Oh! I was thinking that disappearing keyboard was a glitch in my phone. Glad to hear it is not.

And so many commenters here still defend that guy and Nick Denton! Simply because Peter Thiel is the person who destroyed them.

“Has this place gone downhill?”

You would have received a spanking in English class for writing something this stupid. What makes you think it’s acceptable in Gizmodo?

It’s just... a gymnastic feat of cognitive bias...

I would say that the concept of cargo ships mundanely travelling between the different planets occupied by humans requires more suspension of disbelief than a man wearing a robot suit that lets him fly and shoot energy blasts from his hands.

This, exactly. For the guy who made Prometheus to harp on suspension of belief...

I really wish he’d just stopped after saying super-hero movies weren’t his thing... because his argument for why sort of works against a large part of the films he is best known for.