I still remember years ago when Kotaku was attacking Gamestop for bad business practices. Then covid happened and they doubled down with their anti-worker and often illegal violations of lockdown rules. Then when everyone had just accepted that Gamestop deserved to die, the meme stock rush happened — then put a ton of…

It’s Always Sunny is funny because the joke is that the main characters are horrible people who suffer horribly from being horrible people. The main characters are the target of the joke, everyone around them for the most part is a normal person reacting to how insane they are.

Star Wars is about swashbuckling rebels overtaking an empire, but people don’t necessarily just focus on that as being about freedom or being about anti-imperialism.

Let’s not rewrite history now. People were pissed at Star Trek Into Darkness because they cast a white guy to play a brown guy and hid it by pretending he was a white guy (which John Cho openly mocked)

I was actually terrified they would follow some/any of the beats from the movie/comic. And I LOOOOOOVE the movie. But by the time the show gets going, I was ridiculously invested in how different it approached every situation and gave everyone so much depth.

As we have it, we have a show with no almost no character development from the named protagonist

It’s also pretty great in that it shows Scott’s character development as a traditional heroic character removed the chance for everyone else to grow and evolve. By having him not have the chance to solve everything by being “The best fighter in Toronto,” everyone else got to solve everything by having increasingly…

It says Scott Pilgrim on the package - no one enjoys having the old switcheroo on the main protagonist. That’s 101 stuff, guys

You can’t say it isn’t happening when South Park parodied it

One of the side-effects of cord cutting over a decade ago is not even knowing that this is a thing people think about.

It’s not really a trolley problem, it’s just an American imperialism problem.

Replace Israel with Saudi Arabia during the Yemeni War or the United States during the Iraq War. None of this would be controversial. Treating Israel as metonymy for “Jewish” as opposed to what it is — an imperialist theocratic ethnostate engaged in ethnic cleansing — is pretty dangerous and disturbing.

So what will change with a free Palestine?

According to the Times of Israel, Washington Post, Haaretz, and The Wall Street Journal: Israel gave hundreds of millions of dollars to Hamas in order to destabilize the Palestinian statehood movement.

Weird how the ADL and AIPAC end up giving all of their money and support to Republicans spouting insanity about Jewish space lasers while getting photographed with actual swastika-wearing Nazis.

“To the privileged, equality feels like oppression.” It’s just weird seeing people treat, “Free Palestine” as an antisemitic slur and then suddenly disappear when the Israeli Prime Minister repeatedly says he doesn’t believe Palestine should even exist.

Lana Del Rey does with music the exact same thing they did with movies — confronted the nauseating falseness of the suburban American dream. That said, Lana Del Rey also has a history of kind of being that thing, so... you know, whatever.

If she said someone one-tenth as incendiary about pretty much any other group

We have had CoD on an annual release for longer than that, and during the same period we had 7 Assassin’s Creed games, 5 Far Cry games, none of which really came close to being GoTYs or anything like that, while both games in TLOU series did.

Too bad they couldn’t fix my main outpost triggering an infinite loading screen and becoming completely unavailable. Oh well, gave me an excuse to wrap the game up months ago and never look at it again.