Making your character not look like complete idiots is a crucial part of not breaking immersion, and they spectacularly failed at it.

It . . . oh, I wish that had been intentional. That’s not bad wordplay at all.

But even as his actions, or inaction, consign people to die, even as he behaves exactly how many of us feared and warned a Trump presidency would handle a crisis, it may not matter. I desperately hope I’m wrong.

It is apparently news to Trump that there are Americans out there with covid-19 symptoms who are unable to be tested for covid-19.

This has long been a policy position Warren has held. It was one of the main pillars of her presidential campaign. The measures she presents would cancel up to $50,000 in student loan debt for Americans who need it.

People usually cite Indiana Jones films for the PG-13 rating system (and less-frequently, for the hollowing out of the PG rating, to “Practically G”). But I’d argue it was Poltergeist that really got the avalanche rolling downhill. In any realistic assessment, that’s an R-rated film, just because it’s an extremely…

The Springs resident says her friend, a nurse out here, reported that a wealthy Manhattan woman who tested positive called tiny Southampton Hospital to say she was on her way and needed treatment.

I think it would be a stretch under general laws regarding battery. But you’re not wrong, and that is part and parcel of the problem that we’re facing: our moral and legal mechanisms are inadequate to the actions that we’re seeing.

That is a great way of putting it. Not just because you’re correct in the distinction, but because I think it captures why Abrams films end up feeling like the cinematic equivalent of cotton candy: I’m not sure that there is an “about” to Abrams’ stories. The reason why his stories never cohere is because “Gee golly,…

Yeah, this movie wouldn’t work with anyone else but Spielberg at the helm. Not just because the raw emotional authenticity is so sincere and unforced, but because I don’t know any director who is better with child actors than young Spielberg. He had an instinctive ear for naturalistic childhood patter and for family…

The next time I hear the phrase “Drain the Swamp”, I’m just going to point to them and note that Sens. Kelly Loeffler Richard Burr, Dianne Feinstein and James Inhofe are the swamp, ding dong (the person I’m rhetorically speaking to, not you, tina belcher). If I have to talk myself out of putting Dianne Feinstein in…

Yeah, 1982 is to genre films what the 1927 Yankees are to baseball, or what 2008 or 2019 were to comic book films. In retrospect, maybe the worst part of E.T. is simply that it was so dominant that it crowded out a number of other classics financially. But as is, what you could see back-to-back, weekend-to-weekend, in…

Consider starting with games that are known for their user-friendly interfaces before advancing to games with harder or more finicky controls. For example, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has a stripped-down, easy-to-use interface that can be learned quickly, and which doesn’t require much adjustment for the monster in…

Yeah, I’m considering, and 11-12 isn’t that much younger than when I’d introduce my kids to classics that happen to be R-rated. Admittedly, I’d go more for films like The Shawshank Redemption or The Thing, but even those are pretty intense. So it’s not the potential for adult themes or even gore that might cause me…

Well, I for one have to admit that at first, I was a tad squeamish about letting tweens see the Saw films. That amount of violence might not be healthy to expose people to. But then I realized that I’d seen all of the Rambo films by the time I was six, and I’d shoot anyone who thinks that affected my empathy.

I get the impression that if it’s not a problem that can be Othered, they can’t even understand it as a problem at all.

“I’m married to an Asian” — Kellyanne Conway downplays White House official reportedly calling coronavirus “Kung-Flu” and Trump using the term “Chinese Virus”

Counterpoint: in general, we need to move away from the idea that every last policy needs to be means-tested, and granted only to “the deserving”, because “the deserving” is how they get us every single time.

Best guess?

Ah, so it is my childhood neglect talking. My apologies.