Yeah. I cringed at his wife calling him monster - I think that’s out of line, also he’s the victim here - but I can see why that relationship is over, especially if she wants kids of her own. Can’t have kids with someone who’s that blasé about incest.

I love Chidi as a character, but he’s never impressed me much as an intellectual.

I totally forgot that! That’s pretty strong evidence for some sort of point system independant from Michael’s bullshit indeed (and also evidence that that point system is really as petty and arbitrary as Michael presented it).

I guess I just hate the entire idea of it so much that I completely blended that out. I’m…

Interesting. Could you link me the exact wording? Googling “Mike Schur point system is real” gave me the following quote from an interview:

“The details of how it all works will largely be answered more definitively next season, so I don’t want to give too much away. One thing I can say is that Michael, like all good…

Fair enough, although I’m not quite sure what his various more absolutist heroes would say about that kind of sophistry. I’d be surprised if there was any philosopher who takes a hard stance against dissimulation who specified that it has to verbal and explicit in order to count against you.

That would still make…

Another thing to consider: we don’t actually know anything about the system being used at this point. All that stuff about points was made up by Michael as part of the ruse. When he comes clean about his balloon-scheme, he admits that he really hasn’t a clue how the actual good place works either. Maybe the humans…

Yeah, Chidi’s inflexibility here seemed somewhat contrived to me, after everything that went down already. I bought it in the first itineration, when Chidi got all tortured about lying to protect Eleanor after she tells him about her true identity, especially since, at the time, he had some reason to fear that lyying…

I agree that too much solitude is unhealthy, but “not dating” doesn’t have to mean lonely. There are other forms of relationships worth investing in! And it also takes quite a bit of work, and it’s also quite rewarding. And since the stakes are lower (eg. no general expectation of exclusivity in platonic friendships,…

Yes, but some shallow work is also filing things, sorting things, keeping track of things, keeping lists up-to-date, etc., etc. I love postponing that kind of stuff to focus on the deep work, so obviously I see the advantage.

But for me, it often means postponing the shallow work indefinitely - things like that easily…

Datapoint: I am from Europe and I think you’re sadly mistaken.
Yes, I also imagine this was most likely mere thoughtlessness rather than active maliciousness, but thoughtlessness is bad enough.

I do have to wonder about a corporate culture, where either everyone can afford to be so blithely oblivious, or where no one…

Well, since we are on the topic of semantics, I’d say “war” is rather .... forceful term for this, no? You’ve never truly seen me on the war-path, trust me! I can be so much more “forceful” than this!

But with all the shit going on right now, I do kinda miss arguing for fun, and it’s only fun if the stakes are…

It’s certainly the mark of an idealist. Leia has always been slightly more pragmatic, and that’s why she can carry on when everything goes to shit. I think that’s also pretty heroic. But it’s true that Luke’s idealism has fueled much of his heroism - it’s a strength and and a weakness at once. The story is more well…

Well, he certainly didn’t try very hard.... And he stopped himself by thinking better of it, rather than just failing to pull it off. Let’s look at it the other way round: If you needed someone to do something, and they considered it briefly, but then changed their mind before even encountering the first obstacle, but…

Data point: the group I went with yesterday (ranging from casual fans to complete Star Wars virgins) liked it well enough. We were surpised to realize afterwards how long it had been, which is a good sign, probably.

I had it recommended to me be a colleague at work, who watched it with his daughter on a whim. They had…

. As Salma tells it, the unibrow stayed because she fought for it and won - at the cost of being labelled a ballbuster and treated extra shabbily in the aftermath. The switch to a different model sounds more like one of those pro-forma concessions so often made in mostly futile efforts to placate men-babies - look,…

So the issue with the uni-brow was that it “distracted from the performances”..... like Snowwhite’s black hair, and Kermit’s green skin, I guess. Of course it takes a genius like Weinstein to see that a blonde Snow-White, and a pink Kermit and an duo-browed Frida-f*cking-Kahlo would be much less distracting. See,…

Ironically, one of the things _I_ hate about Dilbert is the try-hard- edigness. A lot of the “wit” seems to be based on a certain kind of “Ain’t that guy clever for getting away with bullshit/don’t hate the player”-line of thinking, that I find obnoxious. (Or odious, as the poster above put it). Consideration and good…

Fair point. Still, letter writer himself is mentionning it more as an afterthought. The focus of the letter seems to be on his parent having grown a bit dull.

That it is true.

Seriously. I’m all for cutting off parents when the relationship dynamic is unhealthy, but his main complaint is that he’s bored.

Maybe I lack perspective, because I do often enjoy spending time with my parents. But even when I don’t, I never presume they’re here for my entertainment. Just as I’m not here for theirs.…