Cid Vicious @ CidVicious @sh.itjust.works

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Yes but he seems to be pointing out the irony in keeping the orca that stars in the movie captive. This was before that was a really mainstream sentiment.

Interesting comic. This seems a lot more pointed than his typical fare. I wonder if Larsen was an early anti-SeaWorld person.

I mean, yes, Hollywood writing for ongoing series is often repetitive. You literally have a "procedural" genre where they go through the same basic structure with almost every episode. Some sitcoms are quite bad. Some are pretty funny (and don't involve laugh tracks). There's a pretty big difference between your average multi-camera sitcom and single camera sitcom. But at the end of the day there's just good shows and bad shows and those don't always correlate with popularity.

Is it? I think they just made an assload of money on the FF stuff.

Compared to wild animals that are in pain and hunger most of the time? Nature doesn't optimize for happiness. Unhappy creatures are more likely to seek out the things they need to survive and propogate.

Still, I understand the line of thought. My cat sometimes acts very upset when I'm not giving him enough attention or when I make him get off my lap when he's comfy. I think this is probably just learned behavior (he acts emotionally manipulative because it triggers a reaction from me), but sometimes I worry that because his realm of experience is so limited, that minor inconveniences are literally the worst things he experiences and therefore seem quite terrible to him. I don't really know which is true.

Really curious what they've done.

Out of curiosity how do they tell that the magnetic field has flipped?

The filler was awful but even skipping it, the plot was still not great. It seemed like it just got plot cancer at some point and never recovered. Too many uchihas at the center of everything. Lots of characters that got completely forgotten about. Super OP stuff just being pulled out of people's butts on demand. I was anime only and hear the manga was better, but the only thing that pushed me to finish that show was sunk cost fallacy.

Nest parasitism is not unique to cuckoos and you can't really put a value judgement on evolution. Brown-headed cowbirds are the most common nest parasites in North America. There's lots of species where the parents kill their own children if they either think they aren't strong enough to survive or if the food supply is too insecure to care for them. It's just nature.

Oh good it's the New 52 Joker bird.

Screen readers can't parse an image and images aren't searchable.

Given that there's a bunch of people whose livelihood is connected to a show, yeah jerking them around like this really does suck.

Well it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but Randy Pitchford is really good at providing ammo for these types of headlines. Guy needs to learn to keep his mouth shut sometimes.

There are a lot of communities on reddit that (effectively) have no equivalent here.

This is maybe the worst implementation of this template I've seen.

The hospital a nurse friend of mine was working at started treating nurses like servers at a restaurant: if it "wasn't busy" they'd cancel their shift last minute or cut them and tell them to go home. And of course they also have on call shifts. Impossible for someone to make a living wage like that if you never know how many hours you'll get, and yet they also claim so much time commitment that you'll be unable to work second jobs. Profit-driven healthcare is never going to provide best quality of care. It's pure greed.

Oh no, boobs.

The Karen thing is weird to me because it's a pretty typical name and I know multiple karens. But it must be generational since it appears to have had a dramatic drop off in the 80s.

And by inverted you mean inverted from their proper inverted position. So uninverted. Which is the inverse of correct.

Uh evidence? Bullshit from people on the left is every bit as bad as bullshit from the right.