Anyway, Feige’s two-stepping around controversy continued as he said he’s “all for amicable solutions” when it came to the ScarJo suit. Giving a milquetoast soundbite is Feige’s superpower.

It was clumsily-worded, certainly, but to describe the Shang-Chi thing as a “controversy” seems like a bit of a stretch. 

Asked to comment on the “Changing the ‘Captain America Twitter Avatar to Captain Carter” controversy, Feige said, “What in the Goddamned hell are you talking about?”

Case dismissed due to new evidence from rando AV Club commenter.

Anyway abolish the statute of limitations on sexual assault

He was talking about the fucking logistics of the release, being an experiment. Nothing the fuck at all about the movie being the first Asian MCU movie or whatever the fuck Liu started into. Holy shit.

It suddenly occurs to me that Paul F Tompkins should’ve gotten a guest host shot at it. He’s even got the mustache!

The basic appeal of Jeopardy is that anyone, from whatever walk of life, can win so long as they have the knowledge and skill. And nothing exemplifies that more than our new host, who rejected a bunch of more talented people and then gave himself this job.

Sam writes “there is something to be said” and then fails to actually say much of anything (other than he’s only just now coming around to understanding the premise of What If?).

Had the change not been made: “there is something to be said for the fact that Marvel refused to replace a man with a woman in its promotional materials, especially in light of Scarlett Johansson’s lawsuit and Disney’s tone-deaf media response.”

That’s only part of the problem. The other part is that it’s been at least nine hours since we were able to stroke our outrage boners and we need release.

So if I’m reading this correctly, the problem is that Marvel temporarily replaced the promotional Twitter account avatar of a character whose show dropped several months ago with a different character whose show dropped last night?

There’s an alternate timeline where all those stunts don’t fuck him up and where Philip Berk doesn’t grope him and I wonder, in that timeline, what his arc would have been.

What are “not quite the worst two choices possible, but way up there on the list”, Ken?

For me, it was done with a neuropsych evaluation. Really, there are nine criteria for ADHD, and they expect kids to have 7 of them, and adults to have 6 (the difference owing to coping mechanisms people might have by adulthood).

One of the big flags in my evaluation was meeting six of the criteria, and on assessment…

A Beastie Boys hosted Jeopardy would be awesome.

The most difficult part is having your ADHD being taken seriously by others and not viewed as a joke or cop out as to why something is difficult for you.

well that’s just it, it also shows that the most pirated stuff is the most popular stuff anyway, yknow the stuff that’s already making money.

Yeah, we’ll see asterisks forever on movies from the last 18-months. “Adjusted for covidflation”.

You know, I had pretty much given up torrents and then the streaming wars and Covid happened, and along came things that I could not see despite having multiple streaming accounts. I think a lot of us were driven back to it because of the fragmentation of media.