I actually think there is a difference.  We’ve normalized harassment and death threats over trivial issues, and people have access to a culture that eggs them on.  Without comment boards and the pursuit of likes, a lot of these people would still be decent. 

You are a just a colossal pos. Get fucked.

It’s been *so weird* seeing this behavior from people and I don’t know what happened. Good games/shows/movies/books/plays/art got made in the past, and bad games/shows/movies/books/plays/art got made in the past. And you know what we did? We enjoyed it, or we didn’t and then we just went on with our lives.  That was…

How about just don’t buy it and go on about your life instead of throwing tantrums to make a toddler’s grocery store meltdown look tame?  

Boy, you really couldn’t wait to just stand up and out yourself as part of the problem, could you.

Its really disheartening, i work in the game industry and it always sucks to see people shitting on what you do. When you spend so much time trying to improve it for everyone. Anonymity on the internet lets people be their worst self.

Are you a child? As someone who spends all their time creating shit (as well as critiquing the creative works of others), the idea that someone who has never and will never create anything that gets put out in front of people to be judged feels entitled to talk shit to people who do is ridiculous.

Yeah, gamer bros like you should go fuck off.

When the director is the one cutting scenes, of course. When it’s the producers cutting them, that’s another story.

I’d rather the director make decisions like this for creative reasons, either way, than the studio doing so in the name of profits.

“Smedley, um, while you're down there..."

You know who else was ‘riding the worm to an easy win’ this weekend?

Also the Bene Gesserit long game of planting messiah prophecy into different religious groups belief system was why the Fremen had one to attribute to Paul and his mother in the first place. 

It was all part of a single bundle of coups.

Paul did not decide to become the messiah. The point of the books is that this is the result of thousands of years of planning and that planning has gone horribly wrong. The Fremen decided he was their messiah and the Bene Gesserit gave him the abilities to match that expectation. Not only did the Fremen choose him,…

Kids always think they are so clever and we’re the first to think of things.

They even have a name for it. The Missionaria Protectiva.

Listen you might not know this but Gen Z, through Tik Tok, was the first generation to ever speak about things like the “white savior” myth. How could a white man in the 60s ever think of such a thing?!

While you are correct that the Fremen are not original from Arrakis so not indigenous in the truest sense. The Zensunni wanders that would become the Fremen got to the planet 3000 years before the first novel takes place. So hard to not call them indigenous by this point.

It’s always funny when an ostensible “snarky pop culture writer” lacks the media literacy to even mock a movie effectively.