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There actually are wrong ways to get a correct answer, they usually involve faulty logic and faulty operations that happen to cancel themselves out and give the correct answer for the wrong reasons. I used to tutor math a long, long time ago (insert chuckles from anyone whose seen my math blunders here) and one of the frustrating things as a tutor was trying to teach a student the teachers way to do something when there were logically equivalent other ways to solve the problem but didn't fit the 'format' the teacher wanted students to use.

While I think the guy has a point, he also kind of messes his point up (totally losing the plot IMO when he brings in that ****ing army recruitment video that all the people who get military hard-ons have been bitching about that wasn't made to appeal to the average recruit types) and I think misses the causes. Blockbuster films are so expensive these days that, yes, as he says they have to bring in a big audience. But the studios handicap this as well - they don't want to spend 100 million to make 250 million, they want to spend 500 million to make 3 billion worldwide. The increasing pressure on films to rake in ridiculous amounts of cash is a huge problem and the reason why mid-tier projects (including what used to be the 'Oscar-bait' films) are being pushed to cable or, more prominently these days, streaming and why low budget horror films and super-budget effects blockbusters are increasingly what find its ways into cinema. But its also a problem to use Star Trek (notice he conveniently DOESN'T look at the TNG films because Nemesis, at least, would invalidate his comparison between 'classic' Trek and 'new' Trek, as would, frankly, a number of episodes of TOS and TNG) because the people behind the Star Trek properties of recent years (Abrams and Kurtzman particularly) have, very basically said, they want to make Star Trek more like Star Wars, which is where their SF interests lie. This is the reason you get the weak Chain-of-Command on the ship stuff - because Luke used to be able to mouth off to Han, or Chewie could bitch about Han's driving or any of the other things because Star Wars didn't have a hard coded military structure in its heroes (and where it did have structure, like in the Jedi Order, it didn't have a strict one that would forbid the junior member questioning the senior). Its also the reason you get weak story-arcs for the characters in the new Trek movies (to the point that making nods to the old movies is character development) because they can't figure out how to make Captain Kirk fits the Hero of 1000 faces model if he's also in a strict command structure (and sadly, I kinda think "Beyond" is the best of the three reboot films even with its lame "i'm aging at 30-something" bit) because they can't crack the motivation of the characters to exist in that structure (because, sticking it to the man is cool and you can't do that when you work for the man). Star Trek's problems (and this goes back to TNG) is that it has increasingly been led by people who not only dislike SF (most of the TNG production, as I recall) but actually don't like Star Trek. So rather than trying to figure out why Star Trek works on its own terms, the increasing tendency is to make it something it isn't.

I'd like to say I did it on purpose just to try and catch someone with it who'd have to reply to correct me, but like Albert Einstein famously said "It's a fair cop".

I found I liked the idea of Metroidvanias more than I actually like Metroidvanias.

Yeah, not having the time to debate minutia on the internet would be a real blow.

True, but I could have just bought something if I didn't get any free stuff, so I'd still have lunch of some sort.

I take Bartimaeus is mostly raking him over the coals over the seeming misrepresentation that he was vaccinated when he wasn't, and possibly the Packers allowing him to do in-person after game press while other non-vaccinated players were forced to do zoom conferences. The league and the team seemed to have a different standard with treating Rodgers vs other players.

I probably shouldn't have brought my lunch to work, I didn't think to restaurant crawl to see if anyone was giving away free food.

Its a bit of a head scratcher, for sure.

If there's not a card titled "take an arrow to the knee" then #notrealskryim

According to what the I've read, the league considered him unvacinated after he tried to negotiate an alternative treatement and they denied him. Supposedly, as well, he referred to himself as "immunized" rather than "vaccinated" in press conferences. Weirdly though, he was the only Packer's player who was considered unvaccinating meeting with the press face-to-face, all others were doing zoom, according to what I read, again.

I felt old when they said it'd been 26 years since the last Atlanta WS Championship. Nice to see the team win though, and in a year they were not predicted to do very well.

Yay Atlanta!

TNG: Timescape. An episode that makes effective use of the cast and the unusal set-up. They don't have to deal with a "B" plot (although in the prologue, why is Data back to acting like he's never met a human again? one thing that bugs me about later season Data is that they seem to advance and regress his learning randomly based on what the episode needs). Lower Decks: Temporal Edict - A fun episode where Beckett doesn't solve everything, allowing the other crew members to get an opportunity to do things. Boimler is just built different.

Saw LAST NIGHT IN SOHO. Its a pretty effective supernatural thriller, I think (I guessed the solution to the central mysterys, but to be fair I have watched and read a LOT of mysteries; the others I was with didn't guess it).

Sounds like you can remedy that with a costume for yourself next year... ...had no trick-or-treaters locally. For years now most kids go to local stores/malls/churches to trick-or-treat.

I dunno, I've seen it from a few channels, including those who point out the length of the motorcade was necessary because of Italian anti-COVID rules that limited the occupancy of the vehicles Biden and his team were able to use.

Looks funky. Could be good.

Randi is banished from Potos by stupid superstitious villagers- left to starve to death. After the Trio defeats the villain, he goes back home (why?) Primm leaves home because she doesn't want to go through a forced marriage. After the Trio defeats the villain, she goes back home (why?) Popoi is stuck in the regular world, but doesn't want to go back home. After the Trio defeats the villain, he's stuck in the sprite realm (at least this part made some sense based on the story). No villager apologizes to Randi for trying to kill him and Primm's dad never terminates the marriage arrangement. So why do the characters go back? It made no sense.

Bloomberg requires a subscription too.

Secret of Mana's ending still makes me mad. I'd rate FFVI as the best of the FF. Chrono Trigger was also very good. I liked Breath of Fire 1 & 2 even though they had terrible translations. Capcom, but reased for SNES. Never played it, but Earthbound has a huge following.