Holy crap his tie isn't red

Well gosh darn it. I like it.

Excellent! So immersive!

This isn't the most substantive of your comments in this chain, but I think it deserves some attention. It's perfectly worded and it's a concept more people need to embrace: you don't have to speak in absolutes and it's okay to express the limits of your knowledge.

99; I'd call that closest without going over.

Haven't got a sensible name, Calloway.

Oh yes. The characters are so great. John C. Reilly's character especially. And Tom Cruise was never more appropriately cast.

Yeah that's how I feel about ads targeting children (even when the products are intended for children): they are not yet equipped to look at the ads critically and recognize when they're being manipulated.

Yeah it makes perfect sense once you realize there are almost no lone consonant phonemes in Japanese.

Every time.

And that sounds like a line from Lower Decks (just sub "Starfleet" for "Trek"), which is why I love that show so.

Makes me think of that series Heimat. In the beginning their minds are being blown by radio; by the end they're flying on commercial jets.