I was a part of the Southwest cancellation wave back in October, and the counter-worker was nice enough to ensure my checked bags were switched to new planes multiple times due to me finding earlier replacement flights on their website.

Also, given I have an inordinate amount of friends who are flight attendants (for…

The LFA, a fantastic car, was almost dead in the water due to a combination of being priced too high for a weird mishmash of design and mechanical decisions that clearly showed a very long gestation time (high-revving front-engine V10 ala BMW M5/M6, carbon-fiber construction, polarizing looks, amazing engine sound,…

I think Bipppt’s point is that it’s disingenuous to say that Johnny Depp, post Scissorhands, has done very little but put on makeup and prosthetics, when most of his biggest and most well-received roles came after Scissorhands, and didn’t involve heavy makeup or prosthetics.

Gilbert Grape, Blow, Donnie Brasco, Fear &…

Yolanda was a rather famous model back in the day, and was a member of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for a number of years, well before either Gigi or Bella got famous (if I recall, they were just teenagers when Yolanda first started on the show, and their careers didn’t take off until she had left the show).

My reasons for being opposed, in some ways, to taxing unrealized capital gains is the same as yours: it’s a logistical nightmare.

I’m not nearly as sanguine about the fact that many multi-millionaires/billionaires are rather illiquid/cash poor. The thing is that the current tax structure (as well as the ready…

The alternative is to simply to pay them a higher salary.

Of course, this runs into a problem when you have companies that are valued highly, but don’t necessarily make profit (which is a lot of tech companies, especially early on). If you increase the upfront salaries (or tie cash bonuses to stock performance), the…

What are these non-applicable assumptions? It’s an adaptation of an already-existing work. The most reasonable assumptions, if any, are that an adaptation of a work is going to include important characters, wait for it, from that work. Your assumptions seem to be going off of a single trailer, which obviously isn’t…

I don’t particularly care about the sequence. I used the episode numbers because, frankly, a lot of people haven’t watched the anime in many years, and might not recall exactly when, chronologically, things happened in the anime. It’s not about Ed being in a specific episode, rather that the episodes we’ve seen that…

True, but it’s one thing being self-contained and another thing entirely to write out one of the major characters in the episode, which is why I think it’s unlikely to happen.

It’s a much larger assumption to assume Ed isn’t in the season simply because Ed hasn’t been seen in any of the trailers, which is what I was pushing back on.

Saying it’s not a one-to-one adaptation is a given. We all know that. They’ve said as much. It has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not Ed is in the…

I said nothing about the chronological sequence in the adaptation. I merely pointed out that we’ve seen snippets from episodes that Ed was in, and we’ve also seen snippets from episodes from the very start of the anime. Sure they can change them around. I was merely pointing out that I personally think it’s a bit…

I replied to you in a different thread, but I’ll put it like this.

The season is going to be 10 hour-long episodes. From the trailers, we’ve seen at least 8 episodes from the anime that are being adopted. The 1st five from the anime, Black Dog Serenade (episode 16), Pierrot le Fou (Episode 20), and Brain Scratch…

It’s already going R-rated; we can hear Spike using the word “fuck” in the trailer, so it wouldn’t make sense for them to avoid having a child in the hallucinogenic episode (especially with the type of content you can find on Netflix anyways).

Downfall was hardly a flop, considering it was a German-made movie, in German, with subtitles, that didn’t see wide release in America.

Oh, it also grossed $92m worldwide and got nominated for Best Foreign Language Film

Nope.

Pierrot le Fou has been shown (prominently), and that’s episode 20, not to mention that Ed is in that episode. So unless they’re writing Ed out of the episode (which wouldn’t make sense considering Ed’s role is integral to Jet’s part in the episode), Ed’s showing up.

Problem is, that doesn’t actually jive with what we’ve seen already.

Pierrot le Fou has clearly been shown, and Ed’s in that episode (not to mention it being Episode 20 in the anime), and we’ve gotten some hints that Mushroom Samba is gonna be an episode, and Ed plays a major part in that as well.

Given that, my guess…

Activision-Blizzard is still, by most financial metrics, in the top 5 largest gaming companies in the world (excluding companies that make hardware).

Their IPs are incredibly valuable, regardless of the internal issues at the company, and in this industry, good releases heal all wounds.

The reality is that for most of…

The main reason why Coke isn’t close is because there’s a great deal of substitution effect at play, even with the perceived ubiquity of Coke products, and Coke as a brand. Further, in many parts of the world, soft-drinks either aren’t consumed nearly as much as other beverages (due to a variety of factors, including…

You’ve misunderstood my point.

It’s not that any character has to be framed in a purely black or white moral and/or ethical stance. Rather that because the ambiguities are so present, it made for a rather disinterested viewing.

The visuals were great, but nothing about the narrative or the portrayal of the characters…

In another response (not to you), I made that point that everything seems very grey, which is apparently the case. That’s all well and good, but with how the movie is structured, everything being a shade of grey leads me to feel absolutely nothing for any of the people involved. Nothing made me at all interested in…