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I find it very difficult to believe that you don’t like a single Spielberg movie, just on a quantity level. He’s made so many at this point, at least one must tickle your fancy.

Because he deserves it?

I mean, that part isn’t really at issue here. It’s fundamentally the same technique that’s been used since the 90’s, famously on To Catch a Predator. Seemingly, the “entrapment” angle has been settled.

I had one of those! So cool, loved not having a giant glowing thing on my wrist but still receiving notifications.

Meh, I misread your comment at a glance and thought my misreading was funny. Worth a comment, but probably not the Google search to check my spelling.

And maybe JonBenèt!

A lot of people consider themselves lucky to see a medical professional once a year, so it’d be convenient to be able to get all the requisite vaccines on that schedule.

Fair enough, that person is definitely engaging in hyperbolic rhetoric, but I don’t think their point is entirely wrong. This feels like a classic case of racism and bigotry being seen as all-or-nothing situations. Those character names are obviously not coming from a place of cultural sensitivity (it’s been pointed out that Cho and Chang are both family names from entirely different cultures), and while you refuse to engage with the point, portraying slavery as anything other than abominable is just a terrible decision. I would not agree with the comment OP that Rowling has always been a white supremacist, but I would say that she is/was a rather thoughtless liberal, in the centrist definition of that word.

Oh wow, that’s so easy.

You’re misremembering how the slavery plot goes, for what it’s worth. In Chamber of Secrets, yes, Dobby is meant to be a sympathetic figure who we’re happy is freed. However, following her pattern of “returning to a plot point that got pushback two books ago to justify it”, in Goblet we learn that Dobby is a little sicko for wanting freedom and payment, and Hermione’s efforts with SPEW (btw that’s slang for vomit in the UK} are consistently portrayed as misguided and naive.

I think it’s incredibly silly to suggest that you can’t make some judgements about an author based on literally a million words that they pulled directly out of their psyche. Another classic example is Joanne’s portrayal of women. If a woman is evil, she’s fat, mannish, and ugly. If a woman is good, she’s motherly and, in the case of Hermione, Luna, and Ginny, not like other girls. Nobody is really saying she was a hateful bigot while writing those books, but the seeds were certainly there.

Just to battle against? Because gen 1 didn’t have breeding, so he couldn’t give out Mews, right?

Edit: oh right, legendaries can’t breed anyway.

I think you just restated their joke.

It’s wild to me that kbin has users, for all the problems it seems to have.

Isn’t the UK’s voting process basically identical to Canada’s?

Unequivocally no.

Fucking Aquaman?

There are plastics that aren’t oil derived. Some of them are even compostable in an industrial setting.

I don’t mind the idea of being radicalized, as long as I’m on the right side of history.

I thought HotD was pretty universally praised? I liked it.