If pacing is a problem with Breaking Bad’s first season, Better Call Saul offers no relief there. I love it, much more than I liked Breaking Bad, but the plot was a very slow crawl.

I don’t know if this is a joke or not. Elden Ring has Ghiza’s Wheel as a weapon and is low-key considered “Dark Souls 4” by many fans.

smokers got breaks.

When I quit smoking, I pretty much stopped going to parties, conventions, dance clubs, and concerts. Having an excuse to get out of the crowd and noise and decompress for ten minutes every couple of hours made “going out” so much more tolerable for me.

What expenses? If everyone is on a general strike, there’s nowhere to spend money.

And honestly, your suggestion sounds like we’re trying to trade one evil billionaire dictator for another evil billionaire dictator on the off chance that the new one won’t destroy the global economy as thoroughly. That’s not actually an improvement.

I think of myself as the chaos engine that drives the plot forward. Everyone else in the party would just sit and talk plans forever if I wasn’t out here rolling death-saves.

Client-therapist privilege is foundational to how therapy works, but most states have laws saying a therapist must report admissions of abuse. I don’t see doctors rallying against those laws.

The Comedian was based on Peacemaker. The initial pitch was that all of the Watchmen would be DC’s (at the time) recently-acquired Charlton characters. DC nixed the idea, so Moore just tweaked them and renamed them.

In 2018, someone fired six bullets into the Albany Democratic Party headquarters’ front window. I don’t recall a single Republican denouncing the act.

I just watched the new episode this morning. Absolutely incredible.

The Beach was just too weird for the Titanic fans. It was right in the wheelhouse for Danny Boyle fans at the time.

Of course the book was better, but I really enjoyed the movie for what it was.

I collect spores, mold, and fungus.

Isn’t that exactly what happened, like, three weeks ago?

I read it as one person who really hates “pronouns” trying very hard to academically justify their bigotry.

He’s just Mister Oogie-Boogie from Nightmare Before Christmas at this point.

Same. I haven’t been to Germany in 20 years, and I complain to my wife about craving döner at least once a week.

And progressive tax rates collected at the state level distributed based on student density and district need are better than both options.

My Catholic in-laws voted for Trump in 2020 because Biden, a Catholic, was going to outlaw catholicism.

There’s no hope for these people.

It hasn’t been decades. Maybe 15 years, though. It’s coincided with the ubiquity of streaming.

Before Netflix was everywhere, a movie could bomb in theaters and still make up the difference on the back end. Kevin Smith’s Clerks and Mallrats are great examples of movies that absolutely cleaned up on DVD sales. Comedy Central using advertising money and licensing Office Space for 20 hours per week is part of why the producers trusted Mike Judge enough to make Idiocracy.

But steamers don’t pay nearly as well as direct-to-consumer home video or as well as advertising-supported licenses. So producers are disincenrivized to do mid-budget movies or take chances on new IPs, because if it doesn’t do well in theaters then they’re not making the money back.

This was posted right after the Chiefs won the Superbowl in 2024. There was a MAGA theory going around that Biden was going to rig the game for the Chiefs, Taylor Swift was going to endorse him, and then everyone who watched the game would be brainwashed into voting for him.

Imagine if stunt coordinators were considered optional.