being against cancel culture

This person being popular enough to have a tour is my official “I don’t understand kids anymore” moment that parents have when they realized that pop culture had passed them, it was no longer for them, and it will never be for them again.

Given the headline, I was really expecting some kind of actual game with this, like different pattens on the cookies making for some kind of simple sequence or matching activity you can play with your kids or something, but no, it’s just a stupid social media promo to drive brand engagement.

The real worst pikachu clone:

I have no idea who these people are (aside from Logan Paul, where everything I’ve learned about him has been against my will).

I kinda wondered the same thing, but someone pointed out that the amount of money the Saudis are losing here is pretty much a rounding error and the upside play to basically codify Twitter as a tool to crack down on dissent (something they’d already been using it for for years) was worth it, with the downside play of…

That’s what makes this the worst timeline. We’re rooting for Zuckerberg because the alternative is the more embarrassing of TWO rocket-ship-owning real-life Bond villains. Bill Gates is the world’s most respected philanthropist. We think Warren Buffett is the lesser evil because he just runs his business like a 20th…

It is truly a bizarre set of events that has occurred that makes Mark Zuckerberg the more likable of two alternatives.  He’s weird and off-putting, sure, but he’s not “the world’s most divorced man”, “the world’s tenderest billionaire”, or “someone who spends all day chasing clout from the alt-right teens.”

I really don’t see why not.  After Geralt’s lengthy convalescence in the books, he’s basically a different person anyway.  Even before they announced Cavill was leaving, I had figured “that was the natural point to recast if you needed to” just from having read the books.

I’m a BIG witcher fan and it has been a real struggle with the Netflix show. They do one portion of a story perfectly, and then the rest of the season feels like halfhearted fanfiction. It really, really had potential and the team at Netflix have dropped the ball outside of one or two really golden episodes. Losing…

It may be that losing Cavill is a death knell because the only thing keeping the show popular was his picture perfect portrayal of how most viewers see Geralt.

Why does it matter who she is? The security detail no doubt was embarrassed at letting a random stranger get close enough to stab him and took it out on her. Deportation sounds good.

I remember when reading about how wizards just go to the bathroom on the floor and make it disappear that I suddenly thought “well, this feels less full of wonder than I would have hoped...”

I think you underestimate just how horny Hollywood is for the Chinese market and their 1.4 billion potential moviegoers.

There’s something strangely comforting about the fact that no matter how weird the world gets, or how dire our shared problems become, there will always be a handful of weird chuds pathetic enough to create imposter accounts inside the moldering corpse flotilla that is the kinja sites.

JK Rowling has gone a long way to making me not care about the Wizarding World (and only 20% of that is because of her abhorrent politics - most of it is the actual stuff she decides to say about the Wizarding World), but surely there’s another story to tell other than remaking movies that are still very much alive in…

Especially when the primary audience this should be for is children who need more convincing to go to bed on time. I definitely do not want them to have an excuse to have their phone in bed with them with the screen turned on.

Baldur’s Gate

Ballinger deserves no pity but I’m also really annoyed by the kinds of people who scour someone’s history for any scandal that might provide them with the tiniest bit of internet clout.

The convention center itself should put a cap on it. That’s why Otakon moved - they wanted more attendance and Baltimore didn’t have the capacity.