And your well-thought-out, valid, rational suggestions for how the book could have been written better are . . . ?

There’s also the riches-to-rags trope. Trying to gen up more sympathy for the protagonists by making the reader feel sorry for their financial reversals. Also that angle appeals to some people because of their own experiences.

What is so hard to believe about a well-off Mexican not knowing much about other parts of Mexico? There are plenty of people all around the world who don’t know squat about the world outside their little neighborhood. There are lots of people in Florida who don’t know squat about Wyoming. Lots of people in Kansas who…

To Betsy and her ilk, there should be no separation of Church and state. They want their particular church to BE the government.

BUT SHE’S TOO STUPID TO KNOW THAT.

They don’t buy into that idea. To them it’s nothing but a smoke screen. They make a hypocritical show of believing it because they think it excuses their vicious greed. It’s the modern version of the “social darwinism” crap used by the fatacts in the Gilded Age as a pseudo-scientific explanation of why it was “right”…

Wonderful. Another 1hr 48min special effect with stupid dialogue designed for improperly socialized hyperactive overgrown children.

Probably means they’re already cast the role.

That can be read as an indictment of the maturity of fans, you know. And in too many cases, that’s the correct way to put it.

Isn’t Ed Sheeran white?

No, it was a bar on Kimchi. That’s why it stank so bad.

Yeah, this kind of thing is characteristic of franchises that have run out steam and are coasting to a stop. They put so much into these little extra bits because they’ve run completely out of ideas that are large enough to really engage audience attention. It’s like a kitchen that’s run out of meat and potatoes but…

Where is that house? It’s fantastic.

The looks of these characters and costumes are appalling. This is the kind of abomination you get when someone who has no respect for the original works and who is desperately determined to “prove” that he is “creative” damn it! decides that he will put his personal brand on something even if he has to s**t on it.…

Other than the order in which they were first printed, there really isn’t any order. Pratchett never made any attempt to put them in a chronological order, and there are many that are completely without any kind of time relation to other stories. For example, Maskerade is utterly standalone, with nothing in it that…

I have to agree with Scott Adams on that - the holodeck would be mankind’s last invention.

I watch the clip with 7 and Harry and I can’t help but think, “You’re stupid and you’re a coward”.

There is literally not one single thing they can do to any character in any game that will NOT trigger a bunch of oh-so-delicate little snowflakes who take everything WAY too personally and go through life looking for things to be offended about. If they had done nothing but change the color of the eyes some pack of…

The guy in that photo at the head - there is something wrong with him.

If you have evidence of malfeasance on the part of “renegades”, you should bring it up in official circles where you may do some good. Without that, you are doing nothing but libeling people for no good reason.