It’s right between the Canadian Tire and the Future Shop!

I guess it did. But nuBSG’s later, poorer seasons overlapped with LOST and were obviously inspired by it. All those “mysteries” that never paid off.

In the olden days, when people paid for restaurant meals with actual cash rather than card or phone, the joke servers would always say as people scrambled to get enough cash among the people to pay the bill was “Don’t worry; we can always make you wash dishes to pay the bill!” Don’t know if it was ever actually done.

But even LOST (and other shows that copied that formula, like nuBSG) ended up promising far more than they delivered. It’s easy to hint that something is important and far harder to meaningfully work into the plot.

Balatro’s random in the way Solitaire and Backgammon are random. Like you can certainly point to cases where back luck sank you, but a skilled player can still win more often than not.

It certainly was shit after the first season (or maybe as Nilus says, towards the end of the first). But during most of the first season it was seen as a great show at a time when that was rare in network television.

“I played Sylar on the hit show Heroes, beloved by all who never saw the second season!”

I’m of two minds about it. Yes, I get that in Muppet tradition the Muppets are “real” and they don’t like to show the puppeteers. On the other hand, why should the puppeteers be erased? I mean in animation, nobody tries to hide that the characters are voiced by voice actors or pretends that the characters are real, so…

Disney Exec: “Ron Howard will surely make an insightful documentary about Jim Henson!”

It’s also the 40th anniversary of the movie (June 1st, 1984), so I suspect both this article and that video have that as the ultimate reason.

But without the animal cruelty involved in that, would the myth of lemmings committing mindless suicide have entered the mainstream? And without that happening, would the video game Lemmings exist?

“We often hear of documentaries that are repudiated by their subjects. Here at Disney we have a policy that ensures this doesn’t happen.”

Bill Paxton also got an early role in this as a comic-relief bartender. I unironically love this movie. Much like Hill’s earlier film The Warriors, it’s set in a world that looks superficially like the real world, but clearly had a different history than our own, and has a culture that is a mixture of elements from…

Wow, her dad went to the boarding school that the one in the obnoxiously sappy A Separate Peace (which people have to read in high school, or at least did in the 1980s) was based on!

Many countries other than the US actually forbid parents from giving children weird names under the argument that it is literally a form of psychological abuse.

And not to be shallow, but like her mother and grandmother, extremely pretty as well, which helps.

I guess it depends on whether you see getting a grant proposal funded as being primarily based on merit of the research being proposed or if it it is more using the right language, buzzwords and other “secret sauce” to get it through the system. While as someone who had successful grant proposals (and unsuccessful…

Can she at least have pointy, pyramidal breasts like the original games from the 1990s? I don’t want my women to have curves, I want them to have polygons!

It even happens within the public sector. People who were program officers at the NIH or NSF (that is, people who decide which researchers at universities get federal grant money) often transition to administrative roles at universities under the idea (true or not) that they will know how to game the system to get…

This is like saying on average, you, me, and Bill Gates are all billionaires because if you add all our money and divide by three that’s what you get. There are enormous, highly profitable, factory farms in the US (which might still be considered “family farms” because one family still controls them) and there are…