To me, this entire trail is exemplified by a clever, subtle reference that is immediately followed by Lola *literally winking at the camera.* Like, it’s enough to be clever and subtle with their references, they have to draw blinking red arrows pointing at them.

Crossword as a category in general is terrible and needs to go. A huge part of the meta-strategy in Wheel of Fortune is figuring out words based on the context of other words. For example, if you get a clue that’s ****** ** *** *****, it’s a pretty good bet that the middle words are some form of “in the,” “on the,” or…

One trick I’ve picked up as an interviewer (though I’m sure it would work on the other side as well) is that I orient my Zoom windows and the browser window so that the most important person (in my case the interviewee) is directly underneath the camera. That way, if I am looking at them instead of the camera, it…

To be fair, I don’t really blame NBC for that situation.  The writing was on the wall there when Disney bought Fox, which gave them control of 2/3 of Hulu.

That’s what I was thinking.  It looks like a three-way intersection with a stop sign at each spot but it really should be a through street with the perpendicular street as the only one with a stop sign.

There are also a couple of big time jumps they could fill in with new story. The biggest struggle I think they’re going to have is figuring out the pacing. Not that they can’t, I just think putting a 20-hour game into a 10-hour show could cause some issues when the defining feature, in my opinion, is the long sections…

Given the aspect ratio, seems like the Game Boy Advance will be more appropriate for Zack Snyder’s Justice League.

It told me I had 835 hours played, which seemed like a lot until I remembered I was on paternity leave in March.

I mean, I like Hulu Live and don’t mind paying for the content (it was always the BS equipment fees/HD fees/taxes that bugged me with cable) but Hulu is raising its prices, too. And it doesn’t have AMC or some of the sports networks, if that matters to you.

Yes, there is. It’s been a few months since I signed up for it so I don’t remember exactly how, but you do it through Hulu’s site, not Disney’s. It’s nothing special - it’s basically just Hulu Live and Disney at their normal prices and you get ESPN+ for free, but as somebody who does watch a bit of ESPN+, it was worth…

They do. You just have to sign up through Hulu and use your Hulu credentials to log in to the services.

Yeah, I know exactly where they’re staying. It’s where my wife and I had our honeymoon and my in-laws lived down the hill for about a year. Most of those villas are ~600 sq ft 1-bed/1-bath condos with pretty basic amenities. Their appeal is that they’re hidden away up on the hill on a private road. It’d cost them…

Ha! I know exactly where they’re staying. That’s where my wife and I had our honeymoon. It’s really not that amazing of a place (nice, but not five-star or anything), though it makes sense when you have a retinue of Secret Service agents in tow.

Doesn’t this apply to every government spending program, though? I was responsible and bought half the house I could have, so I can’t take the mortgage interest deduction. Similarly, I live in a low-tax state, so the SALT deduction doesn’t apply to me either. Why should people with bigger houses (and thus higher…

This is a great (but long) video I came across this week that ties QAnon adherents to Flat Earth beliefs (though not quite directly). The idea is that, in both cases, the actual details of the conspiracy are unimportant and ever-changing. Rather, it’s a way of viewing the world as Us vs. Them, with the “Them” being an…

Currencies also need to be stores of value. Something that fluctuates from $4,000 in March to $30,000 in December is not a store of value and cannot functionally be used as a currency (nobody wants to buy a junker car in March only to find out that the same money could have bought them a brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee…

I think Supernatural did that, but they were only shooting two episodes, not 20. The quarantine needed was why certain actors didn’t come back in the end.

I don’t know about that. To me, I think it’s a game that was always going to be divisive and then came along at the absolute wrong time. I played it through twice to get the platinum trophy and both times I was just utterly ready to be done with it by the time I was finished. I know they’ve added some increased…

I was going to say, I’ve spent the last six weeks or so playing Fall Guys and Hollow Knight exclusively and haven’t even gotten to Mordor yet.

I made that same argument in a different thread but, yes, the whole Steve thing is a mess, no matter which way you look at it.