“She’s currently in her mid- to late 20s and still has plenty of career left as capuchin monkeys can live to the ripe old age of 40.”

These sorts of complaints always make me roll my eyes. Believe me, there were PLENTY of ways we could ignore our dining companions before we all had computers in our pockets. I preferred novels or (when very young) scribbling on the placemats in crayon or reading your placemat (Chinese restaurants and diners only),…

I had a sudden moment of revelation a couple of months ago. I’d been avoiding bar stools for the last year or so, and it turns out that it isn’t that barstools in general hurt my back. It’s that THESE barstools hurt my back like a motherfucker.

Honestly, I’m not sure I’d be willing to accept a recast even if Marvel was willing to go there. Chris Evans IS Steve Rogers for me now, and it’d require a reboot completely divorced in every way from the MCU and the MCU style in order to not trip the *wrong wrong wrong* alarm in my brain.

You’re not alone. People have made multiple attempts to teach me stick, and it’s just never going to happen.

I think we need video. I really want to know now what’s so puzzling about your sweeping.

That’s how I do it, too.

Correction: most American rental companies accept debit cards. I don’t recommend using one, though, because you risk getting to the counter and being denied your rental, even when pre-paid, because they all have a laundry list of additional requirements. Some charge an extra fee. Some require an additional credit…

I mean, you can sell plasma to private companies (not whole blood) in the US, but donation with cookies afterwards is far more common. Many states have outlawed it. You can’t receive anything for organs or other tissues, either, or most methods of extracting bone marrow, and that one’s federal law. So our rules aren’t…

I stand by my original opinion that T’Challa is the only hero in the movie with a character arc. Fortunately, it’s a magnificent one.

I only watched half the first episode or so, so I’m not really familiar either, but it does sound like something Gestalt was taught to do but has consciously chosen to continue in adulthood. The entire point is for people to forget that they’re addressing Gestalt’s metaphorical foot, even if they technically know…

Old Shuck is saying that the Watchmen movie was released literally 10 years ago, and that io9 is probably misinterpreting a mention of that as saying that the show takes place in 1995. But there’s no visible cues that support that, and plenty that support it actually taking place in 2019.

I honestly don’t get the complaints about his wig. It looks fine, except for literally one shot in the middle where it’s gone a little bad-hair-day. (The one where he’s mostly barechested). I’ve never played the game, but his costume is fine, too.

Does it count if I’ve never liked any version of live-action Superman, not even the Christopher Reeve movies, but Superman Returns was the one I disliked least? I think I like Hoechlin just a smidgen better in the roll, but Routh is definitely a very close second.

It didn’t look like young Bill to me, but I’m outright terrible at faces so I could be wrong.

I thought at first that they had given Bill a kid, which would have been a big departure since the book was pretty clear that what had happened resulted in everyone who left having been wildly successful in their careers, but prevented them from having kids. But when I rewatched it with subtitles he definitely just ref…

I have long hair. If I get more than three haircuts a year, it’s been a busy year. Short hair requires a ton more cutting, but you more than make it back in wash time.

I’ve always had great luck with LemiShine, though it’s at its best when there’s hard water involved. It’s also very cheap - if you can find it at the store, it’s usually about half the price Amazon has it for or less.

I’ve always had great luck with LemiShine, though it’s at its best when there’s hard water involved. It’s also very…

I’m 42, and I don’t even have any particular sensory sensitivity, and at this point my hearing isn’t all that great in general, actually. And the last time I checked I could still hear these things. The range an individual person can hear clearly has very little to do with what statistics says it should be or how good…

And this has tread perilously close to a “light skinned black women only because it’s CLOSE ENOUGH” argument, which is NOT what I intended or believe. The real answer is, as alliterator noted, that they cast the actress that they wanted, and that’s all that should matter. I just couldn’t resist rolling my eyes and…