You don’t even need an expert. I’m a geographic and political moron who works in marketing and even I know you handle the China/Taiwan thing with care.

It was so ludicrous when Rory said “The journalism thing didn’t pan out like I’d hoped.” You didn’t really even try, Rory. You wanted to skyrocket to the top immediately, so you turned down perfectly reasonable opportunities to get experience and make a solid portfolio for yourself, all while banking on things…

I felt like the Paul thing was meant to be an Arrested Development “Her?” type gag that just did NOT WORK. It sucked.

The “excuse” I’ve seen for this is that Rory is now a grown woman and Lorelai wants to be careful with her so she doesn’t lose her, but that doesn’t jibe. She didn’t hesitate to shoot the book idea down (and frankly, I don’t blame her on that), so I can’t see that she would hold back if she saw Rory a) making bad…

Oh, a thousand percent-- as a writer, she should be generating good ideas all the time, and if you’re talking to folks-- like the Conde Nast folks— you should have some ideas you’re ready to part with that you know they might take as their own just to put meat on the table. She sucks, no doubt, but that was a scene…

I’m so numb to her being an awful human being that it doesn’t always immediately leap out at me :-|

When Emily said “vagina house,” I felt like maybe my television watching had peaked.

I kind of got that bit, though— there’s something very “now” about being courted by a company, them telling you that you’re everything they could ever want and more, that you need to agree to come work with them posthaste, and then once you get there, grilling you about what you bring to the company. It’s very…

I would pay for an Emily & Paris only series.

I was so happy to see Paris successful and gorgeous and seemingly confident, and then they pulled the football away and giggled. I did get a chuckle out of painting Doyle as a smug screenwriter, given Danny Strong’s screenwriting career, but the rest was just ridiculous.

And fuck Rory. And also Lorelai for telling…

FF has always been particularly guilty of bloat and time inflation.

You are seriously reading way too into this.

Is the idea here that they need to find the most flattering photo of every single person they cover? I didn’t look at that and think “OMG, REPULSIVE, THEY CHOSE A REPULSIVE PICTURE.” It’s just a wire photo the same as any other.

There are so many better examples you can shit on that don’t intersect quite so firmly with grief and family. The pictures above aren’t about tragic grand futility, they’re about sharing the joy of a moment and remembering the people in your life who would have been joyful, too.

To understand the insufferable Red Sox fans’ behavior, you have to understand that a frightening proportion of Bostonians consider Boston to be the best, most important place in the whole world, whether they’ve actually been anywhere else or not. So they’re just looking for reasons to trot out the “you hate us ‘cause…

Overly performative fandom is trotting into a gathering of fans, virtually or physically, and bleating “FANS OF [XXX] DON’T FEEL THE NEED TO DO THIS SHIT. WE DO IT UP RIGHT.”

Are you really begrudging people the emotions they feel because fandom is often passed down generationally?

I... have some organizing to do. Be right back.

Load testing is not difficult. And given their former association with Google, it’s not like they aren’t familiar with utilizing cloud computing to do exactly that sort of thing. Huge, HUGE, huge miss.

It is their responsibility to have some human interaction and vetting for bans, though. Their ban parameters might not be draconian (in this specific case), but their procedures suck. Pokestops getting taken down and players getting banned after other player reports, without vetting or communication? It’s laziness.