Well, the big left turn for me was the explosion Cersei rigged up which killed numerous characters that were still alive and well in the books, that was well before things broke off in the books. But I do think it’s fair to say that fans were more forgiving with GOT since they knew there was no canon ending yet. That…

Seriously. At least wait for both the ink on the divorce papers and the recovering addict to dry out first before making babies together.

Babytrapping!  New word for me, and an excellent one to describe this situation.

I don’t know if GoT became disconnected from the books so much as they just ran out of existing material and had to make up their own storylines (however based they were on GRRM’s plans).

The only Part 1 of those movies you listed that I remember liking was Infinity War (part 1 of The Hobbit was so godawful I never watched parts 2 and 3). But crucially, what separates all the movies you mentioned from Dune was that the Part 2s were already greenlit, or part of franchises so successful that there was no…

Both of those are TV and I think that could work. For a 150 million dollar movie, if the fan boys come out with hugely negative opinions because they completely deviated the book, that can be a killer. For tent pole movies, the fan boys need to come and see the movie over and over, and be the ones who push the movie…

We did... but that last season... UGGGH... I’m still mad that they put their siege engines OUTSIDE THE FUCKING WALLS!!! and tried to break the morale of an army that HAS NO MORALE using LIGHT CALVARY in a direct charge... I was almost yelling at the TV at that point about how frustrating it was to see.

I’m curious, how exactly do you define a “whole movie”? Because you’re certainly getting over two hours of incredible visuals and strong performances in Dune, which qualifies as a movie to me. If you are avoiding movies that end on something of a cliffhanger or only take on part of a book, that means you sat out…

So much of the problem with the tipping system is that the consumer is just expected to know all of this - you have to know to tip, how much to tip, how to tip (cash/card/etc), why you have to tip even if you don’t want to, etc. Part of this is common knowledge in the food service industry since it gets talked about a…

I’m gonna bet the people that talk loudly in theaters or use cell phones during a movie and people who are afraid of covid and taking precautions to protect themselves by staying home have very little overlap. 

a lifetime crossover ending with the Christmas Prince dropping a nuclear bomb on New York City and the Roys and their empire. And that’s a lesson in why material things don’t matter and only family does. 

And again, some TikTok person “discovers” what is already widely known. Thanks.

Honestly I don’t have a problem with paying the server more than that, but it would have to be the sort of (relatively extreme) situation that would prompt a traditional gratuity, the sort that they have across the world and should have in the US to say you’re really impressed and grateful (or really rich). So like…

That’s a clear and consistent approach, but the key part here is that you pay the same amount REGARDLESS of service. And as would be expected, folks like Salty are going to argue that you should pay 50% or even 100% (as noted in this article) if the person goes above and beyond, if you can afford it, etc. And of…

Maybe be up front with your intentions from the beginning. If you just want to have a casual fuck buddy arrangement, start off with saying you’re not looking for a serious, committed relationship. Don’t do a bait and switch. 

Counter-Counter point: If you are actually honest with them (“I don’t see this growing into anything more than physical”), then I’d respect them enough as an adult to manage their feelings, and understand what that means. And yes, it’s not unbelievable that someone would say “No, I’m not going to keep hooking up with…

Apple’s crisis team is on the move, I see! 

... because you are expected to have a mate -- and that, for many people of both genders, the best option is not to, because there ISN’T one out there for you.  And I really think that a lot of this is based on the misnomer that there is.  There are people out there for whom God created no mate, and any other idea on…

And links are no longer fucking LINKS either, just text. Images have managed the difficult task of getting worse, somehow.

What’s even worse about the notifications is that I find sometimes the reply to my posts is nowhere to be seen when I visually search the thread.  No matter how hard I look, whether the respondant is grey or not, some replies just cannot be found even though i have a notification giving a preview of them.  It makes it…