It was sold out the first two times I went so I ended up seeing The Goodbye Girl in the theater twice, I wouldn’t see Star Wars for a second time for about 5 years. Maybe they can get Marsha Mason to take over the Leia role, it would work great for me at least.

To me the larger disconnect is “fandom” itself. There are lots of things I like but I don’t engage with any fandoms because that’s a completely foreign way to engage with art to me. Plus furrys are actually less pathetic than most fandoms because at least they’re making up their own characters, if they were just…

I like my Aeropress for making iced coffee and I use it when I run out of Melitta filters but it smooths out the coffee too much, if you hate bitterness it could be great but it’s not for me. It’s a handy gadget, I also use the concentrate in ice cream, but the hot beverage it makes is neither coffee or espresso in my…

I like my Aeropress for making iced coffee and I use it when I run out of Melitta filters but it smooths out the…

No surprise that the tedious assholes I had blocked on Disqus would start posting fucking memes at the first opportunity. As much as I’m inclined to hate the Kinja bitching it was on point, now the only visible comments will be from Dikachu and Cinecraft and the usual cast of useless shits. It’s a system that rewards…

I really like both of those guys, and they’re both great for the role, but I’ve been waiting for Serafinowicz to be in something good since Running Wilde (GotG was good but I was disappointed by how small his part was).

Ron Howard’s not the greatest but I don’t get why people were so jazzed about Lord and Miller. Sure, The Lego Movie was close to a best-case for handling a bunch of priceless IP, balancing fan expectations with a bit of original storytelling, but their live action stuff is mediocre sitcom stuff. I think they earned a…

It seemed like a real left-field pick to me, but this is the first time I’m hearing of Zathura. Maybe it was just weird in the way that Adam Mckay getting a Marvel movie would be but I always associated him with Swingers.

Although the contractual issues were the same when e.g., Clarion University in Pennsylvania had to cancel their production of Lloyd Suh’s Jesus in India when they tried to recast South Asian parts with white actors. It can cut both ways, this just looks worse for the estate. Fair play to the Dramatists Guild for…

IMO, playwrights shouldn’t have any control over productions of their work even during their lives. If they don’t have the talent and skill to produce and direct a production themselves in accordance with their vision they shouldn’t be able to just impose their will on other artists. I understand they might sometimes…

My PC is not a powerhouse but it’s more powerful than my XBox, I also have it hooked up to my TV, so the experience is pretty much the same. Still, I only buy a handful of single-player games when they’re on sale, I think the last one was Firewatch. I don’t k&m, so I multiplayer on consoles. And I don’t like Steam, it…

I don’t find mouse and keyboard to be any fun at all, if it became common on console I wouldn’t play console shooters anymore. And console shooters are what I spend most of my time playing. I think it’s a matter of survival, ban keyboards or give up the console business because there’s no reason for them to exist if…

The nicest thing I can say about Nickleback is that I don’t think they’re any worse than the Foo Fighters. That’s also the meanest thing I can say about them. They’re fucking terrible, I just don’t get how you’re supposed to tell them apart from any other post-grunge band.

I think my Tivo might be an earlier generation, it has Netflix but the interface is garbage and Amazon only works with purchased stuff. The integrated search is pretty cool though, if they’ve updated that to work with Prime I might look into upgrading.

Yes, and that sense is a pretty recent coinage. It bugs the shit out of me and I’ve been working in “creative services” for 20+ years. Obviously the adjective was used in a descriptive sense but the gross, dehumanizing noun is new and I really hate it. If you like it that’s fine but stop making up bullshit about how…

They’re clearly talking about dressing as fictional characters in the context of a fan convention. You might as well say nobody invented “filk singing” because people had been writing funny songs for ever.

Suffice to say they’re morons.

I guess I’m one of those viewers, I liked the show a lot for the first two seasons but once they brought Root in it went downhill super fast for me. Season 3 wasn’t too bad since she was on so occasionally but once Sarah Shahi left and it was clear she would be a full-time regular I bailed. Obviously it wasn’t a very…