Even before I knew it was fake, I suspected something was off on account of how dull and terse these comments are, very unlike the real MLA’s writing style. It is like a troll’s very lazy parody of MLA as a cookie-cutter “SJW” or something similar.

Yep. It even had a silly title too- Mortdecai. And no, at this point, he’s evidently not interested in learning any lessons.

I’m not sure if the C-word is even considered obscene in the UK. It’s probably used in newscasts, sermons, and definitely during Question Time in Parliament.

You still have Zoidberg! You all still have Zoidberg!!!

This is some pretty weak sauce political rhetoric coming out of the DPRK. I miss the really old school Maoist stuff from Red China, in which everybody was a “lackey” or “imperialist running dog” or something colorful like that. Even Saddam Hussein comparing Operation Desert Whatever to the Mongol hordes who sacked…

Are we still doing “It can be two things”?

A lot of the AV Club user names used to be portmanteau phrases mixing and matching various references or celebrity names in surprising or humorous ways:

a recent, U.K.-based study that came to the startlingly obvious conclusion that air travel is boring

It’s people, isn’t it?

AV Club has been in a long slow decline for some time now. The political clickbait basically became its bread and butter back in spring 2016 once the Trump candidacy started to take off. I would not be too surprised if AV Club just gets wound down for good and its meager remaining pop culture content spun off to io9…

So I guess you could say we should ... lock her up?

If you go into your pull-down notification shade, then click to the right of the comment or star, you will be taken to it. When you are done looking at it, you can backspace your browser and be taken back to notifications, rinse and repeat. It’s not as good as Disqus, but it does sort of work.

What’s really amazing is that commenter is “approved” and out of the grays. There really is no moderating in Kinjaland, I guess.

He did return briefly in summer to write a series of posts forming a Lovecraftian steampunk horror story tying in to his gimmick as owner of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Then he signed off in one of the pre-Kinjapocalypse Disqus threads which people turned into enormous “Goodbye AV Club” notice boards -…

One of the few good things I have to say about Abrams Trek is that someone had the good sense to set its big loud bro-friendly multiplex action flicks in an alternate reality, so that hardcore grognard fans who disliked the new version could imagine the characters of the TV shows and earlier movies continuing in…

Everything you said about TNG is true, but that show had two very rough seasons to find its sea legs (space legs?) in a very forgiving syndicated TV landscape which is now very much a lost world. Today audiences have gotten used to the high quality of premium cable shows in the golden age of peak TV. Internet fan…

I looked at his old posts, and what’s a bit odd is that apparently this guy is bisexual (or at least he had sex with men when he was doing escort work), wore nail polish, etc, so not exactly a typical heteronormative bro type. But in the bar anecdotes he seems to be acting like a weird mashup of a stereotypical macho…

One problem with Lagunitas is that the beers in their regular lineup all kind of taste the same, despite being different styles, and that’s obviously not a good thing. They do have some amazing limited release beers.  I tried a cannabis-influenced “dank” IPA called The Waldos’ Special Ale (named after one of the two…

She looks badly sunburned in that photo. If even famous actresses won’t take care of their skin by protecting it from the sun, I guess nobody will.

BAH GAWD THAT’S BERNIE’S MUSIC!