I agree, nothing’s going to change if Musk buys Twitter.  All the people vowing to leave will stick around as a self-appointed ‘resistance’ and somehow be even more insufferable than they are now. 

I suspect the same thing. Netflix feels like it’s at a real risk of getting left in the dust. But when/if that happens, it will be a *very* attractive option for another platform to absorb, with a huge catalog of content, a recognizable brand name (the Netflix brand could stick around the same way Disney uses Hulu) -…

Take it from someone in his 40's - just enjoy it while it lasts.  The REAL bummer is when they start pandering to the nostalgia of people younger than you.

I think CNN’s biggest issue was one of timing - not just timing as in the corporate merger Sam mentions, but timing in the greater sphere of the Streaming Era. I think they started developing CNN+ as streaming services were exploding, but it launched right as the market was reaching its saturation point. We’re going…

actor: wouldn’t it be great if they brought back one of the greatest TV shows of all time but this time my character was the star

Is Amouranth going to run for Republican office one day?  I feel like Amouranth is going to run for Republican office one day.

That bit showed up in an episode of Dr. Katz, too. “It’s about a group of soldiers in a Nazi prison camp. IT’S A COMEDY!”

Gottfried and Norm MacDonald are two of the top five funniest people of my lifetime. Don’t know who the other three would be just yet, but I’m sure at least one of them will die in the next 6 months.

AQUA GOT NORTED

At some point, the people started putting more weight on the Bechdel test than it was meant to carry. It’s a brilliant device that underscores a broad truth about how male-centric Hollywood entertainment is - but it’s not a way to judge if a movie’s gender dynamics are good or not. Heck, the LOTR movie above would…

Missed opportunity - the proper wrestling move here is for Paul to wear the card on Monday Night Raw, brag about it, then have his Wrestlemania opponent steal it and tear it up.

When I worked in radio promotions, we had to get legal department approval for the tiniest giveaways.  That stuff is sooooo carefully managed - which just makes this all the more stunning.

Yeah, this company’s troubles over this promotion are only beginning, I think. They aren’t wrong that it’s going to cost them a lot of money - and not just in free beer.

In practical terms, what does this even mean for Smith?  Was he an Academy voter?  Is he ineligible for future awards (I mean, he probably will be, but does resigning specifically mean he’s ineligible?)  Anyway, it’s one hell of a Friday at 5pm PT news dump.

needed a pass for your car?  I don’t remember anything like that ever being in effect

we weren’t boyfriends and girlfriends after that

She is easily the funniest character on the show, and considering the roster of talent we’re talking about that is astounding.

Yeah, nothing in this story seems all that weird on Kotick’s end. I mean, maybe Copeland assumed the lesson was for kids, but... who’s going to care more about getting a drum lesson from Stewart Copeland - some kid who has no idea who he is, or a middle-aged guy who wore out his vinyl copy of Synchronicity?

I’ve been playing Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster and as far as I can tell, there isn’t a way to exit the game AT ALL.  I have to alt-tab to the desktop then close the game from the taskbar.

Feels like companies went from having big in-person events to trying to move those events to a ‘virtual’ online format to just going ‘screw it, let’s just do the Nintendo Direct model’