Her plan only failed because Shooty McShooterson couldn’t chill in his bunk for a couple of hours and had to play the hero. If Poe doesn’t devise a plan to break into the Dreadnought, Holdo’s plan would have worked perfectly. If Poe doesn’t also communicate, over an open channel in the presence of a mercenary, what…

Not even the colonials had perfect leadership.

I’d have to watch again to make a better assessment, but I would point out that, at the point Holdo decided to withhold the plan from Poe, nobody knew how the fleet was being tracked, only that it was being tracked. It’s entirely reasonably to argue that she was right not to tell Poe because there may have been a mole…

How so? Poe is well established the flyboy hotshot who can do no wrong, so it makes sense that he would go for the dreadnought, even at the cost of a dozen ships. It also makes sense that he would go behind the back of the vice-admiral (especially since they made it clear he thought he should be placed in charge of…

Exactly, the whole Holdo/Poe/Monte Carlo storyline is about teaching Poe that he is not the hero of this story. He doesn’t have all the answers. His way is not always the best. He has to fail - utterly, completely - in order to gain that realization. After the initial meeting, Leia tries to tell him this, but it’s…

Because not every person has your service provider? The last place I lived, there was no bundling discount. It was $60 for internet and $70+ for television.

To me, The Last of Us had the perfect difficulty scaling. On easy, it’s almost a run-and-gun. You never lack for ammo or supplies and there’s no doubt that you can kill everything in the game. Medium is the same way, just a little harder.

I don’t get how he beat the record of another run in a completely different category. Wouldn’t the other record still stand?

That’s seven dollars per channel. Not seven dollars per household. Probably a bit less for Fox/CW since they only program two hours per night and less for the cable providers since they have fewer viewers, but still, you’re looking at probably an extra $30/mo at least just to make the broadcast networks ad-free, not…

commercial revenue is a very small part of the whole picture and has been for a long time.

Your anecdote not withstanding, the data is very clear: Album sales started going down right as music piracy took off and pretty much cratered after the introduction of the iTunes store.

while unfortunately this Connect Four match was a draw,

My wife and I have gotten into the habit of doing a turkey breast when it’s just the two of us. It still provides quite a bit of leftovers, but if you get a smaller one it’s not too bad. Plus, they’re really easy to smoke on a standard charcoal grill and get the most gorgeous mahogany coloring when it’s finished.

It’s not just about bad numbers, it’s about good numbers as well. 15.8 million viewers is a HUGE number for a show these days. By comparison, The Walking Dead’s premiere brought in 15 million viewers in three-day viewing. The biggest shows on broadcast (The Big Bang Theory, This Is Us, and The Good Doctor) are all…

I wasn’t going to get too worked about the “14 seasons thing” because this is one of those shows that airs two seasons a year. They’ve only been on since 2009.

The CDC separates violent deaths into six separate categories based on intent: Accident, suicide, homicide, intent unknown, legal intervention, and operations of war. So, homicide will refer to any intentional killing of another person that is not ruled accidental, whether criminal or not, including issues of…

Chevy likes toys that are too big for her, which is good because pretty much every toy is too big for her.

Because calling them “bad people,” or “evil,” or “psychopaths,” or “lunatics,” as all the Republican politicians have done today, absolves us of the responsibility of owning up to the fact that it’s not always “bad people” who do harm with a gun.

James Loewen’s Sundown Towns has a ton of great examples of this. I don’t necessarily recommend the book (it’s overly long, extremely repetitive, and written in a tone of “Oh My God! You guys will never believe this!!!” that I don’t care for), but it’s worth skimming, if only for example after example of towns…

That’s fair. I don’t care if you emulate, but let’s not pretend that this is the reason you do it. :)