Naw.

I mean, I get that this is a satirical oversimplification from a tomato face account, but I definitely think there are some of the Trump-ey Republicans who are cynical enough to rely on purple district Republicans to be their punching bags for a political ideology they don’t really believe in!

Naw. Making some big point out of the difference between “non-English” and “Spanish” in the context of someone typing in real time on a short hand interface is silly.

“My constituents will not like this and will vote me out of office if I do this” as a motive for an elected official in a representative democracy is ... fine?

His brain is fully oxygenated. His eyes are clear and he’s warm. I knew I’m either going to feel nothing or I’m going to let myself love him.

“Ma’am this is a Beetlejuice musical”

People tell me all the time that they wear their hearts on their sleeve.

The point here is that it’s not actually that important to cater to every tiny potential audience’s needs or preferences, and that maybe some of the folks making a stink about this are doing so because they enjoy being seeing to make a stink as compared to genuine concern.

Feels like the Roci was more rectangular, but otherwise, spot on.

Here I’m using it in the sense of perplexed in that it’s “less than fine” but still not upset enough to merit others being offended on their behalf.

Real time close captioning of live content mostly exists to satisfy a regulatory requirement. It’s not shocking and I can’t help but wonder how many people check all the boxes of

I think it’s less some of the plot changes for compression, which I agree the 2nd season has done a better job of, than the choice on where to focus energy and also on sapping what little fun there was in the book series out of the show.

It can happen. Rebranding single payer as “Medicare for All” is one example, seeing as Medicare is, you know, not single payer.  

Unfortunately, the same logic loophole can be used to argue for any production getting back to work. How to make this work?

Naw.  For starters, it didn’t last 900 years, there was still plenty of development.  But also, there’s way more ebbs and flows in that sort of sentiment than just the Dark Ages to the Renaissance.  Even in American history there is ebbs and flows in that and the fact is that those ebbs and flows haven’t stopped us…

I think that’s a great point about the quality of the shows in conjunction with the much more loosely connected plot across shows. You can kind of get away with fudging one of those elements but probably not both.

I have a hard time getting worked up over “edgy” (to say nothing of hacky and unoriginal) on-air comments or jokes made for an “edgy” TV show 20 years ago.

Of course it’s not a straight line, but it’s onward nonetheless.

Even that’s a midwit take.  Throughout history there has always been an ebb and flow, and the cycle of “intellectual elites” vs. “unwashed beknighted masses” has played itself out time and time again.  Civilization continues to march on regardless.

I don’t think Starfield’s expectations were that it would be transformational. At least, not from the bulk of the people who actually play the game, the vast majority of whom are not the people who endlessly talk about video games online as superfans, super critics or who do it for money.