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I think you just don't like a certain type of stand-up. It's not really an American/British thing. There are a ton of American stand-up comedians who aren't assholes, just like there are a whole bunch of mean-spirited British comedians.

Just like everything else though, there is far more American than anything else so it's easy to come up with a giant list of asshole comedians.

There is no rule. Everyone decides the value of their own time and how quickly they want to tap out of something they don't enjoy. I wish I could tap out of things sooner.

It sounds like your friend wasn't enjoying the movie and gave you a reason. Just respect that and try to find something more up their alley if you want to keep watching movies with them. Don't force them to like what you like.

That's not the experience I've had. It's the most turn-off-your-brain game I've played since Tap Titans. If you go in with any type of strategy at all, you're basically in win-the-game mode by 10 minutes and there's not much of anything going on before 10 minutes. You have to go out of your way to make the game difficult, and what's the point of that?

It's basically just the evolution of the clicker. After the initial few runs, there's not much thought going into the gameplay besides bigger numbers and more things on screen yet you still pump hours into for no real reason excepts for more numbers.

@inspectorfowler: I don't know about that. It's hard to be a prima donna when you have 12 career points and rarely drive above your car's potential. There were also some rumblings that his entourage was a bit of an issue.

@spacemanspiff00: Again, it's not an MCU thing. Devotion isn't a movie that's going to fill the biggest auditorium. If Black Panther wasn't out this month, they'd have Strange World in the biggest auditorium. If it was released last month, Black Adam would be there. Next month, Avatar. Would it have been given the biggest auditorium against Jurassic World? Top Gun? Batman? Minions? Sonic? Uncharted? Lightyear? Nope? Elvis? Probably not and none of those are MCU movies. Devotion's still playing at just about every theatre so it's not like it's a difficult movie to watch on the big screen.

Giant generic action movies flooding theatres is a product of the 90s and was an issue long before the MCU. The MCU has actually been a breath of fresh air in that department since there's way more variety than we used to get.

It's not really a MCU problem. Devotion was never going to get the AVX treatment unless it could find the perfect release date where it found a few weeks when nothing else was out. It's a biopic based on someone that people don't really know, directed by someone that people don't really know, starring a bunch of actors who aren't bringing people to the theatre. That kind of movie is never going to be put in the biggest theatre because it's not going to fill it up.

I forgot about Grosjean, but he didn't really get a real shot in his first stint. I was thinking more of someone who was was given at least a full season to establish themselves and then dropped because they couldn't cut it. Ocon missed a year, but that was more about the team getting sold and Stroll needing a seat than Ocon's performance.

He'll end up in Formula E with everyone else that has more talented family members.

When was the last time someone was dropped for performance reasons and actually managed to make it back a grab a seat? I wouldn't include Hulkenberg since he was already an established driver when he left and probably could've had another seat somewhere if he wasn't picky.

I was really hoping Stroll would be a success story and would be a strong example to show other teams that if you stick with a young driver and help them grow and improve, it'll pay off. But nope, he's just another example of if you don't got it, you don't got it.