So now words are given definitions by their most ignorant users? If I was mistaken for gay and called a faggot, do I get to proudly identify as a faggot? If I was Japanese and someone called me a chinky, do I get to use the word chinky without consequences? And if bigots confused transvestites for trans people or…

I mean, the moment you drop 'white knight' into the conservation, I begin to suspect that you may already have a horse in this race, and not a black one…

And if you go back far enough in history, you would find women who saw nothing problematic about not being able to go to school or have the vote.

I agree that it was obvious that the queens provided their own material. But it is still possible for people of colour to be racially insensitive. Kim Chi is Korean-American yet her legal firm was a Chinese stereotype, much like Manila Luzon's broad Chinese reporter character was called out by the other queens in…

This episode wasn't even offensive; it was just bland as fuck. First it started with the completely underwhelming reveal that the least-talented eliminated queen had been brought back after two episodes, which was just pointless. Then it proceeded into the most interminable team acting challenge of the entire series.…

Yeah, I think your troubles with Blood Money may have prejudiced you against the game, since to my knowledge it's pretty much universally considered the best instalment. I usually prefer my games more plotted, but since Eidos just really has no idea what to do with 47 (an impression solidified by Absolution), Blood…

That suicide-switcheroo is the most inadvertently hilarious thing I've ever seen, yet they put it in the trailer.

Blade Runner is absolutely a triumph of direction and design, but I found it somewhat emotionally hollow and at times interminable, such as the encounter between Batty and Tyrell.

Yeah, the one thing Dune has going for it is a fairly bitchin' soundtrack. Toto's score does more thematic heavy-lifting than the actual writing.

As I say, I don't care about whether people pirate or not - just as long as they don't try and truss it up in some self-serving, obfuscating narrative about obsolescent media practices. People pirate because it's cheap and easy, not as some act of protest against the television business model. Sure, technological…

It's really, really not. Like, at all. I feel like I'm trying to argue for water being wet here, so I'm not sure there's much else I can say.

That's kind of like saying being exempt from paying taxes is the same as not paying taxes. Nor am I talking about the producer's complaints; I'm just saying that no matter how onerous or unreasonable legal access might be, that doesn't give people a justification for copyright infringement.

Ah, the Cruz defence.

It's a symptom of the rather troubling tendency of 300 to erase aspects of Spartan culture that it considers unappealing to its demographic audience. What's more troubling is that Miller and then Snyder saw no reason to excise the infamous Spartan baby pile, but reassigned pederasty as an Athenian vice: apparently,…

And I barely pay attention to the ads on this site, yet the A. V. Club still gets ad revenue. That's the business model. You may skip the ads, ignore them or whatever, but it's still the way that network television is funded. It's absurd to act as if it's manna from heaven just because you don't have to put a dime…

Network television is not free; you just don't directly pay for it at the point of access. Aside from still needing a television or a tablet, you indirectly provide revenue to these shows through the consumption of advertising. It's certainly not a labour of love done out of the goodness of its producers' hearts; it's…

I think it's a bit of a stretch to claim that none of those 33% would have bothered to watch Hannibal if there was no illegal option just because of ads and the lack of a pause function. People still watched television before the Internet, right?

It's got to be Beria, right?

Entertainment is not supposed to be 'free'. It's a commercial product. What are you, Bart Simpson?

Not even if it was available online, for free, one day later?