Semisimian

I already liked Mark, (I just did a guilty rewatch of 13 Going on 30) but now I’m a die-hard.

“Companies are looking to slowly chip away at the burden of choice that comes with shopping, travel, and dining.”

Ugh.

Ninjas are cool, but I wonder what actual threat the Hand is against Peter.

Let He Who Is Without Bitches…

It would actually be an appropriate title for the episode.

I call all of it “sugar water” so that my kids know the two main ingredients.

His argument is: 16 hours daily use is not addiction IF THAT IS THE ONLY FACTOR. He repeats it again and again. But that argument is stupid, because it ignores the other well-known and proven variables of addiction. Does this behavior have serious effects on your mental and physical health? Does it interrupt your work and play? Do you have an obsessive need to do it? The list goes on.

Who put this genius in front of a microphone?

It’s pedophiles all the way down…

No one had to invent a cheese pizza scandal or any other far flung theory, it’s happening with photographic and documented proof right before everyone’s eyes. I know that right-wingers have a strict in-group vs out-group ideology, but when your in-group includes SO MANY known pedophiles… I mean, c’mon.

Have you watched any other Trek besides those two? If not, you’ll probably enjoy Discovery.

I tried to get into Discovery when it first aired, coming from being steeped in the TNG era shows. It was not the Trek I was used to and I felt it didn’t show reverence for the franchise. Now that Academy is out, though, I’m planning to rewatch and finish Discovery.

Don’t worry, even the cast forgot this was a plot point.

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I hope they licensed this footage appropriately and paid the voice actors scale, but I’d bet good money they didn’t.

The commercial: https://youtu.be/uMwFWDIFVCU

The spoof: https://youtu.be/fhfcWTZeP1k

10 years ago! Geez.

I finally watched Contagion after hearing about it since Covid. It’s eerie how many things they got right about a global pandemic: the blogger with his BS treatment, vilifying the head of the CDC… The list goes on.

I also watched the Deathstalker remake. It was okay, but that was to be expected.

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Earl Grey Sausage. Hot. 😉

Lost. The first episode is a master-class in both “show and don’t tell” and setting up “mystery boxes.” It was downhill from there.

I did not know this but I believe you completely, dear stranger.

You don’t need AI to create soulless depictions of humanity, James Cameron already does that. I think he is just protecting his bread and butter from automation.

Snark aside, I grew up loving his movies. As a film student, I loved taking them apart in critique for his mastery of technical filmmaking. As a professor, I used the DVD extras from his films to show just how forward-thinking his knowledge was of VFX. But this Avatar garbage is just the result of a kid who finally leveled up enough to produce the comic book he wrote when he was 8. It’s awful.

And Danny Carey as “Danny,” I might have to check this out.

They can rehash the Death Star plot four times, but they can’t bring back the Darksaber. I feel taken advantage of.