“Fall apart” may be the wrong phrasing, just imagine how annoying it’d be to have music constantly piped into the place where you live, particularly when you have no control over it. Sure it might be okay in the central square, like with the dance party at the end, but it’s portrayed as playing pretty much everywhere…

The whole “music over Knowhere’s speakers” thing falls apart when you spend more than five seconds really thinking about it, but I do really appreciate the way Gunn blends his needle drops from diegetic to non-diegetic. The music production side, in particular, which I assume is not actually him, makes the transition…

Hard mode is bad. It does not actually require any more skill, it just makes the game harder by introducing more randomness and luck.

I mean, Hikaru won an over-the-board rapid match a week ago because his opponent made an illegal move by moving his king next to Hikaru’s king. Hell, they have a term for it: “over-the-board mouse slip.” Mistakes happen, no matter what input mechanism you’re using.

Having worked in libraries for twenty years, I feel confident saying this is not “a blow for libraries” because no actual library would every consider lending materials like this.

Internet live TV packages are arguably the same service as traditional cable now, just delivered through a different method. It’s time to consider if it’s worth it anymore.

Most get between 1 and 2 million viewers. I think the Today Show might average 2.5 million.

Yeah, this seems like a clear case of Paramount shopping the rights before consolidating their streaming services and now regretting that move and trying to get out of it. 

Do you have a 34" waist or do you wear a size 34 pant? Because those are different things. I’m a little heavier than you and have a 42" waist but wear a 36" pant. I doubt if I lost 15 pounds, I’d lose eight inches off my waist, but I probably would go down to a size 34 pant.

At 5'10", I would think a 34-inch waist…

I enjoyed the game enough to play it twice and respected what they were trying to do, but that game wore on me by the end, both times, and I think the epilogue is a joke. I really hope they consider big changes to Part II, not because it’s not a good game on its own (it is), but because it is so tonally different from…

The weird thing is, I feel like there has been a lot of fanservice so far (particularly in this episode). It’s just done really well, and The Last of Us is cinematic already, so you don’t notice it. After the big fight in the hotel, Joel gives Ellie a rag to bandage her wound and uses a roll of tape to wrap Tess’s…

Exactly. I got a chuckle when Joel tossed a rag to Ellie to cover up her wound and busted out a roll of tape to start wrapping Tess’s ankles. And I straight up LOL’d when they did the pan down to a third-person video game view at the capitol building.

There are tons of nods to the video game that tell us this is a The…

This is kind of what we did with incandescent light bulbs. We didn’t outright ban them, but the federal government imposed efficiency limits (particularly for new construction) that required standard light bulbs to put out a certain amount of light per watt used.

Check your drainage, too. We used to have a sump pump that ran constantly when it rained and we realized the drainage around our foundation was poor and the water was running next to the house instead of into the yard. We buried our downspouts and regraded the soil next to the house and it fixed everything.

Who do you think Mr. Black/Body (the painting over the fireplace) is?

It’s important to remember that, in the US, the Republican Party hates the federal government so much that they’re willing to make every American’s life worse to deprive it of power.

I’m a little surprised Line Goes Up didn’t end up on the list. Yes, it’s two hours long, but it’s got nearly 10 million views, became a legitimate cultural talking point for a bit, and neatly presaged the collapse of the entire NFT economy.

This whole conversation is so stupid. Just because somebody had famous parents doesn’t make them a beneficiary of nepotism. Like, Maya Rudolph’s mom (a singer) died when she was seven years old. Are we really to believe that had any impact on her getting a bit part on SNL twenty years later?

This headline is false. Elon Musk claims he is taking legal action, but thus far has not. How many times did we see this with Trump where he claimed he was going to sue somebody and then never did because it was a ridiculous claim?

Discovery goes both ways. It’s just as likely that he’ll be able to prove the conspiracy element via it. All he needs is 1 email from Magnus to Chess.com about banning Neimann