The original Westworld was not a great film, but it did have some interesting ideas and concepts (Crichton himself would follow those ideas with Jurassic Park of course), I can’t really say I’m surprised it become a cult-film later on.

for what it’s worth the disqus pages for all the old comments are still up

I see that many of you are still greyed and I presume that you tried to link your accounts, as I did. Fuck it, I don’t have hours to spend on this. Plus, that Chrome extension to show nested replies doesn’t work on mobile. Later.

I get the rationale. I find trolls easy to ignore and think insularity and cliquishness are larger threats to the health of the typical online community, so the cost/benefit ratio of this “pending” stuff seems highly unfavorable to me. I suspect this is a minority viewpoint.

I’m really fucking tired of the rich thinking of paying taxes as a “sacrifice.”

call for help

Don’t take it personally. I’m sure they are very busy not answering anybody’s messages.

If we’re actually going to talk about television and film, I think the new Twin Peaks series is better than the old one. It’s weirder, more terrifying and more Lynchian

* I’m meh on images: sometimes they’re nice, but sometimes they devolve into MySpace-sigblock hell.

So, what’s good about this thing? Nothing.

The comments are definitely loading a lot faster than they used to. That’s the only real positive I see so far. The main page is kind of a mess. I don’t know why some of the highest posts are from several days ago.

I don’t want to overstate the case, but this grey/ungrey caste system is the worst idea in the history of ideas.

WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO RETURN TO THE MAIN PAGE?

So the very first story published after the switch to Kinja begins with:

I’m way more disappointed in the way kinja buries features and reviews than in the comment system.