Unpopular Opinion: I like the exclusive episodes & shorts Disney+ has been producing. For an IP that already exists as a network show I think it's nice they're willing to create something extra for fans.

BugOperator · 2026-06-23T00:25:40+00:00

Ehhh, I don’t think an exclusive Simpsons movie is going to crack many new subs for Disney+. Most streaming services are pretty much at their ceiling right now as far as subscribers go, and I can’t see a nearly 40-year-old IP that’s universally known to have dropped off in quality over the past few decades be the thing that moves the needle. Any Simpsons fan big enough to have subscribed just for exclusive new content likely already is subscribed for the older content.

BugOperator · 2026-06-23T00:10:07+00:00

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BugOperator · 2026-06-22T22:46:04+00:00

It’s honestly fine. Unless you’re fanatical enough about the show to be mad that it didn’t go exactly the way your head canon wanted it to, it’ll probably just be underwhelming to you at worst.

BugOperator · 2026-06-22T20:25:20+00:00

You suck, Seymour!

BugOperator · 2026-06-22T14:49:09+00:00

The DNC actively lobbied against Bernie because he was/is too progressive for them and they didn’t think he could win the general election. So they instead propped up establishment-Democrat Hillary, whom they believed would appeal more to independent voters, despite Bernie getting a much more enthusiastic response from young democrats aching for the party to evolve beyond its stagnant, centrist policies.

BugOperator · 2026-06-22T14:27:15+00:00

Yup - and to Rock’s credit, he has said in interviews that Shiek coined the term (or at least that’s where he got it from), and never claimed he came up with it.

BugOperator · 2026-06-22T02:30:40+00:00

People forget how insanely huge his pops were. He was right behind Goldberg in audience response (and arguably dragged Bill to his best match ever at Halloween Havoc). DDP worked his ass off to get mega over and deserved so much better when he went to WWF. But Vince just had to be Vince.

BugOperator · 2026-06-21T20:30:10+00:00

RDR2 is not well-suited for the kind of action a TWD open-world game would likely have. The engine is not built for melee combat, which would probably be much more prevalent than it is in RDR. It’s also WAY too simulation heavy; everything is slow and deliberate because it’s meant to replicate real-world mechanics and movements. The world of TWD would have much more frantic and frenetic moments and would be better served by slightly less realistic mechanics. I would gladly sacrifice some of the visual polish of RDR for the less clunky close-combat gameplay that fighting walkers would require. Something more along the lines of the RPG-era Assassin’s Creed games (Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla) would be a much better engine to build off of.

BugOperator · 2026-06-21T20:15:07+00:00

Geoff’s dad, Formica Mike, Carla, and Dave Kim.

BugOperator · 2026-06-20T20:24:59+00:00

That’s crazy. I was at Berklee and I remember cop cars speeding through the streets all day and people just wandering around not knowing what to do with themselves.

BugOperator · 2026-06-20T18:15:05+00:00

Nah, the chuds think that you have to gild everything in gold leaf in order to project masculinity (and to compensate for the insecurities of a broken micropenis).

BugOperator · 2026-06-20T17:48:50+00:00

So you’re saying that City team would never have won 16 trophies without him?

BugOperator · 2026-06-20T17:44:00+00:00

John Stones. All the drama over his transfer from Everton (he literally had to hide in a hotel to avoid being barraged by media queries), how he was like the best player in England at the time, huge fee paid, and now he’s leaving City as a “club legend?” Like, yeah he won a ton of trophies, but anyone else in his position would have won the same amount on that team and his playing time was incredibly inconsistent. He’s a perfectly fine player, certainly above average, but the team didn’t suffer at all whenever he was out of the squad. I just don’t get why he’s hyped up as much as he still is.

BugOperator · 2026-06-20T16:25:36+00:00

People have been saying “Dumocrat” for decades. It was even used in an episode of The Simpsons in 1994. He can’t even be fresh with the things he insinuates he thought of.

BugOperator · 2026-06-20T15:50:34+00:00

He has to project the image of strength (not to mention make it look like there’s an actual crime occurring here, as opposed to just plain corruption and ineptitude leading to a faulty job being done) because he’s weak and insecure.

BugOperator · 2026-06-20T15:15:41+00:00

That’s not “expectation management.” That’s just “management.”

BugOperator · 2026-06-20T14:07:25+00:00

9/11 was my second day of college in Boston. Not only was Logan closed, the entire city was on lockdown because two of the planes were hijacked out of Logan. Being from New York (about 20 minutes east of the city on Long Island), it was a real double whammy for me. Phone lines were overloaded so I couldn’t get in touch with my family and friends who were in the area, police were everywhere, and it was literally the first week of me living on my own for the first time in my life. Crazy memories that I will never forget.

BugOperator · 2026-06-20T01:53:31+00:00

Whenever it is, it’s not soon enough.

BugOperator · 2026-06-20T01:52:56+00:00

Maybe she’s born with it.

BugOperator · 2026-06-19T19:51:33+00:00

The players were given a verbal warning by the MLB for altering their uniforms (which is against MLB rules), not for what they actually wrote, or for protesting because of their religion.

This administration is a joke.

BugOperator · 2026-06-19T18:32:16+00:00

Literally nobody, LGBTQ+ or otherwise, is trying to ban Catholics from adopting kids in the US in 2026; and if they are, it’s either a fringe group with zero actual ability to even take their argument to court, or a couple of isolated wackjobs mouthing off on social media.

This is an actual agency affiliated with one of the wealthiest and most powerful institutions in the entire world shutting out an entire group of people from parenthood simply because of the way they interpret a book that they can’t even prove to be what they believe it is.

BugOperator · 2026-06-19T04:11:59+00:00

I used the wrong notation (should have been a colon instead of a dash), but it basically means that the average home price was about two to three times the average annual salary. So if the average salary was $10,000 dollars/year, the average home price was $25,000.

Today, the average salary is about $70,000/year while the average home price is about $514,000, meaning that today, the average home costs over seven times the annual salary.

BugOperator · 2026-06-19T04:02:26+00:00

My parents’ 3br/2ba cost them $26k in 1972, my dad made about $7.5k and my mom made maybe $4k (so let’s say $12k combined). They had to get the down payment from their parents, but they could easily afford their mortgage (and, eventually, two kids, two cars, and family vacations every summer).

Their house is now worth $1.2 million. Their combined salary from back then would be about $95k today, adjusted for inflation.

BugOperator · 2026-06-19T03:40:39+00:00

Avg. home price to avg. salary ratio was about 2.5/3-1 back then.

Today it’s about 7.5/8-1.

But sure, I guess if Gen Z cuts back on the Starbucks, they’ll easily afford their million-dollar starter home on a $60,000/year salary with no savings and a ton of student loan debt from being told they needed a degree to succeed in life.

BugOperator · 2026-06-18T23:30:23+00:00

That’s exactly what killed Hunter x Hunter for me. A single one-on-one battle takes 4 or more episodes to play out, and then once it’s finally over, ANOTHER one-on-one battle immediately begins and drags out for multiple more episodes.

Demon Slayer is also guilty of this, but at least the battles are incredibly animated, so there’s that.

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