How could he? He’s not running a pharma company any more. He’s not managing other people’s investment money. He has no money to spend stupidly. He’ll just carry on being an asshole without any money.

The video associated with this article on Twitter is a crime against humanity. The talking head (who I’ll just assume is the President of the J.J. Abrahms fan club) reading an article monotonously - because reading is hard how could I possibly read - is an IGN trademark that I hate.

Notwithstanding that he’s a vile piece of shit, I feel like lengthy prison sentences are better suited to dangerous offenders. Shkreli’s mainly just a creep, who earned way too much money and acquired way too much power (which can’t happen without the complicity of others). I don’t have a ton of pity for his “victims”…

This looks like a number to me (a “6") and also like it doesn’t belong.

They definitely didn’t know the premiere date when they were filming, so whatever it is needs to have been added in post (assuming there’s any clues there at all). i.e. something like the number of shotgun shells is unlikely to be a clue.

There are lots of reasons to manage expectations, but the amount of passion and attention to detail going into it gives me hope. Things like set design, costume design and special effects are clearly getting a lot of attention (the budget is outlandish), and that’s the type of stuff that - even more than the plot -…

You can like a post by mistake (I never have, but if you have lizard-like fingers and poor vision, it’s plausible), but that doesn’t explain what the post was doing on his screen in the first place. It couldn’t have been a sponsored post, because those are subject to some supervision by Twitter. It’s possible that he…

Kinja on mobile is a garbage fire. The chat stuff is resource intensive (something to which my phone is particularly sensitive, as it starts to get hot under the collar just from having its screen turned on), and then on top of that there is a much higher proportion of video/animated ads now. I get typing lag when I…

[Running counter to my theory, Gizmodo’s own coverage of the launch is disgustingly kind]

Given that Gizmodo’s corporate overlords assigned the most snarky and dismissive reporter on their payroll to cover the launch of the newest iPhone, I’m going to go ahead and say that Gizmodo remembers, even if we don’t.

Also, I don’t remember that, but why would I give a shit.

I don’t know that J.J. has really earned the label of “unoriginal”. I mean, he’s done a lot of work on sequels where obviously he’s treading on familiar ground, but TFA is the only thing where you really felt like: “I’ve seen this movie before”. And it served a purpose for what it was. People were yearning for…

have we seen a drug addict not directly involved in the drug war as anything but background?

It doesn’t hook you out of the gate. The captain has a pathetic quality - especially in the first episode - that makes him very hard to like. But the characterizations balance out over the following episodes, and the engineer and the robot (who I can only recognize as Joel and Trace) are the best part of every…

The kind of cameo that’s a problem is the Hey, look everyone, it’s [celebrity]! Shereen’s Game of Thrones cameo hued that way because it had him singing. Something like Entourage or Sharknado probably encapsulate the worst of this. But if you just fill a minor role with someone who happens to be a celebrity, without…

That was a prediction for the end result of the fight that Katie was picking with the HuffPo douche. It wasn’t my opinion of the article.

I actually enjoy the sincerity of this show, and the confidence it has just to be what it is. It isn’t desperate to raise the stakes like so much tv is.

Nope, this is classic, Swift-style (or WWE style, if that works better for you), baiting. It’s picking a fight with someone who you know will make a scene in response, because the fight will be a spectacle.

I think this ends in a pathetic whimper rather than a bang, but I take no issue with poking a finger in the eye…

I think making clowns look terrifying warrants about as much praise as making Angelina Jolie look pretty, which is to say we’re skating downhill on this one, but from what I’ve seen in commercials IT’s makeup design wastes none of the potential.

One way of looking at it is that Rotten Tomatoes is giving critics a louder voice than they’ve ever had as standalone reviewers. When you read one or two negative critic reviews of a movie you’re excited about, it’s easy to say, “well, what does this guy know, he probably just doesn’t get it, because he’s a stodgy…

That strategy can still work (see: Batman v. Superman).

What, no Taylor Swift? Could you really stomach the humiliation of having made her do some non-specific-thing that prevents her from coming to the phone right now?