Fair enough. I think it’s safe to say that my reply was a little heated. You are, of course, correct. I will edit my comment.

I had to look that up, but you are correct. He said it while out promoting 2049. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.

Of course they are! I never disagreed with that. They are “more human than human”. That’s not even a counter argument to what I said, which is “this one specific human, who has basically forgotten how to BE human, rediscovers the joy of humanity through his interactions with non-humans who are ironically more human than he is”.

DECKARD👏 IS👏 NOT👏A👏 REPLICANT👏

I will bang this gong 'til the day I die.

The whole point of the movie, besides the cyberpunk dystopia that it created and popularized, is that Deckard is a HUMAN who acts like a ROBOT. He has no joy, no purpose, no meaning. And he rediscovers all of that, ironically, from his interactions with replicants - Roy Batty and Rachael most of all. It’s the Sarah Connor, end of Terminator 2 thought that “if a machine - a Terminator - can learn the meaning of life, perhaps there’s hope for the rest of us.”

And that DOESN’T FUCKING WORK if Deckard is a replicant. Philip K Dick, Harrison Ford, EVERYONE on the production EXCEPT Ridley Scott either knew this or figured it out. But because Mr. Auteur decided to share his braindead take and even cut a scene from a whole-ass other movie into Blade Runner to make you think MAYBE the robot-killer cop is himself a robot because “whoa man how mind-blowing”, now we have to get people saying that’s how it is for the rest of humanity.

Deckard is not a replicant. END OF.

edit: it has been pointed out to me that Harrison has reversed his stance on whether Deckard is a replicant, and my last sentence was factually incorrect in that there IS, of course, ambiguity in the film about who’s a replicant or not. Making Deckard into one, IMO, is still a braindead take that makes the movie subjectively worse, but I should still try to be accurate.

Close - he’s Scottish.

For the out-of-the-loop: this is a reference to a Breaking Bad comic with Gus Fring and Walter White. I suppose it could be looked at as a commentary about how businesses shamelessly pander to LBGTQ+ folks during the month of June, but at its heart it’s really just a dumb shitpost that was drawn exponentially better than the source material.

For real though, I love how the artist attempted to emulate Gus’s smirk and it makes Maru look demented. No, really. I love that. 10/10, no notes.

Brennan Lee Mulligan and, by extension, Sam Reich.

edit: to be fair, a lot of the Dropout cast seem like pretty great human beings as well (Emily Axford comes to mind, plus she frequently played opposite Adam Conover in the series Adam Ruins Everything which is both entertaining and horrible)

I’d love to be proven wrong (because he had a pretty big impact on my worldview in my mid 20s and he’s got a wonderful singing voice), but the last I heard of Daniel he had been accused of grooming. (Warning Reddit link, but I did find a host of articles by searching “dan avidan controversy” in case you don’t want to give Reddit traffic).

Sorry. Like I said, I’d love to be proven wrong. He seemed like a really cool guy.

Fellow boring cismale here. I’m not 100% on how it started, but the Blåhaj shark has become an unofficial icon of the trans community.

Speaking as someone who used to work at Ikea (to the point where my phone still autocorrects to IKEA), this makes me giddy because I can picture how it would cause the founder of Ikea to spin in his grave. You go, trans guys and gals.

It’s Charles and Gina discussing the upcoming Boyle family vacation. The original line is “‘Tent’ singular? Charles, ‘tent’ singular??”

It’s okay. Take a deep breath and do a single item on your self-care list. You did good.

For some people the mere act of going outside, let alone to a gathering with people, requires a significant amount of effort.

It’s me. I’m some people.

“Heard, chef”