...defamation is a tort.

Ah, yes. Of course, you don’t see anyone calling for head of Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Guirira, Angela Bassett, or Florence Kasumba, so I’m assuming they’re not successful Black women, otherwise we’d have “blood lust” against them. Because otherwise it might be that, rather than the issue being misogynoir, it might be…

Glad she’s being open about this. I’ve had motor tics (more noticeable than a lot of hers - jerking my head around, some facial tics, flexing my arms and wrists in particular ways, etc.) for years, and still get some odd looks. (Dating before I met my partner was also fun; I lost count of the number of times I got…

I think I gave up on having any conception of what a “George Miller film” was when I realized the guy who made Mad Max also made Babe.

It also didn’t help that NBC didn’t seem to grasp that the show was popular despite the Nielsens, and kept trying to undercut it (including by eventually not bringing Carrell back). Lieberstein probably didn’t help matters much, but I think he did fine under the circumstances.

I’m just glad he’s doing well after the cancer scare.

As long as I get XC3 on schedule, I’ll be happy. Plenty of backlog to get through in the meantime.

Nope. Alas, the US education still doesn’t bother with the metric system. Even though I know Celsius makes more sense, I still can’t figure out how to convert “hot as balls” to it.

One day I’ll remember the conversation rate for metric shitloads into imperial. Always gets me confused.

Forget that, when am I getting my sequel to Diddy Kong Racing? I’ve only been waiting for, like, 25 years now....

(Yes, I know Rare split off from Nintendo eons ago, and Donkey Kong Racing got shelved at that point, but a man can dream.)

I generally get Cento - they’re pretty reliably authentic (or at least that’s my impression), and readily available. They may have removed the DOP label recently, but I think they’re still real.

Please tell me this means we’ll get a GotG sequel? Because that was one of the best games I’ve played in years (and that’s despite me having a Maxwell GPU, on which the game was completely broken).

I’m sure he meant it at the time. He’s human and allowed to change his mind. 

I don’t get the snarky take here. This isn’t some random cash grab - it’s a legend whose onetime best friend was killed coming as close as he can to sharing a stage with his friend one more time. It’s not “see John as if he were alive” or something creepy.

Even that is a bit off though - the “inalienable rights” bit is from the Declaration of Independence (which has precisely zero force and effect as current law). The only place individual rights really com up are in the amendments, and even then they’re limited and specific (albeit with broad implications). There’s a…

On the one hand, this is one of those stories in which everyone is awful. desantis and the FL government is rotten to the core, but they were doing the right thing for the wrong reasons in taking away Disney’s ability to effectively answer only to itself on matters that should have public input.

Yeah, that’s my reaction as well. On the one hand, they definitely did not go about this right way, and (among other things) should have given more than a few hours to review what were undoubtedly harrowing materials for her widower to go through. On the other hand, I’m not sure what constitutional rights are involved…

Every single thing about this excited me except for Adrien Brody. Can we just have the rest of it without him, please?

...you do realize that me not using twitter doesn’t mean others don’t, right? Just because something doesn’t come up in my person feed doesn’t mean I (and millions of others) are not affected by the actions he incites from others.

My main fear with all this (as someone who basically never uses twitter, aside from finding out where the local food trucks are): how long until he lifts the ban on trump and other dangerous right-wingers, in the name of “free speech”?