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- Comment on Donald Glover Confirms 'Community' Movie Script Is Done 9 months ago:
Can't tell if worrying about people's ages at a community college is serious...
- Comment on Kevin Hart Says He Won’t Host the Oscars Again: Awards Shows ‘Aren’t Comedy-Friendly Environments Anymore’ 10 months ago:
Oh damn, I must have mixed that up because of Hart's bits about not wanting to have a gay son.
- Comment on Kevin Hart Says He Won’t Host the Oscars Again: Awards Shows ‘Aren’t Comedy-Friendly Environments Anymore’ 10 months ago:
A joke about taking your adult children to a strip club is funny because of how weird it would be. Hart flubbed it by making his son's sexuality the punchline.
- Comment on Kevin Hart Says He Won’t Host the Oscars Again: Awards Shows ‘Aren’t Comedy-Friendly Environments Anymore’ 10 months ago:
One in particular was about how the comedian would be disappointed if his son was gay because he couldn’t take him to the strip club with him.
The premise could have worked if he switched it around and said that he was going to have to go to gay strip club or Chippendale's or something instead of being a complaint about not being able to go to his usual clubs. That would have made it supportive and accepting of his son while also highlighting his personal hangups.
- Comment on Kevin Hart Says He Won’t Host the Oscars Again: Awards Shows ‘Aren’t Comedy-Friendly Environments Anymore’ 10 months ago:
Yes.
Billy Crystal hosted a bunch of times in the 90's and was well received because his humor wasn't edgy, just light and fun.
- Comment on Pixar will undergo significant layoffs in 2024. 10 months ago:
Most people don’t know that Netflix funded a lot of its original programming by taking on a lot of debt. The company currently has over $11 billion in outstanding debt, most of which comes due in 4 years.
While I did not know that about Netflix, taking on debt to keep up with business needs is how the vast majority of businesses grow so it shouldn't be a surprise.
- Comment on What is the thing that resembles a camera shoe under the handset holder found on telephones with a handset used for? 11 months ago:
Neat!
- Comment on YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button 11 months ago:
No issues for me on Firefox + UO on both desktop and a samsung phone.
Only have a couple of other extensions on desktop, just the one on mobile, and I think other people that have run into issues over the last few months either have a lot of those or don't clear their caches.
- Comment on YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button 11 months ago:
Nope, just checked and not seeing any ads on channels that I assume have them.
- Comment on 'Great' games I didn't play this year due to requirements 11 months ago:
load the jew zone
Duuuuuude
- Comment on Also, it's over 2 1/2 hours long. 11 months ago:
The Bechdel test is a famous test of film to measure whether a movie represents women as more than just accessories for the male cast. Specifically, the test is passed if a film features two women who have a conversation about something other than a man. Surprisingly, a lot of films fail this test.
It isn't surprising for a few reasons.
- A lot of movies, which the test highlights, have female characters that are not really fleshed out because of sexism. They only exist for the real characters, the men!
- A lot of movies don't have female characters because of the setting, like The Shawshank Redemption. An all men's prison just isn't going to have women in it. Small cast movies in similar all male settings are also not surprising to fail the test.
- Some movies are all about a main character and there aren't scenes that don't discuss the main character. So a conversation that doesn't include the main character would be forced in just to meet the test.
Now, while it isn't surprising that a lot of movies fail the test, the real purpose of the test is to show how all three types of movies are massively over represented in the number of movies made. #3 is an issue overall because of how the vast majority of main characters are men and not women. #2 is an issue overall because of how many movies there are about all male settings. It highlights the overall trend that main characters are men and the movies are all about the men, and wouldn't be an issue if there were just as many movies about women or with casts that only include women. The Descent stands out with all characters being women because that is very rare!
So if a single movie fails the test because of the setting or small cast, it isn't necessarily a bad thing. If there is a diverse cast, but the women are not fleshed out then it is an issue. If a movie could have included women, but they were too lazy to do so and to give them characterization, then it is an issue.
- Comment on Is it disrespectful to call someone instead of answering their email? 11 months ago:
You know they discuss things orally at conferences and while reviewing those written descriptions right?
Right?
- Comment on Is it disrespectful to call someone instead of answering their email? 11 months ago:
I guess I just work with more complicated topics.
- Comment on Is it disrespectful to call someone instead of answering their email? 11 months ago:
Some things just lead to a bunch of questions that are annoyingly slow to sort out via email. Or the sender is clearly starting with a wrong assumption that will make any text communication come across the wrong way and a phone call could sort that out quickly.
Do you respond well to an email reply that asks to do a call instead?