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I'm hearing delightful things about Broad City. I should probably watch it.

I've been really afraid to go back and play 1 again. In many ways it is my favorite, but I'm afraid that purely because of rose tinted glasses and will be ruined by a replay.

Yes, that was a broken link, fixed it. It was a link to the TLDR interview with the author of this piece about Vivek Wadhwa.

Somewhat weird that it got killed so soon after being announced. Perhaps it just wasn't coming together well.

I shouldn't post half asleep on my phone.

That site is built to force readers to make stories go viral just to read them, pardon me if I take a boulder of salt with their hyper-inflammatory post.

Quiet, Wadhwa

Scientology has always been concerned with media ethics, are they the next natural ally of Gamergate?

That's awesome, congrats!

The running man is Governor Sam Brownback, who has spent the last 4+ years running an experiment on Kansas by cutting taxes, slashing services, cutting education spending, etc. State spending on education is constitutionally mandated, and for the second time in a decade the Kansas Supreme Court has had to step in and tell the Governor/Legislature that they were failing to meet the legal requirements for funding. Now he's trying to redefine the formula used for school funding to cut millions more from how much the state spends on education. The education stuff is the most infuriating, but it's on top of major cuts to arts programs, disability programs, social services spending and more. There are people here ready to pull out the torches and pitchforks.

At one point in time, you probably could have said Sarah Michele Geller, until her career headed into the direct to video market. Also, there might be an argument to be made for Sandra Bullock. She'd been around for a bit, but Speed is one of the things that seemed to really propel her towards being viewed as someone who could carry a movie on her own (and sure, it takes place on a bus, but it is an action/thriller).

Seventh Son: Two white guys born with super strength and reflexes hunt foreigners and independent women to keep the land pure.

The racism of Boyhood.

Netflix announces work on Zelda live action series, describes it as "“Game of Thrones” for a family audience, this person said." Ummm, what?

A-List gets a bit subjective too. Maybe Michele Rodriguez?

That's because Mario is a sociopath.

Not on the PS4 version at least, only the first 3 difficulties are available to begin with, the fourth difficulty is unlocked after beating Act IV and the rest of the difficulties are unlocked after beating Act V. And all of the Adventure Mode stuff is gated if you haven't beat Act V. We were steamrolling the campaign in co-op on the hardest difficulty we had available the entire time. I was really frustrating to have it be artificially gated the way it was.

*a forever slow clap* The guy has a bunch of other videos, and its honestly hard to tell whether it's performance art or mental illness.

Wilmore and the Nightly Show is making it a bit of an uphill battle for me to look forward to watching it. The show needs some tweaking, and they are working on that. They tried eliminating the opening monologue for one episode, which I think made for a much better panel discussion. But after being criticized for making fat jokes, he basically doubled down on them in another episode, having a string of jokes about apologizing for offending people. Then, on Wednesday's show, which had been one of my favorites, he wrapped up a panel with 5 black men answering the question, "Are black women too bossy? On a scale of 1-10, how bossy are they? And you can't answer below a 5." (quote may not be perfect, but is close) What's bugging me about these is that they are lazy, stereotypical humor. Bossy black women. Hilarious. Women fake orgasms. Hilarious. Fat people are lazy and big. Hilarious. But Wilmore wants y'all to know, it's just jokes people, he's just trying to be funny! And he apologized for the Bossy Black Woman segment, but given his mockery of the fat joke apology, it's hard to take an on air apology from him seriously. Like, 90 percent of it is either good or shows potential to become really good. But when it falls flat, it falls flat on its face into a pile of dogshit. And it's only 12 episodes in. But it also bugs me that it's only 12 episodes in, and its already stumbled this many times. Like there's no one in the writing room suggesting, "Hey, this is actually just lazy and mean, we can do better." Edited to add: One great shoutout to Rachel Feinstein in last night's show though, who cracked an abortion joke that made Wilmore look like he had shit himself once he realized what she had said.

Seriously, just don't make jokes using gendered slurs, even if contextually it seems like you aren't crossing a boundary. You probably actually are, and there are plenty of other jokes waiting to be made that don't have the word bitch in them.

Kansas political humor (and rage)

Just thinking they are "gender swapped" movies is really dismissive, which the dismissiveness is what pissed me off with the first post I replied to. It crossed the line from, "fun, joshing about something some people do/don't like" to writing off professional women who have busted their asses to succeed in an area of entertainment that's notoriously dismissive of women (comedy). "They couldn't get anyone famous." Like, oh, you've starred in multiple long running, successful TV shows, plus blockbuster movies? Whatever. You wrote the highest grossing female led comedy movie ever? Oooo, I'm shaking with how impressed I am. You earned a full cast member slot on SNL? Anybody can do that. The Heat (McCarthy and Sandra Bullock) could be written off as a gender-swapped buddy cop movie, but that would be missing out on what actually makes it good, and the fact that it was a woman led action movie that succeeded. Women are only the protagonists in 15 percent of Hollywood movies. So when someone says, "I don't know who these women are", part of the reason for that is that women get a tiny fraction of the chance to lead major movies that men do. Plus the women writing and starring in these movies don't necessarily want to have to sell their properties as "like that one movie, but with women" but sometimes that's the only way they are getting things greenlit. I would rather see four women helm a big budget, sci-fi or supernatural superhero movie that was original. But that's so incredibly unlikely to happen. So we have to take Ghostbusters, and hope that it's good.

It should just slowly evolve into Lord of the Flies, but with puffins.

I'd watch that.

Or a show about smoking crack.