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They're the same IP, but they aren't the same continuity. And I wouldn't be surprised if they have the license for the show specifically and not the books.

Look at it this way, if a new Witcher game was being announced, how big of a difference would it make for it to be a spinoff of the existing games, a new adaptation of the books, or a an adaptation of the Netflix show?

Worse than irrelevant, it becomes another tool for extortion and corruption. Why do nothing for free when you can get paid to do nothing?

Are we not going to acknowledge how fucked up it is that someone was behind bars for five years before getting a trial?

While on ketamine.

The article cites a strategist who argues that bringing attention to immigration only helps Trump because immigration is his strongest issue. The unstated assumption is that sentiment on any given issue is basically static and unchanging, that you can't change minds you can only change topics.

Shot in the dark, they're doing keto in the saddest way possible.

Her argument is that they are just cutting waste. Healthcare for people who are unemployed is apparently waste. You only get healthcare if you are working a shitty low paying job for someone who got a tax cut.

It's like my dad always used to say: "The day I can't do my job drunk is the day I hand in my badge and gun."

So, you need to be working a job that pays like shit and doesn't provide healthcare, thus subsidizing the shittiest employers.

Or you need to prove you are disabled. Which of course probably requires supporting medical evidence. Which would require access to healthcare.

Oh, and even if you have an obvious disability, we're gonna make it as hard as possible to apply for disability benefits.

Justified by the idea that somehow having access to a doctor enables people to sit on the couch and play video games all day.

Just admit that you (at best) don't care if poor people suffer and die as long as it benefits you and your donors in some small way.

Which is just about enough to pay for Trump's birthday parade.

Reality is steadily moving past The Onion and into The Twilight Zone.

Chiana and Scorpius on Farscape were both intended to be guest characters, each for a single episode, Both instantly became main characters, with the latter replacing the main villain for the series. And then he did it again when they retconned Harvey into existence.

Babylon 5 has a few really good ones,* including a very early role for Bryan Cranston. But Wayne Alexander as the inquisitor is particularly notable. There's layers to the character and the performance really rises to meet the challenge. He perfectly balances a character that is cold, heartless and monstrous while having a surprising amount of humanity. In his performance you can see the idealist and the cynic, the zealot and the apathetic, cruel but without malice, a man who is totally devoted to his his mission who would like nothing more than to fail. His last line is understated and it should seem like an afterthought but it's only because of the performance and the writing that it can work so well because we're so invested in this character, and suddenly all the pieces fall into place.

* Walter Koenig as Bester needs to be mentioned but I believe he was always meant to be a recurring character.