Badmé Amidala.

Also he was primarying Andrew Cuomo, who previously resigned in disgrace over a slew of sexual misconduct allegations and an impeachment. There’s plenty of reasons to vote against Cuomo that are completely unrelated to Israel.

Yeah, he was reportedly conceived in a casual encounter. His parents weren’t in an ongoing relationship and the father didn’t remain very involved in either of their lives.

That is not how a bastard works. To be clear, all of this is archaic, I’m not actually calling anybody a bastard, but the definition of bastard is “a child born to parents who are not married to each other.” He matches that definition because his parents were never married.

Affairs don’t come into it, it’s just some old bullshit cultural and religious ideals about which types of relationships (just the one: heterosexual marriages) children are “supposed” to be born into.

Missed an opportunity to say “Fuck cars and fuck Carr.”

I don’t think he’s anywhere in the line of succession regardless. He’s the son of the Crown Princess (by marriage) but not of the Crown Prince. i.e. His mother had him as a result of a prior relationship, then married the Crown Prince, making him the stepson of the man who will one day be king, but not really anything on his own account. Besides a rapist.

Do we have our own /r/wowthanksimcured yet?

This doesn’t belong in Not The Onion, the Betoota Advocate is extremely satirical. OP ate the onion and then posted it on Not The Onion.

Did you all hear the recent announcement that they’re making a Spaceballs 2? It’s scheduled for 2027. Bill Pullman (Lone Starr), Daphne Zuniga (Vespa), Rick Moranis (Dark Helmet) and Mel Brooks (Yogurt) are all returning, alongside new characters played by Lewis Pullman (Bill’s real son), Josh Gad and Keke Palmer. I’m not even joking.

https://deadline.com/2025/06/spaceballs-2-casts-rick-moranis-bill-pullman-keke-palmer-1236431204/

All right, we’ve come to my least favorite episode of the entire series. We have a character throughout the episode who has for years been dosing the people around him with date rape drugs. The worst reaction this gets from anybody on The Orville is “Aww, come on, mate. That’s a bit rude.” There are zero consequences for any of it. This one plot point taints my feelings about everything else in the episode.

I’m not in the mood for any of the comedy material–in fact, it’s even worse on a rewatch. On first viewing. you don’t know about the serial date rapist until the reveal. On a rewatch, the foreshadowing is peppered in right from the start with Darulio insisting on a handshake with Mercer. The dramatic plot of the episode also ends up tied in to non-consensually dosing people. Overall, just very unpleasant stuff. Not a fun watch. I’d rather have “Majority Rule” on repeat for 24 hours.

“It really tied the room together.”

There’s already several comments saying “depends on the beliefs and how important they are,” and obviously there’s that.

I’ll add that there are beliefs people don’t immediately think of when talking about religion. There’s religious humanism, which is a secular religion based around behaving ethically which also has a bunch of traditions similar to spiritually-based religions, minus the spirituality. Adherents (can) attend church and hear sermons on ways to be a better person, etc.

I’m not a religious humanist but they sound like they’re probably decent enough people. They’re quite different to my generic fediverse atheist/irreligious views, in the sense that I don’t have any desire to attend congregations of people who identify as religiously ethical, but I don’t harbor any strong objections to their beliefs.

Personally, I understand it more as something that might be nice for people who have left spiritual religion but still want the trappings of a place to go and be with a community of like-minded people, but that’s not my experience. Ultimately, that’s probably about as far as I’d be comfortable, where we have roughly equivalent spiritual views but highly divergent religious views.

Aha! Got it, thank you so much.

I understand why this is wrong (order of operations dictates the division happens first, so it’s really 25 - 1 = 24), but why is it funny? I don’t mean “This isn’t funny,” I think I’m just missing the joke.

This is a tough question because it’s like asking “What’s the most forgettable game you’ve ever played?” I can remember some of the best and worst games I’ve ever played, but mediocre games are explicitly not interesting.

That said, the first one that came to mind for me was Starshot: Space Circus Fever for N64. It’s just a very generic late-'90s collectathon platformer. It’s hard to be mad at it, because it’s not terrible or anything, there’s just no reason to play it. If you’ve got an N64, there’s Mario, Banjo, Rayman, even B- and C-tier stuff like Gex and Chameleon Twist. There’s hidden gems like Space Station Silicon Valley or Rocket: Robot on Wheels.

That last one is the only reason I played Starshot, I saw it clearanced at a used game store and was like “Oh yeah, I remember hearing this game was good,” but it turned out I was thinking of Rocket. That game actually is good, while Starshot is just fine.

Incredible showcase for Mark Jackson (Isaac) here. It’s impressive how much he is able to do without a face.

Isaac learning to provide comfort by holding hands is done effectively and his understanding that Claire needs the same is a genuine moment. I love the Isaac and Claire/Finn family pairing, so this episode does great by me. Can’t argue with the classic “stranded on a hostile planet” structure, either. It’s definitely a cliche by this point and the episode doesn’t do anything to subvert it, but it solidly executes the premise. To some extent, solidly executing an existing idea is the whole point of The Orville, so I think the show is achieving its goals here.

The episode seems to have been important, internally. Penny Johnson Jerald described the episode as her favorite at the time, and Seth MacFarlane said that putting together a show that was serious, dramatic and character-led charted the course for season 2:

MacFarlane also spoke fondly about the Orville’s first season, singling out one particular episode that helped convince him that the show’s tone – a target of critics – worked well for him and fans.

“One of the really successful episodes to me in the first season was the one where Claire and Isaac are trapped on that planet alone,” MacFarlane said. “It was a very dark, kind of somber episode that still lived in that world very successfully. That episode for me in the first season was a real test of how far we can take the genuine science fiction aspect to it.”

• Seth MacFarlane, Television Critics Association winter press tour, 2018

A lot of great performances, absolutely. And the long-form presentation is really what gave Summer Glau room to do the kind of “robot becomes human” work that is not really possible in the movies.

I agree that the ending is kind of too specific to be satisfying. I don’t mind ambiguous or open endings that leave you wondering (maybe forever) what will come next, but the ending we got told us too much and not enough at the same time.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I’m not a big Terminator-head, only seen half of the movies, but that was the version of Terminator I really got into.

I did read it. The Tumblr blog is what was reported to police, leading to his arrest in 2018, roughly a year after the offending began. The original commenter was under the mistaken impression that his offenses went undetected until 2025, or roughly eight years. I corrected a misunderstanding about years.

Walmart frantically distancing themselves from her is another decent indicator that the company at least doesn’t think this is good for their bottom line, especially when a large segment of customers are already boycotting them for caving to the current administration. If the other side starts boycotting them for not caving to the current administration, that’s a) bad for business and b) very funny.