“The idea of ‘TLJ ruining Luke’ from ‘hardcore’ fans is the most hilarious misunderstanding of Star Wars characters, lore and philosophy they could muster.”

“gold android girls are a visual cliche.”

“I’d be surprised if there’s a full ICE vehicle available outside of specialist stuff by 2025, 2030 at the latest.”

I don’t see how this has anything to do with Western versus other nations. The Top 15 countries with the worst COVID-19 outbreaks include:

India (#2)

Yes.

I paid over $1K for a custom corset last year. I had it made by a corsetiere. It’s not a fetish garment. It relieved back pain I’ve suffered since the age of 17 (I was 41 when I bought it). It’s cut to be worn as outerwear and it’s suitable for professional dress.

Actors have had this problem for decades. There just wasn’t an alternative way for them to be.

This may depend on assumptions made regarding battery life of the vehicle and how often batteries need to be swapped. It may also rely on assumptions about where the electric power for charging comes from.

This raises the question of whether an EV is a better choice for a gasoline driver if you hardly drive.

“Far Cry 6’s narrative director Navid Khavari has written a blog post called The Politics of Far Cry 6 that opens with the line “Our story is political”

Your name made me throw up in my mouth a little. 

Yes, you did.

But it sounds a bit like you actually see consent issues when in Snow White, a fairy tale that’s existed since time immemorial!

You aren’t missing something. Google launches and kills products like crazy. There are entire websites devoted entirely to products Google kills.

You are, in fact, the first person I’ve ever heard call the Steam client “great.”

So, I decided to look into this. The quote comes from the DOJ’s press release. The full paragraph reads:

Not true, although there is a big correlation between the things.

“unless you were very rich and white, projecting your status as a member of the middle classes through conspicuous consumption was a necessary precondition of actually being, or at the very least feeling, middle class. Being “middle class” is a performance as much as it’s about numbers in a bank account—the neat, lush…

Our pop cultural lives don’t revolve around the theater experience any more. Don’t revolve around movies within the Academy’s paradigm of what defines a movie. We watch at our leisure, in spaces of our choosing. We like the richness of miniseries and episodic entertainment. The streamers are the new king, and the…

Yeah, you’re not wrong.