Yeah I mean the books talk about the Wild Hunt and they’re clearly the apocalyptic baddie but then the saga is like “LOL here’s a pogrom and Geralt dies but then Geralt and Yen get transported to an island and then Ciri goes off with Galahad, yes that Galahad”.

Oh I agree Rand doesn’t accept it I’m saying it’s moreso that the reader is exposed to the idea because Rand demonstrates unusual power. In the show it’s all just sort of given away before that and he only wins the confrontation not because he demonstrates a surge of power but because he’s like “Oh I don’t want to…

I can live with a lot of the changes to WoT, I understand trying to appeal to a younger Millenial Zoomer audience, but two of them are just so infuriating.

Oh yeah the books are definitely not that strong in the Witcher. The ending especially is really dissatisfying, and I have always felt that the video game trilogy is kind of important to make the saga complete, even if the Witcher 1's transition from the saga is a bit weak (maybe they’ll clean that up in the remake).

It may be that losing Cavill is a death knell because the only thing keeping the show popular was his picture perfect portrayal of how most viewers see Geralt.

I think Brady’s an airheaded douche as much as the next sane person does but yeah, there’s not really a real argument against him as the GOAT. There’s a lot of “I don’t like him” and “I don’t like the Patriots/Bill Belichek” and while I agree with those as statements in a vacuum those aren’t arguments.

Case in point, one of those weird hyperonline sorts.

Existing in the same space as Britney Spears and not immediately prostrating himself in worshipful reverence?

In all of this I’ve realized I’m jealous of Wembanyama for the oddest reason, which is that he clearly does not understand America’s weird online culture and the wack ass way it takes any trivial incident like this and manages to contort it into something that relates to the culture war somehow.

Me before reading this article: Eugenics is bad is a pretty vanilla, normative statement that all but some fringe lunatics agree on.

that it’s not in Harper and Ford’s “best interests” to have sweets “consistently”

The company had listed three additional trips to the Titanic in the wake of the Titan implosion, both of which were scheduled for 2024, but the notice does not say if or when the suspension will lift. However, despite the fine print at the top of OceanGate’s site, the three expeditions in May 2024 are still listed…

This type of story is not a glowing start to Wembanyama’s nascent NBA career,

It’s a valid point. The benefits of remaining in a sorority if the sorority members don’t want you are sort of ... dubious.

Eh that’s dubious. When you start talking about fines of this nature the scope of the potential harm you caused comes into effect. In Swift’s case, since nothing was ever acted upon, she never advertised the unregistered securities, the damage to her would be limited.

It’s been wild watching the dynamic play out where Republican governors beholden to the largest core of their lunatic base have to contravene the broad popular will of their entire constituency.

I mean, the whole thing was devoid of any context at all but it’s not really a leap to surmise they were labeling the “others” as Nazis.

In a lot of ways the Butcher is Diablo’s most ubiquitous character if you consider Pudge in DotA an extension of him.

Well, not intentionally. They were using Hitler quotes to describe the allegedly nefarious actions of a mysterious cabal of supposedly progressive teachers unions and administrators to push bad literature on kids.  Of course they utilized power to ban those books doing the same thing but the reference was pointed…

Okay but in that case he’s talking about literal swastika touting, tiki torch waiving Nazis of the Charlotesville rallies.