Oh abso-fucking-lutely, and that doesn’t forgive much of what rich assholes do, but people are deluding themselves if they don’t think that power wouldn’t get to them.

I generally like the idea, but the example at the end sounded like putting a salad on top of a bed of rice?  Is that something people do?  It sounds like a completely foreign and random combo to me.

You do see a certain percentage of ads that just keep it simple which, to your point, I find refreshing compared to the usual “Laugh you bastards” Super Bowl ads.

Maybe I was just younger, but I thought in the ‘80s and ‘90s there was mostly a sense of “It’s the Super Bowl so let’s put out our best ad!”.  For years now it seems like the new sentiment is “Let’s try really, really, really hard to be really, really, really funny!”.  The ads just feel so purposeful now.

Top comment IMO. Was about to say the same thing. The Art of Atari is awesome and has a lot of great company info as well, along with a good bit of insight from the artists themselves on how they came up with all those classic box art designs.  Great, great book and I’ll probably pass on the one above because I think…

I had no idea one could write this many words about a single SNL episode in the year 2020.

Played one of these and it was really fun.  Naturally I gave up after the first puzzle that took me more than about 10 tries, but there is a special please for any puzzle game that keeps my interest past that point lol.

Dead Rising is what I thought of!

Yeah this happened to me with a pizza place once.  It never got farther than the initial phone call, but it was disappointing when they were like “Yeah we just haven’t updated our website in awhile” as if they were expecting a reply of “Okay I’ll pay eight more dollars.  No problem”.  

You can also think of it in the sense of cost for the restaurant. If someone forgets your mashed potatoes and they arrive 3/4 of the way through your meal, you are probably asking them to waste about 10 cents to keep you happy by taking it off your bill. In a franchise or even medium-quality restaurant I imagine an app…

I have no doubt that that was what was happening and that you nailed what was going on in Mulaney’s own head.

Comedy often doesn’t age too well in general.

Welp, it looks like Jerry is old enough and put enough things into the world to be hated by the internet.  Congrats Jerry.

“Some lucky office workers word salad”

Bad take. The above is talking about how colonizers from back when used it, not the root origin. You’re purposely highlighting the worst possible context in which to use the word, when in reality the base definition is just a descriptor.  This is what annoys the shit out of some people, and rightfully so.

Maybe reel it in just slightly? You have to admit it’s interesting what famous novels people actually like or don’t like when they’re not being told by someone else what books they’re supposed to think are “classics”. Now of course there are plenty of ways to poison that well and it’s far from gospel, but if anything…

Yes and no? I think it’s also partly due to the fact that things just change. People nowadays (especially digital natives) are used to getting stimulation fast, and the option to bail out and pick something else if the first thing didn’t impress you is so common now. The ridiculous amount of choice makes people less…

I actually wanted to read this and was told to start with The Crying of Lot 49.  I didn’t finish it because life must’ve happened or something, but I thought the writing was really good.

If nothing else I think it is a smooth introduction to the idea of loss for kids that are often too young to have experienced it yet. Not that I’m proposing we make kids feel like shit to toughen them up, just saying that a lot of kids read that book around what? Age 8-12? It could prepare them for feelings they’ve…

Trust me, Dickens is even worse when you have a slow-talking teacher who feels the need to explain literally everything.  I remember him taking a few minutes to explain to us what Dickens was trying to say when a character asked “what it is o’clock”.