Somehow, Pop Culture Reference returned.

I am iffy on the quality of some of these reviews, but let’s be honest: a lot of the biggest emotional impacts from watching the show can be got merely from their Wikipedia entries. The filmmaking is substandard, so all we’re left with are the canon references and plot reveals.

Nah, it smacks of “Call it something else so we don’t have to pay the previous writers”, which Disney does to all of its brands, from Mickey down to their daytime kids stuff from the 90s like Hannah Montana and Wizards of Waverly Place.

In the same way that Futurama changed stations several times, yes. Though, with that, the main production company (The Curiosity Company) stayed the same, and the venue/distributor changed, though the distributor also became a co-producer each time. The bigger problem is how contractor work is devalued in general in…

It is bizarre how few people understand that inertia and the basic social contract is what keeps most major companies afloat, and it has little to nothing to do with putative galaxy brain moves at the top. Really, there’s just so many safety nets for corporate mismanagement in our country and culture that most…

There’s a difference between finding out Henny Youngman actually loved his wife and would prefer if she weren’t taken from him, and making up stories of racial bigotry for social points. The former is duh, the latter is pathetic loser behavior. See: Smollett, Jussie. Not that Minhaj got the law involved or anything,…

Correct. The difference is she’s also a producer and in-fact owner of the production company that originated the show, and likely getting WAY better terms than the standard Netcode minimums. Regardless, the demands on her time probably have a lot more to do with what her production company negotiated with CBS for the…

They did not remove those gender identities. You choose which one or a nonbinary choice, and that selection is simply independent of body choices.

You had both a higher and lower level of control, in that you could have your profile picture be any jpeg you wanted of the correct dimensions, and if you put audio files in the right folder, any voice. One could consider this “modding”, but only barely, and the instructions to do so I believe were in the manual. 

The system isn’t grid-based, but rather like the ruler systems from games like Warhammer. Essentially, you’ve got a movement speed that you use up linearly, rather than subdividing the area into grid squares. I.e. you can move 2.3756 meters if you desire as long as you have that much movement left. None of the…

This is essentially how the Star Trek MMO works. You can be from the couple dozen or so canon races, or create your own Emmy Award winning makeup monster.

I hear that, but I also wonder if everyone’s second purchase for the console is more diverse, so to speak. Where everyone has those first-party games, but also a bunch of smaller games that other players may not.

The difference being that Barrymore is not just “an actor”, but a showrunner. “Can” do something is not “required” to do something, because her obligation to appear as an actor certainly not what's at stake here. Network Television Code may cover how she is *treated*, but as a showrunner, she’s not in the same boat as…

I’m sure thus website called the AVClub will get right on that hard hitting journalism about the floods in Libya now that you've called them out.

Barrymore could easily mention the contract you say compels her to work. All SAG-AFTRA says is that she is not compelled to strike under Netcode, which is SAG-AFTRA alone. That’s all. Nothing about what the WGA requires. Nothing about somebody “forcing” her to do this. Just “astute humility”.

“(like what happened with the Late Night hosts before)“

Now here’s the heart of the matter. Yes, in 2007, the late night hosts kept their shows going. Now, all of those WGA covered talk shows, every single one of them, except Drew Barrymore’s, are not. They’re all showing re-runs, but not her.

I think it’s incumbent on…

This is a good take.

[EDIT] Eh, I wrote a bunch of ivory tower conjecture, and decided to delete it. Carry on.

Sure, but it was probably the first time someone was actually scared of it instead of pretending to welcome it in order to hang out with naked neo-goth chicks experimenting with vegan chicken nuggets.

It’s less that they’re committing fraud in the strict legal sense, nor that they are explicitly lying. It’s that they have numbers that make them look good to investors (viewership/subscriber totals), and they have numbers that make them look bankrupt to regulators, tax collectors, and labor (“technically, everything…