Honestly, I think it’s time for the CW to start tying off loose ends and wrapping up their superhero slate.

Sandler has some gems - Billy Madison, Waterboy, Happy Gilmore - and his dramatic work - Reign Over Me, Uncut Gems - is also pretty damn good.

I understand why Marvel made the decision they did - recasting The Ancient One is not dissimilar to what they had to do with the Mandarin (both in Iron Man 3 and now in Shang Chi). There are pros and cons to both approaches.

I made the same decision about Indiana when they primaried Richard Lugar.

Fun fact: the concept of pulling one’s self up by one’s own bootstraps was intended as satire, as it’s physically impossible to do so.

Ya know, with things hopefully wrapping up in Afghanistan soon, the US military is going to find itself with a surplus of trained drones, pilots, and missiles.

I think Cameo is a little ridiculous, but I did consider getting one for a friend after she was promoted - she’s a huge LOTR fan and getting Sean Astin to congratulate her might have been cool. However, I think Astin was something like $300, so it was a bit much.

The current composition of SCOTUS makes the potential floor and ceiling of this decision terrifying.

Well, depending on how far back you want to go, Jews have laid claim to what we now call Israel for about five thousand years, which predates Christianity by about three thousand years and Islam by about four thousand years. After the Jews there were a bunch of various cultures, then came the Romans, the Christians,…

As an American Jew, I’m honestly sick to death of Israel’s shit. Israel has a right to exist. Palestinians have a right to self-government. Everyone has a right to live in peace.

Gosh, it’s almost as if “cancel culture” is actually “we keep saying racist, sexist, stupid, and generally unacceptable things and we’re mad the marketplace of ideas keeps calling us out on it”.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!

You’re right - there is an option for them to come back as full time squadmates after the Citadel showdown.

Oh yeah. OG Mass Effect is 14 years old. Procedural terrain generation back then was janky as fuck.

Yeah, and then they promptly get riggity riggity wrecked by the former inhabitant of EDI’s rockin’ robot body and spend the rest of the game just kinda chillin in Huerta Memorial.

During different playthroughs I’ve saved both, and honestly neither is a great character compared to their contemporaries or successors.

Android is a great OS for phones, and brings a lot to the table that iOS doesn’t.

It’s worth noting that Chinese culture dates back thousands of years and largely predates “The West” as we understand it today. Being largely insular and nationalistic, the Chinese have antagonized basically everyone in their immediate sphere of influence - Japan, Korea, Russia, etc. - at one point or another.

I don’t know if there’s an industry that’s as universally disliked as telcos. If you’re waging a war against the likes of Comcast, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Spectrum, Charter, etc., you’re going to win the PR war before you get out of bet.

I’m sympathetic to older folks that haven’t been able to sign up for vaccines due to a lack of internet access or internet illiteracy. If possible, we should be doing mobile vaccine clinics and going to assisted living centers.