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- Comment on Amazon is shutting down Freevee 1 week ago:
Oh no! What’s Freevee?
- Comment on Flappy Bird’s original creator says he has nothing to do with the new game 2 months ago:
Good point.
- Comment on Flappy Bird’s original creator says he has nothing to do with the new game 2 months ago:
The game mechanic is incredibly simple, and has been cloned a million times. The graphics weren’t anything special, so really the only thing special about Flappy Bird is the name Flappy Bird.
- Comment on Landscaping Services In North Carolina 3 months ago:
What, this isn’t a forum related to steam-cleaning your deck or patio?
- Comment on Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan 4 months ago:
A VPN is cheaper, tho
- Comment on All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration 5 months ago:
I had to come to the comments to figure out what X was supposed to mean.
- Comment on Google is ready to fill free streaming TV channels with ads 5 months ago:
FAST, or free ad-supported streaming TV channels that Google’s been hell-bent on getting users to notice.
Willie sees ya. Willie don’t care.
- Comment on Spotify to increase premium pricing in the US to $11.99 per month 5 months ago:
Cough cough xManager cough hack.
- Comment on This New Dating App Is Only for People With a Credit Score of 675 and Above 7 months ago:
675 is excellent? Can you share this with my bank?
- Comment on This New Dating App Is Only for People With a Credit Score of 675 and Above 7 months ago:
I’m having a hard time imagining a life where my personality is so toxic that I both can afford and require $4,000 a month to find a romantic partner.
- Comment on Inside Sony’s ‘Madame Web’ Collapse: Forget About a New Franchise 8 months ago:
Sure, and without Sony paying for the rights and making them, there would be no Iron Man.
But it’s time to recognize that Sony does not have the skill and commitment required to make a Sinister Six or Spider Women multi-movie franchise.
- Comment on Inside Sony’s ‘Madame Web’ Collapse: Forget About a New Franchise 8 months ago:
I wouldn’t call Kraven a minor villain. Kraven’s Last Hunt was fairly important at the time, and established the character as one of the few Marvel villains to ever thoroughly and absolutely defeat a major superhero, and not in some alternate future universe or What If scenario. Kraven beat Spider-Man, then he was Spider-Man, then he made Spider-Man a better hero.
- Comment on Inside Sony’s ‘Madame Web’ Collapse: Forget About a New Franchise 8 months ago:
Like DC and the once-unstoppable Marvel, Sony is now finding itself in under the gun to reevaluate how it makes comic book movies.
“Now finding…”? Now?!
- Comment on ‘SNL’ Faces Backlash After Nikki Haley Makes Surprise Appearance During Cold Open 9 months ago:
Here’s the cold open from 1981, the show’s sixth season right after Lorne and the original cast were all replaced.
- Comment on What was one major movie you saw that you didn't like? 9 months ago:
Uncut Gems. We turned it off when it became apparent how it would end, when he pawned KG’s necklace to place a bet on him. There wasn’t any reason to care about a guy on a self inflicted downward spiral with no redeeming qualities. Would he win or lose? Would a bookie shoot him or would he make a fortune with that weird opal? Who cares? You’re not rooting for him to win, and he’s probably going to self destruct. Maybe they try to make some vapid point about addiction by having him win big and then immediately killing him so he dies happy, like the end of Sopranos only the character is mildly autistic and unlikeable.
- Comment on Denis Villeneuve Will Stop Making ‘Dune’ Movies After ‘Dune 3,’ Despite More Books in the Series: ‘Dune Messiah Should Be the Last for Me’ 9 months ago:
Shit gets weirder and weirder.
- Comment on Marvel’s ‘Thunderbolts’: Lewis Pullman Top Choice to Replace Steven Yeun 9 months ago:
Eh, the MCU has been using character rosters that fit the larger narrative. Screaming Mimi hasn’t been introduced. I’m more surprised they aren’t bring back Zemo for this. He was good in Civil War and the best part of Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
- Comment on Road House - Official Trailer | Prime Video 9 months ago:
Connor is probably going to be the weak link as an actor.
- Comment on ‘Doctor Who’ Star Millie Gibson to Be Replaced by Varada Sethu After One Season 9 months ago:
Not particularly. I liked him, but I don’t know anyone who likes him best.
