Funnily enough Samuel Beckett of Waiting for Godot fame (not the quantum leap guy) wrote a play called Endgame, also punning on the chess term.

A man who can’t walk or see has the only combination to the food pantry, a man who can’t sit down is the only one who can take him there to open it. They are the last two people alive. They both continually try to out do each other and come out on top as they can’t trust each other to live in peace.

in the US you get automated messages that blow up your phone when a child is involved in a crime near you.

I turn mine off.

when actually everyone knows engineering is all about being able to negotiate precisely which snacks and soft drinks go in the office break room

“Resting” here is likely the industry term for “I have asked my agent not to book me auditions in the following period.”

I just finished a 9 month comedy residency, followed by a Christmas show nov-dec, I have asked my agent to reste me in January.

interesting, I think its one of the worst covers I’ve ever heard - and I love RATM. It’s just a covers album to get out of a contract and the track in question just doesn’t do it for me.

The only worse cover I can think of is RHCP - subterranean homesick blues

That’s pretty much what I just said?

arguably the Daniel Craig ones did that by being actually fairly believable spy movies that made slight sense.

Bond is about using a magic watch to blow up vaguely Russian people and sleep with barely legal teenagers

uh they frequently did, they had a whole sketch which is just them saying “no pooftahs” (equivalent of the f-slur)

it’s seasoning.

next

get yer knees up step sis in time

more scams that just auto download to your computer

you know there are a lot of female spies in real life right?

but why male models?

I saw the post about how this picture flips upside down before I saw this OP

warning that I didn’t read the article but the actor thing might also be compounded by how a lot of film actors are told not to be theatre actors because the current trend is for almost-nothing performances because that’s en vogue right now.

Then you watch all the “greatest” TV shows: Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Deadwood, Freaks and Geeks, Gilmore Girls, Star Trek, Madmen which are filled with these huge, scenery-chewing performances.

So actually the issue might be: creating something actually good isn’t easy and is quite rare, especially in a world where money matters more than the art.

not sure what you mean by across different websites but imdb and letterboxd do this or any todo list app.

I’m not actually a programmer (/engineer) I’m just a hobbyist. I work in supply chain, have worked at 4 companies in 8 years - all had stand ups, all of them are like this.

The purpose of stand up is to not listen to anything and say a sentence that no one listens to. It’s like a Buddhist meditation.

all programming is abstractions of hello world change my mind

yeah. 5 mins. Thats all you play. Definitely not 3 or 4 hours just disappear the moment you load it up.