It’s actually a relief that I can still experience compassion for these clueless grifting dipshits who very much punched their own tickets to bankruptcy and obscurity.

Scott Adams acting like he’s a hypnotist is one of those things I’d never have predicted, yet seems obvious in hindsight. 

I’ve been trying for 20 damn years, yo.

I remember the hype buildup to the Segway announcement, and I remember the hissing sound as all the air escaped from the balloon. As a non-car owner, I thought the tech was cool but I could see a fatal flaw immediately: it had all the downsides of riding your bike to work (you get wet when it rains, it can get really…

I can still remember the build up to this thing, and tuning in to some morning show where they unveiled it, after all this hype about how it would revolutionize personal transport. I distinctly remember it being unveiled, and if you’d had a big wet shart for a sound effect, you couldn’t have had a more dismal…

The price is what did it in. Plenty of people would have bought one if it was $1000 instead of $5000 (about 7500 today).

The Segway had a lot of long-term influence, despite being a weird failure. Look at all the battery-powered scooters and skateboards and bikes and (self-balancing) hoverboard things that did not exist at the time and probably wouldn’t exist in the same forms today. Segway showed that battery powered vehicles didn’t…

I remember the hype campaign well, and I remember well the disappointment when the miracle product was revealed to be this expensive toy scooter thing.

Yes. I do. I’ve read the books and watched the movies (hello 4 hour director cuts) at least 45 times. I’m a bit of a LOTR nut.

If you made it one movie, then how would you stop the movie cold to have a bunch of annoying characters sing a song about washing the dishes?

Actual Lord of the Rings = Sauron

I don’t think this was an either/or proposition. Bezos wasn’t sitting on his diamond throne thinking, “Hmm, I really want to pay my employees a living wage and treat them like human beings, but I also really want to make this Lord of the Rings show, and I can’t do both! Oh, decisions, decisions . . .”

The Hobbit, as a self contained story, did not need 3 movies. It could have been done in one. Almost the entire 3rd movie isn’t even in the book because Bilbo is knocked out at the beginning of the titular battle and we only see what happened after it’s over. But why do that when you can have a CGI 3 hour slog that…

Is this really something that we, as consumers, want? I mean, Fellowship came out TWENTY years ago, and I seem to recall that when they made the Hobbit into three movies for some reason, we all wagged our fingers and went 'that's enough of that then.' 

The real Lord was the Rings we made along the way

the actual Lord Of The Rings loses his favorite piece of jewelry in battle and then waits for it to be found by a slimy cave creep who then loses it to some filthy hobbitses

and what’s going on with that tree

THANK YOU. Was about to post the same thing. 

I had to log off TikTok because my head wanted to explode from all the garbage medical misinformation being spewed on there. I get where they are going, but I dunno how effective it will be.