Boy child of prophecy gets magic powers that allow him to take down an oppressive empire.

I do mine through Google. I don’t know if your work blocks that.

“Also, he didn’t even attempt to close Gitmo.”

Literally LOLing at all the awful fanboys in the comments doing their damnedest to convince us they aren’t awful fanboys by acting like awful fanboys.

If you were criticizing it for reasons other than “girls, yuck,” they aren’t talking about you.

Critics all agree! It can be watched!

Unsurprisingly, it’s Bose. Warn your friends (to warn their parents). This is what happens when you let older people wander into brick and mortar stores to buy a tv.

That’s exactly it. The default settings on modern TVs aren’t optimized for a nice dark home theater, or even for a normal living room. They’re designed to catch your eye in the middle of a giant fluorescent-lit Best Buy or Wal Mart surrounded by 50 other TVs playing the exact same thing. A decent rule of thumb is to…

Recently? American TV stations do in fact speed some programs up to make them shorter, so they can squeeze in longer ad breaks. (They may also cut out lines or whole scenes to make the show shorter to squeeze in even longer ad breaks.)

British TV in the 70s and early 80s used to mix video (mostly for indoor and on-set scenes) and film (mostly for outdoor). It was part of the visual language of TV back then, ingrained enough that Monty Python made jokes about it the audience were expected to follow, and (on one occasion) Doctor Who used film for a…

Actually, American TV is traditionally ~30fps (60Hz interlaced, works out to like 29.97) versus British 25fps (50Hz interlaced, IIRC it’s actually about 25 on the button). Meanwhile film is traditionally 24fps.

And almost every hotel I’ve stayed at the last few years

I have friends who can’t see the difference between a widescreen setting that squeezes the picture horizontally and one that doesn’t. I finally gave up annoying them by asking if I could change the widescreen setting. Who cares, it’s only a picture on a tv. Sigh.

When Joe Six-Pack is TV shopping at the local Mega TV Barn he sees a bunch of TVs up on a wall. If one TV has it on and the one next to it has it off and they’re both tuned to the same sports highlight reel or ultra-high def nature footage the one with it turned off could look shittier to the untrained eye.

It should be something that turns on when you put your TV into “Sports” mode or “Gaming” mode, where you would want.  

I guarantee you it’s Univision saying “you need more page views. Break up interviews into 12 segments and release one a day for two weeks, you’ll get more page views” and the AV Club editors are like “no wtf you assholes” and Univision’s like “we sign your paychecks” and the editors sigh and drink heavily.

This is true, but at the same time I feel like “poverty-stricken countries” is the kind of routine dog whistle that’s said and denied so often it never makes the news. Having him actually used the word “shithole” really put things in stark relief. The big question will be whether the dust up becomes more about the…

Agreed. The fact he also used predominantly blond(e), white Norway as an example of the type of country he doesn’t consider a ‘shithole’ indicates that Trump is effectively a modern-day Hitler, merely but thankfully constrained by the US Constitution.

I feel like the emphasis on the word “shithole” might be shifting the attention from the real issue, which is Trump’s rampant, unrepentant racism. He could’ve said “poverty-stricken countries” and it would’ve still been as bigoted.

No, I had a feeling.