I disagree with the assessment of these effects, but it's pretty sad to see commenters on here who know better and yet still aren't mustering any arguments against the writer, but instead throwing tantrums and tossing personal attacks.

Why don't you make an argument instead of personal attacks?

It's a weak response to attribute something with which you disagree to "the contrarians", as though there were some organized council of people who sit around and vote on measures to piss you off.

When it comes to movies, I've recently been making a distinction between "horror" and "terror."

They didn't use practical effects for a full-scale monster on "Stranger Things" because it has a TV show budget and CGI costs less with better results on that budget.

Nah.

I'm not sure I ever thought of this as a horror movie. There are some jump scares but once the monsters are exposed they're almost universally treated as foes in the mode of action—faced down and eliminated.

What's with your recent font where the "plus" sign looks almost exactly like a "minus" sign? If you're going to use those you might as well make them easily distinguished.

He didn't go to art school.

Yes, my friend! I, too, have seen "Idiocracy", and would like to discuss its satirical relevance to the culture it mocks!

Judging by the picture, it sure ain't Brendan O'Connell!

"basically" in what sense? C.S. Lewis was not an anti-Catholic bigot.

It was fine.

Yeesh. I'm thinking about making a version of this where I remove the script and it's just panel after panel of smug "Kelly"-style angel faces.

What, that you think a sentence containing "problematic" is funny on its own?

How about we encourage empowerment through reason and logic

I guess.

Reinventing the history of witchcraft as some sort of empowering feminist holistic medicine movement is a tradition dating from the early 20th century, carried forward bravely by the "New Age" section on Amazon.

Here, let me trace it for you: it goes back through mainstream cash-ins like "The Witch" to when the trend actually happened, which was, like, five years ago.

I don't know either of them, and neither do you.