OH NO! CONTEXT! How can I bandwagon on petulant consumer rage now?!

More mundane read: a file on a media server go screwed up, and a single simulcast out of literally hundreds a year got messed up.

Sure, people should get their money back. And folks have a right to be disappointed that their event got screwed up. But a file or their internet service got fucked on a single Sunday evening…

Yeah, it’s a gotcha headline looking for another Conway family drama, drama that presumes that next to a bad person is always a less bad person suffering in secret in public, and I’m not here for this centrist bullshit propaganda.

Dude invested in local good ol’ boy companies and two companies extremely interested in…

Actually, there’s a cool little detail in that scene to show he just got there: the front door is still open.

It think the only source is the original script (i.e. something like “SUBURBAN HOME, 1949" at the beginning of the final scene). As for the intent, I think it may actually be a paean to the Agent Carter show: its last season takes place over 1947, so it means Peggy and Sousa get to have their time together before…

Technically, they would have reminded her of him.

Well, now she knows what makes him so great!

That idea’s been around since at least the Greeks of old.

You know the ones I mean.
 

Technically, he went back not to 1945, but 1949. So he’s only a spry 113!

I think you and your debate partner here are trying to breakdown the distinction between “narrative universe” and, I dunno, “ideological universe”, which can be functionally unhelpful, because as has happened, you’re quibbling over semantics more than having a discussion that progresses in any positive fashion.

If…

Ish. I’m interested in that discussion, but don’t think writers that don’t touch on it are blinkered, or that the filmmakers are all fascist. Only in the same way that American superhero films can be interpreted as fascist fantasy by fascists. Like the idiots who think they’re like the Punisher or Captain America,…

Ack, too late to add an edit:
To be clear, I don’t find a problem with most of your arguments. Is it alright to be fairly uncomfortable with the fact that I don’t? That so much of our society is based not on what was the correct outcome, but how the promoters of certain ideas or ideals simply failed or didn’t fail…

You’re describing the fact that Heard made a tactical error in human manipulation rather than pointing out whether or not Heard was actually telling the truth. Which, sure, the latter is technically immaterial to the discussion you want to have. But that it is immaterial is rather the whole point of the comment you’re…

Except I think the point of this is that this is absolutely a case of someone worrying about money and mismanagement. Reporting on this very site made incredibly clear that the reason for the problems with Andromeda, Inquisition, and Anthem was that, as a direct result of managerial mismanagement, staff were…

Exactly. In the end credits for Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, the developers thanked their fans for sticking with them through COVID and the Texas Snowstorm... and what is the Wonderlands reddit actually filled with? Buncha sour grapes motherfuckers who think they’re owed a fully developed multi-faceted and fully…

Sure. But most folks pick and choose which apologies to accept based on purely subjective criteria, save some Tibetan ascetics and some very wealthy people whose power insulates them enough from the sorrows of the world that it allows them to easily pretend towards the same equanimity.

I provided, I think, a…

Apologies are acceptable based on a belief that someone that has made a mistake actually thinks they’ve made a mistake. Most of us have experienced confused, bitter ass white men who aren’t actually sorry for their racism, but have rather found support for their bitterness in having to be “made” to apologize for…

To be fair, there is a difference between someone using an epithet that most Americans of her and our generation likely had to learn later in life was actually related to insulting the disabled, and the most successful co-writer in the world complaining about a lack of opportunity. I’ve seen a lot of people go “Oh....…

Ranma is literally 3 decades old.

Drag queens don’t take away your little girls. DFACS does once it learns you’re regularly arrested for assault and terroristic threats.