I’m here for the fiery digital gum drops.

I’m glad I never have the money to buy a game within the 7 first years of its release.

A simulation with a trump-sized bug would simply not launch.

What always annoys me with all these “omg the matrix never thought of that what if it’s true” is that such questions are SO OLD, and date from so long before computers. All the philosophy of perception, with Leibniz’ idea that we’re just monades watching a pre-recorded movie or George Berkeley claiming that while…

I’m too young. I yell at people for using the internet.

he was bored eating and humping

Nope, I agree with that. I think that one of the strength of Stephen King is to make genuinely endearing and believable characters we actually care about.

Absolutely no curiosity about this star trek series except that point :

Exactly. I remember Harold as always creepy (his gaze, his secret post-apocalyptic fantasies fulfilled was a nice touch) but how he’d turned out to be still very open and unexpected. I wouldn’t have wanted to get this story with spoilers.

The exact term is “expensively vestigial”.

Oh. I thought it was just an introductory aside and waited for the sentence to start.

Nope. The source material is indeed awful.

pointing out that its subscribers are smart enough to draw appropriate lines between reality and those moments that are played up for television

Congratulations ! It’s a cool age !

Oh. Wait. What ? I hadn’t heard of a netflix version.

Okay, three things.

Yeah. When mobile phones became popular and people felt “important” for needing and being able to be reached anywhere, Umberto Eco pointed out that “important” people where precisely those who had the luxury of not being reachable at will.

Disclaimer : I actually kinda liked the death note films, and enjoyed the clever, bittersweet win that deviates from the anime/manga and allows a 3rd movie.

Amusingly, in french, both Endor and Andor are homophones with Endors (put to sleep / fall asleep).

Ok. Never even heard of it. Guess I had managed to dodge simultaneously one more star wars byproduct (of how many?) and one more gamergatey cross-burning (of how many?). Double win there.