I became a Pattinson believer after this. I knew for sure when I saw that interview where he talks about Tifa and Aerith. I think they should make him Time Travel Bond.

Would love a limited HBO series on the continuing adventures of the Protagonist and Neil. No worldbuilding: just some more temporal hijinks. 26 40-minute episodes would be marvelous, but I'd be grateful for 10 hour-longs.

American 7-11s would vastly improve if they replaced the hotdogs with the tea egg vat and started stocking onigiri.

It at least feels less annoying than being an American who wants to seek out other Americans while in Amsterdam or wherever. It's also kind of reassuring as this country looks to be speedrunning towards obsolescence: you can probably get by anywhere if you speak Chinese.

Chatting with the workers at a restaurant in Paris, you learn how similar the immigrant experience is: the local food is overrated, the Chinatown sucks, and there are challenges to raising your kid in another culture. I don't usually care to find home-like experiences while abroad, but this was cool

Every time I come home for the holidays, I eat like a disgusting animal, but, in hindsight, everything runs super smoothly down there. Come on, man. I thought the Lactaid meant it was safe to drink for Asians.

If you take away international chains like Din Tai Fung, Hai Di Lao, HEYTEA, and Molly Tea, it's a lanzhou lamian place, a nice-ish Hong Kong restaurant, and a roujiamo stand. Looking at how much Flushing has developed in the last maybe seven years, I figured London would be way farther along.

What did they do to my boy James Callis? Getting shades of Alexander Siddig in Game of Thrones in how much they're wasting him.

I think the UK's gotta chill with the incel stuff. It's gotta be the laziest writing trope of 2025. My god, that kid explaining emojis to his dad in Adolescence was the worst three minutes of exposition I've seen in a while.

This spy show only works when it's intrigue and and Gary Oldman calling his loser team a bunch of fucking incompetents.

This show can't choreograph action for shit. The boss tells a distracting story about a spy getting tortured by a spray can-lighter blowtorch for 5m, before an old lady slowly tosses a lighter to a guy who stunlocks two MI5 security toughs standing there for 5 seconds while they set up this combo.

I swear it's not just because they've upped the ante on Ho being an incel Asian man (it's maybe activated my MRAsian genes like 5%).

You know what? I don't actually know anything about the kids of the few friends who have them! They may actually be fine!

My most immigrant-coded belief is that we need to drill students with more math homework. We need to bring back making kids memorize the multiplication table by sitting in a room with a posterboard listing out 1x1 - 9x9 and then having their moms orally quiz them.