It's becoming clear that this is one of the only ways to make it work anymore. Like, when this manager dude's solution is "maybe YouTube should shut down", it's clear that he doesn't have a clue how to deal with the new reality. Album sales will become more niche, streaming will continue until the next thing…

I was too broad. Not sure why I said "never". I suppose I was thinking of visual media more than text.

Oh, I don't disagree. As I recall O'Briain's complaint, it was about having to redo boss battles over and over in order to get to the next bit.

Wu-Tang Is Not Anything To Mess With, Young Man

Well, yeah. That's the reason for the conflict. It's just strange to think of how different this is from things less than a century ago. It used to be that reading a book required you to have a book (through ownership or on loan), so people would sell as many books as people wanted to buy (more or less). Now…

Dara O'Briain had a bit about that. Basically, he said that games are the only fictional medium that make you take a test before you get to the next part of the story.

It sort of ties into verisimilitude. I've read lots of dismissive paragraphs about how you wouldn't just give the hero a cold in a story, but I actually do find it sort of distancing how fiction never has someone get sick unless it's something that might kill them. There are so many ways that illness could make…

There have been a few cases where sensible interventions have saved a production. On the other hand, I just read somewhere the other day that Louis Meyer apparently wanted to cut "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz. If true, there is no way to make that fact funnier than it is.

The gag with Homer setting everything he cooks on fire, culminating in pouring milk into cereal and somehow setting it aflame, is a good example of that. It doesn't need anything more than what it has.

I think that's part of why the "You're Getting Old" episode might be my favourite one. I got the feeling that they were dramatizing some of their own inner conflicts with that one.

Looks like it may have been a nickname first that then became a first name: http://www.behindthename.co…

Yeah. My impression of how it worked was that it was a highly analytical process, a way of achieving more transformation in acting by planning ahead and thinking through anything that might be a challenge. I guess I'm not fond of what seems like a really sensible and useful tool being associated with egomaniacal…

Eh, it's a Newswire. This is so thin that pencils would poke through it, but that's not unprecedented around here. It does make for an odd contrast when huge bombshells get dropped in the same part of the site.

It's got to be a diminuitive, but I can't figure out for what. Biffany? Biffiam? Biffith?

Yeah. If I understood what I read about the Stanislavsky Method at all, it has basically nothing to do with these Leto shenanigans. Doesn't the method mostly consist of, like, making up a detailed history for your character and figuring out what they would think and feel at any given part of the play, with advanced…

It just continues to be absurd that this technology has to be so heavily and artificially constrained just to fit into our current constellation of economic and legal limitations. Copying a digital file is a trivial matter. Making it so that it can't be copied is an ongoing, incredibly difficult battle. Just look…

That's an absurd title. Do they think that Americans won't care about it if they know that it's happening in a Canadian city? I think most of the flagship version is shot in Canada.

There was an episode of Love It or List It Vancouver where the couple specifically didn't want the plan to be entirely open. It was kind of funny seeing the difficulties in finding a luxurious modern house in Vancouver that had, like, walls.

Works better as a Suicidal Tendencies tribute band name.

Daaaaaaaamn. Informative Job, AV Club!