Isn't there a term for when someone is making a specific argument about some specific thing and then someone brings up loosely related other thing that is even worse and derails the conversation with ''Why aren't you upset about this other thing even more?!!'' If there isn't there fucking should be.

Nah. Seinfeld is just getting old. And he always came off as a bit conservative in his tastes even in his thirties and forties

Whedon debunked the notion that he was driven off of Twitter by angry feminists. That was and is a right wing talking point.

Cookies only ''some time'' food.

Great at insulting himself and his audience!

If there was something Orson Welles couldn't class up, we never found it.

Has there ever been a taller poppy than Judd Apatow?

I expect the next Transformers to mention the giant robots once or twice, and otherwise focus solely on Mark Wahlberg's daughter's Electra complex. Keeping the robots totally off screen would be a bold choice

I think they should go full arthouse on the next Transformers films. Get Jodorowsky to do them.

What a fucking weird attitude to have about Star Wars of all things.

I haven't heard anyone say that Ultron was even as good as the first Avengers film. It got way worse reviews IIRC.

The people who actually think that whether or not you consider Star Wars science fiction is an important trait are the worst kind of nerds.

Escapism isn't retrograde or childish. It is the very future of mankind. Tell me in 500 years we won't all be hooked up to Virtual Reality machines, having alien lesbian orgies while hampsters press the button that shoots more dopamine into our brainstem. What is civilization about besides escaping the Desert of the…

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

I kind of feel like it is too easy to say ''Nerds who don't dress up are fine, nerds who dress up are freakish grown children''. It lets too much bullshit off the hook. I don't make costumes or go to cons, but many people who do (and many are actually women and girls) are actually creative and invested in nerdery in a…

You don't like absurdly smug libertarianism with your comedy-magic?

The Throne Room stuff works. The ground battle sucks, but the space battle is pretty solid.

Alec Guinness's performance is actually really, really good, considering what we know now about Lucas' failings as a director.

In my nerd heart, I just try to imagine that the Prequel Trilogy is the work of an autism-spectrum-straddling toddler trying to retell the actual, emotionally satisfying arc of Darth Vader's fall to the darkside. The Platonic Prequels must live on!

I still can't get over George Lucas inserting that ''Nooo!" into the climactic moment of the entire saga. You can't tell me that wasn't meant as a giant ''Fuck You'' before he sold off to Disney.