And what’s your point? Mine was that they have clearly singled out any sort of food that isn’t baseline starvation prevention to the best of their abilities. It was surely just an order of magnitude more difficult to break down specific purchases so they could call out extravagances like spices and condiments.

I have a suspicion that they included meal prep subscription boxes in that total. Because they appear to deem any non-subsistence level food as a non-essential.

I cheered for the balloon man. He was the first sign of things to come.

Well, they supposedly slipped “just” inside the event horizon. Without hard numbers there’s really no way to tell what factor of time dilation “should” have been in play.

I’ve been viewing this show as Batman ‘66 with a Burton overlay (and Nolan violence) since somewhere in the second season, and it’s what’s made me love the show. My immediate thought after the episode finished was that now they need to make a movie, and it should be a straight remake of the Batman ‘66 movie. A series…

Hah, this was pretty much exactly my friend and I’s commentary as we watched. Though I called out SeaQuest rather than The Abyss.

I have to assume you didn’t actually see this episode. The Orville crew did in fact see their Kaylon pursuers moving at a drastically accellerated rate. The time dilation was explicitly called out. What was maybe a minute or two for them was said to have been two full days in normal space.

That’s what I’m saying. Amazon is behaving as though they’ve provided a dramatic increase in pay, when in fact it’s... apparently more or less the same thing in a different format.

I believe the point was that while the base pay has gone up, it is largely negated for many by the removal of all the other perks. So it’s not really this huge raise at all, and Amazon is cheering it as though it is.

Multiple points here!

I was assuming that Blum had it planted before calling his connections with the cops? He had plenty of them, and seem like the sort of guy who has the resources to get that done. Plus the cop who showed up knew without looking that the plain, unmarked, generic white box improbably sitting in the middle of a back seat…

This puts me in mind of a review I encountered for a restaurant I had eaten at. The reviewer in question actually had many petty complaints, tearing in to the kitschy atmosphere and other elements, but the item that got the apparent bulk of his rage based on the all caps and exclamation points was the fact that they…

I kind of gathered that essentially everything Gordon experienced beyond his specific interactions were things the computer picked up from the phone, including background character dialogue and the settings and sequence of events. The computer just took everything, correlated it by date, and built a scenario, filling…

I also caught Manchester’s apparent believe he is a Martian, though the bit I heard was “our world”, in clear reference to Mars. I thought that was strange and interesting.

This was most definitely the vibe I was starting to get off this. They make a big deal out of cybernetically augmented individuals and AIs, specifically so they can call out taking them off the table. The word “augmentation” seemed especially loaded, given its past use to refer to the genetically enhanced supermen of…

I am occasionally exposed to this show when other members of my household watch it, and I typically find myself forgetting it is meant to be a period piece at all until suddenly, oh, old timey school room or oil lamp or some specific piece of clothing. For the most part all the costumes, sets, everything look…

I guess we have a few possible options on the drinking thing. One is that everything is something like Star Trek’s synthahol, and the intoxicating effects are easily dismissed. Another is that treatments to rapidly nullify the effects of intoxicants are readily available. And I guess a third is that Gordon just drinks…

I read this and all I could think was that this was an absolutely beautiful experience you’ve shared. Such a simple thing, but beautiful. Thank you.

Two GMG site reviews and neither one of them (nor any of the comments apparently) picked up on or saw fit to to mention the subtle irony of using Devil’s Tower as a site to control an alien spacecraft destroying super weapon?

Two GMG site reviews and neither one of them (nor any of the comments apparently) picked up on or saw fit to to mention the subtle irony of using Devil’s Tower as a site to control an alien spacecraft destroying super weapon?