Westworld is a mix of zoo and dollhouse. The glass walls make it feel like everyone is in a terrarium. It’s very effective

Every wall being glass makes it super hard to film.

I want to be clear about something, based on your last paragraph: I’m a cisgender, straight male. I’ve never been a sex worker. I’ve had a few sex worker friends over the years who’ve talked to me about their lives. I consume some porn, and find a lot of it problematic. I believed Stoya and the other women who…

I’m hesitant to overstate the idea that porn is different because of the nature of the work, because I don’t want to get to a place where the things adult actors do has some inherent extra quality of...shame or psychological trauma attached to it. To put it another way, a happy, well regulated, completely above board…

I think it’s unfair to equate my comments to comments about literal sex trafficking. And yes, rape is worse than a grease burn, but people are literally killed in industrial accidents due to lax worker safety. The core point is workers are exploited and abused in similar ways across many industries, including porn. …

I would argue that a lot of the negative stories from the porn world (Being forced to to things that fall outside the scope of your job, being asked to do demeaning things, being threatened for not complying, having injuries or sickness ignored, having safety guidelines not followed properly, being sexually harassed…

If you die (say of plain old age or you trip and fall down the stairs and break your neck), yeah, you’ll become a zombie. Sad but manageable if your society is set up the right way.

I’d agree with you, except they’ve had good chemistry for years. I remember him guesting on her show yeaaaars ago, pre-legal issues and whatnot, and they were delightful.

You will laugh..but for me it’s basically just porn. I live in an urban environment and am not very outdoorsy from a lifestyle perspective. So for me these vehicles are a way of dreaming about a different life, or at least a change of pace. And of course you’ve always got to have the zombie apocalypse vehicle in…

She didn’t have to apologize, but given the circumstances, an apology looks nicer than “I didn’t do it, this isn’t my fault, don’t blame me.” She’s not really saying “I made a mistake and am a bad person”, more “Something awkward happened (and as a side note, an actual black model lost out on a job), and I’m sorry…

A lot of this is just the country’s history of racism. Being black is/was so bad, and it was so important to identify everyone with the slightest bit of blackness. I’d bet around WW2, your half-Japanese friend would have been JAPANESE...and her Bengali side erased, especially if there were any visual signifiers of…

Having recently become obsessed with various sorts of camper/adventure conversion vehicles, yes, that looks really appealing to me. Also kinda hoping it transforms into an Autobot pal.

Yeah, from a bishop or a handful or special confessors. The ability to go to a sympathetic/practical local priest who actually knows you and your family and community is a big difference.

Making the forgiveness available from any local priest is a meaningful. Anyone who claims otherwise has never dealt with the day to day logistics (let alone administrative disciplinary procedures) of any large organization.

There’s a fairly consistent thing with Frances: Sins are still sins, but lets not go out of our way to punish people for the practical realities of modern human life.

I think that’s an incredibly obtuse reading.

Speed doesn’t kill. Speed differentials kill. In this case, accelerating reduced the relative speed difference between the two cars.

The two largest ship sin Overwatch fandom so far as I can tell are male pairings. And just about every survey of this kind of fannish activity I’ve ever seen indicates the creative output is dominated by women, not men.

Except the two largest ‘ships in Overwatch fandom feature male pairings (McHanzo and Reaper76).

Driving is not my hobby. You’re coming to me and saying “Hi, I’d like you to consider getting a car with a device attached to it that makes it slightly more expensive, slightly slower, slightly less fuel efficient, slightly less mechanically reliable, and harder to drive under almost all normal conditions.” Um...no.