The answer to your first question is that people are different. For you, subtitles blend right in and become part of the art. But for other people, the subtitles are like a blinking like or a honking horn, constantly yanking them out of the immersion of the film. No one chooses to see it this way. Our brains are just…

“Black Lives Matter” is a lousy slogan.

Schon was the creative force behind Journey, even though I didn’t want to admit that in the 80's. I begrudgingly went to see them again with their new singer Arnel Pineda about ten years ago, and I can honestly say that he sang the songs better than Steve Perry did. It truly just felt like a Journey concert.

Having…

Excuse me, but exactly how does this story belong on LifeHacker? I come here to AVOID all the political posturing and bullshit. I have no problem with Trump being impeached. Whatever. But put the damned story where it freakin’ belongs, and that’s NOT on LifeHacker. We come here for a type of news we can’t get anywhere…

I tried the Impossible Whopper. I have no intention of going vegetarian, but I have no opposition to “fake” meat. I figure that if we can create a meat substitute that’s better for the environment, hey, win-win for the planet. So I tried it. It’s worth noting that I grew up eating my burgers with just meat and cheese.…

What needs to happen is a HUGE class action lawsuit against the phone companies for allowing spamming to occur. You don’t see it as a line item, but we DO pay for Caller ID. So if they’re allowing it to be spammed, and ESPECIALLY if they’re allowing spammers to use the numbers of real people, then they are complicit…

My concern is that they’re trying to make us have sympathy for Joker, like was done in Rob Zombie’s Halloween. Humanizing Joker, or even giving his motivations a rational basis, takes away much of the creepiness of what he is.

Although I’m sure I can’t imagine what this is like for such a long duration, I do feel I can relate to the sense of realness that dreams can have.

Many years ago I blacked out for several minutes while recovering from donating blood (it turns out you’re not supposed to donate blood if you have low blood pressure).…

Ah, the good old “link” found in a “study.” If there was ever a shakier foundation for a conclusion, it would have dissolved like damp salt on a windy day by now. But, for anyone who isn’t that interested in how science actually works, let me clarify for you:

The term “link” is used when neither correlation or…

I suggest that you missed the point. Ellie got to her life goal and learned that what was important in life was the connections we have with each other. All the alien questions were not very important to her when she finally broke free of her quest for understanding and achieved what she lost as a child: her ability…

I could see buying the thing for the case and controllers and putting a Raspberry Pi in there.

Put. A. Handle. On. It.

There’s some suggestion in the movie that when the thing has overtaken someone, they might not even know they’re the thing at first. Like the thing replaces your cells with its cells, leaving your consciousness intact. Until it needs to do something other than what you decide to do on your own, you remain “alive,”…

I literally laughed out loud, dude.

llol?

There can be only one (Highlander movie).

The greatest line I ever waited in was for tickets to Journey’s Escape tour in 1981. Back then you just had to wait in line outside the arena until the tickets went on sale. I was 15 and had a tremendous crush on a girl at my school, and I wanted to invite her to the concert. I waited 16 hours overnight in a line of…

Dude, at least try one. Or better yet, don’t try one, but ask around and find friends that use them. That way you don’t spend any money, and you’re getting info from people you trust. Me personally, I wouldn’t give up my electric toothbrush for a lifetime supply of free manual brushes.

I don’t support Trump, but I agree with your point here. Many of his detractors are going ape-shit about him instead of, you know just voting for someone else. May I remind the American people that our founding fathers were all wanted for treason and terrorism in their native country? I don’t see any good coming out…

Lacey wins the Internet today!

In the RotJ novel, it’s explicitly stated that Death Star II is twice the size of the first Death Star. I have no idea where these numbers came from. I’m not a Star Wars fanboy, but I did read that novel when the movie came out, and for some reason that one stat stuck in my head all these years.