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Can you imagine how financially secure Hugh Laurie must be to turn down what must be WEEKLY (if not DAILY) offers in the millions to do streaming revivals of "HOUSE M.D."? Man's stock portfolio must be as boring and sturdy as an Iowa class battleship.

If this is true, it is the most impeachable offense ever.

Case in point: If Cameron knows what's good for him, we NEVER need to see much of Earth in any of the "AVATAR" movies. It's "The place Jake and Quaritch come from," and it sucks enough that you'd rather die and come back Blue on Planet Rainforest Cafe. That's all we need.

Like some fictions are just sort of only built to contain what we mostly see. It's why "STAR TREK" always gets either *really* boring or TOO interesting to the point of distraction once it stops being about the onboard drama of ships in the Space Navy, because it was only ever meant to BE Space Navy

Like I know the ACTUAL reason is that "Because then STAR WARS would be a mecha property and STAR WARS isn't a mecha property it's a fighter-jets in space with fencing property" but still

Isn't there a canon(ish?) reason why droids can't be much bigger than average i.e. humanoid-sized sentient life-forms that's supposed to hand-wave why they don't just put droid-brains inside, say, AT-ATs? Like a data version of the square cube law?

*putting on my too-many-hurricane-seasons hat* Mutual aid isn't scalable and cannot replace governments, and replicating evangelical anti-government charity rhetoric, but leftishly, is bad and harmful, actually.

I feel like for "STAR WARS" predictions if you just pick any popular thing from the old EU/Legends timeline and say: "This is canon now but it's a version that's 50-60% less stupid" your guess will be correct most of the time at some point within the next decade 🤷‍♂️

I recently finished watching every episode youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Still up. Glad I posted here and not YouTube. This is what Bari Weiss and CBS tried to hide from us.

This is a complaint borne sheerly from privilege, but I hate how understanding anything about American politics and the intricacies of its media requires me to pay attention to the biggest losers in the world.

New Avengers trailer looks typical and uninteresting. But I'm neither mad or surprised by it. If you've never read Marvel or DC comics over the many, many years then you might not understand that this is what comic DO. Nobody really dies. Nobody really goes away. Not while there is stuff to sell.

The release of a film making people argue constantly online about whether or not it has cultural impact is, in itself, cultural impact. Whether it has any beyond that, now....

The most interesting thing about Avatar is monoculture has sufficiently eroded to the point that the west's vanguard of cultural tastemakers have no relationship with the most popular film franchise ever. Neat, weird, maybe a little unsettling, that's about it. The desire to say more is boring.

There's a bunch of reason the RHOF is silly, but the age issue I've come around at the other side of. When I was a teenager, the Boomer rock acts looked "foolish" in middle age. But seeing anyone still perform or create (or want to) past the point where so many hang it up or die is itself rebellious

I dunno, man. In my experience, "giving people stuff" has always been a pretty good thing for political campaigns to do as ground game if they can afford it; and if calling it "Mutual Aid" as a branding exercise for social media ALSO works then I really don't see what the down side is 🤷‍♂️

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

🎯

Oona Chaplin and Stephen Lang should both get an award for this sequence, absolutely nailing the never-once-actually-happened-IRL fantasy reaction for: "Guy gifts gf absurdly-buffed powertool-version of her favorite niche hobby - it goes great, he actually read her needs totally right" 😅

A fascinating thing to me about ‘Avatar has no cultural impact’ is it’s just reinforcing a toxic miasma infesting Hollywood’s exec mindset: only pre-existing ‘IP’ has cultural value, instead of how crucially something new needs time. Plus that episode of How to With John Wilson about Avatar fans 😭.

It'll be funny when Rogan completely changes his mind about this in a week when a comedian just a tiny bit more aggressive/famous than him has the opposite opinion.

LRP America's unwillingness to adopt high-speed rail over self-driving cars makes a lot more sense when you remember that America's Ultra-Wealthy REALLY doesn't like sharing space or even acknowledging the existence of brown people or poor people...

"Peace," ceasefire, DMZ, any version of this that ends without Russia's current government reduced to ashes just means we're gonna be back doing another version of this bullsh-- in a few years.

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

That dude with all the TVs in Slacker is a lot more charming when he’s not deputy director of the FBI.

90s left wing coded crankism is so interesting to look back on since the crank realignment that happened like 10 to 15 years ago

the 'conspiracies are actually real' rpg was very common in the 1990s but I think it's considerably harder to do today because conspiracy beliefs (and the attendant, inevitable anti-semitism) are an obviously malignant political force

Fact | You can't write something predicated in the utterly ludicrous assumption that white men are being excluded from publishing unless you are racist.

I'm not sure I can describe the premise of this movie without violating some kind of TOS and I'm kinda impressed they found this many shots you can show 👍 It's ...really something

... ...Joe FFS don't make me defend Newsom just because you're so bad at comedy you don't know what even LAZY satire is

We have Marty Supreme at home

Not everyone has the luxury of sitting in front of a microphone in their basement spouting a few hours of fascist bullshit a few times a week.

This is not true at all. Russia is far more Muslim than most of Europe and North America, and that has nothing to do with why people hate Russia. People hate Russia because it is an imperialist dictatorship that invades, rapes, and commits genocide against its neighbors

So I'm not gonna defend EVERY position Will takes in this vein, but he's right about this. Trump may not be a *complete* aberration, but if he WERE simply a direct unbroken successor to Reagan/Bush-ism his project would be MUCH more successful and we'd be SO MUCH more screwed than we presently are.

Nothing has ever not happened harder than this.

jeremy strong in the springsteen movie looks like they made an oscar bait minions adaptation

By all means, do share your decorating ideas, likely costing millions, while the American people are struggling to afford housing, food and health insurance. What a piece of shit.

Japanese poster for KING KONG ESCAPES (1967)

The reason why these European and Canadian people are calling Americans cowards for not FIGHTING THE UNITED STATES MILITARY IN A CIVIL WAR is because they want us to be cannon fodder to stop the same United States military from attacking *them* It’s the same story: no one wants to get shot

It's not that I don't think a celebrity should be called "Mr. Beast" it's just that I think he should have to be a professional wrestler or circus performer as is the natural way of things.

unironically a good idea

"TRACKER" is a real TV show. It's like "REACHER" but on regular TV and episodic with a smaller guy.

"My argument? Multiple fake things that nobody whose life actually matters believes happened actually DID happen. My evidence? Some guy Tweeted a thing, once. My name? Nigel Pufflewatt-Custerson Pockbitter III, Esquire."

... ...compared to WHAT?

That is deranged. Don't do this.

Ben Kingsley’s birth name is Khrishna Pandit Bhanji, and yet I have seen his casting as Gandhi being described as whitewashing a number of times!

So of all things, Thandie Newton is THE delightful surprise of #Anaconda - probably a thousand reasons she's never been obvious casting as "The girl who's one of the boys in a bro-down hangout comedy" before this but it now CLEARLY should've happened before. Maybe the most likable she's ever been.

If Epstein is a "hoax," why does any of it need to be redacted and why would anyone be embarrassed?