There’s a better presentation of that story, a play, Lasso of Truth by Carson Kreither. Gets into his consternation of not only the lie detector being thoroughly debunked, but also Wonder Woman shifting away from the original “inherently peaceful woman” premise in accordance with different historical mores. That his…

If a polygraph were less than 50% accurate, it would by definition also be more than 50% accurate. A 100% inaccurate polygraph would be completely reliable, you’d just have to move the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ labels! [50% accuracy is the least accurate you can be with a binary outcome]

No self-respecting moviegoer wants to see children have an orgy.

Part of it is an accident of timing. If he was as big today as he was in the ‘80s, he’d have the kind of contract JK Rowling and other big authors tend to get, with script and director approval. Back in the ‘80s Hollywood wasn’t at all concerned with faithful adaptations, and a lot of the time, they just wanted to be…

“It happens to be, at least structurally, one of the King adaptations that sticks closest to its source material.”

And yet again, I’m literally talking about the difficulty making a successful $200m movie with a plot where you tell the audience that the hero’s victory in the last movie resulted in the deaths of billions. Literally.

I GOT A FEVER. AND THE ONLY PRESCRIPTION IS MORE SPICE!

Anyway, if you really want batshit insane, there’s Children of Dune in which Paul’s son Leto II turns into a sand worm. That’s kind of where the series went off the rails.

Walk without rhythm. It won’t attract the worm.

And I’d argue that downer is key to Dune (the book; while Dune 1 has made some gestures towards “being space messiah is bad mkay?”, we’re yet to see if Dune 2 will round out that arc); I think the events of Messiah are the themes/subtext of Dune made text.

I just read Messiah this winter and thought it was better than I’d expected; it’d make a great part three to Dune 1 + 2.

Curious who you object to in the films we’ve gotten so far?

If I remember correctly, Tom Cruise was the original choice to play Tony Stark when the idea first surfaced around 2005. Him turning it down led to RDJ, and without RDJ the whole thing doesn’t take off. So in a way Tom Cruise is to thank, or blame for the Marvel universe. I do believe he has expressed a desire to end…

We’ve already had that, then Sue Storm shoots him. Many. Times.

They’d call it “Global Cup” or “Tournament of Nations”. Not that hard to work around. It’s not like having the World Cup branding / FIFA license even got EA the rights to all the uniforms and logos for the various national federations. I’m always disappointed when a country like Portugal doesn’t have their real kits.…

Yeah, that isn’t going to stop them. “International tournament” is right there, and they license the international teams direct from each nations league (LaLiga, FA, DFL etc.). They won’t be able to make a World Cup specific game each 4 years, but they haven’t done that in forever anyway. Don’t need to set their…

Be careful what you wish for. I’ve been in that position and it felt like anything but a sabbatical.

I will say that them delivering a car to you with a seven day test drive period and them coming to you to buy a used vehicle is really nice. I sold a vehicle to a dealership recently- got an online quote, took it in and I then had to haggle and shit over the price they offered to me in-person, which was two grand…

Used car dealers are such a pain in the ass that a lot of people are willing to lose a lot of money simply for the convenience of not having to deal with one.

“support from HR in finding a new job”