She’s a surfer and she’s not allowed to surf with men or post photos in a bathing suit? Are you kidding me? That goes way beyond boundaries. He’s asking her to change who she is so he doesn’t feel insecure.

my man, what makes you think i don’t cry at both stick figures and tragedies? grow up.

You ever get trapped in a social situation with someone who is attempting to tell a joke, and everyone is waiting for the punchline, and it keeps not coming, and the guy starts doing stupid voices and exaggerated facial expressions trying to sell the comedy his story isn't generating, and it just goes on and on until…

Look, we all know that Indy and Marion were about to fuck and he grabbed the hat because she wanted him to wear it during sex.

Neither the Governor nor the Secretary [of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity] enforce any of the laws at issue, so Disney lacks standing to sue them,

Season 2 episode 2 Ad Astra Per Aspera is better, even though it’s more drama than space opera. The first season 2 episode was kinda Meh.

“the computer would go off and do something,” and the team behind the sequence would tweak and alter the response with new prompts.”

I agree that AI shouldn’t be used to emulate the styles of existing artists or to avoid paying human artists for designs, but I don’t see this use as problematic. They’re using an AI generator here because the characteristic fucked-up way that it tends to render human subjects is artistically appropriate to the themes…

i don’t think the boobs made much of a narrative impact

fuck off <3

she is trans, the story is a trans allegory. both things are true.

this is an absolutely hateful comment to make about a movie where the entire plot is about being transgender, based on a work by a transgender author. there is no explicit moment where Nimona says “I’m transgender” but that doesn’t mean she isn’t trans, and her story isn’t a trans story. (just like Ballister and…

well the shark had boobs in the webcomic, which is what Stevenson is referring to. 

“What Gadsby did was give the audience permission—moral permission—to turn their backs on what challenged them, and to ennoble a preference for comfort and kitsch,” Farago writes of Nanette”

I hope The Duchess is a Time Lord. 

Lol no. Commercial art is still art, buddy. It still has value as human expression. It is no more replaceable by AI forgery than any other fotm of storytelling.

This is hella melodramatic.  Videogame movies have always been a thing.  They did Uncharted recently.  The Resident Evil series.  Hitman.  Rampage.  The third Sonic is coming up.  I don’t understand the histrionics in this article.

Before Super Mario Bros. Movie, horrible video game adaptations. After

“If a good movie is successful, people will make bad movies." Is this a joke I'm missing? 

Did you just say with a straight face that The Last of Us is on the same level as Mario?