I’m not sure I could love this article more. The author manages to make real points while maintaining an off-the rails voice.

Wait... isn’t the new rule “everything counts? Does that include games? Does that mean it’s canon that Vader and Luke ran into each other on Hoth... and they didn’t show that scene in the film?

Poosicle...

That’s true, but it’s a problem that’s slowly going away. And in the meantime, yeah, men usually need to take the lead in straight courtship- but like everything else, you do that at the right time and place.

“that sort of idealism that would be Naive in anyone else... but they are simply so honestly good, that it makes you want to believe in it.”

That’s not the argument at all. Your point is addressed int he comment. The OP is making a case that recent changes are not for the better.

I really hope that we can grow some of the same sensitivity we have towards ancient European cultures as we’re moving towards with more exotic cultures. They still get exploited, but not as egregiously as we now do vikings and Celts. If you know anything at all about real viking material culture, most depictions look…

Nope, just historical recreationists from around Europe.
I have several Cosplayer friends and several recreationist friends. I’d say the mean level of skill in cosplayers is higher than that of recreationists, but at the highest levels the recreationists are doing astounding stuff like making the materials for their…

Oi. Vikings were an actual thing, not comic book or video game characters.
That last was a very cool costume, but it was no more viking than it was cosmonaut. Literally not a single item in that cosplay was even inspired by or inflected by the real culture that it’s appropriating the name of.

What’s great about the movie is not that it didn’t give us any backstory or explain anything. It’s how the film did this with such concision. All the pieces are there if you want to put them together.

I do not know this “Leslie Horn” person - if that’s even their real name - but the placement of Kermit as low as #10 is as clear an indication as I’ve ever seen that she is a human monster.

Maybe co-ordinate with Bricken and Whitbrook to divvy up the duties and make sure everything’s covered?
Or is this too co-ordinated an approach for Giz’s editorial style?

“doom”

“it might be a little too dubious from a moral point of view”

I don’t think it’s about content, like most of your suggestions in the article. I think its about form.

Movies take place in a setting- usually close to our reality. Once driving yourself is illegal or tightly limited, having your outsider cop drive his own car will be like having him carry a battle axe instead of a gun.

All of whom are statistically insignificant outliers whose voices, added to mine, won’t make a dent against people trumpeting safety and imploring us to think of the children.

“you’ll still have every “Plays-by-his/her-own rules” Hollywood archetype character driving some ‘72 GM droptop everywhere as a personal trademark.”

You’re right that it’ll take a while to turn the current fleet over, but once it does... how long do you really think it’ll still be legal to drive your own car? You’ll be…

I really, really, really don’t want this future of self-driving cars that all my nerdy friends seem excited about.

I don’t see a problem with this except in mod management.