I’ll give you that Star Trek: The Motion Picture is long and breezily paced, but I respectfully disagree with most of your other points James.

While Kingsley’s (false) Mandarin was markedly toned-down in terms of his overall Fu Manchu-ness, he was still presented as an alcoholic, drug-using lout for comedic effect, placing him squarely in caricature territory all the same.  

Wow, so much hate for something we GenX’ers grew up with through after-school and sick day reruns! I watched all the preview videos on the web site and am looking forward to this. It’s pretty much the only thing that would get me to watch HGTV.

The ABC Muppets show was good. And I will say this until the end of time, the Muppets should be family friendly, but lean towards and adult audience. That means nothing so extremely explicit that kids can’t watch, but definitely plenty of innuendo that parents will gloss over if their kids ask about it. Also, Muppets…

You might as well get vaccinated if you’re going to consider putting fluoride toxins into your body...

The negative reactions were going to happen regardless.

Yes, and I quit smoking cancer sticks when I was 30 using apple candy flavored e-juice. I started smoking at 15 using tobacco flavored cigarettes.

Marc Maron.

The reality is we need nuclear in the meantime if we want to quickly cut out fossil fuels. The best path forward is renewable/green + nuclear because renewable/green can’t yet provide the consistent baseload and we don’t have reasonable storage methods for the energy they produce to overcome that... yet.

Liu Yifei is from Wuhan, she has no reason to especially sympathize with HK protestors but she has as many reasons as she has family members and friends not to say anything against the government. If you are a nobody, Beijing Is Far. But she is a celebrity, voicing a favor to the protestors puts anyone she knows at…

ya... because we all grow up and grow older

She did fine in Valarian. That movies problems had nothing to do with her performance...

It shouldn’t, there is no reason for it, but a truly depressing amount of people all think they are going to be using their car to outrace a fireball or a supervillain deathsquad. And they think they are going to be competent to drive more than double nickel too. People are deluded and vain, and also a little…

Anyone else love alarmist click bait article’s titles?

That’s the Terry Goodkind one. And that’s... no. Just don’t.

You know what’s odd? Though I don’t know anyone (other than some fairly old nerds) who say ‘data’ the other way, I think ‘database’ has a lot more variability.  I’d say maybe 60/40 the way we say the name of the TNG character, with 40% pronouncing it “dah-tuh-base”

There’s kind of an off tone here. The premise seems to be that maybe people only liked Borderlands because they were immature and young and now they are old and seasoned and won’t? I guess that works if you assume that the player was X age (maybe your age?) when they first started playing but now they have “been to a…

“but dads have become a culturally acceptable target for gentle mockery and loving parody”

No, it wasn’t. The Tesseract wasn’t even on the plane when it crashed — it had already fallen into the ocean. And Steve quite clearly states that he has to crash the plane himself because there are bombs on board.

Well the red tail fox and so you know when your Amazon package arrives. Not that you’re worried about it getting stolen, but why be at work when you have a new toy to play with.