The Golden Globes already gives four acting awards, basically separating “Drama” and “Comedy”. The Oscars could condense the awards eliminating gender and separate by genre. Like “Best (Supporting) Acting- Comedic” and “Best (Supporting) Acting- Dramatic” would work.

I’ve been playing Fallen London on and off since 2010. I think I spent like $20 all t0ld. Kingdom of Loathing I probably spent like $100 on over however many years I spent on it.

It’s genuinely mysterious to me why streaming companies that have spent significant amounts of money making movies (Netflix spent ~$166m on Rebel Moon) they don’t put those in theaters first with the promise that the only place you will be able to watch it once it leaves theaters is on their streaming service.

Collectively, we have failed to prevent Shrek 5.

It’s pretty likely that Sage is going to be out of commission for a while because the bullet is still rattling around inside of her braincase, so her brain can’t heal correctly like it does when she gives herself a lobotomy (after which she removes the spike.)

I mean, Kendrick does have plausible deniability in that while “Not Like Us” was the knockout blow in a rap beef, it’s also genuinely the overwhelming favorite to be “Song of the Summer,” so of course he has to drop a video.

A huge amount of TERFery fails to account for the fact that trans masculine people exist. Like all the “keep trans girls out of women’s sports” stuff becomes laughable when it means “put trans boys into women’s sports.”

You ever notice how the TERF-Island Terfery is always focused on “rapists will transition in order to more easily rape people” a thing that normal people would file under “it’s already illegal to rob a bank.” Like if a cis person wants to walk into the wrong bathroom, there won’t be a team of Navy SEALs descending from…

I’m using X1 and my Xbox Series mostly. On both platforms Netflix, Hulu, Max, Prime, Peacock etc. play flawlessly. But Paramount+ is worse than the likes of Tubi and PlutoTV in terms of buffering, lag, etc. I also have gigabit internet.

I got 6 months of Paramount+ free from my phone provider, and it’s shocking how bad their app is. Shows regular buffer like I’m using RealPlayer in 1998, and no other streaming service has this issue on the same devices.

Well, the good thing is that you don’t really have to wash off the spray paint anyway, since all the cybertrucks are going to end up getting wrapped to prevent the steel panels from rusting.

About 10 years ago Bud Light had a promotion where you could win money if you correctly predicted every single first round pick in the NFL draft. Considering that the best ever performance by a media person in predicting the draft is 27/32, it didn’t really matter what they set the prize at- they could have offered…

I wouldn’t want an AI-Infused Alexa if Amazon were paying me $10/month for it.

Having recently rewatched Spaceballs, I don’t think it aged very well (it’s certainly more cringeworthy than a lot of Brooks’ oeuvre), but there’s significantly more to make fun of RE: Star Wars now than there was in 1987.

The thing about fascism is that this is not an ideology for people who can process subtext or, well, text.  A core part of the appeal of the whole thing is “you don’t have to think real hard.” 

Do you think Gamemaster Anthony is available to direct?

One hopes that companies finally realize that people rarely sign up to streaming to watch one thing, so you’re better off putting stuff on TV/in Theaters first to make money off of them, before offloading them to streaming where you’re just trying to keep the new stuff dripping in enough to make people not cancel…

The real issue is that tech companies are terrified of being left behind once “AI” becomes a dominant technology, for fear of customers being locked into other people’s ecosystem instead of yours. There’s no actual legitimate use-case for an LLM in Google search or whatever, they’re just likely to abandon the project…

I mean, if you’re the sort of person who attributes Disney’s recent struggles to “wokeness” you’re pretty much immediately disqualified as someone who is paying attention. Since there’s lots of reasons that Disney has been unable to recapture their incredible box office at the height of the MCU, and very little has to…

I mean, Furiosa puts the Storyteller in the actual movie (and Dr. Dementus’s “History Man” is called “The First History Man” in the credits.) So it’s pretty clear these are “stories the people in the Wasteland tell about their history” not “what actually happened.”