DeSantis has the opposite problem Trump has - he’s scarily competent, but has absolutely zero charisma. It hurts to say and admit, but Trump is a master at working a crowd. DeSantis is robotic, stiff, and awkward. He overcompensated for this by going 1000% into this culture war stuff, but it backfired and now…

4 is one of my favorite games ever and pretty much perfect, but in hindsight after its success Capcom would only learn the wrong lessons from it. And sure enough, 5 and 6 were exactly that.

Honestly, I find the lyrics to be the least annoying part about that song, even if they are a little on the nose.

I know it’s unpopular, but I must speak. I absolutely do not understand Everybody Hurts. The extremely shiny, polished production. The cloying, middle of the road tempo. The obvious lyrics.

I agree that DS2 is underrated but there’s absolutely no way that I could ever agree Shrine of Amana is good, even after From realized how shit it was and patched it to make it easier. Utter disaster of a zone.

I have to give Bioware credit for trying something really unusual with DA2, but I think they went a touch overboard with the "no matter what you do, you are a failure. The setting is unrelentingly bleak, you can't do anything about it, and everyone you love will leave you or die. Get fucked." 

I find the series’ treatment of the Qunari to be extremely confused in general. Do the developers want you to think they’re enlightened because they’ve essentially “solved” dissent in their society? Tallis from that DA2 expansion is essentially the writers saying “the Qunari are right about everything, and you don’t…

I'm skeptical that any regular person who identifies as a liberal or leftist gives a shit about this. This is just like all that stuff that happened after the Floyd riots, it's corporate bullshit that nobody actually wants.

Edie Falco certainly became one of the best parts of the show but I found her kind of shrill and irritating in the pilot (and the part where she gets the rifle out when she hears the noise outside is pretty jarring considering her characterization once the show really got going). 

It would certainly be a... twist if she was safer under the conservatorship.

I really don’t feel like this is a spoiler, because it should be obvious to anyone who’s seen GoT and HotD so far - going forward, it’s going to be a competition to see who can commit the most atrocities. GoT was grim for sure, but at least there was an identifiable moral center: the Starks, Tyrion, and Dany (up…

GoT fell into this very badly by the end - lots of stuff just sort of happened and stuff stopped mattering. Remember when they made a big deal about Jon’s heritage and it was entirely irrelevant? Yeah.

It doesn’t help that all of those socially maladjusted weirdos keep bleating about how “realistic” this world is, mostly because it’s darker and edgier than other fantasy worlds.

This was my key problem with the ending of 3: winning felt too much like losing. You could probably get away with that in a movie or a book, but after a 150 hour series where you become attached to the characters, the setting, etc., it comes across as incredibly... mean-spirited?

It’s to the point now where anything I hear about this show or Sam Levinson won’t surprise me in the slightest.

Shymalan's turds are particularly rancid, though. Lady in the Water, Last Airbender, the Village, The Happening, and After Earth are all dreadful. And most of his other movies aren't exactly great. 

Really struck at how much of a feel bad conclusion this was. I know there’s still a full season left to maybe recontextualize some of this, but yeesh.

One of my least favorite creator things is when they dismiss their most popular or most critically acclaimed work. It's very difficult for me to see it as anything other than false modesty ego stroking. 

I thought he was hilarious in Holes. 

I do think A24's "thing" could eventually grow tiresome, but I'm happy to see it didn't happen with this one.