- Comment on ‘Doctor Who’ Star Millie Gibson to Be Replaced by Varada Sethu After One Season 9 months ago:
Christopher had a public falling out with the creators and writers, and has refused to return for any cameos or specials. The whole story has been covered in the news (google will tell you everything that’s known, along with several rumors) but that’s pretty much all you need to know.
He wasn’t particularly beloved in his episodes, and whether that’s due to writing or acting is a part of the dispute.
It didn’t help his case that his replacement, David Tennant, gave the consensus favorite performance in the role since the revival.
- Comment on ‘Doctor Who’ Star Millie Gibson to Be Replaced by Varada Sethu After One Season 9 months ago:
This is not really a big deal, though. Companions come and go. Some last longer than others, but saying she’s being “replaced after one season” doesn’t seem fair to the actress. Everyone on the show gets replaced eventually, including the titular Doctor.
- Comment on 'Mortal Kombat 2' Has Wrapped Filming, Confirms Lewis Tan 9 months ago:
The film stars Tan as Cole Young, Jessica McNamee as Sonya Blade, Mehcad Brooks as Jackson ‘Jax’ Briggs, Tadanobu Asano as Raiden, Ludi Lin as Liu Kang, Chin Han as Shang Tsung, Joe Taslim as Bi-Han/Noob Saibot, Hiroyuki Sanada as Hanzo Hasashi/Scorpion, Josh Lawson as Kano, Max Huang as Kung Lao, Karl Urban as Johnny Cage, Tati Gabrielle as Jade, Adeline Rudolph as Kitana, Ford as Shao Kahn, Desmond Chiam as King Jerrod, Ana Thu Nguyen as Queen Sindel, Damon Herriman as Quan Chi, and CJ. Bloomfield as Baraka.
Didn’t a lot of those returning cast members die in the first one?
- Comment on Elton John becomes 19th person to achieve EGOT status with Emmy Award win for 'outstanding variety special' 10 months ago:
My favorite bit of trivia is that the guy who coined the term also bought himself a diamond necklace that said “EGOT” because he was confident he would win them all within five years. That was 1984, and the man’s name is Philip Michael Thomas. He played Tubbs on the original Miami Vice.
He has never been nominated for an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, or Tony in his career.
- Comment on ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Live-Action Remake Adds Nick Frost as One of the Vikings (Exclusive) 10 months ago:
OK but is it a remake of the movie or an9ther adaptation from the books? Because the books are very different, and it would be neat to see another interpretation. But if it’s a remake of the animated movie, well, we’ve seen that already and it was really good.
- Comment on Ready or Not – Are You Ready? – Official 1.0 Launch Trailer 11 months ago:
Why are you asking questions when I already know you don’t care?
- Comment on George Carlin - The American Dream | As accurate in 2023 as it was in 2008 11 months ago:
“Throwing money at the problem” is something people say when they don’t want to spend money because they don’t care about the problem.
Nobody in the history of spending money fixing problems has ever suggested throwing money at the problem. Everyone who has ever had a plan to spend more money on education has had a specific plan on how to most effectively spend the money. Some plans might not have worked, and some would have worked better than others, but none of them planned to be careless with the money.
Funding schools based on performance is not a good idea at all. Teachers should make much more than $35k a year, and should never have to spend their own money on supplies. You just named three things that would all be fixed with additional spending on education. Institutional waste and corruption are certainly problems to be addressed, but that’s not a reason not to try.
- Comment on George Carlin - The American Dream | As accurate in 2023 as it was in 2008 11 months ago:
He’s not wrong about education, but he slips immediately from “we need to spend money on education” straight to “we’ve lowered the standards so more kids graduate.”
I get that it’s a comedy bit, but those are diametrically opposed political positions. Increasing spending requires increasing standards, and lowering standards is a byproduct of lowering funding.
I love Carlin, and we need his voice as much today as we ever did. But he was always a comedian first. He makes leaps from one idea to another to draw the audience in and flip an idea on its head.
Education is the silver bullet. He ties it to lowered standards, when that’s the opposite of education.
- Comment on Back in my day 11 months ago:
Little Monsters and a Herbie movie.
- Comment on Back in my day 11 months ago:
It’s incredibly disturbing, but then also somehow not entirely unexpected.
- Comment on Back in my day 11 months ago:
My daughter asked me what a VHS Player was last night. It was in one of her books, and I couldn’t tell her how it works. But I got to tell her why we say “rewind” when we reverse a movie.