Camryn Manheim, best known (I guess) for The Practice, wrote an entire book about being fat. A story she told was that David E. Kelley though that her character should have a jar of candy on her desk. Manheim answered: “No fat person has a jar of candy on their desk, because we don’t want to be seen eating, and…

I always figured that Monica, in “real life”, had an eating disorder. A formerly-fat person, now rail-thin, who works around food and is a control freak? Come ON.

Heinlein was first, but “All You Zombies” is a closed-loop time travel thing, whereas Gerrold’s book has an orgy scene with, I think, some mixture of displaced-in-time and parallel-universe equivalents, so it wins.

As far as I know, the ur-text on hooking up with your own time variants is David Gerrold’s The Man Who Folded Himself, which I recommend, at least based on my reading when I was 15 so...

This is the only good “actually” in the history of the Internet.

Don’t forget “all the sugar”!  (Unless I’ve confused that with something else.)

To herself.

I can’t get past the idea that Ian and Poppy have to quit their jobs in order to create and work on a second game. That’s what a game studio is; a way for multiple teams to work on different things.

Yeah, that last scene was almost literally “Donna, I have an idea...”

On the Internet, personal food tastes are objective facts.

Yeah, just coming to post that.  Any real company would just refuse to pay dead people.

If you bought an Apple device in late 2019 this is the month you finally have to start paying for Apple TV+, which I’m guessing is why Ted Lasso comes back now.

Anyone who programs in C will know immediately what kind of code bug this is, although why it’s crashing things depends on how it’s being used. Strings with ‘%’s in them are called format strings, and they’re using in a context like this:

That’s just The Nutcracker.

As-a-straight-man, my first crush on a girl was in 2nd grade.

Well, now you made it a trans thing, so problem solved.

“...we are explicitly TOLD in the text of [The Usual Suspects] that Verbal is Keyser Soze”

Yes, the article is, I’m afraid, completely wrong about this. The import of the Fugitive finale is that, afterwards, the show did poorly in syndication, and from 1967 to 1983, series finales were considered poison. (Whether it was the finale that did this is of course up to interpretation.) It was only with the MASH fi…

“We’re gonna need another Hooch.”

Good observation, and I also appreciate the user name, which is appropriate (at an odd angle) for this show.