There’s a Monty Python sketch where a prisoner is going to be executed. A telegram comes in just in time, but it says the execution has been “candelled”. The prisoner is all “clearly that’s a typo for “cancelled” and the guards are like “no it probably just means we should light candles, right?”.

It's not articulation, it's volume.

Yeah, I doubted that for a second too, but if there’s one thing I’m sure of, it’s that the people as Sesame Street know how to count.

35 writers, damn.

Was it a....herring!?

We all know deep down that Bert is the kind of bastard would have crossed the picket lines.

Tired of playing the game. 

“A bit wasted” is probably the best way to watch the Star Wars sequels.

Exactly! His speech was that of a true believer - a fanatic - it was Hitler-esque in how unhinged it was. That’s the point. But then he was, as you say, a sniveling weasel when he *could* have been a genuinely great foil.  

Did you meet his good friends, Ron Vibbentrop and Mr. MacGoering?

Llamas are dangerous!
If you see one where people are swimming, you should shout:
LOOK OUT! THERE ARE LLAMAS!

No they haven’t.

That's what she said. 

Was he though? I thought he was a buffoon from the start. His screaming speech on Starkiller Base right before it wiped out the entire Hosnian system was fanatical and unhinged, more like a cultist than a high-ranking military officer. He hated and looked down on Ren but was too scared to ever stand up to him when…

We’re headed to where it will soon be able to create lifelike photos and very stylized and polished digital art but one thing I don’t think we’ll see it generate any time soon is flawed but endearing hand-drawn art, like for one example “zine” style illustrations and indie comics from the 90s. Maybe one reaction to…

I think there’s some valid question of who is making the decision and the reason some are pushing for contracts to explicitly state AI won’t be use.

“A bit wasted in the Star Wars sequels” indeed. They took what could have been a genuinely powerful opponent (both to the rebellion and Kylo Ren) and turned him into a farcical buffoon with an unearned and unbelievable “redemption” (and then immediate death) as the rebel spy. Just appalling.

It’s one of the most deeply annoying elements of all this. I try hard to avoid Piers Morgan in my daily life, but whenever I do accidentally see him on something, he’s usually doing one of those. My brother-in-law falls for shit like that as well which is frustrating.  The way Cleese talked up his proposed show…

 - The AV Club, circa 2004

Nice to meet you, Tired.