The reason the shit-storm started for Confederate is because they and some other people working on the show described it in some detail, and it was looking pretty gross - among other things:

This comment made me snort out loud laughing 

Same here. Glad the comments are back on! Emailed Biden to say I’m withholding my vote until he gets Kinja to restore our profile pics.

They basically lost interest in Game of Thrones because they were all excited for their next projects, but they forgot that the main reason anyone wanted to give them new projects was because it was assumed they’d stick the landing on Game of Thrones. Oops.

*Spike Lee angrily tweets about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen*

The first film is such a canny satire of workaday, uh, work, where the biggest problems for our protagonists aren’t really the ghosts, but paying rent, hiring/training new workers, being seen as respectable, and interacting with the bureaucracies of NYC and the federal government.

Cast deserved a better movie. It’s also remotely possible Ghostbusters in general, and stay with me now, never should have been a franchise.

To also be clear, Ghostbusters 2 is an absolutely terrible movie which even the terrible reboot surpasses. The way people speak about their memories of it is as if they’ve imagined a past that never existed. Ultimately this entire franchise consists of... 1 good movie. And yet it has this sort of sacred reputation…

Look, there is no evidence that Herzog has some sort of cloning program.

Ha, and I’m here to complain about the tired “Tom Nook is an evil capitalist” take. The dude builds you a house plus multiple additions (overnight!) and then extends you indefinite, interest-free loans that you can pay back with twigs, rocks, and bugs, if you so choose. I'd like to see people trying to pull the same…

His little blue pill is attention.

Dude pulls this dipshit shtick on the regular. Is what it is. Dude absolutely, definitely watches or (maybe even?) reads shit that a good portion of other people find absolutely fucking stupid.

Oh fuck off and fuck everyone. What the fuck is going on, what are we fucking doing. Jesus fucking Christ. 

This is a good point. Things have definitely become more fraught, and downright weirder. And the ‘90s/’00s seem like halcyon days by comparison.

No, I’m getting your point and disagreeing with it. The things he’s saying aren’t just jokes devoid of any external context or meaning, and the people criticizing him aren’t ignoring other avenues of fighting for trans rights.

He’s no Buck Henry.

She and I were apparently contemporaries at Syracuse. I never met her, or if I did I don’t recall - probably because I was actually a journalism major.

Exactly. The ISS is a scientific laboratory. One of the requirements to be a NASA astronaut these days is at least a masters in a STEM field plus 2 years of experience in said field post-degree or at least 1,000 hours pilot-in-command time on jet aircraft. Also, rather importantly, astronauts aren’t military. They…

...the film of Arthur C. Clarke’s 2010 showed basically what would really happen...

I didn’t look up the year that 2010 was released but it was the movie I was thinking about when realizing how stupid this concept is, can’t believe I nailed that one without even looking!