Always check the veracity of any online quote

• Albert Einstein

There’s no way Microsoft support hand-writes each email. This would be a form letter, written by corporate, which they then insert relevant details in to.

Oh come on! I’m sure that all genuine Microsoft support emails start with “Greetings [customer name]”…

When I was in school a teacher told us that washing powder manufacturers would have a way of getting around “advertising needs to be true and accurate” laws. What they’d do is gradually reduce the strength of their product over time (normally by just cutting it with something cheap). Then they’d revert it back to its original strength so that they could announce “Now TWICE as strong!”

Shorn

Reaper is the GOAT

I generally agree with you, but in this case if you don’t know what a DAW is then you’re probably not qualified to recommend one.

It stands for digital audio workstation, and is used for all aspects of music production.

Several years back when it seemed like there was a rash of news stories about cops killing black people and white people trying to get them swatted and the like, I think it was Will Smith who said “racism isn’t increasing, racism is being filmed”

If you’ve got some spices, as suggested above, you can basically make your own. Add a tin of tomatoes, some tomato puree, and maybe have a slightly wider selection of spices (sumac, mace, cardamom, cloves, for example) and you can have a wide variety of curry flavours without having to spend the extra on pre-made sauces.

There’s a strong case to be made the Rise Of Skywalker was the shit-show it was because Carrie Fisher died. The idea for the trilogy (as little of a plan as there actually was) was for the first film to centre Han, the second to centre Luke, and the third to centre Leia.

Then Fisher died and they had to rework the entire film without any change to the release schedule. And they reanimated her corpse in the most unconvincing and disrespectful way.

I’m not saying the film would have been good - because it probably wouldn’t have been - but I don’t think it would have been the silly, incoherent mess that it actually was. And it’d have been nice for Fisher to be able to give Leia a proper send-off, especially as the character was what catapulted her into stardom in the first place.

It is mutually-assured destruction. The idea is that there are enough nukes to end all life on earth. Because if there are that many nukes, then nobody would ever use them.

That’s how the US and USSR came up with these figures when they were disarming at the end of the Cold War.

Pop Culture Detective has a video on a trope he calls “born sexy yesterday” about female characters who are extremely naive (often because they’re newly-created, or somehow new to Earth/human society) and how this allows a thoroughly mediocre male character to impress her mightily by having very ordinary knowledge that she doesn’t. A couple of examples given are how the alien in My Stepmother Is An Alien is incredibly impressed by the idea of putting extra cheese on microwave mac & cheese, and how the lead in Alita: Battle Angel is similarly blown away by a guy introducing her to chocolate.

It’s a way to have the fantasy of an incredibly (physically) attractive woman fall head-over-heels in love with you without you actually having to do anything. Just having the same knowledge that everybody else does is enough, because you’re the first person she met.

Of course the issue here is what people do or do not consider “good” varies from person to person.

The most likely candidates are Pete McTigh and Kate Herron. McTigh is the most probable, given that he’s showrunner of the upcoming Sea Devils miniseries and has had his name linked longer than anybody else.

Both of those names would be new blood (even though they have both worked on the show). Unless Moffat or Chibnall are going to come back again (and they’re not), then the only Fitzroy Tavern regular left who’s qualified is Mark Gatiss, and he said long ago that while he’d have been interested in the 00s he’s very much not interested any more.

That’s the closest we’re going to come to a new take, realistically. One thing’s for certain - nobody is going to take it back to any pre-JNT era.

This is awesome, but things like how the paper score is calculated should probably be on the website itself, not some scrolling and a couple of clicks away on the GitHub page. Maybe a single link or pop up on the chart itself?

Okay, I’m completely lost now. You read my comment and said that it was unhelpful becuase the fact that my comment existed means that it was unnecessary for me to add my commnet to my comment?

I honestly have no clue what you’re trying to say at this point or whether you even think that stating that US elections are in danger is a good, bad, or neutral thing.

How about the bit in Hackers where the bad guy hacker is being overpowered by the good-guy hacker, so another bad guy hacker steps in to help, with both of them typing away on the same keyboard?

That film truly is a masterpiece.

I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of “character & audience already know something and which is about to blow the newbie character or one-episode character’s mind”.

Two examples: I could never get tired of someone entering the TARDIS for the first time. Or things like the episode of Buffy where one of the crew asks if she’s in the right line of work and she casually picks up an iron girder, slings it over her shoulder, and asks where he wants it moved to.

We know the TARDIS is bigger on the inside. We know Buffy has super-strength. But that character doesn’t, and it’s always satisfying to see them learn it for the first time.

Worth pointing out that that “Target figured out a girl was pregnant before her father did” story is almost certainly untrue: https://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/machinelearningtimes/target-really-predict-teens-pregnancy-inside-story/3566/

I agree with the article that getting ads on a device you’ve already paid for with no hint that there would be ads is intrusive and a sad sign of how tech is going (in the same week that it was announced that Apple are going to be adding ads to Maps, too). But I also can’t help but wonder - who the fuck wants a smart fridge? Like, legitimately, what is the advantage over a normal fridge?

My favourite thing about this post is that it doesn’t explain what Stop Killing Games is, and links to an article which also doesn’t explain what Stop Killing Games is.

Actual legality doesn’t matter. It’s a pretext.