It definitely could not exist without Skins

Imma put in my plug for Atomic Blonde. The story and dialogue barely makes sense, but it hits all the marks that I look for in a Bond-esque spy thriller complete with stylish outfits and visuals. I like Craig’s action scenes, but Charlize Theron is just amazing. It’s got a couple of my favorite on-screen fights. 

Definitely the anime matters. Only speaking to AoT season 1, but I did find that while they splurged on scenes like the action with all the cable flying, honestly very breath taking, but I felt that outside of moments meant to be visually spectacular, it used the same sort of shortcuts. That said it was probably a…

Hmmm, I have that exact opposite viewpoint. With the exception of high budget movies like Studio Ghibli works, Your Name, I tend to find most anime to be terribly static. I think your average anime compared to your average western cartoon has better storyboarding and visual composition for any given scene, but they…

He did more than that! He worked closely with the new director about her vision and helped with lyric changes.

Well, I mean more so than one random internet comment. I haven’t seen it yet, but the reviews I’ve seen of it, both good and bad all have the common theme of praising Lady Gaga’s performance. 

Well, why is hardcore gaming necessary as a goal or progression? There’s nothing wrong with stopping at just casual just as there’s nothing wrong with playing hardcore games.

I agree, I loved that part and didn’t know it existed, but its placement was odd.

I like the take about cruelty of the joke. I find that power dynamics can sometimes be difficult to determine what with intersectionality and all and social media, and technology. There are some clear power dynamics but also some very muddied ones, and we’re not even going to be able to touch on how people perceive…

Your first point is interesting about the idea of audience perception of the joke teller as someone who doesn’t hold the same views the joke might have. It seemed that that allowed for some comedians to make fairly obvious allusions to their beliefs and behaviors that general audiences just allowed to skate by because…

If you eat it with yogurt instead of milk I think we can call that salad.

I mean just because everyone was an asshole doesn’t mean they were all at the same or similar levels. Kumail could have just been caught up in the group behavior and looked the other way/enabled shitty behavior, I imagine everyone has been in a similar situation (I don’t want to excuse it, just explain it). And for…

Now that my boyfriend and I cook generally vegetarian to vegan, including with meat substitutes. We’ve both become much better cooks. There is an inherent challenge that comes with making these versions as their meat substitute, and those challenges are invitations to better skills of tasting and cooking. Even if…

My method as well, gotta optimize time to mouth and meltiness. 

You are vindicated! 70's is hot now.

Slightly funny turnip story. Boyfriend and I went to have a tasting menu at a new fancy restaurant where I treated him, it was ~$300 for both of us. We were seated next to another couple.

I mean, by that same token, wouldn’t hamburger be the “ground up muscular, fat, and miscellaneous tissue of slaughtered cows formed into patties”?

I doubt they’re side stepping the “ick” as must as just using the common parlance for that general type of food so consumers easily understand how to eat it. “Eat this…

I read about it in Farmer Boy, a little house novel set in New York, I’m inclined to think it’s an East Coast thing? Or just a not-West Coast. 

Monogamish seems to imply that monogamy is the main structure of the relationship with some flexibility, like maybe a hall pass, a rare threesome, forgiveness in the event of unplanned outside activity vs poly where multiple partners are the expectation rather than the exception.

Agreed, especially when you consider that Sorry to Bother You was released the same year, Black KKKlansman looks pretty lukewarm.