’re just saying the same thing over and over again . . . the point is not that there’s some magical cut-off time after which no one should be allowed to work, the point is that having to stay later than you thought would have to stay is annoying, no matter where you draw the line.

Arguing and explaining aren’t the same thing. I’d wager that in 90% of the stories on here, the servers were extremely polite and patient while in the actual situation, and seem heated because they’ve finally got the opportunity to vent in this venue.

Because the customer is not always right.

Schadenfreude and I-was-there-too commiseration are both powerful emotions.

“Popular across all platforms” is presumably just based on how many hits and/or comments a story gets. This is a recurring feature, sure, but it’s a very popular one . . . something like the Rich and Caity “Best Restaurant in New York” series…

I had jumped to the conclusion that she was going to demand a free meal in exchange for her “brilliant” idea, but asking for royalties is a whole different level of oblivious.