Yeah, guess what: The glue that binds the layers of a DVD together can decay, warping the surface of the disk and making the movie unplayable. If you buy a movie on iTunes and you’re concerned about them losing the rights to it, you can download it and keep it on a hard drive. But hard drives can fail too.

Maybe the deeply mentally-ill person who believed George Clooney was involved in a conspiracy against her was delusional.

He was not fired.  He quit.  They tried to accommodate him and he didn’t want to come back under any circumstances.  And he was really funny.  The scene with him at the whiteboard trying to figure out how to jerk off everyone at Techcrunch is kind of the defining moment of that show.

I don’t believe the rape allegation against TJ Miller. It is over a decade old, was adjudicated by the low standards of a campus disciplinary committee and did not result in any punishment, and the accuser may have been retaliating against Miller for getting kicked out of a campus sketch comedy group. There’s no…

There have been a lot of people like you throughout history who felt things would be better if Jews didn’t exist.

The ridiculous demon cult explanation for everything is Ari Aster dotting the “i” in his signature with a little smiley face. He’s showing you that he never gave a shit about whatever you thought he cared about in the first act. You thought he was trying to be Cassavetes, but he’s actually trying to be Eli Roth.

I think that it did a first-act feint at being a story about mental illness, and then it took a left turn and went full-bore on the supernatural stuff. The real twist is that it starts off like an art film and then abandons its layers of meaning and symbolism to go full-grindhouse with a bloodbath finale that is…

I rewatched the first movie recently, and did not remember the part where Elastigirl was concerned that Mr. Incredible was having an affair with Syndrome’s Number 2, Mirage. But that was in there.

Sea World enclosures are too small for orcas, and orca captivity should probably end.

My guess is that this unsolicited stuff happens more on RP servers. I played on PvP servers, and people assume that female avatars are probably dudes IRL anyway, because the playerbase of WoW has always been overwhelmingly male, especially on PvP servers.

The best thing the gaming press can do about the fact that Paladins is an Overwatch ripoff is to ignore Paladins, which it has done. It’s not like people are writing glowing articles about this game or the community around it without mentioning that it’s an Overwatch ripoff. The press isn’t Blizzard’s lawyers.

That’s not Runaway in the trailer. It is Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana.

Wario is a techno-libertarian who is spending his evenings on the dark web trying to learn how to use a botnet to mine crypto.

I thought this was kind of dumb until he got to Waluigi being a male feminist. That’s absolutely correct.

No, they aren’t. I will go through them and you for another season of Arrested Development. Also, I think they are lying.

What is the big deal? Sleeping in common areas is an unusual thing to do. There are vagrants, addicts and mentally ill people in the world who, we may not want inside of our residential buildings. Also, when you see someone passed out in public, they may be having a medical emergency.

The great thing about Pokemon is that it’s as casual or as hardcore as you want it to be. The competitive game is deep and intense. You can dump hundreds of hours into breeding and hunting an optimized army, and in the newest games, you can upgrade shiny Pokemon to competitive perfection.

If you want to play that way, go ahead. They call it a Nuzlocke challenge. If your Pokemon faints, you have to release it.

So compare the marginal utility of one Bobby Kotick over the best CEO you could get who would work for a total compensation package of $10 million, and then think about the top creative talent you could get with the $18 million you’d save by replacing Kotick with someone who only gets $10 million.

Stories like this are touted in media as a celebration of black accomplishment, but they’re really a demonstration of one of the most inexcusable racial inequalities in America.