I feel like I’m the only person who has a problem with the “Trump has a small body party therefore he is terrible” joke. It kind of plays into his (and American society’s, let’s be honest) obsession with bigness and tallness being a sign of masculinity and goodness. The sad part is that it’s probably a part of why he…

In the samenpost, you admit that the cause lies in white apathy and negligence, but then still conclude that the responsibility for changing things lies with black people. Fascinating.

Also, how many incredibly successful adults skipped one or all of those? Barack Obama smoked pot. The founders of Google and Facebook (which account for a ridiculous amount of internet activity) all dropped out of /undergrad/. Obviously the difference between them and the people who also smoke pot and drop out and…

The definition of a slippery slope argument, and directly contradicted by the experience of the closest model to our own situation. Of course, the main difference between Australia and ourselves in this regard is that they hadn’t tied gun ownership so securely to racialized notions of citizenship and patriotism (just…

“Feel like” is not a statement of an uninformed belief, but of an overarching sentiment built up through years of experiencing (and watching loved ones experience) disappointment and failure in key areas of their lives, despite best intentions AND best effort.

Wait, people don’t like Smooth? :(

Changes to the story are disappointing, but at least they’re not too bad. Digging Motoko’s Arise costume cameo. Either way, I was never going to see it in theaters because of the ScarJo casting.

Can you tell me more about that? I’ve been wanting to run the original version of Every Extend, but it won’t start up on W10 and I can’t figure out how to get sound/video working in any of the virtual machine solutions I’ve tried.

Anon is 4chan-based and they lead the pro-Trump movement, actually. Turns out that they were less about general freedom and more about the freedom of white dudes to do what they want.

Don’t make me crack my cybercane off on your backside, whippersnapper. And by cybercane, I, of course, mean my dick.

I’m so old that I have trouble remembering inconsequential internet comments that I thought I’d dismissed.

Because I’m... living in it? And I distinctly remember, “Did your mom help you with x?” being the kind of biting attack featured on the likes of Growing Pains. Maybe Full House. Or early Boy Meets World.

Try an insult from this century.

Participation trophies weren’t for kids who couldn’t handle losing, they were for parents who couldn’t handle watching their kids lose and didn’t have the wherewithall to deal with the emotional fallout like reasonable caregiver s would. Participation trophies were about offloading the messy and difficult matters of…

It’s probably been talked about before, but a huge part of what made Toonami a long-standing success is how slick and effortlessly cool its packaging was. That is, the bumps, intros, music, and commercials. Not just anime cool, either, but, “The song they used for Gundam SEED’s promos ended up in a Matthew McConaughey…

Obviously I reevaluated as time went on and it became clear that he was a big star with a history. That doesn’t take away from the fact that it wasn’t unreasonable for people in a key movie-going demographic to not know who he was in 2007/2008. He hadn’t been involved in any big roles for years at that point.

I just had a conversation with someone about this on the site-that-must-not-be-named. After some reflection, I posited that female gamers (and some male gamers) are put off by games that promise a power fantasy throughout, particularly in the narrative. If you’re not a white dude, “complete domination/subjugation” of…

Agreed. I was surprised when Jordan was chosen for the first movie, because at that point Stewart had been “the” Green Lantern in thr public eye for about a decade (through Justice League). It feels like the studios are afraid to acknowledge the groundwork that the animated works and more recent comics have laid (see…

I was 17 when Iron Man came out and I had no idea who Robert Downey Jr was. He honestly wasn’t even on my radar as a “big actor” until Tropic Thunder.