The other BoS factions get stuff done… just not stuff the rest of the Wasteland likes

Jesus H Christ that’s an ugly job

That pun in the headline made me half sour

I asked it if it was a carbohydrate. It said yes. The answer was blueberries 🤦‍♂️

Just a reminder that getting “cancelled” isn’t a thing, but the will of the public very much is. The BBC and supporters of the anti-asylum bill have publicly demonstrated that they are in the minority, and attempting to punish Lineker has backfired on the BBC in a major way.

Difficult position for them to be in given the way their funding works, but the smart thing to do would have been not to take any action before seeing which way the wind was blowing

Slightly disappointed his solution to global warming isn’t just a giant super soaker

Right, except YG got an interpolation license from the rights holder, which means he was legally allowed to recreate the song. Rick Astley is arguing that just his voice is a separate, protected asset, and that YG was not allowed to imitate it.

In the US at least I’ve never heard of that being a thing, and if it is a thing in UK law I would argue that YG doesn’t sound anything like Rick Astley on his song. He’s singing the same notes, but the tone and quality of his voice sounds nothing like the original

Because it’s a pretty ridiculous lawsuit. Astley is arguing that Yung Gravy is copying his vocal patterns.

A) that’s not actually something protected by copyright, trademark, or any other law, and

B) you’d have to be completely tone deaf to think YG came anywhere close to sounding like him.

Now joking aside, it seems that YG did correctly get a license to interpolate the original song (meaning he has access to the original composition but needs to record everything from scratch, versus sampling where you just use a snippet of the original recording). The lawsuit argues that Astley’s distinct voice is a resource protected under “right to publicity”, which is something I’ve never heard of in the US so maybe it’s a UK-specific law

Dude I’m a game designer. I’m not nearly smart or talented enough to be a scientist.

That said, that’s some solid false equivalency. Great food critics aren’t all great chefs. Most movie critics have never directed a film. Also I was mainly making a joke buddy

So just checking, where are we at on that cure for cancer? Global food stability? The island of trash in the Pacific?

Thanks scientists for tackling the big issue here

If only I could be so grossly incandescent

So we really shouldn’t be engaging with this argument, because the “Godlessness” already implies the OP has drawn a very pearl-clutching conclusion, but for the sake of argument I’m gonna wade in.

Rick and Morty is a project made by many people. There are two major showrunners between Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland. They head up a writers room that changes from episode to episode, but generally consists of about a half dozen people each episode. Different directors come in to work on episodes, with some repeats but lots of one-and-dones. And then there’s the voice actors, who appear to also contribute to last minute dialogue choices.

While Justin’s voice is obviously a major part of the show given his role, it’s just a part. He’s not secretly slipping in messaging that at least a dozen other people in the production pipeline have missed. Everyone involved has signed off on what is being made. What’s more, most plots are the brainchild of Harmon rather than Roiland by the duo’s own admission, and in recent seasons they’ve handed more of the reigns over to their senior writers.

Is Justin Roiland not a great guy? If the allegations are true, yeah he’s definitely got issues to work out and I’ll have lost a significant amount of respect for him as a person. But Dan Harmon also has a lot of baggage between his history of alcoholism and unwarranted sexual advances, but he is supposedly much better now and has made amends with those he harmed.

But overanalyzing the show in light of this news is just silly. If you don’t want to like Justin Roiland the alleged domestic violence would be reason enough, don’t go reaching for more reasons when you’ve got justification right there

Yeah, the type of parents who have £2700 to spend on a stroller aren’t the ones pushing it. They leave that to the help /s

Nope.

Is it a little funky in spots now? Sure, especially with what’s come to light about Whedon. But you can’t deny just how important it was when it was on air, both to the people who watched it (inspiring a lot of people to get into acting or pursue filmmaking) and to other shows getting produced (the Doctor Who revival likely would not have happened if not for Buffy).

I love that episode! But I think that’s an example of an episode that comes off as filler, but is actually critical to Jake and Holt’s relationship when you really stop and analyze it

If it’s serialized, the answer is easy: any episode that doesn’t meaningfully move the plot or character relationships forward. That’s not an indicator of quality mind you - the episode “Ember Island Players” from Avatar: The Last Airbenders is total filler, but it also happens to be one of the funniest episodes in the series and a fan favorite.

Now if you’re talking episodic TV the answer is harder. If there isn’t an overarching plot, wouldn’t every episode technically be “filler?” I think in that case people do actually use the term as an indicator of quality, with bad episodes labeled as filler so that future watchers can know whether those episodes are skippable

If it changes to read Air Speed it means you’ve accidentally driven off a cliff

…play Doom on it

“Quick, we need to churn out an article before the holiday break!”

“Uhhhhh, I know! I’ll write something about how the MCU show set during Christmas is good to rewatch at Christmas”

“Johnson, you genius! Someone’s getting a holiday bonus”

(FR though, I liked Hawkeye but this might be the laziest in a long line of lazy Collider articles)

LAFC represent! Kellyn is amazing on and off the field, so happy he’s getting the recognition he deserves

That’s like asking Hannibal Lecter how to suppress your cannibalistic urges

Right? I could’ve sworn he died in the 90s

Saved! Did not know this existed, that is some glorious 80s design

They also force migrant workers into indentured servitude, where their employers hold their passports and work documents to ensure they can’t leave the country. I believe there have also been reports of people then selling these documents to each other, meaning that the workers have to follow whoever their papers get sold to