Road rage wasn’t much less, but fewer drivers were armed. And even fewer were willing to shoot.

I don’t think that the major problem is a standard from the automakers. That’s what govt mandates are for. The big problem is that only new cars would have it. All of the old vehicles would still be “dumb”. Aren’t we up to 12+ years average age now? It would take even longer before most vehicles had C2C comm, and that…

I think that part of the problem for Furiosa was the amount of pre-release hype. Everywhere you turned, you either saw Taylor-Joy, Hemsworth, or some other promotion. I find that my interest goes down when that happens, in that I perceive an inverse relationship between a film’s quality and the amount of hype it…

they own the god damn reseller sites

Yes, the secondary market should be all but eliminated. They did it for a brief time about 10 years ago. I bought tickets for Bruce and had to show my credit card to enter. I think that there was still the possibility for, say, a parent to buy tickets for a teen, then go with them to the gate to get them in without…

It’s not Amex, or even the presales that are the root of the problem. It’s the existence of a market for reselling. Adding other cards will just move the presales around. As long as there is a market for ticket arbitrage there is going to be a huge problem with brokers and their bots snapping up the tickets, creating…

I guess that age is part of it. The appeal of being jammed into a space with tens of thousands of like minded fans has faded for me, if it was ever there in the first place.

I can’t tell from the original post just how far Cruise took the joke. Like, was it 10 seconds of pretending to be in trouble or 2 minutes of furiously acting like the chopper was doomed? It makes a lot of difference.

The only real answer to this crap is a return to the short-lived requirement that the ticket purchaser show up at the venue for the show. I was able to get good seats for Springsteen at face value about a decade ago under that system.

I really don’t get the stadium show anymore. The sound is rarely good and visibly questionable. I want to see shows in a venue that was designed for performance, not a place designed for sports.

It would be like seeing the Beatles at The Hamburg Club.

Right off the bat, I hate how close “Triton” is to “Titan”

I started on a little thought experiment the other day. Let’s say that you can magically revisit any event that has happened since you were born. You can’t change anything, you can only observe. So any concert or performance is available. I think that I might choose to see Bruce and the E Street band at the Stone…

Most actors aren’t just willing, but eager, to play villains. It involves finding the dark side of yourself, and expressing it in the work. We don’t much get opportunity to release our demons in real life. It’s kinda frowned upon. But it can be a rich vein to mine with the right role.

But the family cast really made up for it, especially Chris Evans’ heel turn given how much he was associated with the Captain America role. They were all so despicable in their own ways.

VW was able to sell into the US market with basically the same model for about 2 decades. But they did it on a value proposition, that the same design with notable technical improvements was a good deal. Tesla just can’t pull that off.

His 30 Days episode about outsourcing tech work to India was especially meaningful to me. I was working in tech just as my employer was moving into outsourcing. I burned it onto a DVD to share with my co-workers, who all found it really meaningful as well.

He either needs to get off of the train, or remember what made the first film so good. Identical twins that no one in a group of old acquaintances knows about? That was infuriating.

Insurance rates have me thinking about cutting down to one car instead of two.