Yeah, well, when I bought A Psalm for the Wild-Built, a 160 page, 48k-word novella, it cost a dollar MORE than The Burning God, a 640 page, 186k-word full novel, despite them coming out within a year of each other (oh, and they were both mass-market paperbacks). So yeah, word/page count definitely affects whether…

the first step to writing a book was determining how many words are in most books

You’ve successfully proven that non-scary movies aren’t scary, but that’s not the entirety of shark movies out there.

The original Open Water is absolutely frightening, in part because it’s not doing anything with CGI or prehistoric sharks or genetically modified sharks.

It’s two people who are going to drown if the…

Yep. Went from Tony Stark to Harry Osborn in under 10 years.

He was never trying to make Twitter Blue cool. He was trying to punish the previous class of blue checks, specifically journalists and celebrities, by taking away what he perceived as their special status.

Given that he doesn’t seem to understand or care about the real purpose of verification, even when people…

Around step 10, do you realize that jumping through this many hoops is a sign that it’s probably time to just delete the app -- and maybe your account -- already?

The actual Oliver Queen would beat the crap out of Stephen Amell.

Please put your balls back in.

You folks are all in the grays because you can’t read the original post date and realize that things may have changed since then.

Twitter can’t pay its rent. It doesn’t have the money to pay for baseless lawsuits.

Elon is trying to see whether he can get Twitter’s fines to exceed its debt.

If we go by his following appearances (the end of Civil War, both Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, then Falcon & the Winter Soldier), there isn’t really anything in any of those to play at him being a double agent.

The (wonderful) Thousand Year Old Vampire becomes what you bring to it. If one was determined to play it like Jemaine Clement, it could still be pretty funny.

Lord knows that, on paper, a lot of what happens on What We Do in the Shadows is pretty serious — it’s all about the insane way those plots are handled.

I was sure this article was about lists. This is genuinely the first time I’ve heard that some people used bookmarks on purpose.

Back when Apple was unquestionably dorky as hell.

if they’re smart though they will just do what Hollywood has already been doing. setting up their own internal AI and feeding it specific batches of licensed content for the specific project similar to what we saw with the Secret Invasion intro.

fails to point out that Musk was paid very handsomely to destroy a tool of mass organization by the very people being organized against

Not an avid tweeter, but letting people pay for the blue check has been a great way for the loudest and dumbest to pre-brand themselves, it’s a decent warning system.

He looks like that Rob Liefeld drawing of Captain America.

Facebook isn’t Meta. Meta is like Alphabet, which is the corporation that owns the company that is Google. Facebook still exists.

This is all very silly, but (only) slightly less dumb than you were saying.