Not just half heartedly agreeing because they feel they have no other option in the situation but clearly stating unequivocally that they really want to do it. 

One of Qiu’s poems refers to Japan as “three islands,” a nickname for the country at the time. The islands in question are Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. (Hokkaido is left out, for reasons not explained here.)

“It would take a two-thirds majority in the Senate to convict and remove Kavanaugh, and Dems likely won’t take that many seats”

That’s kind of an understatement. In this cycle there are 35 seats up for election. 24 are held by Democrats, 9 by Republicans, and 2 are Independents who caucus with Democrats. If Democrats…

When it aired on PBS in the 80s and 90s (at least on WOSU in Columbus) they’d edit all the episodes of a serial together into one continuous story with only a single opening and ending credits sequence. The only downside I see to doing it that way is that performers who only appeared in one episode wouldn’t get a…

Bernard Edwards of Chic died after a concert in Japan. Nile Rogers noticed he didn’t look well and asked him about it and Edwards said “I’m fine, I just need to rest.” and then went back to his hotel room and died.

TV 6 was the worst, but blame the writing. Listen to his Big Finish stories and you’ll see he was just poorly served.

NuWho: “Rose”. I bittorrented it before they had even announced that any US channel was going to show the revival.

Classic Who: I can’t remember, but the dad of one of my friends in middle school had taped almost every episode discovered at the time (c. 1991 or so) off PBS over the years. I suspect I was started on it w…

Checking the book and it’s Circle Pines, MN 55014 and I guess it’s more of a small town northeast of the Twin Cities (but still within the 35W/35E belt).

Joel was a working comedian who had appeared on SNL and Letterman several times before MST3K existed, so he’s not necessarily unaware of NYC. People from MN are allowed to leave the state and MSP is a decent sized airport with direct flights to other major cities.

MST3K has tons of references that are Minnesota and Wisconsin specific, some are even writer’s room specific. The “Amazing Colossal Episode Guide” has a section with their most obscure jokes, including one just randomly referencing the subdivision Mary Jo Pehl grew up in and one where one of the bots yells “Get her!…

Two of my aunt’s best friends from high school (in the late 1960s) got married and had several kids, and then in their late 40s he asked for a divorce because he realized he was gay. I didn’t really know them (I met them once when I was maybe 12) so I don’t know any details other than that my aunt and the now ex-wife…

That reminds me of one of Scott Thompson’s characters in Brain Candy and Dave Foley’s therapist character eventually breaking down and yelling at him: “Well, Wally, because you *are* one of them. You are gay. You are gay. You are a homosexual. The opposite of straight, you’re gay. I know it. Your family knows it.…

Counterpoint: Goldeneye for N64. Yes, it’s two console generations later than the NES, but it was a licensed movie video game on a Nintendo. Granted, it’s success came from the fact that they didn’t have to rush it out (movie was ‘95, game was ‘97) so it wasn’t just slapped together.

Eh. At this point the hot take would be “Actually, Forest Gump is good.” It gets trashed any time it comes up.

It was...... not good.

I swear that there’s a Twilight Zone rule (equally applicable to most Star Treks) that someone came up with that basically goes “1/3 are amazing, 1/3 are watchable, 1/3 are out and out garbage”.

Here you go: https://tv.avclub.com/star-trek-the-next-generation-homeward-sub-rosa-1798170198

I have no idea whether you have to watch the full ad for it to count or not. I suspect that the payment is based on total plays of the video regardless of whether you watch the full ad but that advertisers pay a discounted rate for the ad if you press ‘skip’ once you’re allowed to. It’s then YouTube’s job to keep that…

Theoretically, the ads before the videos pay for that. Lots of artists have their own YouTube channels and get paid for streams of their videos, and if you use someone else’s copyrighted music in your video it sometimes is “demonitized”, where you get no stream revenue but the copyright owner gets it, or in some cases…

Among Nixon’s cronies: Paul Manafort, Karl Rove, and Roger Stone; the latter two were part of Nixon’s “ratfuckers” who did off the books dirty tricks to aid the campaign.