Client-therapist privilege is foundational to how therapy works, but most states have laws saying a therapist must report admissions of abuse. I don’t see doctors rallying against those laws.

The Comedian was based on Peacemaker. The initial pitch was that all of the Watchmen would be DC’s (at the time) recently-acquired Charlton characters. DC nixed the idea, so Moore just tweaked them and renamed them.

The issue is that he’s only been indicted in New York, and New York abolished the death penalty more than twenty years ago.

The Feds would need to press their own charges if they wanted to pursue the death penalty, which they have not done yet. That’s the laughable part: they’re trying to dictate sentencing before they pressed charges, gathered evidence, or secured a conviction. And the only way to get a death sentence is by unanimous jury vote during sentencing, which, let’s be honest, is going to be very difficult to get rid Luigi.

The Beach was just too weird for the Titanic fans. It was right in the wheelhouse for Danny Boyle fans at the time.

Of course the book was better, but I really enjoyed the movie for what it was.

I collect spores, mold, and fungus.

Isn’t that exactly what happened, like, three weeks ago?

My Catholic in-laws voted for Trump in 2020 because Biden, a Catholic, was going to outlaw catholicism.

There’s no hope for these people.

It hasn’t been decades. Maybe 15 years, though. It’s coincided with the ubiquity of streaming.

Before Netflix was everywhere, a movie could bomb in theaters and still make up the difference on the back end. Kevin Smith’s Clerks and Mallrats are great examples of movies that absolutely cleaned up on DVD sales. Comedy Central using advertising money and licensing Office Space for 20 hours per week is part of why the producers trusted Mike Judge enough to make Idiocracy.

But steamers don’t pay nearly as well as direct-to-consumer home video or as well as advertising-supported licenses. So producers are disincenrivized to do mid-budget movies or take chances on new IPs, because if it doesn’t do well in theaters then they’re not making the money back.

Not every argument has two sides. Some have five sides. Some have one side. Pigeonholing everything into a duality hampers our ability to understand nuance.

But I guess it does make for better television.

Either this comment is also misogynistic as all hell, or my mother was very masculine.

Could own a two-family home. It’s super common in my area for there to be one apartment downstairs and one upstairs.

It’s not his fault he sexually exploited women! It’s the goth chicks corrupting his mind!

Wow. What a take.

My professor wrote his own textbook and sold it to us to supplement his salary.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is coming out next year.

As an individual territory, the U.S. is isolated. As an empire, we have bases on every continent. The risk isn’t being killed. It’s being declawed.

Not advocating for American imperialism, just clarifying the point.

Ah, yes. One of those good Jim Crow policies.

I keep saying it: they need to abolish the size limit of the House. It’s been frozen for 100 years while the US population has exploded. The result has been less representation for urban areas and more for rural, both in Congress and when deciding president via the electoral college. You actually normalize it so everyone’s voice is heard equally? Congressional gridlock goes away. “Stolen” elections go away.

No, capitalism is feudalism with loot boxes! Because I could win the lottery.

That last point is why I couldn’t play Fallout 4. My son was kidnapped, my spouse was killed, and I need to find out who did it and where they are! Right after I save a library, build a town, and solve some detective mysteries, I guess.

I bought one when they first came out, and one when they did the $5 liquidation sale when they were discontinued. I wish I’d bought more, just to be safe.