It's really a meta-commentary on the failure of Studio and platform decision models to accurately predict even an entirely self-contained invented universe. Right? That's the point? Right?!? 

I’m amazed James Corden isn’t in there somewhere. Oh shit, he’s Yoshi, isn’t he?

I’m still using the Kindle I won in a raffle back in 2008... It still does everything I want it to... 2 to 3 weeks on a charge....

This is like NOTHING you just mentioned. Nothing. Imagine a galaxy were a cabal  tries to topple regimes using mathematical psychology, not battlefleets. That’s what Foundation is. All of it.

dunno on what weird knockoff ikea website you’ve been but everywhere i looked it says 8 - 22 mm

Youre in for a rude awakening. 

I reread the original Foundation trilogy over the summer, and one thing that struck me was the optimism. In terms of optimism, the average Foundation adventure makes a typical TNG episode look like a David Fincher movie. In stories that were written at the height of WWII, the good guys are able to win over planets…

“between 3/8 and 7/8 of an inch“

That’s some Cyberpunk 2020 thinking.

Sure, but if I stick it to my thigh, will it charge my phone in my pocket?

Sounds to me like it’s some sort of a shitty social network (à la Gab, Parler, Frankspeech, etc), maybe combined with a VPN, maybe some kind of a Tor-ish system, and probably some sort of web portal that’ll send you to all of worst parts of the conservative internet. Maybe they have dreams of implementing their own…

So it’s a web portal, presumably mass produced in Shenzhen like everything else, with presumably a custom built android interface, that will directly interface with the thousands of existing servers on the world wide web that they denounce as a bad thing, how exactly is this going to be more secure than anything else?…

“Get dunc’d on”

You know, at this point, I’d watch anything Villeneuve directed. A cheerios commercial. A remake of Snakes on a Plane. Another Transformers sequel, etc.

My grandfather was an extremely devout Pentecostal preacher, and his youngest son, my uncle, was the lead singer of a death metal band. Sometimes reality is like a badly written movie. 

Said it before, but I’ll say it again: I didn’t believe Chet Hanks was a real person for a very long time. I thought he was something the AV Club made up, because it’s inherently funny; Tom Hanks is so likable, so you make up a douchebag white rapper son as a goof. I’m still not 100% convinced he’s real and this isn’t…

Hmm. If you get confused about whether you’re rich or poor, you’re rich.

Meanwhile Colin Hanks continues to be an underappreciated, solidly reliable character actor.

So I am 23 seconds in and what is fascinating to me is that he is clearly, genuinely, proud of that accent. Like, he worked on it, or maybe he feels he has a natural gift, and I think on some level he wants some recognition, some praise for doing such a good job (in his mind) with that accent.

I remember tuning into Oprah, sure IT was going to be a hydrogen engine that was going to make fossil fuels obsolete, and then seeing what if actually was being so disappointed.