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I'm sure it's pronounced "blorry" or something but god how perfect if it were a homonym with "blah, weary"

I could really go for some minotaurs though, underplayed but totally nightmarish.

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Bite!

"I don't want to hear the end of anything anyone has to say!"

I think it's worth noting that people have been saying the show is absurd, over the top, whatever, as a way of defending the sublot. Aside from being suspiciously similar to "it's just a joke," it also ignores the fact that the show also deals with feminism in an over-the-top way without being "offensive," even though

Which neither this nor the Binge review mentioned… but it's another twist of the knife in this episode's political blindness.

Right, but I mean that the bars are no longer hardcoded on the image, in that 4:3 movies have their data coded in 4:3, rather than pillarboxed 16:9—leaving it to the consumer to adjust their TVs? Sorry, I haven't bought a full-frame disc in a while so I don't know what the industry standard is, now that we all have

wait what's wrong with doing this?

Right, can you clarify something for me? This article talks like letterboxing is the same as existing in an aspect ratio not conformed to it's presentation format ratio, but letterboxing is specifically hardcoding the black bars—so most DVDs and Blu-Rays are no longer letterboxed… right?

God, padding out a movie to 102 minutes is so unnecessary. What happened to a tight hour-thirty? Or -twenty? Or in this case, nothing?

Someone really needs to write a cultural history of people drinking milk. It always seems to indicate some weird neurosis/psychosis, or basically imply some sort of backwardness.

Immediately became my favorite shard universe.

A synth keyboard creates sounds on the spot by combining waveforms, rather than having a set of pre-programmed noises.

"And now that the album is free to be streamed on other music-subscription services (though not for free)"

What about the em dash, D'Angelo? I thought you had values!

It's one of those weird paradoxes of artists being human that he could hold both the idea that human beings are totally insignificant AND that some group of them is superior to all others. But prejudice has a way of being more powerful than philosophy.

Often, it seems, if they're the sort of person who thinks Vampire Weekend is problematic. With Graceland, though, it's easy to lean on its controversial production to clarify knottier questions of being problematic in itself.

Their usages of Afropop, specifically on "Blake's Got a New Face" (cf. Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens) are kind of questionable.

I think I'm sort of in between you two. "Problematic" once maybe had a genuine meaning, but now it's more of a euphemism. Sometimes, its euphemistic quality can be strategically useful (as you noted) to sort of inch a conversation along political lines when with an audience that might be hostile to that.

Both of them on one screen was so much.