OK.

God, how I hate Rocksteady. That was definitely the point at which I completely checked out of them. Worst thing they ever did, apart from everything I heard of the recent new album.

I have also been on the Internet for a while - since roughly '97 or so - and I've only started seeing "ship"/"shipping" etc. bubbling up into things I pay attention to in the last couple of years, and even then just mainly in cases where somebody I follow on Tumblr re-blogs something involving the term (my Tumblr feed…

There's enough music out there that I can survive without listening to pop albums the Neu-AVC recommends and still have more than enough to enjoy.

This looks aggressively terrible, and it really drives home how utterly indistinguishable most crappy CGI kid's movies are these days. Apart from the different characters for each wannabe franchise, everything is interchangeable in these movies - the same facial expressions and pose animations, the same…

Eh - "Fuck it, DeLoreans are cool, whatever their faults."

Sometimes I wish the AVC commentariat's default position wasn't "cynical derision" because, fuck it, DeLoreans are cool, whatever their faults.

I can't recall how far I got into PSS, exactly - maybe twenty or thirty pages, too - but I could not go on. Just found it exhausting and unengaging. Have had zero desire to ready any Mieville ever since.

I can't stand this guy either. Thought I was the only one around here.

I remember the Kerrigan episode. She did really, really…not good.

I honestly really like the HHG movie, too. I had no idea it was reviled by the Internet until long after I saw it, and it baffles me.

I actually quite liked Cloverfield, too. It entertained me *and* was my introduction to Lizzy Caplan.

I have to admit to not having listened to a ton of David Bowie's music over the years. It's not at all because I didn't like it, because I did - it's just that we all have these musical blind spots in our lives, and Bowie was one of mine. Everything I've ever heard of his, I liked and appreciated the insane talent…

I don't game much anymore, but I've been dabbling in Sunless Sea lately. I haven't, like, spent a ton of time there yet, but I am loving it so far.

He feels like the guy who'd be a hero to all the smug MBA frat bro douches at the business school of any expensive private college.

On the subject of "can't criticize the police" - here in my city, we can't have any sort of decent transit system because half the money we could be spending to fund it goes into a "give extra money to the police department for shiny new things" fund, and it's essentially impossible to get rid of it now because the…

Honestly, a web site that often pushes mainstream manufactured pop stars as ZOMG IMPORTANT ART WORTHY OF THINKPIECES isn't in much of a position to poke fun at something like TSO.

I generally like my "definitive takedowns" to be more than "hey let's just describe what's happening in the thing"

I see AVC is succumbing to the infuriating Internet trend of "why make an easy-to-read article that you can consume without disrupting everything around you when you can make a pointless video that isn't as good?"

"Holiday standard" is just another name for "things our 22 year old writers remember but nobody else does."