The only top tier creative people that I could find that they recruited (not counting actors) is Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh. The rest were mostly unknowns. She would be in the upper tier of well-known people making shows for them, and unlike most celebrities, she has experience in making short form content…

Same. I may need to try it again, but I got lost on the second level and can’t seem to figure out where I’m supposed to go to progress. So many people tout it as a hard game for people to help deal with their anxiety, but the combination of the ambient music that puts me on edge, the level design that often makes it…

While that is bullshit (she has a much more dedicated fanbase than most of the celebrities that they used, and she became famous initially for critically acclaimed short-form web content, the exact sort of thing that they’re looking for), I think that she probably dodged a bullet there.

Does anyone else feel like this is the plot of a Simpsons episode or something?

I think that what this qualifies as is fucking stupidity.

Mario without a hat just looks wrong, like those pictures where they digitally remove people’s eyebrows. It’s just...off.

I think that a lot of reporters are afraid of being called biased and unfair if they actually try to make their interview subject accountable (just look at the response by Trumpites to the release of this interview). Not a defense, just an explanation.

Thanks! And I completely agree. Your scenario sounds completely plausible, and I wouldn’t be shocked if that’s how it would have played out if Hillary eeked out a win. And no part successfully stayed in the office of the president for more than 3 terms since World War II, so Hillary would have been unlikely to get a…

There were four major candidates in the presidential election of 1824, including Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams. Jackson won a plurality of votes in the electoral college, but not enough to get a majority, so the election was thrown to the U.S. House, where congressional delegations from each state vote on the…

Honestly, this looks closer to a Harry Potter game that I want to play than the actual official one.

And most of these questions weren’t that hard. They weren’t exactly softballs, but they were mainly asking for elaborations on his own policies. Any remotely competent politician would have seen these coming and had some sort of answer prepared. Biden has been asked questions like this, and he at least has an answer…

As somebody who lived in Indiana while Pence was governor, this is his number one rhetorical move in interviews and debates. If he gets a question that he doesn’t like, he answers a related question of his choice that doesn’t answer the original question but sounds less bad than whatever the answer to the original…

Is what I find interesting about your very plausible hypothetical alternate history is that it’s very close to what happened with John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson in real life.

I agree with a lot of your post, but Biden actually seems to be pretty open to pressing charges, and the State of New York is currently working on a lot of cases against him. I would not be remotely surprised if he ends up in prison by the time this is over.

My father literally boycotted a gas station once over the fact that they put ads on the gas pumps. I don’t blame him. It was really annoying.

While there are a lot of similarities, you can often purchase or trade trading cards from other players, so while it may cost you, you can put together a good deck without opening a single pack. The loot box systems are often set up so that they are the only way to get the rewards in question. That is one of the big…

Because it was patronizing and out of touch. Basically the corporate embodiment of this:

And it also ignores the fact that even before the pandemic most Americans don’t ride the bus or train daily.

Katzenberg is an odd figure in that he is a massive jerk and also has some talent behind him but is completely capable of making mistakes. He basically alienated and angered everyone around him at Disney, while leading them into a period of success. Not all of the success of the Renaissance can be attributed to him…

Thank you. This was said by so few people, but I think that it’s actually a major reason why this was such a terrible idea. I live in one of the biggest metro areas in the country (Dallas/Fort Worth), and I have access to no public transportation, and most smaller communities also don’t have any. It’s not even an…