#SpartansWould have employed Josef Mengele.

Did Michael Rapaport even realize he was playing himself in Bamboozled?

This is true of basically every operating system - except Windows 10 sometimes doesn’t give you the choice...

Use the refusal as grounds for an appeal. Even then it’s unlikely to get a conviction overturned, but they might be able to keep him out of jail while it’s pending. Cosby is old, and any sentence would be effectively life, so their strategy is probably to try and run out the clock.

The Republican meme is that USPS is operating at a tremendous loss and will be bankrupt any day now.

Skaters (non-goaltenders) do tend to attach a kind of reverence and mystique to their goalies, which might lessen if players in other positions were allowed to step in net, but mostly it’s just that goaltending skills are largely orthogonal to those used by forwards and defensemen: blocking, catching, dropping to the…

That doesn’t make sense. If cost of living goes up, it’s because prices are going up, for which the most determining factor is food. If food prices are going up, the dollar amount of tips at a given percentage goes up, too.

Men: Women in esports need to be attractive!

I actually don’t know what’s worse, that scenario, or the alternative where he ignored boys being raped simply because doing justice would have been inconvenient for his football ambitions.

The human factor here is important - Elon Musk et al. are tech guys, who tend to think in terms of ideal scenarios and statistical optimization. The other side are the car guys, and it’s significant that Alphabet has put a car guy rather than a tech guy in charge of Waymo.

In the warped anti-Messi perspective that he’s the reason Argentina has somewhat underperformed internationally, rather than the only thing keeping them afloat.

Oh, so it’s to Minnesota hockey people what Boondock Saints is to Boston Irish? Good to know.

I feel like every director makes a revisionist adaptation of Sherlock Holmes wishes, on some level, that they had chosen Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot instead.

I don’t even think internet opinion has changed on this one. It’s not good, but it is interesting. And the older you get the more clearly you realize how formulaic and similar to each other most movies really are, so you end up revisiting and cherishing the few that actually break that mould.

Hot Take: Outside Batman’s rogue’s gallery, I don’t think DC has as deep a selection of great villains they can work with (Mxyzptlk, Egg Fu, and Bizarro are too weird, Mongul is too racist, Gorilla Grodd is too endangered), which makes the weak use of Lex Luthor and Doomsday in BvS almost criminally stupid. I half…

Are there people for whom Mighty Ducks is some kind of cultural touchstone? I’m a 90s kid, I was in the target demo when this movie came out, and even then I thought it was a piece of crap, an overpriced marketing scheme for Disney’s expansion hockey franchise. I know a couple of poor slobs who did end up liking the…

Ironically, you have to be white people soft.

Even that counterpoint shot was bad, though.

It’s kind of ironic, because with video games you’re actually in a position to do away with the traditional bird’s eye view entirely and follow the game from the players’ perspective, letting viewers get into the action and feel the thrill the player feels. Especially for an atmospheric game like Battlegrounds, that’s…

Is everyone within earshot complicit