Or just maybe - I know this is nuts, but hear me out - music’s “quality” is a subjective thing determined by individual taste, rather than something objective that can be argued over on those terms? So maybe kanye’s music can be good to one person and bad to another without either of them being wrong?

Nah, that’s just…

I mean, is it any worse than this?

Honestly, if Disney did all of those things, I’d be a bigger fan. 

I’m off twitter, so thanks for the heads-up - won’t be checking those (these?) sites for a bit. GMG management and spanfeller can fuck all the way off unless and until they start showing some respect for the writers we come here to read.

You’re a Pokémon. You have a choice between boosting a company that encourages humans to capture you, enslave you, and force you to fight each other for their cruel amusement, or boost Microsoft. Who would you choose?

That’s definitely an improvement over just dying repeatedly, but honestly, at this point in my life I’ll just play the games that give me a difficulty slider or let me skip hard bosses. I don’t have time for the rest. 

Still not worth it for me until they get a difficulty slider. I enjoy lore and deep games, but I have enough frustration in my real life - I don’t need to deal with a game where I have to replay a nigh-impossible boss a dozen times that stops me from progressing through the actual story.

Considering that Radcliffe is the only celebrity I know to have gone on a major talk show and sung a Tom Lehrer song, I can think of far worse people to play Al. He seems like he “gets” it in the right way.

Alternative take: “it’s the farting corpse guy with ‘Weird Al’ hair”

I had the same thought. Glad I’m not the only one who remembers that one.

Yeah, I don’t think targeting Baldwin for firing the gun is a winning argument, unless the jury is unusually generous to the plaintiff. Pretty much everything he did as an actor was not negligent (and there’s some evidence that he took a great deal of care), and while you’re absolutely correct that there seems to be a…

How so? There was no malice, so serious charges wouldn’t stick, and less serious charges (whatever the foreign equivalents of manslaughter are) seem dubious. I’m not especially familiar with criminal law outside the US, but this doesn’t seem like a case of the US legal system being particularly broken. (Not there’s a…

As someone who loved the book (though the “hanging out with your wife when you’re an adult and she’s a literal child” thing was a bit... odd), and thinks Moffat has done great things with the first seasons of shows (even if they tend to go off the rails a bit thereafter), I’m *cautiously* optimistic about this.

Yeah, brain fart there. Realized it after I wrote that, but kinja’s awful editing rules stopped me from correcting it.

Except that the character is supposed to be man (of Rohan), rather than a dwarf. Unless they go reallllllly far afield from the books, at least.

Blame Tolkien for that one, since it’s in the book. He based it on Norse, and the name “Helm” shows up in other names he used (like “Dernhelm”). The “Hammerhand” appellation is basically just a nickname - “Helm” was basically a mononym, much like “Aragorn” or “Frodo.”

It’s one of those shows that gets a lot better in season 2 or 3, but I love it (despite being only slightly older than the show myself). It was originally made by Brand and Falsey (the guys who made St. Elsewhere), but they left after the fourth season, and Chase took over. By his own admission, the latter really…

Northern Exposure still had some juice in it - I blame its demise much more on David Chase being the worst possible person to run a show rooted in optimism and magical realism.

No love for J.D. and Eliot from Scrubs?

I’ve enjoyed watching curling. Everything else has either/both been impossible to find or not worth watching.