Yeah, the max fine is less than a $1 million US - I imagine Valve’s legal team has already spent more in this case on printer toner.

So...a bunch of random idiots realized that encouraging large numbers of people to go to a place with inadequate facilities is a bad idea, but a fast food company decided to run with it.

I do not envy the person who has to conceal Mr. Hernandez’s identity for witness protection.

kirivinokurjr, that sort of thing is gonna happen when you bring a myth to a cryptid discussion.

Finally? I’ve been making my characters into technicolor nightmares for *years*.

The Gus stuff is a lot of demystifying.  But the heart of the show is Jimmy and his life, and that’s largely unrelated to the plot of Breaking Bad - all told, Jimmy/Saul was a relatively minor figure in Walter White’s overall story.

It is a damn shame that Harvey Danger’s “Cream and Bastards” didn’t at least make them a two-hit wonder.

Live was a band that checked so many boxes for what I usually like, but I was never more than a “sing along when it comes on the radio” fan. I don’t know why.

That’s the weird thing - none of these nine-figure deals for streaming rights seems to impede these sitcoms being syndicated endlessly on basic cable and open-air TV.

*Edgy* comedy ages worse than anything. Because the whole point is to be right on the line, and that lines moves over time. So a decade later, your super edgy set is either an accepted mainstream view or wildly offensive and tasteless.

Or even in the 20th century, just how much we *used* to drink:

So it may be safe to say that she was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Which may make it *technically* true that she broke up the Beatles, in the “we were able to barely tolerate each other just *fine* before she showed up” sense.

...sometimes?   People care about them and theirs, and any exceptions are a rare fuckin’ treasure.

I hate to say it, but this strikes me as a lot like Socrates’ argument against writing. They both make good points, but people like to communicate and they’re going to use the most effective tools available to them.

I had a friend who did professional photography for business events, and he said when a century-old firm had photos on it’s wall from across it’s entire existence, the styles from the 70s and early 80s would always stick out like a sore thumb.

I think it wasn’t necessary then, but the extra hint is becoming more necessary the further we get from he ‘80s.

It helps to remember that they use vegetable oils not out of some desire to promote healthier eating or vegetarian options, but because *it’s cheaper*.

What we’ve stopped having is a monoculture, period.  And subcultures rarely change enough to present differently decade to decade, at least from an outsider’s perspective.

This sounds like “Inventory management - The Game!”

More generally, I think they’re just teaching kids that caring about anything enough to inconvenience yourself over it is stupid.