That was the story the Kinja websites wanted you to believe, but it wasn’t the actual story. What got taken down was the “I want to see/Don’t want to see” poll for Captain Marvel (and every other film, I guess), which is NOT actually a review nor meant to be. It was never about the quality of the film for anyone…

You have to be wary of taking dementia and delusion as an all-or-nothing proposition. It isn’t. When she concludes that her air conditioner falling is due to someone tampering with it, its possible she’s just being paranoid. When she and her neighbor find a fucking tripwire trap in her yard, you can bet she’s not…

At only 63? I highly doubt that, and remember, just because someone is losing their faculties does not mean people aren’t in fact out to get them. Indeed, the article gives plenty of evidence that Gail has been paranoid about Gary’s former associates for a long time now, due to some very well documented history of him…

In several Asian countries dust masks and surgical masks have become popular because of a combination of population density and public transit (the trains can be so packed in Tokyo that a mask is a legitimate way to protect your health) as well as air pollution, especially in China.

You automatically have a right to your likeness. This is common knowledge in the film industry. You don’t need to do anything to copyright it, companies have to come to you if they want the rights to use your face in marketing or merchandise. That is why, famously, Lucasfilm could use the faces of all the main cast to…

Sadly, the era of monopoly busting definitively ended in the Reagan era, when the government decided for moronic reasons that somehow monopolies are a good thing. Read: when the government got bought out by corporate interests.

It sounds to me like the problem lies with the bureaucracy on the part of both companies; Lucasfilm has its story group who wants to micromanage every licensed work for even minute aesthetic details (unless its part of the Sequel trilogy, in which case they just let the director go nuts, damn the consequences), while…

TFA: mediocre, good score but the director came with baggage due to being in love with unsolved mysteries.

Well, keep in mind that under Lucas, the canon system was a self-regulating set of rules that fans, creators, and game devs could easily navigate. There were tiers, with the films being absolute Truth, and everything below that having the right to be increasingly deviant from the Truth. They could contradict eachother…

Indeed, the system of canon “tiers” was a brilliant one for the inherent problems of an Expanded Universe. It allowed the people making supplementary products like video games and novels do whatever the hell they wanted with the only permission needed being the license itself, and then everything could be sorted out…

You would think, but apparently insurance companies don’t normally cover acts of vandalism or arson, and as has been discussed to death in other threads, even comprehensive insurance (assuming you can afford it, and most people can’t) won’t pay out the full price of a new car. Because insurance companies assume…

Pro-Tip: you can always Dismiss his posts and refuse him attention. Even long after you can no longer edit your own posts.

You must be British. Here in America a ”bathroom” is in fact exactly what you are describing. It does not have to have a bathtub or shower in it, just a toilet and sink. We also don’t do rooms with only a shower or bathtub in them for the sake of using space efficiently; it basically always has a toilet and sink in the…

Yup— the study hasn’t passed peer-review yet, and already CNET is having to clarify on the writer’s behalf that its not actually 50% russian trolls, but a mere 16 accounts that might be Russian out of hundreds in the data set. So no more Russians than you would expect to find in literally any Twitter data set.

According to CNET, the number of Russian posters in the data set is no higher than you would expect for literally any other discussion of this sort. So basically, AVClub, Gizmodo, and almost every other source that reported on this paper besides CNET misrepresented it for reasons.

That’s the real brilliance of eevee. Its really none of the above. It is not equivalent to any one real world animal, even though it looks like it could absolutely exist in real life. Eevee is eevee. Its the pure expression of every mammal in existence besides rodents and primates. And every evolution of the critter…

Probably not most pokemon, but Slowpoke tails are explicitly said to grow back, which is why the games aren’t coy about people eating slowpoke tails. Why this is illegal in Jhoto is another question, however, given that in Alola they sell that stuff in the canned foods isle.

Hinted at? In the Sun and Moon post-game adventure Looker straight up confirms that a Guzzlord killed one of his previous partners while on duty, and that he came to you to try and keep his current partner Annabel from getting hurt the same way.

The thing is, it actually reminded me of a hentai i09 posted about in the early days where the robot was piloted by a girl, and powered by orgone energy. Guess what that meant she did inside the cockpit? So yeah, this is basically just a hentai premise disguised as an ecchi anime. I kind of agree that a lot of…

The thing the girls have to wear on their heads by itself looks heavy enough to break their necks. Does no one who animates this show own an android tablet or the like? Because it seriously does not have to be that heavy to get the job done.