But it’s not a game show in any sense of the word.

Game shows have to show a particular level of objectivity. Where’s the objectivity in Red Light, Green Light (meaning, who determines how much you’ve moved since stopping and whether that’s too much and you’re out). What about the honeycomb game?

The reality is that…

I’ll break it down in starkly political terms (and some math).

The solidly red states (meaning those that have gone for the Republican nominee for every election since 1996), amount for 116 electoral votes. California, Texas, and Florida amount for 122. That’s interesting, but here’s what’s more interesting.

There are 4…

You assume the most of the voting public are knowledgable about the nuances of the issues. The reality is that most voters are either single-issue voters, motivated solely by party affiliation, or go by the emotional pull or aversion they feel towards a candidate.

Trump won because he was successful in the latter 2…

Unless you live in Texas or Florida, most truly red states are so small that their Electoral College vote counts don’t really matter. Not to mention the fact that those very same red states would vote for any person with a pulse who has an (R) in front of their name.

Mathematically, all of the solidly red states…

One, at no point did I minimize anything. I’m a native and resident of Florida, so I certainly don’t need to be condescended to about how many people have died to Covid, let alone the fact that many of those people are friends and family members. So you can spare me the indignation.

I clearly stated, in my response,…

At no point did I say that I don’t think he’d do it. It’s always a possibility, but I do believe that people close to him will get in his ear and convince him that a third-party run would not only result in a personal loss (which a narcissist like him cannot deal with), but it would hurt the brand when it comes to the…

Well, politically, most red states don’t matter in a Presidential election because their population (and therefore the amount of Electoral College votes) they have is too low to make much of a difference.

Texas matters. Florida matters. Further, any truly red state is gonna go for any Republican nominee, so the fact…

I’ll break this down.

The burden of proof is always on the plaintiffs. So the contestants who feel they were cheated have to provide evidence that not only were they cheated, but they were cheated by Netflix, AND that Netflix did so to purposefully deprive them of said opportunity to win. That’s an impossible standard…

Politically, Trump getting the nomination would be the best thing for Biden or any other Democrat nominee.

Biden can beat Trump again, and Trump would undoubtedly be an energizing force not just for the Presidential election, but also for the down-ballot Congressional elections in 2024 as well.

DeSantis is a stronger…

I live in Florida, and used to work in politics (for the Dems), and let me tell you: DeSantis is incredibly popular across the board, not just amongst the GOP down here.

Granted, he’s veering far right when it comes to some of the social issues (Don’t Say Gay, the African-American AP course fiasco, bills targeting what…

According to IndieWire, contestants were asked to stand still while playing “Red Light, Green Light” at 26° Fahrenheit (-3° Celsius) weather in 30-minute increments during a nine-hour filming session.

I think one of the overarching issues is that the delineation between a single-player game, a co-op game, and an online game, have all been muddled due to the ubiquity of high speed internet and the increase in the development costs that necessitate a greater ROI, which in and of itself necessitates either a game to…

Even though it dropped 3 years prior to Superbad, people need to put respect on Mean Girls’ name. Not only does it have a similar, if not greater cultural relevance to this day, but it’s a movie that has simply aged a lot better than Superbad in many respects and doesn’t feel as dated, even though it’s an older movie.

T…

The fundamental difference is that you barely see any representation of the athlete’s personality when they’re actively performing their job duties. With streamers, their personality and their job are inextricably linked, precisely because the barriers to entry with streaming are very, very low relative to being a…

They’re definitely not in their 70s in 2023. That would mean both of them were 50 during the outbreak in 2003, and it’s clear both were roughly the same age, or maybe a bit older, than Tess and Joel when they met in 2013.

Also, people can go gray much earlier than you seem to imply. I have friends who are greying in…

I didn’t see it as ALS at all.

By the time of those scenes where Frank is clearly symptomatic, he’s both in their late-40s/early-50s. By that age, ALS has either rendered the sufferer almost completely infirm (think Stephen Hawking), or they’re long dead (think Lou Gehrig, who died within 2 years of being symptomatic,…

At no point did I talk about objective, qualitative measures. The fact is that many of the consumer base, regardless of objective fact, still and will continue to see Tesla as the preemptive electric vehicle company. You are arguinging against a straw man. I agree with you on the qualitative and quantitative details…

To piggyback off of what other people have said, there’s also the reality that it doesn’t really add much in terms of gameplay. Considering that Forza has the rewind feature, which most players use, and ramming is already a very serious issue from both the AI and human players, full-scale damage modeling provides…

Tesla also, for good and for ill, has really good name recognition when it comes to electric vehicles. Plenty of people don’t necessarily want a truck, nor do they want something seen as a lesser product in terms of cachet (such as the Nissan Leaf or Chevy Volt), and other competitors aren’t yet fully in the electric…

I’ll give the author the benefit of the doubt and assume that they don’t want literal QTEs, but at least a visual acknowledgment via camera work that Joel, Ellie, and other characters are, at certain points, actively combing their surroundings (which at this point in the story are becoming increasingly unknown the…