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Firefly's biggest weakness/strength is the dialog. It was wholly done in the Joss Whedon style and cadence. Every member of the main cast was "the snarky one", every conversation was a series of verbal setups- and if it was against antagonists they'd be completely witless and walk into verbal traps, and every classic verbal trope would be lampshaded.

If you've watched enough of his previous shows it is very easy to predict how a conversation in Firefly will sound.

Back in the day that style of dialog was still somewhat novel, especially to people who weren't big Buffy/Angel fans. Nowadays this is the baseline MCU style of dialog, which means it is absolutely played out.

My Hero Academia

I really enjoyed this, but one day I kind of just stopped watching. I think I get bored with anime shows that are set up to go on and on with endless hundred episode arcs.

Stranger Things

The first season really felt like something the creators had been developing for years as a creative idea. The ending with a sandwich left for Eleven was just the right amount of ambiguous to end off the story. The second season felt like a rushed idea pumped out when offered more money where the creators just leaned into full 80s nostalgia by copying ALIENS rather than forging something 80s inspired but unique like the first season.

Friends

I don't get it either. It's just vapid interpersonal dynamics comedy. I've watched a little and it has the wide and low appeal, it never did anything interesting.

I was completely hooked until a major moment in season 2 that felt like it was going to turbo charge the story, but then the follow up episodes were just lots of doing nothing with it.

You can say that, and maybe it is true for the better season 1, but season 2 has the unshakable feeling of real life considerations affecting the art by having to stretch out the story.

I loves me Wickard v. Filburn which held that a farm not doing interstate commerce could be regulated by the Commerce Clause because the lack of commerce affected interstate commerce.

Oh boy you are late to the party. The interstate commerce clause has been twisted for decades to basically allow a Federal hook for anything to exist.

In this case however, I think the Destructive Device charge alone would have sufficed as the hook.

News media unfortunately tends to look up the absolute maximum a crime can be sentenced and reports as if that is the default sentencing. It is rare for crimes to be sentenced to the max. If we can get past the screaming about "but this is Trump's America now!", the sentencing is still unlikely to be at the max, or at least not maxed out on every count.

I wish the article had shown their work, because from my skim (quick skim, but I'm pretty solid on the DD charge maximum at least) the two charges together have a maximum sentencing of 17 years combined if charged by the federal system. It would have been 13 if the state had charged.

If the Federal government takes over prosecution the big charge is going to be that Destructive Device charge which looks to be up to 10 years. It seems unlikely the sentence imposed would be the max on every charge, media loves to report maximums as if they are automatically what always gets handed down, but that's just media being dramatic.

I'd really love media articles to actually explain sentencing in detail on articles where they just throw around numbers without explaining them.

Based on how verification was revoked for some users on Twitter based on their content rather than question of their identity, I'm cautious about this system turning into the status symbol it became on Twitter rather than the verification it claimed to be.

Unfortunately, the forecast isn't good for the integrity of what should be a simple system. Under Dorsey, the Twitter blue checkmark had already become a tool for showing content approval by Twitter. In various instances users had their status removed based on their content and not on a question of if they were who they claimed to be.

OG Law & Order didn't really do that. I appreciate when the detectives would get stuck because of the 4 pixel security footage or the forensic evidence that had been trampled by an entire subway car's worth of people.

Sure I knew him. Or I mean we weren't close or nothin' but you know he'd been coming around to open up the same time I'd be opening the bar. We said 'Hi.' Stuff like that. He came in here a few times.

Last Friday? Yeah. Yeah he did come in. Right after I opened in fact. Real talkative too. Mentioned somethin' about the Es-er-tactic Order Of Dagon having their yearly hubbub soon. I think he was angling to get me to provide the booze. Listen, I don't care what people and human-fish hybrids do in the privacy of theys own premises, but I was raised Catholic and my ma, no way she'd ever let me bartend for one of them ceremonies. I didn't see him again after he closed out on Friday. Yeah. Yeah he did pay with gold doubloons. It's a pain to get them exchanged, but they gotta be worth more than his tab.

Now I gotta move these kegs, so if youse fine officers aren't going to order any drinks, I've got to get back to it.

I'm over here supporting Tamriel Rebuilt myself.

Tripcodes are not automatically applied. Default posting was anonymous, but a user could optionally post with a tripcode name.

Some boards like /pol/ introduced post IDs where a randomly generated code would follow your anonymous name within a thread, so others could see which comments within a thread were the same person. That system wasn't site wide though, and it wasn't a persistent account.

An internet meme isn't a meme until it is shared around. It becomes something that exists without a single person who can take credit as turning it into a meme. The original creator, even if known, isn't the person who turned their creation into a meme.

The need to grasp for credit of an internet cultural phenomenon is foreign to me.

From the steam page:

"TotalSpend" is the total amount of external funds applied to your account.

"OldSpend" is the amount of external funds applied before Friday, April 17, 2015 18:00:00 UTC.

Stealing a meme

There's a concept I'll never wrap my head around.

If it's a round ball that's .68 caliber, sure. I mean it's a ball being launched.

However, are any waterballs even that size? And why? A waterball that was wet would probably jam up, so you'd end up shooting a dry one and it seems like a lot of effort to reinvent the wheel.