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  • They do, in the first 2 minutes or so. It’s meant to be something of a gag, when they show him holding a sword and the epic-sounding Game of Thrones theme music begins to swell, only to then cut away to him taking a shit.

    I think it could have been handled better, but the takeaway meaning that they appear to be trying to convey is that this is not the same kind of show as Game of Thrones. It’s literally taking a shit on the overly grand stories that preceded it.

    I do think the rest of the episode redeems it, at least. It’s a break from the aristocratic backstabbing and scheming, providing a much-needed look into this world from a commoner’s perspective.

    Whether the rest of the short season will remain worth watching is another question, though.


  • On the other hand, other than the one page shilling a Windows server specifically, there’s nothing else in the content of the story itself indicating that it is specifically a Windows server and not whatever else. Take out that one page and there’s no mention of Windows or Microsoft.

    Edit: Nevermind, missed the part on the last page too. Bleh.








  • She may have single-handedly precipitated the slide into fascism in the US.

    If she had simply resigned from her position when she began experiencing health issues, it would have allowed her successor to be nominated and approved under a democratic administration.

    Instead, she wanted to retain her position of authority as long as possible, and so her greatest legacy to the US became Amy Coney Barret appointed by Trump and the subsequent series of 5-4 votes in favor of furthering his agenda.



  • I think it was considered normal for couples to argue pretty much daily.

    How many people grew up thinking that marriage is supposed to look like that ? My gawd. People must have been miserable.

    Probably likely for a lot of folks. It took so. damn. long. for divorce to be made legal across the western world, and even longer than that to get to the point where the burden of an unhappy marriage was no longer outweighed by the scandal of divorce.

    Before no-fault divorces became common, unhappy couples would sometimes even voluntarily fake an affair just to act as “proof” of adultery for a divorce.



  • Knew this sort of thing would happen eventually, glad I made the switch away a while back.

    When Nova was bought out by Branch, we all knew it couldn’t lead to anything good. But it sucks to switch away, and I know people kept using Nova because they could say “it’s not doing anything sketchy yet.”

    With this news, seems safe to say that “yet” is finally “now.” Tim to switch if you haven’t already. I’m happily using Niagara now.





  • For the more specific example, for any curious, the character Switch from the first movie was originally meant to be trans.

    Switch was intended to be biologically male outside of the Matrix but then be female inside the Matrix, based on the way the system represents people by their self-image.

    The production studio axed that idea, and the actress who was originally intended to only play 1/2 of the character ended up playing them outside the Matrix as well. The best they could do was keep the name and make Switch look androgynous.