My guess is this guy is highly trained in the art of baby reps. Maybe he baby repped his way up to 8 plates or something and decided to film his new 9 plate baby rep PR. But there is no fuckin’ way this guy was anywhere even close to legitimately squatting 9 plates, or 8, or probably even 7 or 6.

Dude, Jeff Dunham is a fuckin’ ventriloquist and hasn’t been relevant in decades.

If we want to get into semantics about the “official” Golden Rule of comedy, then it appears we are both wrong, as a simple Google search of “golden rule of comedy” yields no mention of either. I was using the phrase “golden rule” as shorthand for a widely accepted “rule” in comedy (specifically stand up, but it’s…

For at least the last thirty or forty years, the golden rule of comedy has been that you always “punch up.” Making fun of marginalized groups has never been acceptable in comedy and many comedians have essentially imploded their own careers by not following this rule. It’s not a new development and it’s not the PC…

I say this out of a place of pure concern for you, but I’d make sure to go in and double check your NDA before you talk specifics about your work in Internet forums.

You miss the fact that even if this is some “minor joke,” it isn’t funny. In any way. It’s creepy otaku, lowest denominator pandering, which the vast majority of consumers will not find funny in the least. If this scene really is intended as a “joke” - and I’ve seen the Japanese version and I’m not convinced it is -…

That’s not really how game reviews work. Anything worse than, say, a 4.5/5 or a 8/10 is basically spitting in the developer’s face. No, it doesn’t make sense and it isn’t necessarily fair, but that’s how it works.

It’s not really about purity and more about the idea that these idols are (potentially) sexually available to their fans. Fans want idols they can daydream about going on dates with and eventually marrying, and it ruins the fantasy when the idol goes and gets married/starts a serious relationship.

I think one of the most genius things about Star Wars is that very first line: “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.” It immediately lets the audience know that we’re dealing with a world totally different to our own but parallel to it. Stories set in the far future have to ensure their technology is at least…

Indefinitely? Challenge accepted.

On the backside of the box art, if you look closely, there’s a disclaimer that says something along the lines of, “to preserve game balance, in-game car specs have been changed,” but the cars themselves are real and must have been licensed.

Famous people: “I only want to be famous when I’m getting paid to be famous.”

Oh man, finally some love for Pillars!

45....pounds? Dude, that’s like 20 kg. I assume you’re talking about dumbbells, in which case anyone capable of curling that much ought to be even more capable of bending over and picking them up off the ground. Even if you’re curling a barbell - if it’s so heavy you gotta rest it in a squat rack, you’re doing this…

I work in entertainment. Pascal’s writing style is standard entertainment executive speak. BIG, ALL-CAPS BOLD POINTS and clipped syntax, grammar errors, and always, always a note proclaiming “sent from my iPhone,” so you know these people are BUSY BUSY BUSY.

Bikkle is not milk tea. It’s a probiotic yogurt drink with four kinds of probiotics. It is also bullshit. It’s ostensibly meant for very young children, for digestive health or some other pseudo-nutrition reason that must almost certainly be negated entirely by the mountains of sugar they put in it. It takes like…

Just FYI: This apparently does not apply if you’re a Japanese woman and your husband is a foreigner.

Let’s also not forget that localizers are not their own bosses and are generally beholden to the whims of their higher-ups, who are acting out of business interests.

I think that’s getting a little semantic. I’m pretty sure most of the people crying censorship are willfully ignoring the “from a business perspective” meaning in favor of shrill screaming about social justice warriors somehow forcibly taking their underage boob ogling rights away.

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