I think I have never seen an episode of "The Office". What are YOUR mass culture blind spots?
(I have also never seen "Game Of Thrones" but I've read most of the books and have third-hand knowledge of the various adaptational disputes.)
(Cersei Lannister would make a great leader? Boy some changes must have been made.)
Anyway one actual point here is that even "mass culture" things won't necessarily be absorbed by even 50% of the population these days.
(And probably there was only a relatively narrow window where they would have been.)
Video games, actually, are probably the most "mass culture" thing that's pretty much totally alien to me these days. I don't even play Candy Crush or Animal Crossing or whatever. I play...Twitter.
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Note to county election sites: If you have a fancy precinct webmap etc, that's great and all, but then that means you have the precinct data in a machine-readable format, so can you just...also share that, thank you, Xenocrypt.
(Sometimes one can do this anyway with view-source and such, but...extra work.)
Chester County, Pennsylvania went with "let's make each precinct a separate PDF".
Haven't clicked behind the paywall but I am skeptical of the initial framing that Democrats' main problem in state legislative races was "Biden/downballot R voters".
They mention a district here and there that voted Biden/R, but there's nothing comprehensive...
What's the counterfactual? Is it "what if literally every Biden voter voted D straight down the ballot, AND Ds also had their Trump voters who voted D downballot"? IE, "what if Ds won TX-24 AND still held WI-03"? Or is it "what if no ticket-splitting"?
So from what I can tell, people like "The Mandalorian" because of its stand-alone episodes and disconnection from the main "Star Wars" universe, and they're also very excited it's bringing in famous characters and building an overarching story?
I remember when I liked "Arrow" because it was refreshingly grounded, practical, and limited...
And then of course they used that to "world-build" the complete opposite of that. I guess it was popular for a while but it never really fit for me (especially since the CW's budget and production style was uh, a little more suited to grounded, limited plots).
Literally why. Well, I am thankful for it, I definitely had a lot of fun with it for almost a year now.
Actually I was thinking about it watching that video about "Sherlock" Sarah Z kept saying all these queer teenagers were begging for representation from it, and I was like...even if Sherlock and John got together on the BBC show, it would probably be done as badly as well, this.
Who shall get to be Grindelwald for the epic climax in "Fantastic 5", as the liberation of Auschwitz or possibly the bombing of Hiroshima is intercut with Jude Law and [Actor] fighting with wands.
(One of my friends pointed out this seems to be where the franchise is inevitably headed unless someone, anyone, can stop JKR.)