I will admit that I have repeated to myself “please don’t be a hoax, please don’t be a hoax” several times. Not that I wish this to have happened to anyone. But the story was just so on the nose.

The Good Place is fantastic television. Chidi ArianaGrande (nailed it!) is so earnest and hysterical all at the same time.  His reactions during the real life train paradox were so good I had to keep pausing the show until I stopped laughing.  

Panama, that you even have such thoughts is a sign that there is hope. Every time a straight black male defends the gays, an angel does the bend and snap, and you get a better tax return. 

If rappers (and actors, ball players and TV personalities) were treated like what they are, Entertainers, only. I could care less about them outside of them other than what they are.

Getting old sucks. A lot of what you liked as a youth you’ll look back on and think WTF?

This was a fascinating read. Thank you for this Heather and thank you Shankar for doing this as well.

Thanks for reading. I actually heard about the story yesterday when I was listening to NPR while getting ready for work. I listen to NPR basically every weekday and donate to WNYC. They’ve actually interviewed me a few times about my work, too. I’m not out to get NPR.

If my child stopped playing video games and started going to church, I would be very concerned.

Ok.......*sigh*

Look, I get people being disappointed. I can even understand, to a certain extent, people being angry. No one was expecting, nor did anyone ask for, a Diablo mobile game. I think Blizzard is at times a little full of itself...high on their own supply, if you will. I don’t think they’re “out of touch”,…

It’s astounding to me how these nerds are screaming themselves into rage-comas because a phone toy isn’t directly marketed to them.

Holy shit, Gamers are trash.  Just don’t play it if you’re that mad.  Christ...

Nor should they expect it. I agree it’s a bad idea and not what i want. What will i do with this turn of events? Not play it and maybe check out Path of Exile. This Gamers Rise Up bullshit is just embarrassing. They don’t care how angry you rage on reddit. They care if they don’t make money on it. No amount of reddit…

I wonder how much Disney’s new streaming service plays into all of this. 

From a story telling perspective, I agree, but I think the way Netflix would look at it is that for a good few years their lineup of Marvel shows created a lot of buzz that probably drove a lot of people to them who, even after the Marvel shows are no longer producing new material, will stay with Netflix.

I wouldn’t be suprised if they are abandoning these shows altogether like you said. I feel like they should have all been limited series anyway and then either fed into The Defenders or w/e.

Based on some of the articles I’ve been reading, it’s possible Netflix is abandoning the Marvel show line altogether. With Cage it seems like the double whammy of creative differences and waning interest from the public did it in.

I believe that we are living in the golden age of apathy as it is, people don’t give a shit about anything outside the walls of their own home. 

Good article, but I question calling the Better Business Bureau a “watchdog.” They’ve been caught up in pay to play schemes before, and were under fire in 2010 for changing the ratings of non-dues paying members:

Honestly, if more people knew about John Rawls’ Theory of Justice, this country (and the world) would be in a better place than it is now. My issue with preacher was that he seemed to be defending the people that go to rallies holding Nazi flags, doing Nazi salutes, and advocating for genocide as somehow “mislabeled”…

yeahyeahea, I think we can all agree on that one without a shred of doubt. However, I believe preacher23 is likely mentioning else happening.

I’ve noticed there is a tendency to push people right of centre or even further than that into the deepest of deep ends from the Left by calling, say, a person who is concerned…

That second girl... the conservative Christian. There’s not a hot enough woman on the planet to put up with that shit. She’ll find herself a nice mama’s boy bootlicker to spend her days with but ugh... maybe try a sexually unhinged athiest for your next go around dude. A higher class of drama.