08Mar#01
Someone over in the politics thread posted a historical comparison (which I can't find now, annoyingly) that showed that, when adjusted for inflation, even with this recent spike in prices, oil is still historically lower than at many other points in history, and it will indeed very likely turn around quickly as Iran's rapidly diminishing "navy" will no longer be able to hold the Strait of Hormuz down (US oil prices are already dropping again). And acting like this is anywhere close to the 70s energy crisis is laughable; we don't have the entirety of OPEC fucking with our oil supply (and most of them are probably cheering us on for taking Iran off the board), and the US is an oil
exporter so we could easily keep more of that for domestic use if needed.
Geopolitics Bob is one of the dumbest Bobs.
08Mar#03
Wow, Bob's new video must be popping off if he's got so many viewers from the great nation of Sweden! Let's see how he's doing:
Oh, never mind then.
(For a more direct comparison, his Hopalong Cassidy video is only 18k views. Remember how he said he needed these to do well so this whole "job" of his would work out?)
08Mar#04
Bobby and co. defend gay shit that not even the Rat bothered to defend.
A&N.
I know I've talked about how tired I am of seeing all of these massive Hollywood projects being nothing more than an excuse for a pampered retard to get a $100 million+ therapy session, but I'm honestly shocked to see an actual executive say the exact same thing. Not that I really have much faith in their ability to turn it around (they'd need to completely jettison every single writer and director there for a starter), but I do find that interesting at least.
And like
@Sexy Senior Citizen posted, Elio in particular always creeped me out with its design. It definitely gave off that "older faggot reminiscing about being molested" vibe from that 4chan post.
08Mar#05
A tremor is detected in the landscape of Harlequin romance.
Archive of Slate article.
I think it's pretty well documented that male and female fantasies are usually different, where men tend to imagine what it would be like to be the protagonist as a character while women tend to want to insert themselves as a person in the protagonist's shoes. It's subtle, but that distinction is probably a factor in why women aren't wanting their smut fantasy written in third person because of the constant reminders that the protagonist is supposed to be a different character. If it's written in first person, the reader can more easily imagine that it's she herself that is interacting with the hunky brooding vampire/werewolf/minotaur/whatever the fuck. Not that first person novels weren't written beforehand, but arguably the Twilight series was the prototype for modern smut writing and first person narration (not to mention a blank slate protagonist for an easier self-insert), and between all the imitators and the girls and women who devoured that series and are now writing smut themselves, it's not really surprising that they prefer first person.
Bob, of course, is too stupid to do any kind of analysis like this, so he blames...digital media? I have no fucking idea.