The best way I heard Joker described is, “Of course you’re gonna think a swimming pool is deep if you’ve never been to the ocean.”

Agreed. Phoenix’s performance aside, I’ve thought about it exactly zero times since leaving the theater.

I finally got around to watching Joker last week and was shocked at how shallow and predictable it was. I couldn’t help but think “THIS is supposed to be controversial/provocative?”.

It’s a protest action. People are drawn to notice an issue once it causes a disruption to a routine. It’s a similar principle behind protesting around an office building or on an interstate.

I have about ten different questions about this post, and none of them involve Lana Del Rey.

This article is insane. Lana might be an asshole, but not because she's posting a video of people stealing shit.

The other, however, showed people apparently looting a local business, which, to be clear, is not something someone with 16.5 million followers should publicly post if they consider themselves an ally.

“particularly if they’re doing something technically unlawful”

I don’t not fear for my life because I know how to carry myself in tuff situations.

You didn’t read the blurb did you?

imagine if a lighthearted video game blog used hyperbole

Get the fuck out of here. Nothing was offered in exchange. That’s not corruption. Grow up. 

How is that “corruption”? He asked for a favor, got denied, and... nothing. 

It’s not just that he’s white. White people sneer at, mock, ostracize, and generally hate on other white people all the time. It’s that he DELIVERS RACISM and THAT is the priority to his base. This is what gets me when writers and thinkers wring their hands in befuddlement, like Nichols is doing, about how Trump’s…

You left out what makes it he very end of Last of Us so effective. It’s not Joel’s rampage. It’s Joel’s lying about it. Joel lies to Ellie about, well, everything: the Fireflies, the state of the cure, what he actually did, even after Ellie asks him to swear that he’s telling the truth. He swears he is, and Ellie just…

Yes, yes, Obama was relentlessly surface level. When GDP was in decline and the unemployment rate was over 10%, turning the economy around and bringing unemployment under 5% was surface level stuff.

Looks like Ol’ Gil just got asked to give a graduation speech!

Has someone claimed the 90K people who have died are crisis actors or they just don’t exist at all? I know some rightists are saying all the numbers are wildly inflated.

I’d say messing with the physics engine would be, but what do I know?

Yeah I just went through the list posted by SSReset and my responses were all either “I don’t remember this song at all” or "I'm okay with never hearing this again". No big losses in this list.