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Yeah I think this combined with a general late 2000s-era fad for "he's a jerk but he's right!" characters who were curiously almost always about well-educated white men about the same age as their showrunners (I wonder why) and a slightly earlier and less awful trend of "flawed detective"...

Holmes in the original stories is most assuredly not courteous, empathic and kind as a rule - at times he is all of those things, re selected people and situations, but he is frequently none of them and it's not always towards people who deserve it, indeed his treatment of Watson is downright...

Oh yeah that was season 6. Basically they should have skipped most of S6 and S7 and certainly should have ended the show on the car crash. S8 was totally pointless. I disagree re entertaining, Braugher and Miranda tried but only S8 dragged harder than the mental hospital one (which I see now is...

Filoni frantically taking notes. Good lord that's somehow far less plausible than I anticipated! Even by Star Wars standards that is kind of a reach! I always assumed the retcon was someone got to him pretty quickly and shoved him in a bacta tank or similar. But no. He fell through a reactor...

Great soundtrack but what an accursed cast, only 2 out of 5 of the leads don't have significant "controversies" or "allegations" sections on their Wikipedia pages (lucky they cast Emilio not his brother!). I was thinking "Oh man nobody talks about that movie anymore" but I suspect that may have...

I think you have too much faith in spy agencies. They're nowhere near as competently or safely run as hospitals. Hospitals have legal liabilities, and require a degree of transparency and traceability. Spy agencies have legal immunity and total secrecy. And indeed the CIA particularly have been...

The pre-P+ stuff was removed from US Netflix and briefly from some non-US markets in 2022. It's now gone worldwide.

It's been a weird one with Paramount+ and Netflix. When Paramount decided they were going to launch a streaming service they ended agreements with Netflix, but then found there would be a big gap before they even were showing Paramount+ in a bunch of markets, so somehow after a few months, older...

Sadly Homeland definitely falls into the "basically propaganda" category despite its controlled cynicism re: the US government and CIA, because its portrayals of other people and places are horrifically racist and reflect propagandistic narratives of that era. The easiest example being its...

I would politely suggest that like, the vast majority of RPG players do not feel that way after they've been playing a very encounter-heavy game on a turn-based mode for say, 20+ hours. That you are quite unusual in this. I mean, it's not only not posing "any real difficulty", it's that...

Yeah I mentioned that the 6m didn't seem to include digital, and I'm trying to avoid being too repetitious so didn't repeat that there. Also I suspect owning the digital PHB is less relevant to how many people are playing because I suspect that's the book with by far the highest "owns in...

Care to quote anyone actually saying that? Because otherwise "Facts not in evidence", as they say, and you're in trouble with the judge.

The US population in 1980 was 226m The US population in 2026 is 341m That's about a 50% increase in population. So a 50% increase in sales would be matching sales. Previous "best guess" estimates (I believe based on figures from Ben Riggs, who is a legitimate researcher and author) on how many...

I'm optimistic on Mistborn. Everything about that seems very doable. That will live and die on the casting though, given the tight focus. If they get someone in charge of casting like Nina Gold*, they're well, uh, golden. If on, the other hand, they get the sort of people who have cast a lot of...

I don't think anyone has ever said that here. I mean there's absolutely no question about that. If that's something you're even considering might not be the case I think you must be making some truly bizarre assumptions. D&D books sell many, many times the numbers they did even at the absolute...

I mean, you should read what you quoted. I literally asked if it was a good deal! That wasn't a purely rhetorical question, that was an actual question! I gave my answer and expected others which didn't make up other opinions and assign them to me. My opinion is right there and doesn't need to...

Yeah and I think Stormlight is prima facie evidence of the eternal truth that limitations breed creativity, and removing those limitations can result in something massive and sprawling but not necessarily actually any better. But there's just Mistborn on the table so far and that's a compact...