I take exception to the phrase “early-internet game Neopets.” Neopets launched in 1999, the height of the dotcom boom. The Internet was went global in the early ‘80s.

Venture Capitalists pouring money into every lame brained idea, so lame brained idea companies have lots of incentive to try dumb things.

Yes or, at least, it used to back when it cost $35+ a month. The original CEO stated that he hoped that people would get it, use it, love it and then eventually take it for granted. If people were paying for it but didn’t feel like going to the movies that month, then it was pure profit. He even specifically…

Essentially, as far as Silicon Valley goes, you don’t have to make money. As long as your stock increases in value, you can borrow endlessly until you start making a profit. This is what Amazon, Netflix and Facebook did. Google is one of the very, very few companies that were profitable from the get-go.

I wasn’t around for American Airlines’ unlimited lifetime first class tickets, and I couldn’t afford them even if they did it now. But at least with MoviePass I’ve gotten to take advantage of one spectacularly ill-conceived, too good to be true business venture.

Amazon.

MoviePass is losing money because every ticket is sold below cost. Uber loses money because every ride is sold below cost.

For all the jokes seeing news like this actually concerns me a bit as i’ve been getting a hell of a lot of mileage out of this service in seeing films I wouldn’t have initially paid for or going to repeat viewings of films i’ve loved. I even got one for my mom for christmas and she’s always telling me how much she…

That’s the business model for a lot of app start ups.

Also, biggest bugbear about rom coms is that no one ever just sits down and explains themselves. They storm off, or hold it in because it’s the right thing to do, or because they’re a man and they don’t talk about feeling.

Gods & Monsters. Go see Gods & Monsters if you haven’t before now.

The book is so bad it inspired a very good podcast about reading bad books, I Don’t Even Own A Television. That was *checks feed* 4 years ago.

The book was incredibly popular and I bet many of us, myself included, did read it. And boy was that a mistake. We are at least somewhat justified in hating this.

I have this horrible vision of George Lucas promising his fortune to anyone sufficiently immersed in Buck Rogers and old time radio shows.

I’m asexual and I’m on the waaaay far end of the spectrum. So in an attempt to provide context as to what asexual means when it’s an *extreme* indifference to sex (i.e. definitely not grey!), here’s how I feel about making out, masturbation, sex, and relationships:

I think it opens up a larger conversation of why the label “asecual” has value for someone who has sex on the regular.

I once had a friend whom claimed he could not get drunk.......yet every friday night we saw him get drunk and act like an asshole. All of us knew he was full of shit. That is the answer to your question........

Chuckled at the Tumblr reference.

Hm, let me flip through my Bender-to-English dictionary...Ah, yes, I believe I have the proper translation: “As a cishet white man, I’ve become accustomed to the culture catering to my demographic above all else for my entire life, and the idea of that slightly decreasing even a tiny bit fills me with unreasoning…

The reshoots were required to add additional practical pouches. The added CGI post production pouches weren’t bringing the feels to the test audiences.