The moment they announced Cats I knew it wasn’t going to work.

First, the story sucks. A bunch of cats prancing around and learning not to be a dick to that one cat.

Second, Cats is a spectacle. The reason you go see Cats in a theater is for the spectacle. Everyone is dressed up and dancing around. It’s meant to be an experience. You can’t translate that to film.

They’ve been looking for a project to do together.

Edit: I was confused, that’s just earlier in this episode. Correct!

Sure, but you’d have to find someone willing to talk about it. In fact you’d probably want to find at least 2-3 people who can all confirm the same story.

Plus if you can call it a scam right out of the gate (this article is a follow up to the original purchase article when the phone was first “released”) maybe you can limit the damage of the scam.

If you can spend $100 to rightfully call out a scam that would have made $1,000, is that a net win? That’s an honest question. I think so, but I understand that might not be the case.

That’s exactly what piefed does actually.

Her mom should be pissed that she revived Natalie but didn’t ask for Gary too.

Her mom was amazed when Natalie first appeared and later on in the series asked if she could build an AI Gary too.

Additionally Mephisto didn’t revive Natalie (at the end of the series), he gave Riri the tools to revive Natalie. It is possible Riri will revive Gary next. Riri also didn’t seem to fully understand what she created/revived because she didn’t expect that Natalie could touch her. I expect everyone is just going to be amazed at what Riri did.

As for paperwork, they live in a post-blip society with aliens, androids and wizards. Sure this is weird, but they’ll figure it out. In fact Natalie returning might get the attention of some big names like SWORD or Doctor Strange.

Reddit sorta half did it with the “other discussions” or duplicate tab.

As an example,

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/duplicates/1lvi6kb/a_clicktocancel_rule_intended_to_make_cancelling/

I never saw any apps implement it, but it does look like it was part of the API, but maybe it wasn’t robust enough.

I also know at one point, and possibly still, is that it lacked URL normalization. So for example, exanple.com/headline and example.com/headline#topstory would be treated as two different articles.

Similarly https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ and https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Would be treated as separate articles.

These are all fixable problems, but require work.

The Garbage Man!

Oh the garbage man can!

Correct!

Alright Bob, now it’s personal.

It’s true. Half a point, rounding up to the nearest whole point!

I agree that more time should have been spent developing characters. I got the vibe from several episodes that this was supposed to be an 8 or 10 episode series, but it was forced during editing down to 6.

I don’t think she’s supposed to be a hero or a villain. Look at where Tony Stark is at the start of Iron Man. He runs one of the worlds biggest weapons manufacturing companies. That’s not hero or villain. But he is being used by villains to do villainous things. That’s where Riri’s story is.

She’s trying to figure out life and what she wants is simple, she wants her friend back. She wasn’t planning on it, but it happened.

Apart from being rushed I thought the show really worked well.

Before Arch that role belonged to Gentoo.

To add, before the change the Gentoo wiki was a top resource when it came to Linux questions. Even if you didn’t use Gentoo you could find detailed information on how various parts of Linux worked.

One day the Gentoo wiki died. It got temporary mirrors quickly, but it took a long time to get up and working again. This left a huge opening for another wiki, the Arch wiki, to become the new top resource.

I suspect, for a number of reasons, Arch was always going to replace Gentoo as the “True Linux Explorer”, but the wiki outage accelerated it.

That’s the one. It’s weird because Flanders is the namesake of Flanderization and in this episode he’s at AA for his drinking, but in previous and future episodes we see the keg in his rumpus room. Also he’s a mixology in a previous episode.

Boy I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

I was more animal than man. Correct!

Even if you don’t go to church if you were raised going to church and then stopped, you still might call yourself a [cultural] Christian.

Also being atheist has a bad reputation attached to it for some people, so someone who meets the definition might not self identify as one.

Similarly I expect that’s also why there are a fewer percentage of Democrats than there are Republicans. I may have voted down ballot for only Democrats, but am I a DNC supporting Democrat? Not really.

The full quote is worth reading,

"I have no real intentions of going back. I say I’m not retired because if something special came up, I’d go back, but otherwise, no.”

He also goes on to say he has a special project that might come together, but it doesn’t sound like a priority.

Obviously he deserves retirement, he’s 80, take it easy.

However it sounds like a cameo or small part is still a possibility. His role in Endgame was fun and excellent use of the existing world. If he wants to keep on being a grumpy old man and have Michelle Pfeiffer take on a larger role in a future Ant-Man movie, I think that works. Just have him yell a few lines.

The marketing for this film has really been all in. It’s been fun and I wonder what else we’ll get before the premiere.

Per an article ~2 years ago Mahershala had been asking for script changes. No question that as an actor Mahershala is fantastic. Additionally I expect as an actor he can recognize when a script isn’t going to work.

Now he isn’t a writer, so it’s possible his suggested changes just made things worse. Knowing something isn’t working and fixing something that isn’t working are two different tasks. It’s also possible it just isn’t fixable.

It sounds to me like the film is probably back to the drawing board and Mahershala, while still attached, will have an option to exit once the new script is written.

It’s also possible that the film has been scrapped completely, but Disney isn’t ready to announce it just yet. I think that’s less likely, but possible.

I get that Doom or Sonic 2 or Goldeneye or other 90s games aren’t guaranteed a place every year

FWIW Sonic 2 was the game that kicked things off this year.

But also I think the goal should be either showing off new tricks or showing off new games. Older games are going to have fewer new tricks. Obviously sometimes a barrier is broken or a new category is put together that has interesting gameplay, but in general we probably will see fewer old games.

That isn’t to say that old games should go away completely, but if there is a bias towards newer games, it makes sense.