Half Blood Prince is my favorite book of the series and has a few sequences that stick in my mind (the flashbacks, the first horcrux), but yeah, the entire title bit gets so lost in the shuffle

Linking, sure, you might get a C&D.

“likely to be shut down for supporting piracy”

love love love LOVE this essay. beautiful writing, captures a lot of what I found so meaningful about the game.

I really just don’t think you can possibly be in a management position if those rants are out there and connected to your name. Full stop. I know it’s been a long time since, and he’s probably grown and matured now, but those rants are so disconcerting and gross, I can’t possibly imagine being a woman and working…

Bialik has a hilarious vaccine position where she was like “The only vaccine I’ve ever received was the COVID vaccine” 

that stat regarding Provincetown is super misleading — of course 75% of the Provincetown outbreak was vaccinated! The outbreak was at 4th of July parties primarily attended by relatively affluent gay men, which is a super liberal and well-vaccinated demographic. Bars were checking vaccine status. Under those…

This feels like concern trolling to me. the vaccine is 90%+ effective at preventing COVID infection, and 95%+ effective for preventing serious illness for the rare breakthrough infections that do occur.

if you fake a vaccine card and get COVID, I could not be less sympathetic. the vaccines will do their job and prevent serious illness for people who actually care about their health. beyond that, concern trolling for an event like this seems silly. 

God this is such a weird thing. My first guess was that it started independently and they just slapped the title on and called it an adaptation so Ubisoft would fund it.

Yeah, the Shannon spin-off is so completely wild. How could they not see that’s an insanely bad look!!! 

from all the buzz around this, I think it’s a certainty that OG Switch games will work on the new one (probably with a boost in performance). It’s not a full new console, it’s a midgrade, more like the PS4 Pro. Everything should work fine — maybe you need a new dock if they mess with the dimensions, but I seriously…

uh, I kinda take issue with the implication that it’s somehow heroic to take money to get a cop’s rocks off, no matter what sort of shit the cop is into. The cop’s perfectly happy with the deal!

the correct way to use Apple TV+ is to get one month of it, marathon literally everything on the service (which should not take more than two weeks), and then cancel. there’s some really solid stuff on there (Boys State, Ted Lasso, etc) but the lack of quantity is truly hilarious

yeah, it’s not surprising that a lot of children of celebs turn out to be great artists as well — just like it’s not surprising that Steph Curry turned out to be a great basketball player. turns out growing up immersed in that environment will let you develop skills with a degree of seriousness from a really, really…

love the flex of making a totally brutal burn that literally five people on the planet will understand without google

I agree that Elon Musk hosting SNL is terrible and punching down is tacky at its best and totally reprehensible at worst. But I don’t think this is what comedy is about at all — it’s about making people laugh. It’s a morally neutral form of art that creates an autonomous, uncontrollable response, closer to horror than…

See, I thought that was really cool. The Jedi we see are at the end of a thousand generations of “peacekeeping”. They’re an entrenched institution that is essentially the military rulers of the entire galaxy — no matter how they started, the corruption that comes with power and institutionalization is going to start…

The prequels are really fun to think about and completely terrible to watch. Lucas had a lot of really interesting ideas about the rise of fascism, the failures of liberal democracies. I also really liked undercutting the Jedi by making them a order of weird detached religious nuts who don’t care about average people…

As a fan of 7 and 8, I think it’s pretty fair to say that Rise of Skywalker is The Worst Star Wars. It’s the only one that feels entirely like a product that’s there to be sold to you without any feeling or ideas behind it. At least the prequels are the genuine vision of *someone*, even if they’re executed about as…