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Mar-a-Lago Face

Reminded of the time when RuPaul put the fear of God into Jimmy Fallon.

The man is spineless and clearly doesn't know how to navigate any subject he sees as too touchy.

I feel like there's still some public, high budget fetish porn being made. Like A Folded Ocean (potentially NSFL, kinky body horror).

Better AI than humans. Humans have the potential to be gay and will end up shoving their corrupt ideology into the minds of our children.

I've definitely been there. I think it's like what English teachers say when they see their students reading whatever latest YA drivel has been published (e.g. Twilight):

At least they want to read something.

Encourage their passions, even if you really hate what they're currently doing with it, and trust that eventually they'll get a better sense of taste when they learn more about what else is out there.

Take the "lead a horse to water" idiom but add the corollary that the horse definitely will not drink if no one leads it to water in the first place.

Lots of journalists are reporting on this buyout.

But not too deeply.

Can't find a link to the referenced comic

Got you covered, fam.

There's other versions around as well and I have no idea which is the original. Just replace "Bioware" with any studio that EA has purchased and chances are there is a version of this comic that followed that news.

Some humor is timeless, like this one from 1921:

That and Defiance were trying to capitalize on this short-lived trend of cross-media projects. They failed because along the way of trying to make both a show and an MMO at the same time, they forgot to make either of them good.

What a bullshit direction that show went...

RIP Alaska and half of New England (and presumably Hawaii as well).

That season was a fairly close adaptation of The Last Wish, which is a collection of short stories in the Witcher universe and explains why the first season was more fragmented and episodic.

It is the first book in the Witcher series and sets a lot of the very formative worldbuilding details that resurface later on, and so it makes sense for it to be the first season, but subsequent seasons would have to be different.

From my anecdotal experience, I think more people liked the first season than the ones that followed. But I don't think it was necessarily because of the shift from episodic plots to the serialized season-long plots that followed. I blame the fact that the writers for the series felt they could write better than the original author and started doing their own thing with it.

Original writing can be good, and there are definitely some parts of the Witcher books that haven't aged well (or simply wouldn't be good fits for TV), but the TV writers took a chainsaw to the plot when they probably should have taken a scalpel, and if that happens too early and too severely in a story, it just snowballs and gets worse from there.