There’s a market globally for British TV that’s all about hoop skirts and tea cozies. Downton Abbey is big in China for instance. That market isn’t interested in modern, diverse Britain. They want to wallow in nostalgia for a time that is probably fictional to begin with. For diverse stuff, we can get Orange is the…

There’s a market worldwide for British TV that wallows in old-fashioned Britishness. Downton Abbey is the poster child for that. It’s big in China of all places. TV is globalized and nobody cares what comes from where. So if you want a show with black actors, it might as well come from America as anyplace. But market…

PS, Britain can make it up to him by making him the next James Bond. Although not being a Bond fan myself, that means a personal sacrifice on my part because I won’t get to see him in whatever else he might be doing instead.

Doesn’t everyone in Britain watch American TV anyway? When Netflix announced they were cracking down on VPN use, we could hear the howls from London (and everywhere else) all the way to California.

I clicked on that video but YouTube made me sit through an ad about bad dog breath. Then I starting thinking, “is it worth sitting through bad dog breath to get to Ted Cruz bullshit?” And then I started thinking, “shouldn’t that question be worded the other way around?

People don’t want the truth. They want their biases confirmed. They’ll believe the truth or a lie that confirms their biases. They’ll refuse to believe the truth or a lie that conflicts with their biases. To manipulate people, learn their biases and feed into them. Happy New Year to all!

Never heard of eggnog? The Star Wars nerds make it with blue milk.

It should be more like, “Face me, granddaughter of my namesake!”

It’s interesting that they took a moment to critique lightsaber fights, even though they’re hardly HEMA material. And I agree, there’s no sense of danger to them, at least the bloodless and overly dance-y way they’re presented. But they could convey a lot more danger and creativity in the choreography like this famous…

I’m waiting for the Back to the Future(TM) branded Ubers to show up. Where we’re going we don’t need roads!

Who was the weirdest? Natalie Portman and Jennifer Aniston for me...Sly Stallone was pretty bad too.

Much more entertaining than the Sandler crap.

I couldn’t get past the first one, I was laughing so hard. The guy should have given her a blue tupperware and a green tupperware...

Don’t live with them in a community property state, tho. You could end up as a common-law spouse and on the hook for whatever financial problems they run into. I like to keep a firewall up about such things...

Mike Cameron is lucky to be alive. His customer was obviously a vampire.

I’m starting to wonder if I should invest in Confederate flag merchandise before it goes extinct! It could be valuable!

Or, reverse that. If this software is making political or artistic points first, then the audience for this is not the gamer audience. It’s the people who are interested in an artistic experience that makes political points. Who are those people? Where are they? Sounds like this company hired a PR firm but developed…

I don’t think that “gamers” are the audience for this at all. If the PR firm just went after the usual gamer blogs, there’s your problem. Maybe this is for non-gamers who love experimental art? Create a free-to-play mobile app, get it out there as a “new artistic experience,” and let people decide for themselves if…

“What does it mean when a game resonates with the press but can’t find an audience?”

No point. Outside rating services don’t rate things to YOUR personalized taste. As long as you make the effort to rate things, you should get personalized ratings thru Netflix that are far more accurate than rotten tomatoes et al.