I’m in a similar boat to Shanicka. When I got the first two books as a birthday present, I was a 12-year-old short, scrawny, pale boy with messy dark hair and my mother’s green eyes, and who really did not fit in. (It wasn’t until adulthood that I realized I’m on the spectrum, but like many undiagnosed autistic kids I…

As a huge HP fan, I played it extensively at launch, but found that it simply wasn’t a compelling game. Unlike PoGo, it never managed to be fun - it took the slog parts and left out the silliness and collectibles that stroked the urge to compulsively collect. Once the pandemic began (and my father died of COVID, which…

“New cast additions include....”

I’m assuming you mean since the last story? Because both McKean and Richardson were in the first season (and became a couple, if memory serves), as was Sosanya.

When you’re right, you’re right.

Yup, it’s porn and games that have destroyed men and hollowed out the middle class. It has absolutely nothing to do with the near-obliteration of the social safety net and refusal to make the minimum wage a living wage, and there’s obviously no connection between that and a feeling among many young men that they…

What do you mean? As a lawyer with a full-time job and live-in girlfriend, I can see that playing video games and watching porn has completely ruined my life and masculinity, and marked me as a failure to everyone around me.

“Responsibility is one of God’s greatest gifts to mankind, and men must be held responsible for their actions”

The joke is that the whole benefit of a place like guitar center is being able to play the instrument before you buy it, so you have a sense of how it feels and sounds. I get that that doesn’t matter to beginners, who probably make up the majority of the recent purchases, but the notion of buying online is absurd to…

Could go either way - I could also see finishing it, in part so her work on a project that she literally gave her life for doesn’t go entirely to waste. I could easily see it just folding, though.

As a huge Tolkien fan, can I just say: please, no. I don’t need see Gandalf beating the snot out of Bugs Bunny or Batman.

A show based on Joan Rivers’ life without using her likeness, jokes, catchphrases... you mean The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel?

It’s worth noting that the past, oh, 18 months or so haven’t exactly been “business as usual” for live standup comedy, so I wouldn’t be as certain about that as under any circumstances. He undoubtedly wasn’t doing the material for the first time for the special, but I also doubt that all that many people saw it…

I’m wondering - since Baldwin was (if I’m not mistaken) a producer of some type for this clusterfuck, so is any of this corner-cutting on him? Like, was he one of the people signing off on the safety violations? Because if so, then that dramatically changes how I feel about his role in this whole debacle.

Kyle McLachlan in S2 was my favorite performance in the whole show, though. You could just tell he was having a blast.

My pleasure - thanks for correcting it!

To be fair, the issues for the case were less “is the house haunted,” and more “does the perception of it be haunted, and the reputation of it as such, significantly alter the use and/or value of the house.” The latter is a real problem, and one that I would hope a court would have an opinion on. The relevant part of…

Yeah, I’m definitely erring on the side of “for fuck’s sake, stop making stuff that will save countless lives out to be creepy just for the sake of making every article snarky.” My father needed a heart transplant last year - but because they couldn’t get one in time, he had an LVAD implanted instead, and that…

A quick correction: Stambovsky v. Ackley was decided by the New York Supreme Court (specifically the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department), not the Supreme Court of the United States (which is what everyone - quite reasonably - assumes you are talking about when you say “Supreme Court”).

Ah yes, the classic non-apology - “I’m sorry I did a bad job explaining just how little of a shit I give about your problems.”

Yeah, that’s going to be a hard pass from me. And here I was thinking that almost nothing could stop me from wanting to see this series.