Like they can’t buy all of your phone tracking data on the open market if they really wanted it...

Most countries that sell Chinese cars require servers be hosted and maintained within their borders, not within China (mostly due to GDPR regulations). Doesn’t mean there still aren’t concerns or that it wipes the slate clean that you’re ultimately supporting the CCP, but the whole “they’re spying and selling all my…

Every transatlantic flight I’ve been on has had blankets put on every seat before boarding.  Is AirCanada really that cheap?

You misheard it. It’s “dark things call to dark things” meaning that it calls to him because he’s a dark thing too. Not much better, but maybe a little? 

god this looks horrendous. it looks like a fan film from 2010 filmed on of those Flip Camera people used to vlog with, with that 480p MAX youtube setting. like “we’re filming in the woods because we have no money to spend on this” kind of fan film. Ketchup entertainment sounds like a fake production company from a…

It looks like a Blumhouse film that they licensed at the last minute and tacked on a couple scenes with Hellboy during reshoots.

Del Toro’s Hellboy movies had a wonderful, twisted fairytale vibe and a perfectly cast Ron Perlman. Neil Marshall’s Hellboy... I just don’t know what the hell happened there. Everything about that movie felt like a misfire.

Hellboy.  Hellboy never changes.

Looks fine, but for me at least it's just hard to match Ron Perlman's Hellboy voice

I remember him specifically mentioning AIDS as a big one, and that ended up being a fairly big deal in the backstory of Virtual Light with the martyrdom of Shapely by religious fundamentalists.

Yeah, the whole phone thing...

That’s not really true. He doesn’t dislike the books so much as the cyberpunk moniker he and the others were saddled with. I can ask him specifically if you want.

Huh, good luck. They’ll film the first tome and call it a day.

Imma stand by it, The Stranger is either the founder of, or the apprentice to The Ren. This is gonna be a Knights of Ren origin.

I dunno, I think the reason Star Wars has endured so long, especially beyond its initial three films, is precisely because it was so heavily and successfully merchandised, and because it had so many designs that were ripe for merchandising. It was tailor made for toys with cool space ships, robots, aliens, troopers,…

The helmet won’t be available until later this year. The design for the show definitely came first, and then was sent to Hasbro for toy production.

The thing about Hamm though, is that part of his superhero draw is that he has the classic Alex Ross Silver Agey chiseled face. The Question would be a missed opportunity.

What, Fletch wasn’t enough?

Live-action Totally Spies? I pity the poor trio of actresses they will rope in. 75% of the cartoon’s appeal is that it’s a French fetish fest. Any faithful adaptation would be only a few steps away from a porno spoof.

The Jedi Temple and Hogwarts appeal enormously to entertainment and tech bro-types, because it tells them that their success flows from a natural gift rather than dumb luck or flat-out nepotism. Of all the stuff that got walked back in TRoS it’s really telling that Rey was no longer a nobody. She had to be descended…