It seems like most people reading it are going to wonder how it could possibly be true and want to find out if it actually is, so you’d think that would happen even more to the person writing it. It’s also a weird number to balk at when we know summer blockbusters have budgets in the hundreds of millions with a…

I don’t get it either. I guess numbers that big start to lose meaning for a lot of people. I get being excited about a rhetorical flourish (and I do think he’s a pretty talented writer, as much as people occasionally give him shit), but there were so many steps in between that should have saved him even without an…

This one blows past making me angry/sad about the declining editorial standards of the AV Club and just makes me feel bad for the author for having written it. They really shouldn’t let professionals write without a net like this. I miss Keith Phipps.

Yeah, that was the kicker. Lisa was the voice of the conscience of a certain subset of 90s kids. At least pick Bart, who was the voice of the lack of conscience of most kids, to spew your shitty take.  

I think this does nothing but speak well of Hank Azaria, and yet, granting the fact that I’m not Indian and that my feelings on the matter have no bearing on how someone feels growing up Indian American, I loved Apu when I was a kid and feel like the writing staff treated the character as if they loved him, too.

At least we can send them off to go build libraries every few years.

Yeah, I have the entirety Tell All Your Friends burned into my memory despite not listening to it all that much since I was 17 to 20, but I can’t remember this song at all despite knowing I’ve heard it.

I think there’s something to be said for the social experience of just being in the presence of a lot other people regardless of interaction, but I agree with you, even post-pandemic and even without a projector. Movie theaters haven’t been the best way to watch movies since TVs went widescreen, and you only really…

Aspirated spit would only be dangerous to the people who aspirated it.

I personally think just “Now You Don’t” would’ve been the best.

I agree that it’s pretty horrifying for law enforcement to make use of it, but hypnosis is a verifiable phenomenon. I do agree that the watch-waving and finger-snapping is usually more show than actual hypnosis.

I think EmptyBox meant that you should look like your driver’s license photo when the cop pulls you over. There’s a similar stoner suggestion to get high before you take your driver’s license photo so you can claim that you just have bloodshot eyes.

Tucker Carlson’s already screaming about remembering the Alamo.

I loved these movies (or at least the first one) as a kid, and that was news to me, too.

It’s so subtle it’s not even there.

They kind of did go into some of the implications. I liked that they went with the spiritual implications of AI having actual honest-to-goodness lights-are-on-and-somebody’s-home consciousness without the burden/use of a body, although it’s more far-fetched than most scary AI stories where it seems like it’s computati…

Yeah, her description of it is horrifying. It seems like even if someone could consent to that, we also have an ethic of not allowing self-harm. Being into BDSM doesn’t mean you don’t have a responsibility to protect people from injury.

I should add that I’m not saying that’s what it was or even really that that’s what…

I read that, along with the part about the “discussed and agreed upon in advance” nature of his past relationships, as an indication that he’s going to try to argue that it was consensual BDSM.

Yeah, that’s a very good point. Thanks for pointing it out.  I think that was floating in my mind somewhere when I wrote it, along with the fact that reinforcing it probably is a good thing to do to an extent.

All that stuff seems so irrelevant to me, just harped on to give people a reason to chastise others. What I took from this article is how nice it is to hear that he’s noticeably happier to everyone else. I have to admit that I find it odd that this article has about two or three pronouns per sentence for some reason.…