The obvious problem with XV is that it’s just a fraction of a planned larger game hastily stitched together with some fluffy sidequests. Considering it’s troubled development history and the alternative of just cancelling it altogether, I’m happy it exists. XV, as horribly flawed as it is in so many ways, is fun for…

To each their own, of course, but my issue with Tomorrow Never Dies is that I found the setting to be dull and Jonathan Pryce’s villain to be incredibly corny in a bad way. World had much better atmosphere from my perspective, and I enjoyed Sophie Marceau’s character and performance.

Having rewatched it fairly recently, I didn’t really find Moore to be “too old” in his last outing. I think the problem is that he was very much “70s Bond,” and it’s clear that, by A View to a Kill, the series was ready to shift to darker, more action-oriented films that were very much of the 1980s, and Moore just…

I think two of Brosnan’s Bond films are good (GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough), while the other two are quite bad.

It’s what narcissistic psychopaths do best.

Bankruptcy is a regular fixture of American business, and, frankly, the economy would be much worse if we didn’t have it—a certain element of “risk” is what makes the American economy so productive and wealthy, and part of that is accepting that a certain percentage of failure and bankruptcy is inevitable.

There’s such a thing as a “communal/activist narcissist,” which is largely the vibe I get from people like Jessica Krug.

The problem, I think, is that 50 years of leftists—not just in the U.S., but worldwide—are far more comfortable with being “the opposition” instead of “the government.” The former is considerably sexier (with loud protests and activism) than the latter, which often involves a bunch of unglamorous meetings with…

In Canada, it’s now gauche to want anything but a very modest subsistence level life.

Find an accountant (ideally one located in your new country) that specializes in U.S. tax filing from abroad. There are lots of Americans who live overseas in your situation, and the paperwork involved is considerably more complicated than a standard domestic file.  It also doesn’t matter if you didn’t earn any income…

I’ve been a big fan of Gregg Araki ever since I caught a random broadcast of “Nowhere” on IFC a couple of decades ago (a happy occurrence because the film never had a Region 1 DVD release), and I was lucky to have attended a retrospective of his career at TIFF in Toronto several years back where he also did an…

As icing on the cake, he’s also the great-grandson of Francisco Franco.

I saw a commentator on another thread say Biden should just play this gibberish on loop to clinch the next election.

A ranked choice primary election on the same day nationwide is the only way to manage this fairly and democratically.  No single state can or should dictate the will of the others.

The media narrative—and thus, the polls leading into Super Tuesday—shifted substantially after South Carolina’s primary. Voters there are free to vote their conscience any way they like, and that obviously meant Biden, but we’re also talking about a state that overwhelmingly elects Republicans regardless. Why should a…

It shouldn’t even be about who is deserving or not deserving when it comes to monetary policy and taxation. Whether Elon Musk is a “good” billionaire or someone like Donald Trump is a “bad” billionaire is entirely irrelevant. I don’t particularly feel the need to confiscate all the wealth of the rich, but it is…

The DNC strongly favored Biden from the start, and it’s all the more clear now when you consider that the delegate count between Biden and Sanders is not all that far apart. Now that their favored candidate finally had a good day, we’re all supposed to give up and just “accept the inevitability,” even though over half…

Frankly, it would help greatly if the DNC was on the side of a candidate like Sanders and Warren, and it is clear that they are not. An overwhelming percentage of Democratic voters are, unsurprisingly, going to trust the Democratic Party when they throw their weight behind a candidate, whether that candidate is John…

Democrats vote out of fear, which doesn’t go well for them. Meanwhile, can you think of the last time Republicans thought to themselves “let’s go safe this time”? These are the folks with grand plans to reshape America in their image (i.e., Newt Gingrich’s “Contract With America” in 1994 and their grand aspiration for…

Bloomberg will not get the DNC nomination and he will likely be a pissy fuckface about it and run as an independent