I wouldn’t be remotely surprised if doubling down on the creepiness of this Sonic aesthetic were an intentional part of a sort of anti-PR strategy, where you drum up interest by turning the product into a meme. People are definitely going to want to head out and see just how cursed this movie is when it releases. If…

I think it’s pretty reasonable for Apple’s iPhone business to recede back to a more rational level. It’s totally unsustainable to expect that people will replace smartphones every damned year, and so I feel like the way things are trending now is actually kind of where they should end up. If the problems we’re seeing…

If this content vs. cinema dichotomy is real, then how exactly would it be the case that Endgame is the movie that proves it? It has been obvious that this is a thing for quite a long time now. The best way to get butts in seats is to serialize a successful film, and to turn it into at least a semi-coherent franchise,…

Yeah, there’s this really pathetic tone of exasperation parading around as a serious view on Tarantino, but the tone only really works if you already agree with the subtext that Tarantino is an exasperating figure. Comes across as a petty jab otherwise.

Not that Tarantino wouldn’t change his mind, but I’m pretty sure he talked about wanting to spend more time writing if/when he stops directing. I doubt he’s just going to walk off into the sunset entirely.

Even if this were true, there is major value in having vehicles not spitting out their emissions in large population centers, leading to massively increased rates of asthma and other public health issues.

“Nobody has to watch it” is the correct response. Maybe not great PR to say it that way, but it’s not the responsibility of people producing stuff (whether it be books, movies, TV shows, video games, etc) to make sure that the ideas they want to express don’t resonate in certain ways with certain people.

Have you even watched non-Fox 24-hour news? You can’t be serious that the media is giving Trump a pass. If anything, they spend far too much time on him, considering how little good it’s doing to hurt him politically.

Here’s my question: short of a conviction following impeachment (and we all know that won’t happen), in what world do you imagine this actually hurting Trump? He is not an ordinary politician. He isn’t going to be like, “Oh shit, I’m so sorry, I messed up” and willingly remove himself from the picture. He has no…

You think Jeff Bezos isn’t making “rational,” “logical” decisions in the management of Amazon, which then eventually lead to its distribution centers being hellscapes?

Yeah, I mean, they’re fitting in socially. I’m not really defending it, because I think it has its own shitty qualities. But it’s still better, in my view, than the “pure merit” route, where we don’t care so much about how things operate socially, because objective measures of individual productivity take precedence…

That’s all great, but admit it: He messed up with the “She the People” event. That was a genuinely lame performance.

This is the dumbest basis for creating a web browser that I have ever seen. Is the entire point to rope in people who insist on acting ethically, while giving them exactly none of the conveniences that integrated ecosystems (like those surrounding Google services via Chrome) offer? Fantastic appeal. I’m sure Brave…

I mean, doesn’t this just highlight the reality that a lot of what goes into material success ultimately comes down to people liking you and thinking you’re “a good fit” for whatever the situation is? It’s not right or good that BS’ers seem to be the winners of this game, on average, but at the same time, I think it’s…

Glad to see that Sanders is getting credit for his view on felon voting rights, but I’m not sure why he otherwise seems to get such a raw deal around here. He fundamentally believes what he does for sincere reasons, grounded in an understanding of the basic humanity of individuals, yet his positions are oddly…

There’s no way in the world she knew that was the answer she was going to get. It’s a dumb question that somehow managed, by happenstance, to receive a good answer. In other words, the answer, 99 times out of 100, would have been shit, due to the low quality of the question.

I love how people are most concerned about spoilers for movies that have the most predictable plot outcomes.

No.

I mean, I don’t care how he gets removed. I just don’t think he can be removed via impeachment, because he would never be convicted by Congress.

Having hearings where the admin and their GOP lackeys have to testify under oath will not be a win for Trump, regardless and especially if the senate refuses to act.