There is nothing crazy about this. Plenty of movies rerun the previous ones to hype up the new one and make more money. Avatar, Mission: Impossible, Dune, Mean Girls (which had actually been brought back to theaters multiple times) and Beetlejuice all did it too. It’s also in the same year they had a movie make 2 billion dollars, of course they want to continue the momentum. Finally, people want this, there’s a lot of hype for this

Well the airforce did build a PS3 supercomputer

They had a pretty limited musical run (and a 1 season IFC show) but Garfunkel and Oates had some funny songs

I was playing video games with a friend while listening to music and said out loud “is this a Tom Jones cover of Burning Down the House?” and her immediate impression of the song was dead on even though she’d never heard it before

1. Cbat - Hudson Hawke

2. Gangnam Style - Psy

3. Burning Down the House - Tom Jones/The Cardigans

Start off confusing them with a cacophony of sound, followed by high energy, into Tom Jones shouting. Should be pretty hard to sleep through all of that

Dropout is one I have no issues paying for too

My work was matching donations at one point and Wikipedia was an option so I donated $50 + $50 of corpo money to Wikipedia at one point. They’ve never stopped asking me for more

This one sees a lot of use lately (Fight Club):

A good Hell Yeah! is frequently warranted (Harley Quinn):

Of course surprised Pikachu is a classic but recently I like this remix:

And this is for when people invite me to make questionable decisions (Rick & Morty):

The Breaking Bad universe. There’s a lot of shitty dudes who idolize Walter White, and then there’s the Better Call Saul shit posting that seems largely nonsensical and mostly harmless

Look, there’s a lot to criticize anime fans about including media literacy and the aforementioned pedophilia. However if there’s something they famously care about it’s the words that they have to read to understand their shows, they can definitely read

A cardboard box:

It was almost certainly spoken around a fire in a cave and has been lost to time before humans really recorded history

There was a protest in front of the Scottish supreme court when the UK had a ruling that declared trans women were men because of their “biological sex”. So a bunch of trans women stood with their tits out and arms painted red since apparently they’re men and that’s OK

Ironically almost all media coverage of the event censored their breasts

There are ads in game and a quest dedicated to the Mr Studd penis implant so it’d be canon too

Like most answers about the US, it depends on a lot, we’re a big place. As someone who is at the movies 3-4 times a month I’ll say the biggest factors that contribute are

• When you’re seeing the movie
• How new/popular the screening is
• What movie you’re seeing
• The chain you’re at

I typically go during the week after work and generally wait a bit to see new releases and I usually have a couple other people with me in the theater and they’re usually chill. If you go opening weekend to a new movie in a crowded theater then I’d say you can pretty reliably count on a few people making quietish comments and a few people checking their/phones a few times. I also find if you tell people to shut up or put their phones away they usually listen. I’ll also say if you’re going to see the new prestige A24 drama expect less interruptions than say The Super Mario Galaxy movie or The Minecraft Movie

I went to a party once where the main event was a “medium” doing a large group (~15) reading. It was painful to sit through. I remember it taking a little over 2 hours and this dude just kept fishing for something to latch onto so he could do his thing. He had a couple people kinda go along but he pushed them away when they weren’t perfectly aligned with what he was looking for. I am familiar with public speaking and tried teeing him up with answers and even that didn’t work. I was looking for a way to politely leave when it finally wrapped up

I was already a sceptic thinking most mediums are bullshit artists and this only further solidified my views, as much as I tried to be open minded

If everyone you interact with on a daily basis can have their opinions changed by throwing money at them, then you start to believe that is just how people are. So when a bunch of people change their mind quickly you just assume they were paid to do so

Yes it’s worth it. Even the worst, most overworked public defender has spent years of their life in school, deals with a system you’ve likely never interacted with on a daily basis, and usually has some level of altruism. The reason you hear about people who win by representing themselves is because it’s very rare for them to not get trampled by the system