End to end, the main islands of Japan are pretty much the distance of San Diego, CA to Vancouver, BC. Maybe because it’s an archipelago, people find it difficult to perceive the true size of it.

It’s weird: paradoxically, the better the quality of the cosplay, the less interested I am. I have to remind myself that this is amateur work and the product of blood, sweat and tears, not some corporate project to sell something.

Honestly, I feel like it’d be more of a hit to take them up on their cheap flights, and then never fly them again when they raise their prices back to normal.

Ehh to be fair, pilots operate a flying vehicle with a gazillion switches, and do things like landing it on a strip of pavement far, far away in various weather conditions.

I don’t think you’re missing out on much, unless the most recent episodes of the current season are entirely different from the first few episodes. It all still feels heavily-scripted, and the prettiness of the show isn’t special anymore. I felt the same way about The Grand Tour too. It’s like watching Transformers 12…

The package boasts tasting notes of “dark chocolate and nuts,” but it’s unclear exactly which nuts we’re supposed to be tasting.

I must be plain old cynical, because that guy did not at all strike me as the strong, selfless type. He just seemed like the kinda guy that’s been waiting his whole life to be a knight in shining armor to inflate his ego. I have a sneaking suspicion that he wouldn’t have stood up if the flight attendant was more…

Look at all that loot sitting on the ground.

That looks like the NJ Transit side of Penn Station, so they’re not New Yorkers. They’re suburban New Jersey folks.

While you can’t exactly move the population of Seoul at this point, they are trying to move government agencies further south to Sejong City.

I don’t know where you live, but Hyundais have been popular in California for decades, and they’ve been generally understood to be reliable, no-nonsense cars since the early 2000s. They were all unbelievably hideous until 2010 or so, but they’re about as ubiquitous here as old Hondas and Toyotas. Maybe you live in an…

So you’re not indifferent—you hate it? 

Well the first thing you can do is compare readership with viewership. Based on absolutely nothing solid, I can assume with confidence that the Iron Fist Netflix show has an incomparably larger audience than the Iron Fist comics ever had in its 40 years of existence (video consumption is easier in 2017, Marvel movies…

I’ve finished watching Iron Fist, and I got the sense that its appeal is a lot like Arrow—a lot of people like Arrow, but it’s not going to win an Emmy anytime soon.

I’m making a big assumption here, but I imagine it’s greed, not stupidity. The revenue was flowing in and they couldn’t resist the urge to continue accepting sales. Most events oversell, but they do so with a reasonable expectation that some won’t actually attend and that some amount of waiting is acceptable.

“C’mon”?

Oh, you mean that other half of America that voted in Trump? Yeah, thanks to that their brilliant consensus, the whole world is pretty fucking stressed out about a Kim Jong-Un type leader sitting in the White House.

I don’t know, I mean we all know that the police are into profiling—can’t they just look at the guy’s face and assume that he’s a rapist, if not a belligerent racist?

Only if the remark is “what an ugly fuck”

There’s no such thing as a “non-racist”. White, black, brown—everyone is bigoted. It holds different power in the hands of different people, though.