This is such a great example and one that saved me from being really pissed off that I bought a not-really-Fallout Fallout game. I’ll pre-order any single-player RPG from a handful of developers, Bethesda being one of them. Despite already being wary of the way they’re diluting their games and knowing it was too soon…

Or switch ea to ie for peak goth.

Beneath Hicks’ surface misanthropy was a genuine bewilderment that most people don’t understand that it’s all “just a ride,” and he really wanted to wake people up to that. I always got the impression that we should take Leary at face value that “[he’s] an asshole.”

Yeah, the weirdest, most racist part of that was the fact that she had to pointedly address the imagined children listening (at their grandparents, presumably?) and reassure them that Santa was white. I’m pretty sure I remember a “Jesus was white” declaration from Megyn Kelly, too.

Don’t worry, kids. Santa is white, but he loves to dress up as Redd Foxx, which was perfectly fine when I was a kid, before we declared war on Christmas.

It seems like the instance where he abused his power was the incident on the Chris Rock show where he was someone’s boss. The other times are weird, inappropriate, and gross but consensual as far as he knew.

I really don’t get it anymore. I thought the whole reason they were upset that he asked was because they felt it would have a damning effect on their careers if they said no. Did he not ask Rebecca Corry?

No Comedy Bang Bang nomination is weird, too, considering it’s the flagship for one of the bigger podcast networks.

I feel like that’s stuffed crust everywhere, including restaurants. The cheese in the crust always tastes weird. I assume it was designed to make the crust palatable to those weirdos who throw out the crust, but it’s the only kind of crust I won’t eat.

I had to scour the comments, but I found it! Newman’s Own is awesome. I also really like Amy’s.  I think it only comes in margherita, but that’s my favorite kind of pizza anyway.. I won’t usually get a frozen pizza other than one of those two.

I think it’s the comma after “people” that makes it read like Titus was the better show about dysfunctional people because it didn’t have the learning and hugging. I see it clearly on second read, so not criticizing your sentence structure, but I read it the same way at first.

Yeah, GalvaTron Dad seems pretty cool.

You might as well pay the $4.99 for a month of Shudder on Amazon.

I’m right there with you. There’s a part of me that’s wondering if it actually was a misstep and I’m rationalizing to preserve that horrified fascination, but I also felt that the end would be moving in most any other context, so it kind of mirrors the false feeling of safety that every Crain but Hugh felt in the Red…

This is such a good comment that I want to reply with something more profound than what I am, but I just wanted to say thank you for clarifying exactly what I wondered about. I think there are challenges to handling others’ feelings to the degree you can in every situation, but the amount of care required in a…

Yeah, I actually finished the episode right before replying to you, and I’m not nearly as confident this morning that that was the intended meaning of the final scenes.. but I’m going to interpret it that way, I think. It’s either over and it’s up to us to determine, or I’m some degree of correct, because I don’t…

I was disappointed by the happy ending, too, but then I realized that’s part of what the house does. The Red Room appeared safe to the Crains, and we’re shown a similar lie. The Dudleys, who had protected themselves so well despite their proximity, end up being snared as a whole, every last one of them. The same…

That’s a really good metaphor. I feel like false humility is stupid and we shouldn’t disown our gifts, but it’s easy to go too far the other direction and actually think they elevate you above other people in a substantive sense. The only time I ever think people are stupid is when they seem to take pride in their…

Yeah, it’s weird.  There’s some portion of people who really, really resent being taught and some portion of people who obviously enjoy being pedantic and clearly do have self-aggrandizing motives, but it feels like a lot of these situations have to be where people are just trying to be helpful and share their…

It did seem kind of silly to me when Sean criticized an educator for being pedantic, but it definitely raises people’s hackles in social situations. Actually, I think a lot of people find even teachers in a classroom inexplicably annoying. It makes me wonder if there’s any discussion in modern pedagogy about how to…