Presumptuous of you to assume the non college educated person is insecure because they don't have a degree.

I don't know what was ever made better in history by banning a book. If you ban something, all you're going to do is get people more interested in the work, not less. Want to get a kid to try to do (or read) something? Tell them they can't.

I think one reason is, kids are forced to read things by other people. One of the quickest ways to get me to lose interest in something or actively dislike it, is to tell me I have to do that thing or else. Kids need more independence and time to discover things on their own.

When you're assigned reading and you hate it, that's what you remember. It will just be one of those things you had to do, that once you're in adulthood you're grateful you don't need to anymore. Kids need to be empowered to make their own choices about what to read.

I'll occasionally do this for some authors, hopefully that's not too creepy. A lot of my favorite authors actually lived pretty interesting lives so far as I can tell. Which I guess shouldn't come as a surprise. Tolkien, Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Stephen King, to name a few. It's interesting delving into their pasts to know where they got some of their ideas and inspiration from. I guess it's just interesting to me as an on/off creator myself.

I don't think there's much philosophy in it at all. It's like philosophical free associative writing. To quote Macbeth: Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,. Signifying nothing. I think the writers got the last laugh though, because the incoherency of the plot and the ambiguities of it kept people talking about it.

Anyone ever think about, I don't know, coming up with an original fantasy setting for movies or TV?

I was going to mention that one too.

I was thinking the same thing. I never thought I would feel like a character in a really bizarre novel, but here we are.

Hope I don't live in a terror site any time soon.

I mean, if these are intelligent aliens, wouldn't it have been smart for them to announce their presence first?

It's like we're in a real life version of X-Com.

Banning the transphobic "joke" sends the wrong message. Think about it: Larry gets on the stage tells the audience what he thinks he's going to do for his next material, which is so abhorrent, that he's treated with dead silence and is walked out on. If anything, that's a perfect PSA or teachable moment how hating on people on the LGBT spectrum isn't funny.

So Twitch, if you ban that bit, what are you really saying? That you agree with Larry, and not the disapproving audience that walked out on him? If you stand for the community, you would keep the "joke" in as an example of how dumb Larry was being.

The plotlessness is kind of the point of it. It might not be for you if you need your stories written in a conventional, linear fashion. Catch-22 was written in a kind of out of order way that's kind of like a Tarantino movie.

I think time was one of the worst human inventions, we were better off without it.

Sci-Fi and Fantasy is my bread and butter, but sometimes I'll branch out into some mystery or thriller stuff if I need a break.

I think this was pure and simple 1980s sexism, sadly. There was no reason the A-Team couldn't have had some females in their group to keep it from being a sausage fest. I think it was incredibly unfair to hire those actresses and then drop them like a sack of potatoes because of one (or more) chauvinistic people on the show.

People like to crap on filler eps, but they never really bothered me that much. Some were better than others, but the good ones could be great. It allows a story to take its time, world build, explore other aspects of characters or the setting. You just don't want it to drag for too long.

They're doing it for shock value. The envelope has been pushed in so many other ways, people were running out of ideas so, incest.

I think I'll watch the movie, I loved Weird Al's stuff back in the 90's. But I was a little disappointed to find out that the filmmakers themselves said that they used little to no background material on Weird Al's own life. To me, that disqualifies it as a biopic. I know that they said they wanted to make it seem like a parody of a biopic, not a literal biopic, which I kind of get. But it seems cheap to me. I'm sure Weird Al's life must have been interesting enough to draw from?

Missing beer.