Isak Glaser

Wittily, cheekily, with a devilish grin: isn't it funny that nobody [straight-forward lie]

OK but he lived for a full one hundred years feels like you're cheating if you're using him

This is a net good I imagine, but I just can't stand to see that little twerp JD get what he wants even for just a second so I'm mixed.

IDK what if you had him instead of Palpatine come back in the last one

So there is inter-gamer Discourse between people who skip cut-scenes and those who vehemently don't right?

I don't even know if anything much became of those WW2 resistance parties they potempkinised into United Front puppet parties - feel like maybe there were some in the Baltics/Poland?

In a way even more embarrassing to be losing even just the second place slot to a European Labour party in the 2010s, but then Ireland is ofc sui generis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_Gael#Presidential_elections

Just very funny this is some Charlie Brown stats
I guess their government years aren't *that* much greater but at least they've gotten in sometimes

I just learned today that FG have never won the presidency? Truly the embodiment of insitutional runner-up party

People say this guy is such a wild contrarian like the GK Chesterton of movie reviews and then everything he posts nowaday seems to be exactly what I would expect any conservative hack to write. Maybe he's downgraded?

*Not that I'm not a Chesterton skeptic at the least

Fine Gael has never won the Presidency?
Ireland... Always something

Oh, (belated?) happy birthday!

YouTube video by BBC Studios Awoken | Red Dwarf | BBC Studios

Maybe not the most original "It was all a dream"-bit but maybe the most visceral is Red Dwarf's classic "It was all a game and you were playing it all wrong"
Spall's perfect "It's a blatant clue isn't it!" jumps around in my head all the time
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVup...

I started a One Piece read through and somehow got stuck exactly in the middle of Wano for 2 months +, which was the exact same place I stopped when I tried reading it all 2 years ago as well. And I was enjoying Wano! Don't know why I keep stalling.

I'm watching these as they release on YouTube (up to season 5) and really enjoying them, but keep feeling from the comments that there's a ton of musical numbers I'm missing? The ones they've shown were good though

Going back to the 90s to warn various sitcom and cartoon producers about this thing called 'Streaming' and how their show will be forgotten and fade into obscurity if they include too much licensed music in it

There's like a 50% chance he threatens to invade Svalbard even if they do

Really, the nerve of that reddit post title assuming *I* had never heard of Perry Rhodan. Come the fuck on man

HBO slogan: HBO. It's not TV. It's HBO

They made this clear a long time ago

I mean I'm sure somebody somewhere has it in them to make the Book of the New Sun of LitRPGs, I believe too fundamentally in diamonds coming from anywhere, but I remain doubtful of it happening nonetheless

I have read zero LitRPGs but I hate them already. Sorry. If I wanted to worry about stats I would play an RPG.

Soaps, which I guess are also declining but TV in general is declining, have the advantage of their actors physically aging. Soapier single-comic narratives have I guess the idea of a single, non-rebooting continuity to hang onto

American superhero comic readers saying that the bloated continuity isn't off-putting seems untrue to me: the sales figures keep declining! Something about the combination of hyper-continuity but with basically no mortality/character loss across multiple works is clearly not working for most readers

Novel solution for theodicy: God doesn't know if he's really omnipotent and unsure if maybe there's another God above him?
I guess that's just a screwier non-omnipotence

If it were me I would see if I could get new subscribers by calling it Extreme Disney

Do the Americans love the name Hulu that much. What sort of grip does the branding Hulu have on the Yankee heart

I also don't think Hulu is a good idea for the international brands: it doesn't mean anything, star at least means something. But was pretty bad still.
IDK, could've called it "Normal"

Neo-Temperance Movement incoming.

Is it to the Tolkien estate/WB? I guess that would make sense since they have options elsewhere

These people have no idea how many times I've heard of Perry Rhodan and also keep bringing it up despite knowing nothing about it
But looks interesting