Restaurants didn’t used to have websites. Those websites were like the digital ‘sign’ I was talking about. Nifty, but there was another way that cost less. But when the internet became widely adopted, having a website went from a nifty but costly idea, to something valuable.

Let’s simply pick on one specific case you proposed:

I disagree with your thesis: that it’s the look of the glasses which poses a problem, and instead suggest an alternate hypothesis. We simply don’t have a good use case for them.

It’s not the “always online” element that is, itself, the core problem. It’s the “instead of generating revenue from sales, we create a stream of revenue through online, toll-gated content.” That can make sense for certain kinds of games, sure, but it’s based on an endless treadmill. Something like, say, RocketLeague…

I feel like that’s gonna lead you into overestimating them.

I wish they kept the level of ambition the same, but focused more on the nuts and bolts. Last season, their reach exceeded their grasp- a lot of stories ended up not holding together in the execution. Things were rushed, technical details were flubbed behind the camera (I will forever be mad that they failed to match…

Just play Fiasco all the time.

I personally don’t think of class as a job. Class is just the mechanics which define how your character can touch the gamestate. So, I could have a class of fighter, but my character’s main job could be working on a farm. Why not?

Bea Arthur’s bit in the special is honestly the only moment of the whole thing that actually is fun for the reasons intended.

So, based on this trailer, it is just a remake of Howard the Duck, right?

I was going to complain that there probably aren’t any dangerous sociopaths that the fanboys mistakenly think of as heroes, but… there probably are.

Credit to Brett’s actor. His moment of realization was so well executed that I actually felt bad to see the hurt on his face.

There’s so much to like in A Simple Favor, but the ending just ruins the whole process of getting there. As spoiler-free as I can be, the tension in the climax is resolved with a out-of-left-field intervention which is a face-turn joke more suitable for an Adam Sandler movie. Also, Kendrick’s character’s single…

You had me at James Whale, you lost me at Paul Feig. Paul Feig was partially responsible for Freaks and Geeks, but based on everything else he’s done, that was clearly an accident. Paul Feig makes lazy, shitty comedies.

Honestly, I feel like the utter lack of budget really helped the film. The monster effects were great, but the movie lives because you couldn’t have too many of them, you had to rely on the character-focused paranoia. Now, when you find the time, I’d rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING…

Yes, I’m sure there’s “something to” the film which burned through how many directors, how many rounds of reshoots, is getting dumped in January and has gotten almost no promotion whatsoever.

I was like, one of twelve people who saw Firefly and was like, “Hey! That’s Catalina!”

I mean, “let’s do a racism metaphor with white/black facepaint” is both tackling a philosophical question and also stupid. Just because you’re tackling a philosophical concept doesn’t mean you have anything meaningful to say with that concept.

> dilute the “maturity”

I use dark modes because I come from the days when our screens were monochrome, and used to check my email from a DEC terminal connected to a VAX across campus.