Musk actually did preserve unpaid blue checks on some notable users; I use the extension Eight Dollars to tell the difference, though I’m sure there are others that serve the same purpose.

Surest sign yet that Musk is surrounded only by yes-men who won’t push back on even the dumbest ideas.

Having the hand-eye coordination of a sleepwalking arthritic, I’ve always been terrible at fighting games, but at least on Super Street Fighter II Turbo, I could have the pleasure of putting in the code, cranking the speed up to max, and having Vega bouncing off the walls like an overcaffeinated flea.

What will a live-action One Piece provide that the anime and manga can’t?

Since Angel Studios is an independent, they may well try to use Hollywood accounting to make it seem the movie made more money than it actually did, in order to make themselves seem to have more power and influence than they actually do. Assuming, of course, that none of the principals involved have any sort of…

Given the increasing amount of content we’re seen removed from services with no sign of it being offered elsewhere, I think there’s a case for piracy in some situations related to preservation of art.

No, I’m terrified of it. It’s extraordinary. And so we’ll see, I don’t know.

Maybe she finally just got tired of pink, and went as hard in the opposite direction as she could.

A $100 million gross on a $15 million budget is far from unheard of, but it is unusually successful for an independent release, true. It would be informative to know just how much of that success comes from the “Pay It Forward” program and how much comes from repeat viewings or word-of-mouth sales.

At least they didn’t give this one to AI.

Not exactly top tier even in terms of Spacey movies, but I don’t have any problems watching A Bug’s Life, again partly because he’s a straight-up card-carrying villain, but also because I don’t have to actually see his mug.

Well, except for the fact that Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is a deliberate parody of biopics, whereas The Greatest Showman is a musical sorta-kinda presenting itself as a biopic.

I can understand arguing in favor of, for example, allowing a child going off to college to share a password without additional charge to the account, but the general vibe I get from these articles is “how dare they crack down on any password sharing with anyone??!?” Netflix is a huge corporation driven by the…

As a Nashvillian and a country music fan, are there any current acts you could recommend that hearken back to the days of traditional outlaw country, of Billy Joe Shaver and Jerry Jeff Walker and Steve Earle & the Dukes?

And I’m really fucking tired of the “dere comin’ to take muh guns” strawman. Yes, there are some people on the left who would love ALL firearms to be outlawed. But this is not part of the platform of the Democratic Party.

“Cussing out a cop”, oh no, how horrible. That threatens the very fabric of community and togetherness. And everyone knows that the proper way to make a flag a political statement is not to stomp on it, but to put absurdly flattering propagandistic imagery of your savior hero on it, or to use it to beat up cops. Er,…

I feel like somewhere, in the wide-ranging annals of film history, there’s got to be a hagiographic biopic of Andrew Jackson or Jimmy Swaggart or Hugh Hefner or some such slimeball that deserves to be listed for propagating poisonous beliefs. I can’t think of any, though.

Well, they found room for The Greatest Showman on this list, so...

It’s a terrible biopic that’s also a great razzle-dazzle musical, so while I can’t really complain too much about its inclusion on this list, I feel like its entry should’ve delved more deeply into that dichotomy.

Yes, but will Shatner talk about his experience playing Grand Pear?