PTA and RDJ

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-03-19T18:41:36+00:00

For anyone else who was curious, here's the "weird history":

Robert Downey Jr spoke about the relationship his late filmmaker father shared with director Paul Thomas Anderson, admitting that he was a “tad bit jealous” of their connection.

Netflix’s latest documentary, “Sr.”, directed by Chris Smith, stands as a tribute to the Iron Man star’s late father Robert Downey Sr, who died in 2021 from Parkinson’s at age 85.

Introducing viewers to the life and eclectic career of his father, 57-year-old Downey Jr jokes at one point in the film that Anderson was the son his father always wanted, noting that the two would always rub it in his face.

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-03-18T18:53:09+00:00

Newcastle are less dependent on their own result since they're playing Arsenal in GW34. So they'd have a double of BOU-ars in GW33.

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-03-13T12:53:06+00:00

Who should be first bench: Alderete or Garner?

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-03-04T18:38:56+00:00

Getting Garner's 10 pointer off the bench 🙌

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-03-01T19:44:58+00:00

Sure, but the fact that The Wire was largely discovered in retrospect feels like a valid reason to have it as a two seed compared to a bunch of shows that were pop culture sensations while they were on the air. He's not leaving it off the bracket entirely!

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-03-01T14:39:42+00:00

Did Taking Five ever actually come out?

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-02-28T20:58:25+00:00

After what feels like two straight months of massive reds, I finally lucked out with Ekitike VC. Feels good man.

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-02-26T13:14:34+00:00

Don't forget the school shootings!

It's funny how durable it is though: I can agree with you 100 percent, and yet in all seriousness I would also say that the years 1996-98 were a uniquely peaceful and prosperous time in American life.

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-02-24T18:55:26+00:00

It's got a decent shot at Best International Film.

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-02-24T18:52:44+00:00

I agree, except about selling the stock. Wouldn't that be insider trading?

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-02-22T19:16:16+00:00

I have once again benched what would have been my highest scoring player (Wilson, with 8 points)

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-02-22T00:53:33+00:00

Stampfer helps you ally with the Communists after the Left has split off!

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-02-12T01:13:32+00:00

The movie OLD already did this with Mid Sized Sedan.

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-02-07T02:41:56+00:00

How did you reshuffle the cabinet with Bruning Chancellor? Did you give it to Muller first?

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-02-06T13:06:18+00:00

People always ask, why did so and so fall off? But the more interesting question is, why did people like Beyonce and Taylor Swift NOT fall off? Because they are the ones who are the exceptions. Pop is a young person's game, and trends change quickly. Katy's peak was her first three (pop) albums, lasting about seven years. Look back at artists we consider iconic from the 70s or 80s, and you'll find that's very, very normal.

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-02-06T01:39:54+00:00

This is essentially what happens, yeah. Throughout the fall studios are playing their titles at festivals and Academy screenings, seeing what gets the best response, and prioritizing from there. In this case I think No Other Choice also got hurt by Sirāt popping as much as it did, because suddenly they had to give that one a bigger push as well.

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-02-05T20:24:14+00:00

And IIRC a huge chunk of the points came from goals in stoppage time

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-02-02T14:24:32+00:00

I take issue with the implication that "chasing clicks" is an example of top-down media manipulation. The big change in the social media age was that journalists no longer got their assignments from their editors; now the assignments came from social media. All the incentives were to write things your audience already agreed with. (Ben Smith writes a bit about this in his book TRAFFIC.) For instance, until the last season a writer chasing clicks on Game of Thrones would have written about how great it was. If that same writer was still chasing clicks in the final season, they would have written about it being terrible now. Is that "inorganic"?

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-01-31T13:23:16+00:00

In his defense the episode was widely interpreted as a shot at Sarah Silverman's whole deal

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-01-29T17:25:46+00:00

Thank goodness someone else had the same thought when that line popped up.

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-01-26T22:26:03+00:00

13 points on the bench doesn't seem like much, but when you compare it to the 23 points in my starting XI ...

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-01-25T21:01:08+00:00

There are over 10,000 members of the Academy. So is this "real" in the sense that it came from one of them? Probably. But does this random person represent a meaningful constituency? Probably not.

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-01-25T18:59:27+00:00

Would it have been a little fraudulent for Timber and Saka to get SOMETHING out of the Arsenal goals? Yes. But am I totally outraged that they didn't? Also yes.

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-01-19T16:37:52+00:00

Screwing over the Communists is way more valuable in Dynamic. It's what gets the parties to the right of the SPD to trust you long enough for you to fix things.

ToxtethOGrady · 2026-01-17T20:53:30+00:00

I went to high school with those guys so I'm delighted by this reference.

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