While I agree that the show will readily have someone behave out of character for a lame joke or weak story element, the transition of Ned from kind to hateful actually seems depressingly realistic. Whether that previous kindness was a false veneer or was just eroded away by continued exposure to hate speech, Ned now…

But the threat of a virus strikes people’s lizard-brain freakout buttons much more strongly. Very slight chance of your own death? Freak the hell out. Very strong chance of substantial overall reductions to quality of life and potentially many, many more deaths, but off in the future and mostly something that will…

I’m really not sure what to think about this yet. While it’s pretty much always good to get new Digimon content, it kind of sucks they’re going back to the original, for a bunch of reasons. 1) Like the articles says, the recent movies were about the characters maturing past everything in the show, so to have it just…

“Quines magically don’t need any numbers to start adding away”

Who are the people that want to play as Hydra Cap? Actually I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know.

Ha yeah, that really spoke to me.

Okay, but everyone’s aware of that, and it shouldn’t change EA”s decision. Moreover, they should be harsher with people like him - he is profiting off the game, so he is to some degree representing it, and as such they have a vested interest in making sure the people representing their products aren’t horrible garbage…

Well that just makes him more of an idiot for jeopardizing his source of income with his truly imbecilic behavior. EA did the right thing here, and the negative consequences to him were his own fault and were totally avoidable.

How is this possibly going to be anything other than completely terrible.

Yeah Jerati’s betrayal seemed telegraphed since she showed up at Picard’s place. I thought the same thing: they didn’t show her conversation with the Star Fleet shaded villain, she just told Picard what supposedly happened, which immediately seemed like the writers were trying to hide something. And every scene with…

Jeez, “frothing at the mouth man hater”? Really? Do you have anything to support that misogyny-soaked statement beyond the fact that she referenced an actual thing that happened that many, many people were ignoring because he was good at sports? And if you balk in the slightest that I used the term misogyny to…

Well not to be overly negative, but that’s kind of a glib overgeneralization that hides some real problems. The markets over time are basically always growing (short term spiked up and down but long term up trends), so market highs just mean nothing entirely disastrous is happening to market sentiment at this moment.…

Yeah, a big part of the previous MCU movies’ appeal was that, while each did their own things, they were all to some degree building to a huge shared event, which was then fully realized. They still did a decent job of laying the groundwork for interesting stories going forward, and Far From Home seemed to do okay in…

Tell me about it. As someone who used to work in finance I had a very small amount of economics education, and this always stood out to me, so I asked people who I knew were more educated in the field. My thinking was this: as the US economy is 70% consumer spending, and the economy is not static - even if everything…

Yeah, I don’t know what the right word is - non-extreme? Like a blank canvas for the prosthetics department to make the alien features the most prominent without being overly fake or cheesy.

Meh, “boring” and “insignificant” are subjective terms. I get your point that social media may provide feelings of social interaction and power to those otherwise without it, but the refinement and convenience of social media tools make their effects enticing to everyone, even those with uniquely-exciting real lives.…

If showing evidence of being thin-skinned negates one’s right to accuse others of the same, you need to shut down your account immediately.

But that’s a terrible defense, and that defense alone will get people dismissing you as bitter and without a point, whether or not it’s true. Being accused of doing something bad and responding “Look! Look! They are doing it too!” doesn’t negate that it’s bad itself.

I wonder if waiting this long to have Fineman do what she was most known for before getting hired was done strategically, getting people to tune in for several wasted episodes hoping to see her impressions before finally delivering. But that assumes a more deliberate, calculated action on the show’s part that history…

Well it has to do with dopamine, but it’s likely more complex than just “not enough”. In a cognitive neuroscience course a few years ago we discussed a paper which had researched addiction by having participants play gambling-like games while their dopamine levels were monitored. This should be prefaced with the fact…