I find it amusing that Mean Girls was explained to me as a savvy deconstruction of high school gender dynamics as an allegory for the rise and fall of authoritarian regimes and revolutionary movements. The Take and Sarah Z (in her video on why the musical is bad) did a decent job of contextualizing all of this.

You would think she would be more conscious of how something like this would land, both in present day and in the future.

“Are you sure you can handle this indie game? Only the coolest people can handle this indie game...”

Miguel was pointing out that he was the first anomaly, not that he caused the anomalies. The spider that bit him was the first anomaly, then the explosion that he witnessed teleported Gwen Stacy into his universe but two weeks into the past due to relativity shenanigans.

Dawn of, Rise of, War for, Kingdom of...

The Expanded Universe was so confoundingly mediocre and derivative and, well, incredibly right-wing and conservative that George Lucas had to keep telling people over and over again for decades that it had nothing to do with the actual Star Wars franchise and was just people playing in their own sandbox writing…

This feels almost like a bone thrown to a generation of Star Wars fans salivating at the idea that The Clone Wars and Rebels wasn’t 11 seasons of midness written, directed, and run by a bunch of people not named Filoni. (Filoni wrote 11 episodes of the 132 episodes of Clone Wars, was showrunner for only the first two…

Pssh, if that girl wants to look like someone who’s had a lifetime of testosterone influencing

“What you won’t see is, for instance, another very special episode with Bill and Frank, we aren’t going to milk it. When we do something that we think is beautiful, we let it be as it is and find other beautiful things to do.”

A spinoff/prequel telling this story just wouldn’t work, because the whole thing is a forgone conclusion.

But then it kind of faded away, while people are still talking about Oppenheimer, and talking more about other films, like Poor Things, which is getting far greater plaudits for its commentary on women and feminism.

Can someone explain the driving thing to me?

The cast of Empire’s batting average in making accusations of racism is not great.

I know they don’t do well in China.

The same internal logic that broke with Palpatine’s resurrection would have broken harder with Padme’s. And you still would have had Palpatine breaking the third movie.

Hell, at this point, the New York Times editorial section is just conservatives the Wall Street Journal threw out into the street by the seat of their pants who couldn’t find cab money home.

Are they, technically? Alex Casey seems to be a reference to Max Payne with the same voice actor and facial model.

So, they hired people to code and animate a reference to how badly optimized and bug-ridden their game is due to how understaffed they are.

Donald Trump and the Republicans lowered the effective tax rate of the top 25% below that of the bottom 75% and Democrats haven’t gotten together to fix this — maybe because their incomes put them all in the top 1%.

To paraphrase Richard Spencer: “We expect our opponents to preserve freedom of speech, but we have no obligation to support it once we take power.”