Also, the restrictions of their medium have largely been removed. Time was a tv show had to fit into 42 minutes. And you needed to make enough episodes for syndication.

So you’d have an A plot which is something simple and a B plot which has the season arc plot and it would be short cuts and a lot of exposition.

Now you can make episodes almost as long as you want, and there’s no need for any consideration of syndication. So you get long establishing shots and not much actually happening in an episode.

Clearly government has failed in limiting their power.

They can be used for that, but there’s no evidence of wear on them from that usage and there’s simpler tools for that job

A scratchy couch, one of those crocheted blankets, a 20” CRT and an NES and it smells like stale cigarettes.

And all the wood paneling

I’m wondering if these have anything to do with the dodecahedron that they find in Roman areas in northern europe

So Romans actually rolled for initiative?

I guess corn does grow as high as an elephant’s eye

Imagine making microwave popcorn. Smh

I was once asked what my perfect work-life balance would be and I replied “No work, just life.”

I don’t bring this opinion up in polite company for this reason.

But I hate that book.

One Hundred Years of Solitude.

I hated every minute, and hated all of my classmates for kissing the teacher’s ass about how great it was when I know all they read were the Cliff Notes

When he dies gaming lives on within us.

Dodge v. Ford says so

Cyber Monday is funny because it started with people buying things at work so it wouldn’t show up in their shared computers’ browser history, and now it’s like a whole made-up thing

Imagine the backlash the folks with the monopoly on violence would have if someone used violence against them.

Bean. Orbs.

And why Germany, which has low pork prices, has the McRib year round

Fewer votes

Lemmy votes are more valuable because there are fewer of them.

Is there a French version of /c/ich_iel?