Something I was musing on yesterday after watching ESB:

JOHN WICK IN SPAAAAAAAAACE 

The entire sequel saga has been ersatz and awful. It was misconceived from the start.

A shame really that the movie is going to be utter bobbins.

Right, and the point is that the MBP16 is the first instance of a machine designed without Ive’s influence prioritizing form over function. Most obviously, it is a larger, heavier, thicker machine than recent MBP models, allowing both the return of the scissor keyboard and a more effective heatsink/fan/venting system.…

Are you saying his influence remains undiminished at Apple, despite his having left the company?

> it could stay at a high clock speed for longer than the Macbook which would more or less boost up to thermal throttle 

But it’s Ive’s effective retirement that has allowed this return to bigger and more functional products. Under Ive the push was always towards thinner and more elegant, even at the expense of performance and usability. 

Just don’t clean it for months on end. 

Just don’t clean it for months on end. 

They’re generally pretty good. Even the oft-derided Spider-Man 3 has several terrific sequences in it (and has a respectable RT score of 63%). People remember it as being WAY worse than it really was. A lot of the criticism imo comes from a slight misunderstanding of the film, which is really about the trio of Peter,…

The only genuinely bad Spider-Man movie was Amazing Spider-Man 2. 

Yeah, there’s a big difference between:
a) A movie pitched at everybody, inclusive and egalitarian in its approach
b) A movie that feels like it’s pushing female chauvinism

The latter is broadly counterproductive. It doesn’t make women look strong; it makes them look weak, by giving them special dispensations to stick…

My partner, who did much of her growing up in the 70s, absolutely loved Charlie’s Angels as a kid. She says it was one of the very few shows that had women as the main characters and where they actually took part in action set-pieces. To her it was a really important beacon in her childhood, even if the stars *were*…

Have they finally fixed the issues of apps not launching properly from the dock?

Empire Strikes Back is an odd case. Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan get the credits, but Lucas wrote the core story and Brackett’s screenplay was discarded. Lucas kept her name on the credits out of respect as she’d died from cancer in between being hired and the movie being released. 

So far I feel like The Mandalorian has a lot of events and not much story. But I’m happy to stick with it. 

I don’t see that this Brooke Nelson has committed any kind of terrible crime. It’s an opinion. People have them. 

The trickiest cases are ones such as:

“I suggest giving it to whoever is willing to take it”.

...or should that be

> Similarly, in TFA, how can Starkiller base shoot beams across presumably many light years, and how can people in even more different systems see those beams clearly?

I remember watching this scene in 2015 with my hand covering my mouth. It’s one thing to have somebody with no feel for this storytelling world being…

They are absolutely dire, because they don’t fit the narrative universe, and effectively retcon what came before.
I invoke Silvestri’s Hippocratic Oath for Sequels: “First Do No Harm”
TFA and TLJ have both violated this, egregiously.

It doesn’t matter how good the dialog and performances are if you have already broken…