I’m not super familiar with the timeline, but Ahsoka has to be like 8-10 years older than the Mandalorian, and this show is contemporary with that one

[CODEC BLEEPIDTY BLEEP]

Babs Bunny and Buster Bunny (explicit relation) seems very wrong, to me

I’ve always appreciated how happily and wholeheartedly Tennant embraced all of the silly bullshit that comes packaged with Doctor Who

You can’t put together public health proposals to address or mitigate the problem unless you can clearly, scientifically define exactly how wet the water is and how much of it there will be. There’s probably more actual real world value in this kind of study than 95% of all basic bench science.

It’s crazy how terrible contemporary effects look on a TV. It’s bearable on the big screen, but insanely bad at home.

Probably  no more than commissioning any other kind of work counts as authoring it. Patrons set general parameters and tell the artist to go do the work, but the copyright rests with the artist unless they give it away or sell it. 

I've been trying to decipher this for the last 12 hours and I remain BAFFLED

Because it very clearly and obviously was? Mario - the property and the character and the video games - is for small children. That has always been Mario’s target audience, since the NES/Famicom (a toy for children). Just because you grew up doesn’t mean the little guy who jumps on turtles did. The movie runs on a kid-…

Dexter Jettster contemplating the ineluctable loss  of all things? Now that’s some pure uncut Glup Shitto 

Okay but I don’t think it was mindless garbage? Was it as complex as, I dunno, Turning Red or the Spiderverse films? Of course not, but those movies are for older audiences.

I will never understand what people’s problem is with a movie pitched firmly at five year olds doing well at the box office. Having sat through a great many movies meant for that age range, the Mario movie was basically Citizen Kane for kindergarteners.

You get that you’re what he bought though, right? The user base and it’s data are the only things that give it any value, and reducing that directly impacts his bottom line.  There's no virtue in "we were here first" except the virtue of current market value.

That's because the people you're talking about only care about Star Wars (I'm not sure anybody should care very much about Star Wars) as a collection of shibboleths they use to demonstrate who's in the club and who isn't and establish a pecking order between them. 

You can’t keep a good scot (via Vancouver) down!

Star Trek is literally known for plot armor for main characters. The Red Shirt stereotype is specific to the show. 

I dunno, the first 3 or 4 Dark Tower books are essentially fantasy adventures with gunplay.  You don’t really get into horror elements (which I think are Flanagan’s wheelhouse) until after Wizard and Glass, when King really leaned into corralling all of his works into Roland’s world. 

Anthropomorphic vehicles are pretty common kiddie show fodder (they’re extremely toyetic!). After some clicking around, apparently Ethan Hawke plays Batman? Now I’m really confused about who the stunt casting on this show is for. Certainly nobody under the age of 30. 

I don’t know what Batwheels is, but great galloping ghouls, that sounds awful

A: a strike is a political action that is dependent on the solidarity of the striking workers (and not that long ago was indistinguishable from small scale wars, right down to military involvement). Undermining that solidarity by being a dipshit in public is the fastest way to break it.