Fair analysis, although I thought it worked as a contemplation of the whole series in a way I haven’t quite processed - the way a lot of the bosses rise back to try again, some thematic things I’ve now forgotten. But the fact I’ve forgotten them confirms your point that it didn’t do anything new and memorable as DS1…

Agreed. I got to what I think is the final act and just... stopped. I just didn’t care, and my characters’ decisions were so insubstantial that I wasn’t really interested in another 20 or so rinse-repeat combats. But I’m a big BG2 fan and not ready to give up on the new entries in the gene yet...

He’s waiting for Decapathon Run to come out.

Ok, I’ll bite: which fight were you trying to pick with the “second-best closer on the ballot” swipe? Wagner or Smith?

You dumb bastard, it’s not a schooner. It’s a sailboat!

Would love to see this with actual basketball players. Surely Charles Barkley wants in on this...

I definitely read this as you and your husband considering kidnapping a baby. I don’t see why Trump affects that plan!

Nope, they were crapping out in the open and wiping with whatever rocks they could find.

Just because you’re paranoid don’t mean they’re not pooping too

Nice! Did you have an extra slice for him?

The first time I heard one I thought it was amazing, but I suspect they’re not true. (Mine certainly isn’t.) But we can hope!

Once I was walking down the street in Chicago and a man suddenly put their hands over my eyes and said “Guess who?” I guessed the only man I knew in Chicago, but it wasn’t him. I turned around and it was Bill Murray! I said “Bill Murray!” He then laughed at me, picked me with a big bear hug, and deposited me in a…

I’m impressed that he remembered Diego’s name a few hours later!

Fair point. “Hate” is definitely an oversimplification.

I binge-watched the first 8 episodes, and then my brother-in-law got me reading the fan theories. I’m genuinely curious whether I would’ve figured out the William/MiB bit without it.

Yeah, I had a similar thought. Elsie would be a capable and caring aide to the freed hosts. But that’s not the case with Stubbs: he hates the hosts! Why would Ford want him alive? Seems more likely that he was taken out either because (a) he was on Bernard’s trail as Teresa’s murderer or (b) he was too good at his job…

Given how much he loves bingeable television, maybe he’d give them a discount!

That analogy doesn’t seem fair at all. Here’s a better one: I called a plumber to replace my garbage disposal recently. If I remember right, I paid $200, which was something like $90 for the disposal and $110 for the labor. So he provided $250 worth of services and kept >50% of it for himself. Compared to that, 33%…

A couple thoughts on this. First, 33% is becoming less common; fees in cases worth hundreds of millions are more often 10-25% these days. Second, any fee is determined by a judge, who takes into account the value of the recovery, the risk, etc. The lawyers aren’t guaranteed 33%; their payment is entirely subject to…

Sure, they can all do that independently. And they can even look at each other and independently say “those guys are probably going to refuse to agree, so I’ll refuse to agree to maximize our chances of achieving our common goal.” But if they actually coordinate that, and aren’t protected by the labor exemption to the…