I dunno if that's necessarily true. I think it's more that because they're men, and therefore inherently more interesting according to hollywood, we get a better sense of what's going on inside their heads. Lloyd Dobler and his ilk are always going to be single-mindedly obsessed with with the female lead and the…

I just realized that I was actually wrong about that… he's the same thing for him. I mean he loves being a woman and all of a sudden this older gentleman appears who won't let him revert to masculinity despite all of his best efforts. He's going to be this lady he seemingly loves being, he's going to marry a rich…

Everyone wants an incredibly sexy person to appear out of the blue, relieve them of all responsibility, and give them a perfect fun sexy life.

It's a shame because deliberately creepy stuff people missed the point on would actually be a pretty cool listicle in and of itself.

I s'pose. I dunno though. It seems out of place though because so many of the other entries seem to be about things that were unintentionally or unknowingly creepy because of how tone-deaf they were, like Twilight or Say Anything.

If the letter's anything to go off of, it's arguably a pretty big improvement since it sounds like they were talking about things like boundaries, safety and consent.

That quote's about when he dashed off the lyrics in the middle of the night without thinking. I think he definitely did know how creepy it was when it came out, and I think that irony has more to do with respecting your audience's intelligence than being disingenuous.

Romantic comedies are just the Manic Pixie Dream Girl with the genders swapped: The guy is always some kind of vague, floaty, ill-defined, quirky dude who exists essentially to nullify his partner's agency and destroy her life to replace it with another one.

Well, based on how he explains it… Bara is the word for rose, which used to be a gay slur. He compares it to pansy, but it clearly has a lot more weight and baggage than that, as he makes it sound like it's a really hurtful term.

It's not my fault that you're too busy with your hippity hoppity frog music!

Realistically? There are a whole bunch of possibilities. John Stewart doesn't have a strong identity or a unique comic voice.

An AV Club without an encyclopedic knowledge of seventies novelty hits is not an AV club I wanna be part of.

Depends on the context and how comfortable he is. Kids who are worried about their fetishes, orientations, etc often have weird awkward conversations with their folks.

PLEEEEEASE

I know what Bara is, but I'm not so confident in my knowledge of manga to not be sure that I haven't got it totally wrong.

I'm kinda hopin for a playable Pam here, man.

The idea is to let the sketches run longer and be slower to give them a sense of finality, and also to kind of give some finality to the running characters. Sort of like how KITH's final episode was all about putting running characters to bed, but a lot more decompressed.

Are you joking or do you seriously not know that they're doing it this way because it's the last season?

They reverted. Basically Interplay only retained those rights if they secured funding and had a certain amount of work done by the deadline. They missed the deadline. IIRC they briefly tried to retool Project V13 as a generic project, but that fell through.

Fuck Alpha Protocol 2. Give me an Archer game with Alpha Protocol's reactivity and gadgets.