, said the (presumably) straight player to whom near all games cater to.

Smokin' Aces sounds like the worst-case scenario for this film. I checked out once a supposedly ace sniper assassin started indiscriminately off-loading a .50 calibre rifle all over the joint to fucking opera music.

There's no reason why pop culture shouldn't reflect on contemporary issues, and no reason why an older work of fiction can't speak to modern times. But the connection isn't being made here to American attitudes to immigration; it's being made to Trump. It's not a meaningful commentary, it's just a quick-fix connection…

Is the implication here that I'm a Trump supporter? Because y'all are going need a citation for that beyond my burnout on the AV Club linking Trump into everything for cynical commercial motives.

The point is that people were talking about the unfortunates implications of the premise even back then, so it's clearly not just your stereotype of 'safe space colleges' that was pushing this particular criticism.

It's more people saying "Idiocracy is a fun, dumb comedy which, partly due to an unfortunately careless premise, is being appropriated as an argument for eugenics". I defy you to read the whole of this comments section - in which some people are genuinely arguing that stupid people shouldn't be allowed to reproduce…

Just for bringing it up in the title and the first paragraph before immediately conceding that 'timely' American Gods was written over a decade ago, this has got to be the worst use of Trump to peddle an article yet.

Um, because it's still bullshit pseudo-science and no one should have the right to determine what makes 'good' genes?

Just because no offence was intended does not mean that it wasn't given. People who still use racial or homophobic epithets generally don't see them as offensive, but that doesn't make racial or sexual minorities wrong for feeling insulted by them. A lot of problems would be solved if people didn't get so…

Counterpoint: that's ridiculous, your ridiculous, and no one gets to be the sole arbiter of what should or should not be considered be offensive.

Horses for courses, but Philippa Gregory is the worst thing that has happened to historical fiction since Valerio Massimo Manfredi. I'd hesitate even to call it 'historical fiction' given how completely the former is subordinated to the latter.

There is zero evidence that Henry Tudor killed the princes in the Tower beyond the fact that it was convenient for his cause, which is equally true of Richard III.

Oh it's never acceptable unless you're in an episode of Criminal Minds, but it's pretty widespread.

Woah there, cowboy.

"(He was released the same year as From Russia With Love.)"

Don't we reserve the "pretending the other person is actually the actor/director/writer" conceit for when they're effusively gushing over the product? I don't think "they're making shit up as they go" counts as high praise.

I'd include the mutiny as a seasonal highlight, alongside Kara Thrace's Voyage of the Damned and the Cylon Civil War. There was great stuff in there, just not quite to the lofty heights of seasons 1 and 2.

I just simply can't fathom why they thought that the series was best capped off with a dancing robot montage. Moreover, the coda jettisoned all character-based storytelling in favour of addressing the audience directly to bluntly state the show's aesop. There was surely a more elegant and satisfying way of doing so,…

The X-Files may be even worse because it had two films and an additional series to finally make good on its finale, and there's still no resolution to it. Maybe Chris Carter was burned by its bad reception that he never wanted to return to it, but it really does nothing for his reputation as "byword for creators who…

The first two series are simply transcendental. They're the pinnacle of simultaneous serialised storytelling. Season 3 fell apart because of the silly stand-alone episodes; New Caprica was a nice idea but it killed the momentum of the series, and then everything between that and Baltar's trial was just the show…