“They were charged with making a Lord Of The Rings series that appealed to the widest audience possible without alienating die-hard fans.”

but it’s looking like Amazon’s big gamble might just pay off, despite the efforts of the usual toxic suspects.

REMEMBER, FOLKS, IF YOU DON’T BUY A PRIME SUBSCRIPTION AND MAKE JEFF BEZOS EVEN RICHER, YOU’RE RACIST, SEXIST, AND ANY OTHER -IST WE CAN THINK OF.

Tits and Dragons sell!

As we have seen with things like the Innocence project and others (like you have one right now in the SAME day posting: https://www.theroot.com/judge-angered-by-hidden-evidence-in-wrongful-conviction-1849469296), it doesn’t really matter if you did the crime or not, if you are lumped in (due to skin color and…

“Raising awareness”... why does anyone need to be aware of this other than to watch it?

“I’ve always been terrible at them, ever since their original run in the 1980s, as a child. Not because I’m incapable of mastering them, as clearly it’s a possible skill to learn. But because I’m just unwilling and uninterested in putting in the required level of practice before I will start being any good.”

I think the central message is, “I suck at this game. I know I suck at this game. I have no impetus to not suck at this game. Reminding me I suck at this game isn’t going to change the fact that I suck at this game.” As John Walker said, that’s just acceptance.

“other people do worse stuff, so it’s ok if I do this bad thing” is not an argument a functioning adult should ever make.

it would have been SO SIMPLE to add this pick to the Root post, thank you.

Building a space launch company, a multi-thousand satellite constellation, and the most successful EV company is a snake-oil salesman?

Not to be one of those nerds who defends Elon musk, but here in California nearly every car is a Tesla and the folks who drive them all love them, swear by them, and say they’ll never drive another car that’s not a Tesla.   That’s some snake oil he’s got there.  

Actually pretty close! No, I give Best Supporting Actor to Bruce Willis, if only by a hair, over Jackson.

Our schools largely are not (and should not be) equipped to do the investigative, public safety and criminal justice work necessary in these types of situations. This is bad, because our public safety and law enforcement system is designed to select and brutalize “bad people” (and tends to know ‘em when they see…

sources claim it tastes the same as a regular arrow, but is entirely plant based.

I read that passage and I was like, “Damn, this profile is a two-for-one takedown. Include Snyder in the body count.”

Sounds like the same kind of fun banter or back-and-forth I’d have with my friends, without anyone being a jerk and everyone in on the joke. Whole lot of nothing being played for minimal chuckles and clicks.

They project the lines onto a screen, often with animatics etc so that having to look down or keep really still doesn’t limit the performance.  You can clearly see they’re reading off camera.  Everyone’s probably dressed nice because someone went “hey we’re going to put a green screen up and film some promo content”.