God, this guy was exceptional at any tone, so I loved every role he’s ever played. He absolutely elevated weak material and soared in some of my favorite projects. (And his absolutely unhinged role in RRR is a revelation of pure camp -- dude understood the assignment.)

The first time I saw Grant Ward, he was insufferable. He stayed insufferable until Turn, Turn, Turn when everyone was trying to figure out who the Hydra agent was and my first response was, “Probably that total irredeemable douchebag Ward that adds nothing to the team except being third best at everything.” For his…

AoS is an interesting example of exceptionally capable mediocrity spiked with shots of genuine talent, and I was never sure if they were being held back or just boxing outside of their weight class and occasionally landing a hit.

A company in decline charging their most dedicated customers more, for less benefits seems like a way to hasten the inevitable.

Or just let Gamestop go under because it sucks and it’s run by douchebags and none of the people you would normally worry about losing their jobs is even left to care.

Gamestop workers who just quit: “Gamestop Delenda Est.”

Meanwhile, Disney laid of 10,000 workers in three months.

Remember when Gamestop’s stock was briefly inflated by a bunch of goons on Reddit in a pyramid scheme and it was briefly turned into an act of solidarity to — prop up a notoriously brutal company that has abused its workers for decades and get them millions of dollars in profits the CEOs flipped right before bailing…

Employer: “For 12 dollars an hour and healthcare I’ll need you to ring up orders and stock shelves.”

Look, I’m all for consumer rights, and for telling corporations to **** themselves. But it is honestly stupidly amazing we’ve managed to hold the line at $60 for so long, and $70 is probably honestly overdue.

Well, there’s always games that came out a month ago instead of release day. Or a year later. Gasoline expires, games don’t.

The reality is actually the opposite. Screenwriting is a talent so reliant on vibes, esotera, and precision that it is incredibly easy to screw it up. The problem is that it’s also very difficult to know where exactly it’s going wrong and screenwriters are almost never the person who decides when the script is done.

So the cost of taxi medallions went down AND your average Uber driver is shoveling away money into a bottomless pit on repairs while breaking less than even AND Uber/Lyft are fighting worker protections by treating their staff as temps.

The irony is that Disney is copying HBO Max’s content management and tax-dodging policies but now increasingly embracing Netflix’s binge-release schedules. Netflix for the subscribers and HBO Max for the cost-cutting. Wonder which one will win out.

Disney’s foray into making a memorable experience targeted at the 10% was predictably self-destructive. I can totally see some finance guy going, “Well, they have 70% of all the wealth, surely this is who’s going to spend all their money,” not once stopping to remember that poor people (necessarily) spend more of…

This system of destructible weapons and tools works a lot better in a game like Tchia where absolutely everything is a weapon and tool.

I wanted to be skeptical of a review that started with pretending Paul Walker was a charisma magnet and not the least compelling member of the team, but this review sort of makes sense.

The problem with “taking Americans seriously” is that it doesn’t matter. It’s just that guy on a bike shouting at a crowd of Nazis that their pants don’t match then getting screentime on MSNBC about how he’s the resistance^TM. (Actual thing that popped up in my YouTube today.)

There’s a reason they call it “respectability politics.” People will drop a bomb on a school then scramble off for a light brunch but if you stand outside their house and protest you’re an existential threat.

Greg did nothing wrong, he’s just easy to hate because he has no power and these sorts of shows (and real life) tend to make us sympathize more with evil people who use their power for evil than less evil people who don’t use their power at all.