Question I'm not sure I want to know the answer to: how are the kids these days throwing around 'performative' these days? Because in the sociology I know, dating back at least to Goffman, it doesn't mean individuals do or don't 'fake' an attitude or emotion. It rather recognizes that the social situation has…

But where is it, really? Where's Firefly?

Can it be a stately pleasure doooooommmmmmeeee?

That pretty much fits the Republicans I know - they could convince themselves that Trump wouldn't be *that* bad, but dang if they'd pull the lever for a Clinton. That anecdotal experience, and the overall stats I've read, suggest that it was mainline Republicans who cast the winning votes.

I don't think it would have made much sense for her to be killed off, either, though. She is eventually smart enough to call it a day.

I know a few people who were religiously home-schooled. Some became really interesting, nice, smart people who had interesting reflections on their upbringing as they moved on to other things. The others never really left home, a social arrangement that they were engineered for and I guess it sort of works for them.

That 'wasted investment' never really worked for me as motivation, either. Nadine was a sufficiently badass individual, but as a para-military organizational leader in it for the money, you've got to believe she had sufficient know-how to build and/or rise to the top of Shoreline and yet was also stupid enough to stay…

That's largely because 'free speech' is an American concept and other countries don't have it legally enshrined in quite the same way. For example, in the 90s Germany banned / forced the alteration of video games with blood and human-like characters, and despite their anti-Nazi laws they've *still* got far-right…

Seems like it was both a "gigantic literary crime" and an object lesson about the social structure that produced the journals maybe having a few issues it needed to work out.

In the Midwest, 'camp' was something you went to for a week. Being ignorant of America's class struggle, Young Me assumed the summer-long camps depicted in TV and film were a quaint relic of the olden days in which media producers grew up or about which they heard their parents tell tales.

In a sense, American Pie did capture the late Generation X / early Millennial experience as much as Forrest Gump did the Boomer experience - and more subtly!

I played through damn corner of that single-player game, and the Archives 1:20 time run was definitely the hardest part. But that was how good the game was - it made you WANT to do all the hard, obscure, extra stuff.

While I loved the character's introduction, I hope the show does more than have the protagonists alternate between fending off TWO unstoppable,Terminator-esque killing machines whose stories can't really be resolved until the end of the whole story.

A good part of my day has consisted of revising a dissertation chapter - wherein every damn word I say is, has been, and will be challenged and picked over beyond reason - and occasionally back to reading…. this thousand-comment thread. The differences in conversational precision are notable.

It's pretty standard practice at any tourist site.

It's almost like maybe one or two cities shouldn't have the monopoly on producing America's 'national' cultural media!

I would have accepted / forgiven everything had it been done with practical effects.

I'm curious how well the references to Raiders in Darabont's draft would have played on the screen - the drunken repeat of the idol theft, Indy greeting Marion with 'it's not the mileage, it's the years' - if they would have been welcomed or dismissed as obvious pandering.

But how will it compare to the The President's Neck is Missing?

…. but is it / is it not effective 'social media strategy'? It certainly separates some audience members from the others.