Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles: the only people allowed to paint a Death Star on the kill list on their starfighters.

“instead one blew up on the launch pad”

I don’t think that’s accurate.

They’d get over it and find something else.  Leaving aside entirely the merits of the argument, there was a time before TikTok and there would be a time after it, and they’d be fine.

“I mean Hitler was a monster, full stop, but”

(record scratch)

“What’s more, they attempted to pass the blame off onto Smith”

Timothy Dalton would never be this much of an asshole.

“Something bad happened” is a perfectly reasonable inference to draw from the little that is known so far.

I agree that it’s counterproductive to wish rape upon anyone.  But I think it’s fair to hope that Tate is lawfully sentenced to years in a Romanian prison where he will have to do his best to avoid the kind of assault that he views as perfectly OK to inflict upon women.  And I hope he does successfully avoid it, and…

I hope that take still exists somewhere - what a classic piece of Chevy Chase physical comedy it would be!

A bit callous, perhaps, but also actually incorrect: she had a child, so had graduated from Darwin territory.

“Ajay Thakore, otherwise known as Ace Rogers”

Okay, even if we hadn’t already known in the leadup that this was a colossal asshole, we’d have known right here.

Yeah, it’s at Defector!

Just got this over the weekend, and holy shit is it 1) great; 2) addictive.  

He’s every bit as good a Tommy Lee Jones as Tommy Lee Jones is.

That’s why I always have a rueful chuckle at the “...or the terrorists win!” line.  Uh, they did.  They reorganized our society to a ridiculous degree and it’s proving fatal for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

I guess I need to clarify that I fully understand this will not be the same experience as seeing the totality.

It’s just a way to establish your place in line, since the deposit amount is so comparatively trivial.

This is why I’ll be perfectly content staying where I am and observing the ~80% eclipse we’ll have here in the bordering zone.

Much like Apocalypse, just go to YouTube, find the clip of the movie’s scene where Quicksilver saves everyone in bullet time, and you’ll have seen the best part and the only part you need to see.

“Sufficiently advanced science, bitch!!!”