On an article about Sims 5, I commented “I miss Will Wright.”

I hereby retract that comment.

I agree, but I don’t think either of the women currently on the show as regulars are up to the job. (I can’t stand Dulce Sloan, and while Desi Lydic can be great, she always strikes me as a lesser version of Samantha Bee rather than bringing any kind of new voice.) Jessica Williams would be a welcome returning face,…

I have not directly, but I was a few years behind her in school (in the same town), and knew a number of people that did know her (and in a couple cases were friends with her). I never heard any of them say a single bad thing about her, and I was consistently told she was a very warm, sweet person. A theater kid…

We’ll never really know, but I genuinely want to know who Noah thinks should take over. Stewart seemingly handpicked his successor (though I’m quite sure the suits had major influence). It would be disappointing if Noah wasn’t at least heavily involved in the process.

I miss Will Wright.

I keep thinking of Billy Eichner’s tweet about how spacey had done the nearly-impossible and found a bad time to come out. Trauma sucks, and fuck nazis (neo-. original flavor, or other), but none of that made him try to rape a minor (or multiple minors, from the sound of it). That is squarely in the “nothing that…

Seriously, someone needs to ban these ghouls. If someone alleges abuse, and then says a little while after that things have improved, and the first thing you’re moved to say is that the person is probably “faking” it rather than being happy that the abuse may have stopped, that says vastly more about you than the…

Also entirely true. They allegedly consulted closely with the estate on compressing the timeline (which was needed for this type of adaptation), and Simon Tolkien is listed as a consultant in every episode.

The true joke to me is that many of these “fans” have completely missed the point. Tolkien was very deliberately writing folklore, which by nature often has conflicting stories and characterizations. Even within his works there is a fair amount of inconsistency (though he did try to minimize it). Any new works are…

The extremely short version is that the events are laid out in brief in the appendices at the end of Return of the King, and more fully fleshed out in The Silmarillion and some other posthumous works. However, Amazon only has the rights to LotR (including the appendices), so they cannot include details from the other…

Ok, I learned my lesson last time. It’s just Paul Bettany painted white, right?

Gotta say, I did not expect the show to pull a Blazing Saddles with the ending and end up on the backlot. I agree with the critique that it undermined a season’s worth of character work though. It reminds me (in a bad way) of The Simpsons’ “The Principal and the Pauper”; it’s one thing to not take anything seriously,…

I’m assuming “Ebon Boss-Machrach” is the non-union Mexican equivalent of Ebon Moss-Bachrach?

Hear, hear. 15 years ago I enjoyed a challenge. Now, I want a fun world, memorable characters, and a good story, and no barriers to me enjoying them in the limited free time I have. I can’t afford to waste two hours on a boss anymore - that’s probably two nights’ worth of gaming time. (Or, for something like NMS, just…

So, famously nice guy said an in-character not-actually-that-bad thing to noted dirtbag co-star, then guy who played a character named “weasel” tells noted actual weasel about it on actual weasel’s podcast. Yup, this is clearly an anecdote that should be taken seriously and have any sort of consequences.

Oh, that’s not true. They’ve always cared about our ability to contribute to their campaigns. Doesn’t matter how much they hate and malign us (and deny the Holocaust, and support literal nazis, and....), as long as people like Adelson keep opening the pocketbook to pay for them continuing to do so. (And apparently,…

You mean since Kent Alterman left and this hack took over. And yup.

To be fair, there are worse things. (At least it’s not The Cleveland Show again.)

Kent Alterman wasn’t appreciated enough.

I never understood people being that way about her, and always kinda resented it. We had some mutual acquaintances growing up (same town, but I’m a few years younger), and I’m told she was about as sweet and genuine a person as you’ll find.