Usually “surprise me” is a code for “whichever special is motivated by the need to use up an ingredient before you would have to toss it.”

Isn’t “If you have to use an accent in a movie, you make a point of exclusively using that accent in your normal life for a period of time so it’s more natural for you to do” also “Method acting”?  Like it’s not all “be a nightmare to your coworkers and do permanent damage to yourself” though maybe Austin Butler is…

I mean, putting liquid on the pan is likely to deglaze some of the fond so it’s not like it doesn’t help at all.

It feels like “Boneless Wings are just upscale nuggets” is one of those things you should just know. It’s also not clear why “wing meat” is more desirable to eat than meat from other parts of the chicken (that wings are the priciest part of a chicken by weight is mostly a function of how each chicken comes with 2 of…

The benefit of making all the money is “then you’ve got all the money”. You don’t also need recognition on top of that. With how frequently the Oscars straight up get it wrong (e.g. Crash, Green Book) it feels like this shouldn’t be that big of a concern. 

I like to think the Academy shutting out Tár is keeping kayfabe by not rewarding Lydia Tár for her misdeeds.

Since I go to Starbucks exactly one time a year (for a PSL on my birthday) I didn’t even notice that the one in Target was different.

It really feels like “being embarrassed by something you wrote 15 years ago” is the normal, healthy response.

The problem with the black jelly beans is that they don’t taste enough like licorice.

Like the thing about “being in public with someone with dementia” is that these are people (due to faults in their brains) who are absolutely convinced of their own reality.  Like if I would take my mom to Target to pick out the color lipstick she wanted, she’d convince herself that her parents dropped her off and…

As the person who was in charge of taking care of my mom when she had dementia, you *really* don’t want to involve yourself in this if you’re not already involved.

Good ol’ Rock, nothing beats Rock.

Since the fungus requires relatively high humidity and periodic wetting, we should absolutely start putting rickhouses in the desert.

I was going to go get this tomorrow but the convenient Smashburger near me closed apparently and it doesn’t feel worth it to go out of my way for a chain hamburger.

Isn’t the texture supposed to be like soft serve?  I don’t know how you would do when something has to be sufficiently frozen to survive storage and transport.

Ultimately this is going to have to turn into a joke about how long it takes to make animation, but I think the Animaniacs already did that one.

As someone who vastly prefers “messing around and doing sidequests” in every open world game and will only really address the plot when it’s absolutely necessary in order to get more sidequests, I feel like I should give Cyberpunk 2077 a try.

I mean, the thing is that RPG video games had parallel development tracks since the 80s, but that was largely a console/PC split. From a common ancestor we had the likes of Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy on consoles and Ultima and Might & Magic on computers. But it wasn’t until 2006 or so that a significant number of…

I like how video games lay bare how silly all “best x” lists are, since it’s immediately clear how someone can fail to connect with a game that have basically nothing to do with artistic decisions.  Like “I don’t like first person games” or “I don’t like rhythm games” or “I don’t like turn-based games” are all valid…

Like a frequent complaint about Star Wars is “this universe is so small, all the important people are related and/or have history with each other”. So *somebody* has to be on all those ships that get blown up in space, no reason it can’t be someone we’ve met before.