I didn’t think he interacted with his offspring in any way. It seemed like he’d pursued an r-type reproduction strategy.

It’s a game where gay Allied monsters kill Nazi monsters that are presumably not gay, so the answer is ‘Don’t think about it.’

300 ws pretty good, though it was much more of an exercise in style (and how to do a good job of faithfully adapting a comic for the screen while still keeping it comic-y, along with Sin City). I didn’t hate Man of Steel, but it’s not like I ever felt like I wanted to watch it again. Batman v Superman is where I…

Worst case scenario is the investors managing to get some sort of public investment, and then the whole thing folds and wastes a bunch of tax dollars. I don’t think it’s a likely case, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility.

We’ve got a lot of examples of what happens to places that have too much government, but we also have examples of what happens when there’s too little government - hence the joke about ‘Libertarian Paradise Somalia’.

It’s a pity that whatever the SpaceX investigation finds, they probably won’t publicize any findings that indicate that the failure was caused by a lack of pad safety measures. And Musk is a genius - I mean, none of us are launching rockets - but he’s simultaneously a dumbass.

This is a case where I can’t applaud what the police officer did, and I’m going to guess that there were better ways of resolving this that could have left everyone still alive. But a pregnant 21 year old stealing booze and trying to flee in a car with no license plates is a less sympathetic victim. While I’m sure…

This feels like it was written by AI.

There are 5x as many white people in the US as black people. White people are 1.5x more likely to own guns than black people. If “I also get the feeling that when black people purchase guns, it’s for self defense. When white people do, it’s for naked aggression” were accurate, there would be far more black murder…

Not having read the books I thought the first season was fun enough, though not great. I hope that it will improve in season 2, though I’m a bit apprehensive since it seems like the showrunner comes from the same school of thought regarding adaptations as the showrunner of The Witcher.

I’ll allow that I may be a moron, but that makes it sound like a person is a refugee if outside of US borders, but an asylee if they are on or inside US borders. Which is just not something I’d ever heard before (since it seems to me like ‘refugee’ has been used in the past for both people who have been seeking refuge…

Kevin Hart has the added complication of having been in a pretty serious car accident a year or two ago.  Surprisingly enough, the body doesn’t come back stronger when it gets busted up.

This is the first time I have ever seen ‘asylee’ before.  In fact, the spell check here is flagging it.  What’s an asylee, in terms of how they’re differentiated from a refugee?

I didn’t see that episode, but I’m also reminded of ‘Be Right Back’ from the first season, which also had an unsettling replacement hus-bot.

The timeline expectation is exactly why I don’t subscribe to ‘cancel culture’. Franken and Ansari did stuff that warranted apologies, not years worth of career setbacks. If ‘years’ is the right amount of ‘atonement’ for something like this, what’s something like Louis CK’s transgressions require?

Your examples are kind of also my examples. Aziz Ansari made a date uncomfortable on a date (though not uncomfortable enough to actually leave). His show got back on Netflix for one more season that basically took him out of the picture, with no more TV or movie work since then. Al Franken resigned from a senate seat…

I didn’t think that the second season was quite as good, as it leaned into the overarching mystery plot to its detriment. For me it works best when it explores its concept and the comedic possibilities of having the Good Place in an Altered Carbon way. It was still fun though, and I’m pleased that there is a third…

I had ‘novichok, administered by skin absorption when a gloved agent nudges him on the street.’

These male ‘auteurs’ of big budget games are veterans. They all made their names from back when game development was a much smaller industry, when ‘big’ titles could be made with a team of a couple dozen people (it’s a big part of why Duke Nukem Forever took so long to come out - 3DRealms wasn’t able to adapt to the…

I think you may need to re-calibrate your sarcasm meter.