There’s no such thing as involuntary celibacy. If you make no effort to make yourself appealing, that’s just being lazy and entitled. It’s like wanting to drive a car but refusing to learn how to make turns. There’s nothing involuntary about it.

Yeah you’re right, the best way to deal with a problem is to never, ever talk about it.

“Yes, on the one hand, Disney is using legal loopholes to circumbent the will of the elected representatives of the people.”

Amazon is the market leader in cloud infrastructure by a good margin.

No, the argument is that if a man or woman is too drunk to consent, not just if they’ve been drinking.

This is ridiculous. There are plenty of countries that have figured out how to tax billionaires. The problem lies in that there are countries that are actively encouraging billionaires to come, and often times launder their money as a nice benefit. Looking at you Switzerland, you bunch of assholes.

“If you were straight in 2012 then you probably thought this was the coolest thing, but all the queer folks knew this was lame as hell”

It would be very easy to tax the value of the loan at time of issuance if the loan is over a certain value. Heck, you could even progressively scale it.

“Was a huge tax deficit worth fighting Disney for being too “woke?””

Yeah, that’s usually when the artist stops benefitting directly.

“On the other hand, this seems super shady (and un-Canadian).”

“Apparently, a video of Teixeira shooting guns at a range while shouting racist and anti-semitic slurs wasn’t a dealbreaker for them.”

Gotta love the attention to safety there by using a cloth rag.

It’s all make-believe bro.

“This is the point. And why? Because if you turn off this group of fans (see also: Star Wars, Star Trek, DC and Marvel as examples - some do it right, others....not so much) then you are just begging to get a medicore reception, medicore ratings (unless it is truly superb by all measures) and a shit ton of critiscm.”

Wait how am I not having a good faith discussion (I have no idea where your goof faith shit comes from but I don’t really care). All you’ve done is repeat one thing over and over without saying anything with actual substance.

Who knew Pokemon were as boring as your typical urban dweller?

What ardent fans are there of a brand new show? This isn’t Peter Jackson’s LOTR on Amazon, nor is this Tolkien’s Amazon show. There are ardent fans of the books, or the previous shows, and you should not cater to this audience primarily. You should cater to everyone since that makes the most business sense. Every book…

Because the hardcore fans would only approve of what they perceive as what is correct in their heads, and would want the lore to be as detailed as if you were reading multiple Tolkien books. This would bore or confuse the general audience. It has to be dumbed down to appeal to a wider audience because there just isn’t…

“Personally, every LOTR fan I know watched the first episode and wrote it off as garbage.”