Yes. Honey I shrunk the fucking kids is better than some of these choices. Battle Royale (while I enjoy and appreciate it) might be one of the most overrated movies of all time — getting banned is not automatically ennobling. Some of these are just straight-up, ham-fisted attempts to prove due diligence. Dune. The…

Your hand has been over played friend.

True. Sometimes I think the most damaging terrible thing that ever happened to strong female characters is the combination of words: strong female character.

I think he’s trying to talk about this sort of anxiety of representation in which to have a heroine or female protagonist (today) with flaws, vulnerabilities, shortcomings, or failures is to create a ‘bad’ or ‘weak’ depiction (that will get you dragged on twitter) rather than a full or complex character which…

nailed it. Everyone wants this to be some nefarious or canny scheme by Nintendo. It’s just Japanese business.

I think you point out the middle ground that I am completely willing to believe.

“You can always make more if demand is high. You can’t simply unmake product if you produced too much and get your money back in manufacturing costs.”

True....... to be fair Barry Bonds was two completely different kinds of Hall of Fame good. There was his early career, and there was when the steroids helped him become a home run slugger.

I completely agree that that Death Note was garbage, but what about it was ‘frat-bro’ exactly? (I am always interested about people’s various ideas of what ‘frat’ means)

effing A Santos, effing A.

I am with you on that!

Yep. It’s idiocy or sensationalism at work in the reportage on this story. The ‘powerful’ aspect of this warrior is that she was clearly of societal importance and status (a leader) not necessarily hand to hand battle prowess (which she could have been, but that’ll never be more than speculative as with any other…

A few things:

By god, you’re on one McNugget!

poot windex on.

Also ...and I’m not saying plumbers are the ones that keep the money ... but mother fuckers cost about as much (per hour of work) as lawyers or doctors. 

Thank you for being not insane! I am not even aware of an italian-blue collar stereotype (perhaps american immigrant-manual labor ?) let alone a plumbers specifically!? Are there a lot of Italian plumbers? More so than tailors or waste management services?

It also still works when liberally applied to Barbecuing meats

It also still works when liberally applied to Barbecuing meats

I don’t think you’re wrong about eventually finding a way across the wall or going over it but two things: