He could be economically anxious. Or part of America’s forgotten middle class. Maybe he’s a victim of the opiod crisis. Or involuntarily celibate. But really I’m sure he was polite to his neighbors and a fan of country music.

“We don’t know if this was racist”

Guessing that the Red Bursts are going to be a result of the creation of the Kelvin timeline causing ripples backwards. Hence the link to Spock and also a handy excuse for the differences between Discovery, Classic Trek, *and* New Trek.

It’s still Bruce Banner. Wimpy pink, sinister gray or brutal green. All of these are still Bruce Banner, just pieces of him acting independently of one another. He’s not a whole persona and hasn’t been since he saw his father beat his mother to death.

Kira mentions him a lot. She became Kai largely because she didn’t trust anyone else to do the job and Sisko is very much her guiding star. There’s a little more with Sisko, small references here and there (his baseball is still in Ops waiting for him) and there’s one rather cool thing in the new content, too.

I gotta side with Sesame Workshop here. It may seem nitpicky and anal, but companies need to be vigilant with their brands. Letting things slide is why we call all facial tissues “Kleenex” and why we say we’re “Xeroxing” something no matter what type of copier is used.

This is an article about the Handmaid’s Tale that analyzes its inspirations and motivations for existing. Most, if not all art/media has a purpose for existing and I hate to break it to you, but eventually it’s going to connect with the real world, which means people who analyze it for a living are going to write or…

Its been 4 years and somehow people are still complaining about this...

Are just not going to address the fact that there is a giant ant playing drums in this trailer?

It’s not particularly difficult to understand why Westworld and Shōgun World (and the things that happen within the parks) have different significances. Westworld is a distillation of a very particular kind of Americana and the show has depicted it as being frequented by (mostly) westerners. Shōgun World, by…

Tax robotic automation more than people. ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!’  

The two children are dying because they’re starving to death and experiencing sickness from fallout. That is inherently “suffering” and it doesn’t matter whether it’s one set of children or the other (that criticism could be levied at any film’s characters). The deaths themselves are only incidental to the end of the…

Tiny edit, Les - the closing track this week is by Clearside, not Clearslide. Clearslide is the name of the company I did some freelance work for a year or so ago that turned out to be a bunch of anal retentive dickbags.

In my community, a prominent VA doctor went for his morning run along the river and was found dead in it a few hours later. The coroner ruled his death an accident, even though his wife, who is also a doctor, looked at his body and found signs of a struggle. His wife is on a crusade to prove he was murdered. I’m not…

You can solve a lot of taste problems with garlic butter.

Amen, it’s nice to see a story where a hero isn’t predestined. There’s ironically nothing special about a chosen one. The hero who works hard and has a good heart and does what’s right is far more interesting to me.

she was writing in interlac the language of the legion of super heroes time.