Incidentally, like “Meat Loaf” and “Super Bowl”, “Blade Runner” is a two word proper noun that people feel compelled for some reason to compress into a single word.

Something about Villeneuve’s movies puts me to sleep. I can’t tell if it’s the framing, camera movement, editing rhythms or some combination of all of the above. 

It was a walk-out for me. Just utterly boring. 

Higher land taxes generally lower the purchase price of land, ceteris paribus, because it carries greater risk as a liability as well as being an asset.

Yes, you would need some kind of mechanism to protect at least a generation of people who were entering retirement with few liquid assets but who owned property. In…

Remember that most mortgage lending these days is based on joint incomes.

Yeah, I ended up making peace with the idea of renting indefinitely. I know you don’t get the tax advantages, but I have around a million bucks sitting in the stock market (I’m mid-40s), and I have a perfectly fine apartment I’ve had the lease on since 2006 that costs me $1200 a month. I just don’t think I care about…

Having lived the last twenty years in Vancouver, SF and NYC, hearing those prices makes me splutter with laughter. I mean, maybe in 2002...

In principle, so long as the wealthy actually buy up the new stuff AND LIVE IN IT, this isn’t a huge issue, because that frees up supply elsewhere. Where I live in Vancouver BC, part of the problem is that lots of wealthy buyers from outside the city (primarily mainland China and Hong Kong but also quite a few…

Although it either completely misunderstands the nature of the time travel model of the movie (single timeline with loop; changes to history not possible) or perhaps just chooses to jettison it and set the story in an alt-universe with completely different rules in play. 

Then you have really bad technique. 

I discovered a few years ago that audiobooks get me off to sleep very quickly. I set a twenty minute sleep timer on my Echo, then play the book. One interesting thing is that I can find out the following night how long it took me to drop off to sleep by finding the last sentence I remember hearing the previous night.…

> the average American uses 57 sheets of toilet paper a day

Presumably this is:
Men 10
Women 104

The Last Seduction (1994).
If you believe you’ve thought one step ahead of Bridget Gregory - hey! - you’re wrong.

And maybe Sneakers (1992).

I assume you’ve watched Ant-Man and The Wasp, then. 

“Dredd” isn’t a remake. A true remake can only be of something that was written originally for the screen. So adaptations of existing IP (e.g. a novel or play or comic book) cannot be remade.

This is ridiculous. Culture flows in all directions. 

This aged well.

Most games I’ve worked on had a Metacritic of 75+, but I did work on one title that ended up with a score of around 45. It’s not a pleasant feeling. We knew it wouldn’t score well...we were forced to ship it before it was ready, to meet an immovable deadline that had been imposed upon us. Of course, every game needs…

I seem to recall reading somewhere (lord knows where) that women are recommended to pee standing up at least once per day as it helps reduce the risk of UTIs. 

Absolute nonsense.