Jordan Klepper certainly fits into that mold.

“It was not Nicole Kidman.

See, that was a joke; I kid, man, it was totally her.”

I know it was a typo but I kind of love the idea that the main character is a cook rather than a crook. Gives it that extra layer of weirdness.

Yeah, I figured it was a play off “peak oil,” which is, per Wikipedia:

The more concerning number is that there was a 24% drop in scripted series but only a 21% drop overall. If I’m reading it correctly, that means that the ratio of scripted series to “reality” garbage is getting even worse.

Agreed, the story’s the thing. I’ll deal with meh graphics for a good/great story but if the story sucks I don’t care how many pixels there are or how many rays are being traced.

I think you’re right, but I (as a general statement) don’t think that everything like that needs an explanation and beyond that I think it’s better if not everything has one.

Yeah, AFAIK there’s never been an explicit explanation of why some ghouls turn feral and others don’t. We’ve seen several examples of ghouls in the same environment with mixed feral/non-feral in the games; the two that spring to mind are the ones on the Chinese sub in FO4 and in Vault 79 in Fallout 76.

Yeah. Being released between “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” and “Captain Fantastic” certainly didn’t do “Caribou” any favors. It has two banger singles, sure, but the rest is just not up to the standard set by those two bookends.

That’s even why Claudia Wells played Marty’s girlfriend in Back to the Future and not Melora Hardin. Hardin is 6" shorter than Eric Stoltz but an inch or two taller than Michael J. Fox, so they opted to recast when Fox replaced Stoltz.

People at the time were wondering just how much more dank those balls could be. And the answer was none. None more dank.

It depends on the state. The couple I knew live in North Carolina, and there’s no common law marriage there. I don’t know where Rhys and Russell have their permanent residence, but if it’s California there’s no common law marriage there either (unless they were already common-law married elsewhere).

They may even be actually married; they’ve referred to each other as husband and wife publicly, though that doesn’t necessarily mean anything.

That’s my feeling as well, though I do worry about the Zaslavification of television spreading further than WBD.

It’s not an issue that impacts me directly because I don’t generally play for that long in one go and I just plop the controller onto a charger when I’m done with a session, but it sounds like a logical upgrade and they’re not charging more for it so it’s a win all around.

That’s just it, though. It’s not like that’s new. There was a huge outcry when fans caught wind that Paramount was going to make a new Trek show set in the future with a totally new crew, with people literally protesting in the street because it was a new ship and a new crew and they couldn’t conceive of Star Trek…

That’s the maddening part for me. The various creative forces over the years for both Trek and SW have created a big, rich, vibrant universe to tell stories in, but we keep treading the same ground. Sometimes it’s great (SNW), sometimes it’s terrible (Into Darkness), but it’s just so narrow-minded given the size of…

I could not agree more. Strange New Worlds is wonderful but I hope they don’t take the wrong lessons from it - that what people are clamoring for is more stories about the same characters over and over.

“Look, Taraji, it would’ve been fine if there had only been two Bar Patrons, but we’d have to provide a driver for Bar Patron #3 as well if we got one for you and the budget just can’t support that.”

Hey, that review by John Barron is totally legit!