Tipping shouldn’t be expected in restaurants either. As a European visiting the US recently it was so strange to me. Tipping should be an extra addition if the service/food was particularly good because the staff should all be getting a livable wage.

Nope, nope, nope. If you want better pay, get your company to pay you better. Tipping, everywhere else in the world, is not intended as a guaranteed part of your pay, but as a reward for good service *in addition* to your pay. That’s the whole point. Tips are not part of your regular income, and you don’t depend on…

A 40 page slideshow makes av club the worst villain. 

I imagine Glen Canyon would bring lots of tourists after the lake is gone, but I wonder if you could go a step further and make it a National Park too. The “Mighty Five” already draw enormous amounts of tourists in Utah, and adding another would likely drive tourism as well to replace the boating business. 

This polishing cloth is getting way too much attention. I see it coming up in every story about Apple in the last few days. 

Ha ha ha

The CGI is beyond to notch. I don't think I seen better in films. 

Contrary to this review and you, I found this episode a much needed pick me up from last week’s dour tablesetting. Of course a TV show has to zoom in and focus on a small set of characters. That’s a given.

I kinda feel that this review is projecting author’s expectations more than it evaluates the show itself. Sure, there are glimpses of hackery, like the conflict with Lewis, but most of the choices are fine - for the start of the show at least. For example: focusing on single heroes, not on the entire community. Geeez,…

Loving this show and glad that it got another season, as many media critics have been somewhat harsh against it. Yes, it does not follow the books, but if it did, nobody would watch it, for several reasons: First, Asimov’s greatest talent was ideas, and from a time when sci-fi was mostly about presenting mind…

This seems like a common problme with giant sweeping scifi epics. Those stories always fall into the trap because the audience needs to connect with recognizable characters and settings. When you’re dealing with timespans of thousands of years and century-long time jumps, settings and characters change rapidly and…

I was glad for LexW to push back on the outdated nonsense being peddled upthread. Such knavery needs to be handled with the exact kind of sensitivity it deserves - none. We know better. We’ve known better for a very long time. It’s time people put these wildly inaccurate narratives to bed.

Confederate was an idea they had, but they actually thought they were running off to make the next Star Wars trilogy after the one that just ended.

No.

Yeah to me it looked like what we have later was a cut-down version of this, like some king was saying “This is a huge pain in the arse (literally) and a massive OSHA (not that Osha!) violation, let’s reduce it to something more manageable”.

This is an extremely anachronistic and outdated view, frankly. It reeks of 1960s history teaching, where the Romans were basically given sloppy blow jobs by history teachers, all their failings ignored, and the renaissance was hyped to high heaven.

Yeah, but 5th century Europe and 15th century Europe looked very different.

I’m like ready for a future cyber punk Game of Thrones, it’s been medieval for legit 1000's of years.

also, biodegradable in a perfect lab setting is a lot different when they end up in a landfill.  paper doesn’t even break down in landfills.